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49 free 70s Cartoons trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This 70s cartoon trivia quiz is a Saturday morning in the Hanna-Barbera and Filmation era: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Super Friends and the Wonder Twins, Hong Kong Phooey, Josie and the Pussycats, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Schoolhouse Rock, Speed Buggy, Jabberjaw, Captain Caveman, Dynomutt, Grape Ape, the Laff-A-Lympics, The Pink Panther Show, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Sealab 2020, the Groovie Goolies, the Jackson 5ive, Godzilla and Battle of the Planets, plus the arrival of Scrappy-Doo in 1979. Expect questions on the voices behind the characters, the networks and years, the catchphrases, the shows that copied Scooby-Doo and the ones that tried to teach something. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who ate cereal in front of these shows, a third need a closer memory of who did what, and the rest reward the completists who know the working titles and the production companies. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series before publishing, and each question carries the sentence that establishes it. If you think one is wrong, use the report button and we will look again.
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Q 01On which network did Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! premiere in September 1969?
CBS
CBS premiered it on 13 September 1969; Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created it for Hanna-Barbera, and it ran two seasons before the gang moved on to new formats.
Q 02Who voiced Shaggy Rogers, Scooby's best friend, in the original Scooby-Doo series?
Casey Kasem
Casey Kasem voiced Shaggy from 1969 until 2009; Don Messick voiced Scooby and Frank Welker voiced Fred from the first episode.
Q 03What made The New Scooby-Doo Movies of 1972-73 different from the original series?
Hour-long episodes with celebrity guests
Hour-long episodes with celebrity guests: Don Knotts, Sonny & Cher, the Harlem Globetrotters and Batman and Robin all joined the gang across two seasons on CBS.
Q 04Which puppy was added to the Scooby-Doo franchise in 1979 to rescue its sinking ratings?
Scrappy-Doo
Scrappy-Doo debuted in Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979) and lifted the ratings; Lennie Weinrib voiced him for one season before Don Messick took over.
Q 05What relation is the Great Dane puppy introduced in 1979 to Scooby-Doo?
Nephew
Scrappy is Scooby's nephew, the son of Scooby's sister Ruby-Doo, and idolises his uncle, shouting 'Let me at 'em!' at every villain.
Q 06Which DC Comics team was Super Friends based on?
The Justice League of America
The Justice League of America became the Super Friends; the show ran on ABC from 1973 into the mid-1980s under seven different titles.
Q 07Which three sidekicks with no powers were created for the 1973 Super Friends?
Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog
Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog were powerless teen sidekicks invented for the 1973 show; they were dropped in 1977 in favour of the super-powered Wonder Twins.
Q 08What is the name of the Wonder Twins' pet monkey, introduced in The All-New Super Friends Hour?
Gleek
Gleek, the Wonder Twins' blue space monkey, arrived with Zan and Jayna in 1977; his stretching tail and bucket gags supplied the comic relief.
Q 09What is the day job of Penrod Pooch, secret identity of Hong Kong Phooey?
Police station janitor
Penry is a mild-mannered janitor at the police station; he changes by jumping into a filing cabinet, gets stuck, and is freed by his cat Spot.
Q 10Who voiced Hong Kong Phooey?
Scatman Crothers
Scatman Crothers, later Dick Hallorann in The Shining, voiced the kung-fu janitor; Joe E. Ross of Car 54, Where Are You? voiced Sergeant Flint with his 'Ooh! Ooh!' catchphrase.
Q 11Josie and the Pussycats was based on characters from which publisher?
Archie
Archie Comics' Josie, created by Dan DeCarlo in 1963, became Hanna-Barbera's 16-episode series on CBS from September 1970.
Q 12Which Pussycat was the first regularly appearing Black female character in a Saturday morning cartoon?
Valerie
Valerie Brown, the band's tambourine player and its brains, was voiced in song by Patrice Holloway, with Barbara Pariot supplying her speaking voice.
Q 13Which future Charlie's Angels star was Melody's singing voice in Josie and the Pussycats?
