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A 1950 short that won an Oscar for the UPA studio is about a little boy who speaks in what way?Answer: Through sound effects. Source: Wikipedia: Gerald McBoing-Boing
A 1957 short in which Elmer Fudd chases Bugs Bunny is a parody of the operas of which composer?Answer: Richard Wagner. Source: Wikipedia: What's Opera, Doc?
A constantly hungry coyote first chased which bird in a theatrical short of 1949?Answer: The Road Runner. Source: Wikipedia: Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner
Heckle and Jeckle, an identical pair from the Terrytoons studio, are what kind of bird?Answer: Magpies. Source: Wikipedia: Heckle and Jeckle
Tex Avery created which deadpan Basset Hound for the cartoon shorts of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, first seen without a name in 1943?Answer: Droopy. Source: Wikipedia: Droopy
Which cartoon bird, created by Walter Lantz and Ben Hardaway, appeared in theatrical shorts from 1940 until 1972?Answer: Woody Woodpecker. Source: Wikipedia: Woody Woodpecker
Which cartoon character, created at the UPA studio in 1949, lands in comical trouble because he is extremely near-sighted?Answer: Mr. Magoo. Source: Wikipedia: Mr. Magoo
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Stars of the theatrical shorts, continued
Which cartoon character, made for the opening credits of a 1963 film, starred in a short of his own a year later that won an Academy Award?Answer: The Pink Panther. Source: Wikipedia: The Pink Phink
Which cartoon rabbit, first voiced by Mel Blanc, made his definitive debut in a Tex Avery short of 1940?Answer: Bugs Bunny. Source: Wikipedia: Bugs Bunny
Which Disney character is a white duck in a sailor shirt and cap, known for speech that is hard to make out?Answer: Donald Duck. Source: Wikipedia: Donald Duck
Which superhero of the Terrytoons studio made his debut in 1942 under the name Super Mouse?Answer: Mighty Mouse. Source: Wikipedia: Mighty Mouse
Which voice actor, called The Man of a Thousand Voices, spoke for Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety and many more?Answer: Mel Blanc. Source: Wikipedia: Mel Blanc
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera created which cat and mouse pair in 1940?Answer: Tom and Jerry. Source: Wikipedia: Tom and Jerry
Cartoons come to television 11
A 1959 adventure series is noted for the first widely known use of a technique with which name?Answer: Syncro-Vox. Source: Wikipedia: Clutch Cargo
A science fiction cartoon made in Miami in 1957 was the first what?Answer: Color cartoon series made for television. Source: Wikipedia: Colonel Bleep
Gumby, a green shape-shifting character created by Art Clokey in the early 1950s, is animated with what?Answer: Clay. Source: Wikipedia: Gumby
Limited animation kept the cost of early television cartoons down. What does it do?Answer: Reuses frames of character animation. Source: Wikipedia: Limited animation
The title characters of a Jay Ward series that ran from 1959 to 1964 are a moose and which other animal?Answer: A flying squirrel. Source: Wikipedia: The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
Which 1962 series was a Space Age counterpart to its studio's Stone Age family?Answer: The Jetsons. Source: Wikipedia: The Jetsons
Which CBS series, begun in 1955 and built from theatrical shorts, is credited with putting Saturday morning cartoons on the map?Answer: Mighty Mouse Playhouse. Source: Wikipedia: Mighty Mouse Playhouse
Which Japanese series of 1963, based on a manga by Osamu Tezuka, was the first popular television series in the style later known worldwide as anime?Answer: Astro Boy. Source: Wikipedia: Astro Boy (1963 TV series)
Which series about a Stone Age family became, in 1960, the first animated series with a prime-time slot on television?Answer: The Flintstones. Source: Wikipedia: The Flintstones
Which series, broadcast in Japan from 1965 to 1967, was the first Japanese animated television series in color?Answer: Kimba the White Lion. Source: Wikipedia: Kimba the White Lion
Which series, first aired in Los Angeles in 1950, was the first animated series produced specifically for television?Answer: Crusader Rabbit. Source: Wikipedia: Crusader Rabbit
Saturday mornings and specials 13
A 1964 Christmas special about a reindeer, first shown on NBC, was made with which kind of animation?Answer: Stop motion. Source: Wikipedia: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special)
In which series, new on the CBS Saturday morning schedule in 1969, do four teenagers and their dog travel in a van called the Mystery Machine?Answer: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Source: Wikipedia: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
