2000s Cartoons Trivia
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105 free 2000s Cartoons trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
58 free 2000s Cartoons trivia questions with answers. If you grew up on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel and Kids' WB in the 2000s, this one is for you. The questions cover SpongeBob and Bikini Bottom, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, Jimmy Neutron and Invader Zim; Ed, Edd n Eddy, Samurai Jack, Codename: Kids Next Door, Foster's, Teen Titans, Ben 10, Billy & Mandy, Chowder and Flapjack; Kim Possible, Phineas and Ferb, The Proud Family and American Dragon; Static Shock, Xiaolin Showdown and Jackie Chan Adventures; plus the primetime crowd of Family Guy, American Dad! and Futurama. It starts with questions any 2000s kid can answer (where does Squidward live?) and works up to the behind-the-scenes stuff: the trademark that renamed SpongeBob, the poll that got Kids Next Door on air, who voiced Aang in the unaired pilot. Difficulty is marked on every question. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia article for the show in question and each question shows its citation, so you can settle the group-chat argument about which network aired what.
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Q 01Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, worked as what before he moved into animation?
A marine science educator
Hillenburg was a marine science educator, and many of the show's ideas came from The Intertidal Zone, an educational comic about sea life he drew in the 1980s.
Q 02SpongeBob SquarePants was going to be called what until Nickelodeon's lawyers found the name already taken?
SpongeBoy
SpongeBoy was the first choice, with the show to be titled SpongeBoy Ahoy!; Hillenburg kept "Sponge" in the new name so nobody would take his square yellow hero for a "Cheese Man".
Q 03Squidward Tentacles lives in a house shaped like what?
An Easter Island moai
Squidward's home is an Easter Island moai, and despite his name he is an octopus: Hillenburg picked the species for its large, bulbous head, which suits a character who thinks he is an intellectual.
Q 04SpongeBob's home town sits beneath which real-life Pacific location?
Bikini Atoll
Bikini Bottom takes its name from Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, site of US nuclear tests, and the show places the town on the seabed directly beneath the real atoll.
Q 05Which pirate, played by a real actor, hosts SpongeBob's special episodes alongside his parrot Potty?
Patchy
Patchy the Pirate, president of the SpongeBob fan club, is played in live action by Tom Kenny, who also voices SpongeBob; his parrot Potty is a puppet.
Q 06Avatar: The Last Airbender named its three seasons, or "books", after elements in which order?
Water, Earth, Fire
The books run Water, Earth, Fire in that order: Aang already bends air, so the seasons follow the remaining elements he must master in the Avatar cycle.
Q 07In Avatar: The Last Airbender, what is the name of Aang's flying sky bison?
Appa
Appa spent a hundred years frozen in the iceberg alongside Aang; once freed, the six-legged sky bison carries the whole group around the world.
Q 08Avatar: The Last Airbender's four-part finale is named after which Fire Lord's comet?
Sozin
Sozin used the comet's power to launch the Hundred Year War, and the Fire Nation renamed it in his honour; its return a century later, set to hand Fire Lord Ozai victory, drives the finale.
Q 09Which future Hannah Montana star voiced Aang in Avatar's unaired 2003 pilot?
Mitchel Musso
Mitchel Musso, later Oliver in Hannah Montana, voiced Aang in the pilot, in which Katara was still called Kya, a name the series went on to give her mother.
Q 10The Fairly OddParents began as shorts on which Nickelodeon animation showcase?
Oh Yeah! Cartoons
The Fairly OddParents began as shorts on Oh Yeah! Cartoons, Fred Seibert's Nickelodeon showcase; they proved popular enough for the network to order a half-hour series, which arrived in 2001.
Q 11On The Fairly OddParents, Timmy Turner's crazed teacher, obsessed with proving fairies exist, is called Mr. what?
Crocker
Denzel Crocker, voiced by Carlos Alazraqui, is right about fairies because he once had fairy godparents of his own, Cosmo and Wanda, before losing them.
Q 12Danny Phantom premiered on April 3, 2004, immediately after which broadcast?
The Kids' Choice Awards
The Kids' Choice Awards led straight into Danny Phantom's first episode. Butch Hartman had dreamed up his ghost-boy hero while helping his mother move from Las Vegas to Los Angeles.
Q 13Danny Phantom's hometown is called what?
Amity Park
Q 21Ed, Edd n Eddy's 2009 finale, in which the Eds flee the cul-de-sac, was called what?