Cheryl Ladd
Cheryl Ladd, credited as Cherie Moor, sang as Melody years before joining Charlie's Angels in 1977; Jackie Joseph supplied the drummer's speaking voice.
Q 21What kind of vehicle is the title character of the 1973 series Speed Buggy?
A talking orange dune racer
Mel Blanc voiced him, and the concept borrowed from The Love Bug and Speed Racer.
Q 22Which 1968 Disney film inspired the concept for Speed Buggy?
The Love Bug
The Love Bug (1968), Disney's hit about Herbie the sentient Volkswagen Beetle, inspired Hanna-Barbera's talking car; Speed Buggy arrived on CBS in 1973.
Q 23What kind of animal is Jabberjaw?
A great white shark
Jabberjaw is a great white shark, 15 feet long and amphibious, who drums for the Neptunes, a rock group with four humans living in an underwater civilisation.
Q 14Where did the band go in the 1972 relaunch of Josie and the Pussycats?
Outer space
Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space sent the band into the cosmos after Alexandra accidentally launched their rocket; sixteen episodes aired on CBS in 1972–73.
Q 15Which studio produced Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids?
Filmation
Bill Cosby hosted live-action bookends and voiced several characters, including Fat Albert.
Q 16In which city's junkyard did Fat Albert's gang play their cobbled-together instruments?
North Philadelphia
North Philadelphia, where Cosby grew up; Fat Albert first appeared in his 1967 'Buck Buck' stand-up routine about the neighbourhood gang.
Q 17What was Fat Albert's catchphrase?
Hey hey hey!
'Hey hey hey!' announced Fat Albert's every entrance; the show premiered in 1972 and new episodes appeared sporadically until 1985.
Q 18Which Schoolhouse Rock! song was the first, written to teach multiplication?
Three Is a Magic Number
'Three Is a Magic Number' came first, after ad executive David McCall noticed his son could memorise Rolling Stones lyrics but not his times tables.
Q 19Which musician wrote and performed most of the Multiplication Rock songs?
Bob Dorough
Bob Dorough, a jazz pianist and the series' musical director, wrote all eleven Multiplication Rock songs and sang most of them; Blossom Dearie and Grady Tate sang a few.
Q 20On which network did Schoolhouse Rock! air between the Saturday morning cartoons?
ABC
The original run lasted from 1973 to 1985 with a revival in the 1990s.
Q 24Frank Welker voiced Jabberjaw as an impression of which comedian?
Curly of the Three Stooges
The shark's complaint that he gets no respect is a nod to Rodney Dangerfield, but the voice is Curly.
Q 25How is Captain Caveman discovered by the Teen Angels?
Frozen in a block of ice
Frozen in a block of ice: the Teen Angels, Brenda, Dee Dee and Taffy, thawed him out, and his club and hair conceal a range of useful objects.
Q 26Which superhero and robotic dog starred in the 1976 series Dynomutt, Dog Wonder?
The Blue Falcon
The Blue Falcon, a Batman-style hero, and his bumbling mechanical dog Dynomutt began as a segment of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour on ABC in 1976.
Q 27How tall is the Great Grape Ape?
40 feet
Grape Ape stands 40 feet tall, a purple gorilla with a child's mind who repeats his own name twice after almost anything anyone says.
Q 28What is the name of Grape Ape's canine companion?
Beegle Beagle
Beegle Beagle, voiced by Marty Ingels, drives the van with Grape Ape riding on the roof; his giant friend affectionately calls him 'Beegly Beagly'.
Q 29Laff-A-Lympics, with 45 Hanna-Barbera characters in Olympic events, parodied which show?
Battle of the Network Stars
Battle of the Network Stars, ABC's celebrity sports special, was the model; the cartoon anchored the two-hour Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics block on ABC in 1977–78.
Q 30The Pink Panther Show originally paired Pink Panther cartoons with shorts starring which character?
The Inspector
The Inspector, a bumbling Clouseau-style detective, shared the 1969 show with the Panther; The Ant and the Aardvark and other series were added later in the run.