2010s Cartoons Trivia
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50 free 2010s cartoon trivia questions with answers. These 2010s cartoon trivia questions and answers cover the decade when Cartoon Network, Disney and Netflix animation grew up: Adventure Time's Mushroom War, Gravity Falls ending on its creator's terms, Rebecca Sugar leaving Ooo to make Steven Universe, Gumball's clashing art styles, and the streaming-era shows from BoJack, She-Ra, Voltron, Trollhunters, Hilda and Kipo. The preschool hits are here too (Bluey, PAW Patrol, Doc McStuffins, Sofia, the Lion Guard), along with the grown-up ones (Rick and Morty's Szechuan sauce, Bob's Burgers). About half the questions are easy enough for anyone who watched with a kid or was one; the rest ask about creators, premieres, spin-offs and Emmy wins that only a real fan will know. It works for a 2010s-themed party, a family quiz between generations, or a nostalgia round for anyone who grew up in the decade. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and network records, and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01In Adventure Time, Finn's best friend and adoptive brother Jake is what kind of animal?
A dog
A dog: Jake can stretch and reshape his body at will, and creator Pendleton Ward based his easy-going, big-brother manner on Bill Murray's camp counsellor in the film Meatballs.
Q 02Adventure Time's Land of Ooo was ravaged a thousand years before the show by which cataclysm?
The Mushroom War
The Mushroom War, a nuclear conflict glimpsed in flashbacks, ravaged Earth a thousand years before the show and gives the candy-coloured world its dark undertone.
Q 03Which network passed on Adventure Time after its 2007 short went viral?
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon passed on the series even though the pilot, made for Frederator's Random! Cartoons, had aired on Nicktoons in 2007 and gone viral online; Cartoon Network picked it up instead.
Q 04Regular Show's Mordecai and Rigby are what two animals?
A blue jay and a raccoon
A blue jay and a raccoon: the show's creator, who voices Mordecai himself, drew its characters from the student films he had made at the California Institute of the Arts.
Q 05Gravity Falls twins Dipper and Mabel spend the summer helping their Grunkle Stan run what?
The Mystery Shack, a tourist trap
The Mystery Shack, a tourist trap of fake curiosities, is Grunkle Stan's business; creator Alex Hirsch drew the twins from life, modelling Mabel on his own twin sister, Ariel.
Q 06In Gravity Falls, what is Dipper Pines's real first name?
Mason
Mason is Dipper's real name, revealed in the tie-in book Journal 3; 'Dipper' is a nickname from the Big Dipper-shaped birthmark on his forehead.
Q 07Which Steven Universe character is a fusion of the Gems Ruby and Sapphire?
Garnet
Garnet is revealed in the first-season finale, 'Jail Break', to be two smaller Gems who stay fused all the time because they are in love.
Q 08Steven Universe lives with the Crystal Gems in which fictional town?
Beach City
Beach City is modelled on the Delaware seaside towns, Rehoboth Beach among them, that creator Rebecca Sugar visited as a child.
Q 09In The Amazing World of Gumball, what kind of animal is Gumball's adoptive brother Darwin?
A goldfish
A goldfish: Darwin began as Gumball's pet, then sprouted legs and was taken in as a full member of the Watterson family.
Q 10In Bluey, what is the profession of Bluey's dad, Bandit?
Archaeologist
Archaeologist: creator Joe Brumm took Bandit's job from real life, because his own older sibling, Adam, grew up to become one.
Q 11Bluey is produced by Ludo Studio in which Australian state?
Queensland
Queensland is both home and setting: Ludo Studio works in Brisbane, and that city, with its timber Queenslander houses, inspired the neighbourhood where the Heelers live.
Q 12Which 2016 cartoon follows Lincoln, the only boy in a family with ten sisters?
The Loud House
The Loud House began as creator Chris Savino's idea for a boy rabbit with 25 sisters; he then made the family human and cut the sisters to ten, a number he found far easier to manage.
Q 13Rick and Morty airs on which Cartoon Network programming block?
Adult Swim
Adult Swim cut ties with co-creator Justin Roiland in 2023 and recast his two lead roles.
Q 21PAW Patrol was created by Keith Chapman, who had earlier created which British children's TV hero?