Big Picture Show
Big Picture Show, a feature-length TV movie, finally puts Eddy's long-unseen big brother on screen; he turns out to be a bully, and the neighbourhood kids at last accept the Eds.
Q 22Samurai Jack creator Genndy Tartakovsky had earlier created which Cartoon Network series?
Dexter's Laboratory
Dexter's Laboratory was Tartakovsky's own creation and his first Cartoon Network series; after Samurai Jack, George Lucas hired him to direct the Star Wars: Clone Wars shorts.
Q 23How many years passed between Samurai Jack's fourth season ending and its fifth season premiering on Adult Swim in 2017?
Over twelve
Danny lives in Amity Park, where his parents Jack and Maddie Fenton are ghost hunters; the accident in their Ghost Portal is what made him half-ghost.
Q 14Jimmy Neutron was the first Nicktoon to be animated how?
Entirely in CGI
Jimmy Neutron was the first Nicktoon animated entirely in CGI, and the first to grow out of a film: it carries on the story of the 2001 feature Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
Q 15Jimmy Neutron lives in the fictional town of Retroville in which state?
Texas
Retroville is in Texas, the state where John A. Davis's studio DNA Productions made both the film and the series, in the Dallas area.
Q 16The Neutron and Turner crossover specials were released under what title?
The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour
The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour swaps the two heroes: Timmy lands in Retroville while a now-2D Jimmy is stuck in Dimmsdale, mistaken for Timmy; two sequels followed in 2006.
Q 17Invader Zim was created by which comic-book writer and cartoonist?
Jhonen Vasquez
Jhonen Vasquez was known for the grim comic Johnny the Homicidal Maniac when Nickelodeon went looking for a show for older kids; Invader Zim was the first idea he pitched.
Q 18In Invader Zim, the Irken Empire's social hierarchy is based solely on what?
Physical height
Physical height decides rank among the Irkens, which is why their leaders are the Almighty Tallest, a title shared by Red and Purple.
Q 19Which streaming service premiered the 2019 Invader Zim film Enter the Florpus?
Netflix
Enter the Florpus premiered on Netflix on 16 August 2019; Nickelodeon had cancelled the original series in 2002 before its second season was finished, leaving several episodes unfinished.
Q 20In which fictional town do the three Eds share their suburban cul-de-sac?
Peach Creek
The Eds live in a cul-de-sac in Peach Creek, where every one of Eddy's scams has the same goal: bilking the neighbourhood kids out of enough cash to buy jawbreakers.
Over twelve years separated the two, and the revival finally gave the story an ending; the series won eight Primetime Emmys in total.
Q 24Codename: Kids Next Door was picked up by Cartoon Network after winning what?
A viewers' poll of pilots
A viewers' poll of pilots settled it: the Kids Next Door pilot was the audience favourite in Cartoon Network's Big Pick event in 2001, and the prize was a full series.
Q 25In Codename: Kids Next Door, Numbuh 3 is which character?
Kuki Sanban
Kuki Sanban is Numbuh 3, and her surname is the joke: "sanban" is Japanese for "number three"; Lauren Tom voices the team's happy-go-lucky medic.
Q 26Which Star Wars actor voices the candy-loving pirate Stickybeard in Codename: Kids Next Door?
Mark Hamill
Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker himself, voices Stickybeard, captain of the Candy Pirates, who plunder sweets the way other pirates plunder gold; he and Numbuh 5 are rivals over candy.
Q 27Craig McCracken got the idea for Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends after doing what?
Adopting two dogs from a shelter
Adopting two dogs from a shelter set McCracken and his fiancée Lauren Faust wondering what the pets' lives had been like before, and he saw that outgrown imaginary friends could have a past of their own too.
Q 28In Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, what must the sensible Mac never be allowed to taste?
Sugar
Sugar is Mac's one weakness: even a drop turns the level-headed eight-year-old into an uncontrollable maniac who will do anything to find more.
Q 29Foster's Home business manager Mr. Herriman is an imaginary friend of what kind?
A lop-eared rabbit
Mr. Herriman is a lop-eared rabbit dreamed up by Madame Foster herself: the founder's own imaginary friend now runs her house, in a top hat and monocle.
Q 30The theme song of Teen Titans (2003) was performed by which Japanese band?
Puffy AmiYumi
Puffy AmiYumi sang the Teen Titans theme, and in 2004 Cartoon Network gave the pop duo a cartoon of their own, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, created by Sam Register.