Top 10 Disney World Trivia

Did you know . . .

Golf legend Jack Nicklaus captured the first championship at the inaugural 1971 Walt Disney World Open Invitational?

At 199.5 feet tall, Expedition Everest is the tallest artificial mountain at Walt Disney World Resort?

Cinderella’s Golden Carrousel was originally built in 1917 and once stood at Olympic Park in Maplewood, New Jersey?

Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster – Starring Aerosmith at Disney’s Hollywood Studios launches you at a speed of 0 to 60 miles per hour in 2.8 seconds?

President Richard Nixon gave his famous “I am not a crook” speech during at convention at Disney’s Contemporary Resort in 1973?

Despite an intense “Save the Toad” campaign, Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride was replaced by The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh in 1998?

Completed in July 1971, Cinderella Castle is 189 feet tall—more than twice the size of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland?

Walt Disney’s parents, Elias and Flora, were married on New Year’s Day, 1888 in Kismet, Florida (now a ghost town)?

Each space capsule at Mission: Space is equipped with motion sickness bags?

Approximately 10,000 guests attended the grand opening of Disney’s Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971?

For more Disney World trivia, visit the Walt Disney World Trivia Page.

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