90s Cartoons Trivia
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118 free 90s Cartoons trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
56 free 90s Cartoons trivia questions with answers. If your after-school routine in the 1990s ran through Nickelodeon, the Disney Afternoon, Fox Kids, Kids' WB and Cartoon Network, this quiz is for you. It covers the first Nicktoons (Doug, Rugrats, Ren & Stimpy), Rocko, Hey Arnold!, the Klasky Csupo shows, the Disney Afternoon lineup from TaleSpin to Gargoyles, the Fox Kids superheroes (Batman: The Animated Series, X-Men, Spider-Man), Spielberg's Animaniacs and Freakazoid!, and the Cartoon Cartoons wave of Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, Ed Edd n Eddy and Courage. It also visits the grown-up side of the decade (Beavis and Butt-Head, Daria, King of the Hill, South Park, Family Guy, Futurama) and the anime that arrived from Japan. Questions start easy (what kind of animal is Rocko?) and work up to the behind-the-scenes stuff: the studio that took over Ren & Stimpy, the original name of the Powerpuff Girls short, and the network that aired the very first Tiny Toon Adventures episode. Every question shows a difficulty score. 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 01Who voiced Tommy Pickles on Rugrats from its 1991 debut?
E. G. Daily
E. G. Daily voiced Tommy for the show's whole run, once going into labour mid-session and recording lines between contractions; only the unaired pilot used another actor.
Q 02Which 2003-2008 spin-off followed the Rugrats babies as preteens?
All Grown Up!
All Grown Up! ran on Nickelodeon from 2003 to 2008, expanding the 2001 tenth-anniversary special 'All Growed Up', which had jumped the babies forward ten years.
Q 03Which three cartoons premiered together in August 1991 as the first Nicktoons?
Doug, Rugrats and The Ren & Stimpy Show
Doug, Rugrats and The Ren & Stimpy Show debuted back to back in a 90-minute block on 11 August 1991, each grown from a pilot that executive Vanessa Coffey commissioned.
Q 04Doug Funnie's new hometown on Doug is called what?
Bluffington
Bluffington is home to blue, green and purple neighbours; creator Jim Jinkins has said the odd colours came from a 'margarita stupor' in the Mexican restaurant where the cast was first sketched.
Q 05After Doug's studio was sold in 1996, its new episodes premiered on which broadcast network?
ABC
ABC got the revival: Disney bought Jumbo Pictures within weeks of completing its takeover of the network in 1996, and Brand Spanking New! Doug joined its Saturday mornings that September.
Q 06Who created Hey Arnold!?
Craig Bartlett
Craig Bartlett first built the football-headed Arnold in claymation shorts, one of which aired on Sesame Street, before Nickelodeon launched the series in October 1996.
Q 07On Hey Arnold!, Arnold's grandparents run a boarding house with what name?
Sunset Arms
Sunset Arms is home because Arnold's parents never came back from a mission to Central America, a mystery the series left open until The Jungle Movie in 2017.
Q 08Rocko of Rocko's Modern Life is what kind of animal?
A wallaby
A wallaby caught creator Joe Murray's eye at a Bay Area zoo because it seemed oblivious to the chaos around it, and that became Rocko, an Australian immigrant adrift in O-Town.
Q 09Which future SpongeBob creator got his first animation-directing job on Rocko's Modern Life?
Stephen Hillenburg
Stephen Hillenburg, a former marine-biology teacher, was hired after Rocko's creator saw his student film Wormholes at a 1992 animation festival; much of the crew later joined him on SpongeBob.
Q 10Ren Höek of The Ren & Stimpy Show is what kind of animal?
A chihuahua
A chihuahua in a sweater at a woman's feet, on a postcard of an Elliott Erwitt photograph, gave the show's creator the idea for Ren; his partner Stimpy is a dim, good-natured Manx cat.
Q 11Which Ren & Stimpy creator did Nickelodeon fire in 1992, handing production to its in-house studio?
John Kricfalusi
John Kricfalusi's studio kept missing deadlines and clashing with the network's censors, so Nickelodeon ended his contract and handed the show to its new Games Animation for three more seasons.
Q 12Which film director served as executive producer of Animaniacs?
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg personally approved the characters, and Buttons and Mindy were nearly cut until one of his children saw a drawing of the pair and loved them.
Q 13On Animaniacs, where had Yakko, Wakko and Dot been locked away since the 1930s?
