Animaniacs Trivia
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99 free Animaniacs trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Animaniacs was a kids' show that a quarter of its audience watched as adults, which tells you how many jokes were aimed over the heads in the room. These Animaniacs trivia questions cover the Warner siblings and their water tower, the two mice who tried to take over the world, Slappy, the Goodfeathers, the voice cast, the music and the Hulu revival. Every answer is sourced, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Narf.
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Q 01Who created Animaniacs?
Tom Ruegger
Tom Ruegger modelled the three Warners' personalities on his own sons, Nathan, Cody and Luke, and all three boys went on to voice characters in his cartoons.
Q 02On which programming block did Animaniacs premiere in September 1993?
Fox Kids
Fox Kids ran it on weekday afternoons from September 1993, and the show found fans among adults as well as the children the block was aimed at.
Q 03Which filmmaker was the executive producer of Animaniacs?
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg, whose name led the full title 'Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs', was hands-on: at his urging, every episode was given its own original score.
Q 04What do Yakko and Wakko shout whenever an attractive woman walks by?
Hello, Nurse!
Hello, Nurse! greets the studio's blonde medic above all; the 2020 revival wrote her out, explaining that she had left to join Doctors Without Borders.
Q 05Where were the Warner siblings locked away for being too zany?
The water tower
The water tower is a real landmark on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank; a giant Yakko balloon placed on it to promote the launch was taken down after the studio chief mistook it for Mickey Mouse.
Q 06The Warners' design echoes which early animated character?
Felix the Cat
Felix the Cat, a black figure with a white face, was a loose model alongside Warner's own Bosko and Foxy, so the trio look like relics of the era the story says they come from.
Q 07What is the name of the Warner Bros. security guard who chases the Warners?
Ralph
Ralph, voiced by Frank Welker, is the slow-witted guard the trio always outrun; the revival springs a twist by revealing he is related to the studio's new boss.
Q 08What is the surname of the Warner Bros. psychiatrist who tries to tame the Warners?
Scratchansniff
Scratchansniff, first name Otto, begins with a full head of grey hair and tears it out in frustration during his sessions with the Warners, which is why he is bald.
Q 09What question does the Brain ask Pinky at the start of their schemes?
Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
'Are you pondering what I'm pondering?' always draws a baffling reply; one episode, 'The Pinky P.O.V.', replays a night from Pinky's side to show how he gets there.
Q 10Which of these is one of Pinky's signature nonsense words?
Narf
Narf leads a list that also runs to Zort, Poit and Troz, the last adopted after Pinky noticed it was Zort seen backwards in a mirror.
Q 11What is the name of the research facility where Pinky and the Brain live?
Acme Labs
Acme Labs is where a gene splicer gave the two caged mice their intelligence; each night they slip the cage there to try, and fail, to take over the world.
Q 12In his origin episode, how does Pinky get his name?
From a misheard insult by Brain
From a misheard insult by Brain: in that telling he scoffs that the scientists have less in their heads than he has in his pinky, and the other mouse answers as if called.
Q 13What kind of animal is Snowball, the Brain's rival?
A hamster
A hamster, Snowball grew up as the Brain's friend before the same gene splicing turned him into a rival bent on world conquest; Roddy McDowall voiced him.
Q 21What is Chicken Boo's goal in his segments?
To live among humans
To live among humans, the six-foot chicken wears flimsy disguises that fool everyone but one doubter, until the costume slips and the crowd turns on him.
Q 22Which two characters does Rob Paulsen voice in Animaniacs?
Yakko and Pinky
Yakko and Pinky nearly lost their voice in 2016, when Rob Paulsen was treated for throat cancer; he recovered and returned to both roles for the 2020 revival.
Q 23Who voices Wakko in Animaniacs?
Jess Harnell
Jess Harnell still sings Wakko's songs on stage: since 2016 he has joined his fellow leads on tour in a live concert show of the cartoon's music.
Q 14In Animaniacs, Squit, Bobby and Pesto parody the lead characters of which 1990 gangster film?
Goodfellas
Goodfellas supplied the three leads, while their boss, a send-up of Marlon Brando's Godfather, mumbles so badly that Bobby has to translate for him.
Q 15What kind of birds are the Goodfeathers?
Pigeons
Pigeons from New York, the trio are less mobsters than strugglers: most of their cartoons are about coping with the everyday problems of city bird life.
Q 16What is the name of the little girl that Buttons the dog protects?
Mindy
Mindy, a toddler, wanders cheerfully into danger and never notices; Buttons takes the knocks rescuing her, then gets scolded by her parents instead of thanked.
Q 17What is the name of Slappy Squirrel's nephew?
Skippy
Skippy's sunny innocence is the foil to his grumpy aunt's taste for slapstick mayhem; the show's creator cast his own eldest son, Nathan, as the voice.
Q 18Slappy Squirrel, who lives in a tree with her nephew, is a grumpy retired what?
Cartoon star
Cartoon star Slappy made her name in violent old slapstick shorts and still settles every score that way; writer Sherri Stoner, who voices her, shaped the character.
Q 19Rita and Runt, dropped after season one, were what kind of duo?
A cat and a dog
A cat and a dog: Rita is a sarcastic singing stray, and dim-witted Runt goes through every cartoon convinced his friend is a dog like him.
Q 20Which Broadway star provided the voice of Rita in Animaniacs?
Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters sang in the role too, so most of Rita's cartoons pause for a Broadway-style number as the two strays search for a home.
Q 24Wakko's voice is a younger impression of which musician?
Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr's Liverpool accent, pitched younger, makes Wakko the only one of the three siblings who doesn't sound American.
Q 25Who voices Dot Warner?
Tress MacNeille
Tress MacNeille was asked to audition because she already voiced Babs Bunny for the same producers and the two characters sounded alike.
Q 26Who voices the Brain in Animaniacs?
Maurice LaMarche
Maurice LaMarche won the part at his audition and plays it straight: his Brain is no cackling villain but a mouse who honestly thinks he would run the world better.
Q 27The Brain's voice is an impression of which film director?
Orson Welles
Orson Welles was the actor's own idea: he thought the drawing looked like the director and has described the voice as about two-thirds Welles and one-third Vincent Price.
Q 28Yakko's voice and design were inspired by which comedian?
Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx was the model because the creator built the whole trio on the Marx Brothers; Wakko's look in turn echoes Groucho's brother Harpo.
Q 29What accent does Pinky speak with?
Cockney
Cockney was his voice actor's tribute to British comedy: the accent borrows from the Monty Python troupe and the cast of The Goon Show.
Q 30What was the 1999 direct-to-video Animaniacs film called?
Wakko's Wish
Wakko's Wish recasts the Warners as penniless orphans in a fairy-tale town crushed by taxes and stood as the franchise's finale until the revival two decades later.