The small blue characters of a Saturday morning series that ran on NBC from 1981 to 1989 come from the comics of a cartoonist from which country?Answer: Belgium. Source: Wikipedia: The Smurfs (1981 TV series)
Which 1965 television special was the first based on the comic strip Peanuts?Answer: A Charlie Brown Christmas. Source: Wikipedia: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Which 1968 Saturday morning series, produced by Filmation for CBS, is based on comics created in 1941 by Bob Montana?Answer: The Archie Show. Source: Wikipedia: The Archie Show
Which 1969 special from Rankin/Bass, first shown on CBS, was the first television special about a certain snowman?Answer: Frosty the Snowman. Source: Wikipedia: Frosty the Snowman (TV special)
Which 1983 series follows a clumsy police officer from Metro City who has bionic gadgets built into his body?Answer: Inspector Gadget. Source: Wikipedia: Inspector Gadget (1983 TV series)
Which 1987 series, based on comic books created by Carl Barks, follows Scrooge McDuck and his three grandnephews?Answer: DuckTales. Source: Wikipedia: DuckTales (1987 TV series)
Which animator of theatrical shorts directed the 1966 television special based on a Dr. Seuss book of 1957?Answer: Chuck Jones. Source: Wikipedia: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (TV special)
Which cartoon superhero of 1964, the alter ego of Shoeshine Boy, always speaks in rhyming couplets?Answer: Underdog. Source: Wikipedia: Underdog (TV series)
Which CBS series of 1961 was the first to feature a trio of singing chipmunks?Answer: The Alvin Show. Source: Wikipedia: The Alvin Show
Which Saturday morning series ran on CBS from 1988 to 1994 and drew its stories from two comic strips by Jim Davis?Answer: Garfield and Friends. Source: Wikipedia: Garfield and Friends
Which series of short musical cartoons taught grammar, science, history, mathematics and civics on ABC's Saturday mornings from 1973?Answer: Schoolhouse Rock! Source: Wikipedia: Schoolhouse Rock!
Prime time and cable 11
A marine science educator named Stephen Hillenburg created which Nickelodeon series, set in an underwater city?Answer: SpongeBob SquarePants. Source: Wikipedia: SpongeBob SquarePants
In which Disney Channel series, first shown in 2007, do two stepbrothers build a grand project on each day of summer vacation?Answer: Phineas and Ferb. Source: Wikipedia: Phineas and Ferb
In which Nickelodeon series of 2005 to 2008 can some people move one of the four elements, water, earth, fire or air?Answer: Avatar: The Last Airbender. Source: Wikipedia: Avatar: The Last Airbender
In which series of 1993 are three cartoon stars of the 1930s, Yakko, Wakko and Dot, let out of a studio water tower?Answer: Animaniacs. Source: Wikipedia: Animaniacs
In which series of 1996 to 2004 does a fourth-grader live with his grandparents in the city of Hillwood?Answer: Hey Arnold! Source: Wikipedia: Hey Arnold!
Lily Tomlin voiced a teacher named Ms. Frizzle in which PBS series, first broadcast from 1994 to 1997?Answer: The Magic School Bus. Source: Wikipedia: The Magic School Bus (TV series)
On August 11, 1991, Nickelodeon showed its first three original cartoons in one block. Under which brand name?Answer: Nicktoons. Source: Wikipedia: Nicktoons
What kind of animal is Arthur Read, the title character of a PBS series that began in 1996?Answer: An aardvark. Source: Wikipedia: Arthur (TV series)
Which animated family first appeared in 1987 as shorts on a sketch show, then got a half-hour series of its own in December 1989?Answer: The Simpsons. Source: Wikipedia: The Simpsons
Which series, first shown in 1998, centers on Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, three girls of kindergarten age with superpowers?Answer: The Powerpuff Girls. Source: Wikipedia: The Powerpuff Girls
Which series, first shown on August 11, 1991, follows a group of toddlers whose everyday experiences turn into adventures in their imaginations?Answer: Rugrats. Source: Wikipedia: Rugrats
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A 1906 short by James Stuart Blackton is generally regarded as the first animated film recorded on what?Answer: Standard picture film. Source: Wikipedia: Humorous Phases of Funny Faces
A 1908 French short by Émile Cohl is considered by film historians to be the first what?Answer: Animated cartoon. Source: Wikipedia: Fantasmagorie (film)
A 1914 short by Winsor McCay was the first animated film to feature which kind of animal?Answer: A dinosaur. Source: Wikipedia: Gertie the Dinosaur
A 1932 short about flowers and trees was the first commercially released film made in which process?Answer: Full-color three-strip Technicolor. Source: Wikipedia: Flowers and Trees