The studio water tower
Q 21Guitarist Joe Perry of which band performed the theme of the 1994 Spider-Man animated series?
Aerosmith
Aerosmith's Joe Perry played the theme, and the show nodded back in The Alien Costume, where the hero's shape-shifting symbiote suit briefly dresses him as the guitarist.
Q 22Who voiced Goliath on Gargoyles?
Keith David
Keith David voiced Goliath, the one gargoyle the castle's humans had named, after the biblical giant; the rest took names only after waking in Manhattan.
Q 23On Gargoyles, when do the gargoyles turn to stone?
During the day
Gargoyles turn to stone during the day and wake at sunset; a spell froze the clan in Scotland for a thousand years until their castle was rebuilt atop a Manhattan skyscraper.
The studio water tower became the Warners' prison in the show's backstory because the 1930s cartoon stars were judged too zany; decades later they escape and run wild on the lot.
Q 14In Pinky and the Brain, whose voice did Maurice LaMarche base the Brain on?
Orson Welles
Orson Welles came to mind the moment Maurice LaMarche saw a drawing of the Brain; LaMarche later dubbed Welles's voice over Vincent D'Onofrio in the 1994 film Ed Wood.
Q 15In 1998, Pinky and the Brain was retooled so the mice were owned by which Tiny Toon Adventures character?
Elmyra Duff
Elmyra Duff was reportedly the network's idea, and the writers answered in the new theme song, which shrugs that it is what the network wants, so why complain.
Q 16On Tiny Toon Adventures, Buster and Babs Bunny introduce themselves with which running disclaimer?
No relation
'No relation' was the best friends' answer to their shared surname, a joke the reboot Tiny Toons Looniversity undid by making Buster and Babs twins.
Q 17Which villain was created for Batman: The Animated Series, debuting in 'Joker's Favor'?
Harley Quinn
Harley Quinn was modelled on Paul Dini's college friend Arleen Sorkin, whom he saw play a jester in a soap opera; he then cast Sorkin as her voice.
Q 18Who voiced the Joker on Batman: The Animated Series?
Mark Hamill
Mark Hamill was a replacement: another actor had already recorded several episodes as the Joker before the part was recast and given to Star Wars' Luke Skywalker.
Q 19The producers of Batman: The Animated Series called its noir-meets-1940s visual style by what name?
Dark Deco
Dark Deco was the producers' own name for the look; backgrounds were painted in light colours on black paper, instead of the usual white, to keep Gotham dark.
Q 20X-Men: The Animated Series premiered on Halloween 1992 as part of which programming block?
Fox Kids
Fox Kids had planned a September launch, but production delays pushed the two-part 'Night of the Sentinels' back to a Halloween sneak preview.
Q 24What is Darkwing Duck's mild-mannered secret identity?
Drake Mallard
Drake Mallard — a pun on Kent Allard, the Shadow's alter ego — lives in St. Canard with adopted daughter Gosalyn and pilot Launchpad McQuack.
Q 25On TaleSpin, what is the name of Baloo's cargo plane?
The Sea Duck
The Sea Duck is no longer Baloo's own: Rebecca Cunningham owns it and runs it as the delivery plane of her cargo firm Higher for Hire, with Baloo still at the controls.
Q 26On Goof Troop, who is Goofy's next-door neighbor and old high-school friend?
Pete
Pete, Disney's oldest recurring character and usually Mickey Mouse's enemy, got a makeover here as a used-car salesman and family man whose son P.J. is Max's best friend.
Q 27On Recess, the Third Street playground is ruled by a sixth grader with what title?
King Bob
King Bob keeps order through enforcers who carry out his decrees; before his reign he was the playground's Prankster Prince, a title earned by pranking the king of the day.
Q 28Sue Rose created which 1997 Disney series about a quirky 12-year-old at Hazelnut Middle School?
Pepper Ann
Pepper Ann started life as a comic strip in the teen magazine YM; on screen, her feelings burst out as full-blown fantasy sequences.
Q 29Who created Dexter's Laboratory?
Genndy Tartakovsky
Genndy Tartakovsky created Dexter's Laboratory (1996) and gave the boy genius an accent because, he said, famous scientists all have accents; he went on to make Samurai Jack.
Q 30Craig McCracken's CalArts short that became The Powerpuff Girls was originally titled what?
Whoopass Stew!
McCracken's 1992 CalArts short Whoopass Stew! starred the Whoopass Girls; Cartoon Network would not market that word, so they became the Powerpuff Girls.