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50 free Bugs Bunny trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Bugs Bunny made his official debut in Tex Avery's A Wild Hare in 1940, starred in more than 160 Warner Bros. shorts, and has appeared in more films than any other cartoon character. He is Warner Bros.' mascot, the first cartoon on a US postage stamp and TV Guide's greatest cartoon character of all time. This quiz covers the prototype rabbit of Porky's Hare Hunt, how he got his name, Mel Blanc's Bronx-Brooklyn voice and the carrot spittoon, the wartime cartoons, the Rabbit Season trilogy, What's Opera, Doc?, the one Oscar win, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Space Jam and the later TV revivals. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who grew up on Saturday mornings, a third are medium and the rest are for animation historians. Every answer is checked against the character's reference history.
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Q 01What is Bugs Bunny's most famous catchphrase?
"Eh... What's up, doc?"
Tex Avery wrote it for A Wild Hare and said it was just a common expression back in Texas.
Q 02Who was Bugs Bunny's original voice actor?
Mel Blanc
He voiced the rabbit for 52 years, from 1938 until his death in 1989.
Q 03Which 1940 Tex Avery short is considered Bugs's official debut?
A Wild Hare
It was the first with the standard voice, the catchphrase and an Oscar nomination.
Q 04In which 1938 cartoon did a prototype of Bugs first appear?
Porky's Hare Hunt
It recycled the plot of Porky's Duck Hunt, which had introduced Daffy Duck a year earlier.
Q 05What color was the prototype rabbit in the 1938 short?
White
He did not turn gray until Hare-um Scare-um in 1939.
Q 06Which director's nickname gave Bugs his name, via a model sheet labelled "Bugs's Bunny"?
Ben Hardaway
Animator Charles Thorson drew the sheet for Ben "Bugs" Hardaway.
Q 07Which 1939 short was the first to draw Bugs as a gray rabbit instead of a white one?
Hare-um Scare-um
It was also his first singing role.
Q 08In Prest-O Change-O (1939), Bugs is the pet of which unseen character?
Sham-Fu the Magician
Two dogs fleeing the dogcatcher hide in the magician's house and get harassed by the rabbit.
Q 09Which artist redesigned Bugs and Elmer for the 1940 official debut?
Bob Givens
His rabbit looked like an adolescent where Thorson's had looked like an infant.
Q 10In which 1940 Chuck Jones short did the rabbit first meet his future hunter nemesis?
Elmer's Candid Camera
The rabbit looked close to modern Bugs but still had the primitive voice.
Q 11Which 1941 short was the first to put Bugs's name on a title card?
Elmer's Pet Rabbit
Bugs had yellow gloves, no buck teeth and a thuggish personality that was quickly dropped.
Q 12Which 1958 Friz Freleng short is the only Oscar winner in the rabbit's filmography?
Knighty Knight Bugs
A medieval Bugs battles Yosemite Sam and a fire-breathing dragon that has a cold.
Q 13Whose opera cycle does What's Opera, Doc? (1957) parody?
Richard Wagner
In 1992 it became the first cartoon short chosen for the National Film Registry.
Q 21What honorary rank did the US Marine Corps give Bugs after Super-Rabbit (1943)?
Master sergeant
He appears at the end of the short in Marine dress blues.
Q 22Which 1945 short introduced Bugs's running joke about a wrong turn at Albuquerque?
Herr Meets Hare
He ends up in the Black Forest of "Joimany" instead of Las Vegas and meets Göring and Hitler.
Q 23Which 1944 short was pulled from distribution over its depiction of Japanese soldiers?
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips
Warner, like Disney and Famous Studios, pitted its stars against the Axis.
Q 14Which three Chuck Jones shorts form the hunting-season trilogy that began the Bugs–Daffy rivalry?
Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, Duck! Rabbit, Duck!
They were the origin of the Bugs–Daffy rivalry.
Q 15In Duck Amuck (1953), who is revealed as the unseen animator tormenting Daffy?
Bugs Bunny
He closes with his other catchphrase, "Ain't I a stinker?"
Q 16Which 1934 film's fast-talking Oscar Shapely helped inspire Bugs's speech pattern?
It Happened One Night
Clark Gable also eats a carrot while talking in it, which the directors credited for Bugs's habit.
Q 17Which actor's carrot-eating scene did Freleng, Jones and Clampett cite as Bugs's inspiration?
Clark Gable
His character Peter Warne is addressed as Doc in the same film.
Q 18Why did Mel Blanc spit carrot bits into a spittoon while recording?
Chewing interrupted the dialogue
He flatly denied the carrot-allergy legend in a 1984 interview.
Q 19Mel Blanc described Bugs's voice as a blend of which two New York accents?
Bronx and Brooklyn
Tex Avery said he had asked for a voice like actor Frank McHugh's.
Q 20In the 1941 follow-up to his debut, Blanc briefly gave Bugs a voice resembling which actor?
Jimmy Stewart
The directors decided the A Wild Hare voice was better and switched back.
Q 24Bugs was the wartime mascot of an Army airfield in which Arizona town?
Kingman
Thousands of aerial gunners trained there, including Clark Gable and Charles Bronson.
Q 25In a 1944 Paramount Puppetoons cameo, Bugs pops out of his hole and says what?
"Hey, I'm in the wrong picture!"
The short was Jasper Goes Hunting; he realized the orchestra was playing the wrong theme.
Q 26What was the rabbit's first film in the Looney Tunes series proper, in 1944?
Buckaroo Bugs
It was also the last Warner cartoon to credit Leon Schlesinger, who had retired.
Q 27Which 1964 short was Bugs's last Golden Age cartoon?
False Hare
He did not return to theaters in a new short until 1991.
Q 28On which network did The Bugs Bunny Show debut in prime time in 1960?
ABC
After two seasons it moved to Saturday mornings, where it stayed for 40 years in various forms.
Q 29In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Bugs had to share every frame equally with which character?
Mickey Mouse
Warner insisted its biggest star get equal screen time with Disney's.
Q 30Who was the first person other than Mel Blanc to voice Bugs, in 1990?
Jeff Bergman
It was for the drug-prevention special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.