Bob the Builder
Bob the Builder made Keith Chapman's name: the stop-motion character's theme song, 'Can We Fix It?', was the UK's Christmas number one in 2000, beating Westlife to the top.
Q 22Teen Titans Go! (2013) is a comedic spin-off based on which publisher's superhero team?
DC
DC's young heroes are played for laughs here, yet by the same five actors who voiced them in the more serious 2003 Teen Titans series, all of whom returned for the spin-off.
Q 23The Legend of Korra's first season is set mostly in which metropolis?
Republic City
Q 14A Rick and Morty joke brought which discontinued McDonald's item back to menus in 2018?
Szechuan Sauce
Szechuan Sauce, a 1998 tie-in with the film Mulan, was demanded by Rick in the 2017 season-three premiere; fans clamoured so loudly that McDonald's returned it to all its stores in February 2018.
Q 15BoJack Horseman is a washed-up star of what?
A 1990s sitcom
A 1990s sitcom, Horsin' Around, made BoJack famous; the show's animal look comes from Lisa Hanawalt, a friend of creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg since high school, who at first turned the job down.
Q 16What are the names of the three Belcher children in Bob's Burgers?
Tina, Gene and Louise
Tina, Gene and Louise are the Belcher children, eldest first; in the original pilot the eldest was a boy named Daniel, who was replaced by Tina before the series aired.
Q 17Phineas and Ferb try to make the most of how many days of summer vacation?
104
104 days is the summer the theme song promises; creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff 'Swampy' Marsh pitched the show to networks for 16 years before Disney finally bought it.
Q 18My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic attracted a famous adult male fanbase known as what?
Bronies
Bronies took off on the message board 4chan, where interest in the show surged after an animation writer's essay held it up as a sign that toy tie-ins were taking over television cartoons.
Q 19Which studious pony is the lead character of Friendship Is Magic, with a dragon assistant named Spike?
Twilight Sparkle
Twilight Sparkle starts the show as a bookish unicorn sent to study friendship; at the end of season three she repairs an ancient spell, sprouts wings and becomes a princess.
Q 20PAW Patrol's rescue pups are led by a boy named what?
Ryder
Ryder, a ten-year-old boy, leads the pups from the Lookout; the series grew out of a toy, a transforming truck that a co-founder of the Canadian company Spin Master designed in 2010.
Republic City was founded by Aang after the war as a home for people from all four nations; 70 years on, it has grown into a metropolis styled on 1920s New York and Shanghai.
Q 24Which 2015 Disney XD series follows a magical princess from another dimension?
Star vs. the Forces of Evil
Star vs. the Forces of Evil began as creator Daron Nefcy's college idea about a girl whose magic was all in her head, a kid who thought she was Sailor Moon, until a Disney executive suggested giving her real powers.
Q 25We Bare Bears follows three bear brothers trying to fit into human life where?
The San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area is home to Grizz, Panda and Ice Bear, who began in Daniel Chong's webcomic The Three Bare Bears; the pilot then won an audience prize at an Amsterdam animation festival.
Q 26Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir is set in which city?
Paris
Paris is home to Marinette and Adrien; creator Thomas Astruc paired his ladybug heroine with a black cat because one stands for good luck and the other for bad.
Q 27In Sofia the First, village girl Sofia becomes a princess when her mother marries the king of which realm?
Enchancia
Enchancia's King Roland II marries Sofia's widowed mother, Miranda, making Sofia royalty overnight; classic Disney princesses such as Cinderella then drop in to advise her.
Q 28Doc McStuffins, a Disney Junior hit from 2012 to 2020, follows a six-year-old girl who does what?
Fixes broken toys
Fixes broken toys: Doc treats them in her playhouse clinic, and the character moved 131 women doctors of colour to publish a group portrait titled 'We Are Doc McStuffins'.
Q 29In the 2017 DuckTales reboot, the Scottish actor David Tennant voices which character?
Scrooge McDuck
Scrooge McDuck is a Scot himself, born in Glasgow in the comics; Carl Barks created him in 1947 meaning to use him only once, and he became the artist's signature character.
Q 30Who voices Wirt, the elder half-brother, in the 2014 miniseries Over the Garden Wall?
Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood voices the anxious Wirt, with Collin Dean as his half-brother Greg; the miniseries won the 2015 Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program and grew out of Patrick McHale's short Tome of the Unknown.