A cel is a transparent sheet on which a hand-drawn cartoon is painted. What is cel short for?Answer: Celluloid. Source: Wikipedia: Cel
After Universal took control of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1928, which character did Walt Disney create to replace him?Answer: Mickey Mouse. Source: Wikipedia: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
In the silent series created by Max Fleischer, which cartoon clown mixes with real people, Fleischer among them?Answer: Koko the Clown. Source: Wikipedia: Out of the Inkwell
Popeye first appeared on January 17, 1929. In which medium?Answer: A daily newspaper comic strip. Source: Wikipedia: Popeye
What does an animator do in rotoscoping, a technique from a device developed by Max Fleischer?Answer: Traces over film footage frame by frame. Source: Wikipedia: Rotoscoping
Which black cat, created in 1919 in the silent film era, was the first fully realized recurring animal character in American film animation?Answer: Felix the Cat. Source: Wikipedia: Felix the Cat
Which cartoon character, created by Max Fleischer, grew out of a small part in a short film of 1930?Answer: Betty Boop. Source: Wikipedia: Betty Boop
Winsor McCay, whose first animated film dates from 1911, was best known for which newspaper comic strip?Answer: Little Nemo. Source: Wikipedia: Winsor McCay
How this list was compiled: Written for this site; nothing was copied from another list. Questions and wrong choices are our own. Each explanation restates, in our own sentences, a fact from the English Wikipedia article named and linked beside the question (https://en.wikipedia.org, text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license), and the passage that states each fact was found in that article on October 16, 2026 before the question was kept. 60 articles are linked, one to a question, each the article on the cartoon, the character, the person or the technique asked about. The pack runs from the first animated films of 1906 and 1908 to series first shown in 2007: stars of the theatrical shorts, the first cartoons made for television, Saturday mornings and holiday specials, prime time and cable, and the pioneers. No more than five questions are about the work of any one studio. The title of a series or a short stands only as an answer, a choice or in the reason for an answer; characters are named in questions. People are named only with credits and dates of record. A sentence that carries a citation-needed tag in its article was not used. Nothing that a new release or a new season changes is asked: no running total and no record that still stands open. Levels are our estimate: easy is fair for any table, medium suits a regular viewer, hard will stump most tables. Each question also carries the date its article was read. Licence: own work
How it works
Which superhero began life as Super Mouse, and which cartoon family was first to reach prime time? This cartoon trivia runs from the theatrical shorts to Saturday mornings and cable, with the reason under every answer.
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A cartoon quiz in five rounds
Stars of the theatrical shorts asks about the rabbit, the woodpecker, a deadpan Basset Hound and the near-sighted Mr. Magoo. Cartoons come to television covers the first series made for the small screen and the first in color. Saturday mornings and specials has the Mystery Machine, grammar set to music and four Christmas specials.
A cartoon trivia game for mixed ages
Give the grandparents Stars of the theatrical shorts, the parents Saturday mornings and specials and the children Prime time and cable. Cartoon pioneers is the hard round: a dinosaur of 1914, a clown out of an inkwell, and what a cel is.
Before the tap, ask each team to do the character's voice. The best voice earns a bonus point on paper.
Questions and answers
What are some cartoon trivia questions?
Which pair did William Hanna and Joseph Barbera create in 1940? Which bird does a hungry coyote chase? What kind of animal is Arthur Read? The answers are Tom and Jerry, the Road Runner and an aardvark.
What was the first cartoon made for television?
Crusader Rabbit, created by Alexander Anderson and Jay Ward. It was the first animated series produced specifically for television, and its first serial aired in Los Angeles from August 1, 1950, in four-minute episodes.
What was the first cartoon in prime time?
The Flintstones. It ran on ABC from September 30, 1960, to April 1, 1966, as the first animated series with a prime-time slot on television, and it was also the first animated sitcom.
How were the answers checked?
Each was read on October 16, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article linked beside it, 60 articles in all, one to a question. Nothing that a new season could change is asked.