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This Cartoon Network trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and covers the channel from its launch on 1 October 1992 to today. It starts with the Hanna-Barbera library and Space Ghost Coast to Coast, moves through the Cartoon Cartoons era (Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, The Powerpuff Girls, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Courage the Cowardly Dog), the 2000s (Samurai Jack, Codename: Kids Next Door, Teen Titans, Foster's Home, Ben 10, Billy & Mandy, Chowder, Flapjack) and the modern classics (Adventure Time, Regular Show, Gumball, Steven Universe, We Bare Bears, Over the Garden Wall, Craig of the Creek), plus Toonami and the birth of Adult Swim. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who grew up with the channel, a third are medium, and the rest ask about creators, premiere dates, pilots and awards that only real fans will know. Everything is family-friendly. Every answer has been checked against a primary or encyclopaedic source, and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01Cartoon Network launched as the first 24-hour single-genre cable channel on which date?
1 October 1992
Ted Turner had bought the Hanna-Barbera library the year before, giving the new channel thousands of hours of cartoons to fill the schedule.
Q 02In 1991 Ted Turner bought the library of which animation studio, home of Scooby-Doo and The Flintstones?
Hanna-Barbera
Cartoon Network Studios began in 1994 as a division of Hanna-Barbera.
Q 03In which US city is Cartoon Network headquartered?
Atlanta
Its address is the Ted Turner Campus on Techwood Drive, shared with other Turner networks.
Q 04Which 1994 parody talk show made from recycled 1960s superhero footage was an early Cartoon Network original?
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Zorak was the bandleader and the lava man Moltar the director; the show moved to Adult Swim in 2001.
Q 05Which 1995 anthology of shorts launched many of the network's first original series?
What a Cartoon!
Seth MacFarlane and Butch Hartman both worked on shorts for the showcase before creating Family Guy and The Fairly OddParents.
Q 06Which show about a boy genius with a secret lab was Cartoon Network's first Cartoon Cartoons original?
Dexter's Laboratory
Tartakovsky gave Dexter an accent because 'all well-known scientists have accents'.
Q 07What is the name of Dexter's hyperactive older sister, who constantly invades his lab?
Dee Dee
The show also ran superhero segments, Dial M for Monkey and The Justice Friends.
Q 08What was the original title of Craig McCracken's Powerpuff Girls pilot, which Cartoon Network refused to market?
Whoopass Stew!
Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup were born when Professor Utonium spilled Chemical X into sugar, spice and everything nice.
Q 09The Powerpuff Girls' arch-enemy Mojo Jojo is what kind of animal?
A chimpanzee
He was Professor Utonium's lab assistant before the Chemical X accident enlarged his brain.
Q 10In which fictional city do the Powerpuff Girls fight crime?
Townsville
The series premiered on 18 November 1998 and got a theatrical movie in 2002.
Q 11Johnny Bravo's home, Aron City, is named after the middle name of which singer he is modelled on?
Elvis Presley
Jeff Bennett voiced the pompadoured, sunglasses-wearing lunk, who was also partly based on James Dean.
Q 12Who voiced all three title siblings and the Red Guy in David Feiss's 1997 Cow and Chicken?
Charlie Adler
The Red Guy is a comic version of the Devil; the show's I Am Weasel segment was spun off as its own series in 1999.
Q 13In Ed, Edd n Eddy, the boys' endless scams are all aimed at buying which sweet?
Jawbreakers
Danny Antonucci's show ran long enough to become the longest-running singular series to premiere on the network at the time.
Q 21In Codename: Kids Next Door, Sector V fights 'adult and teenage tyranny' from what kind of base?
A treehouse
They go by Numbuhs 1 through 5; the show ran from December 2002 to January 2008.
Q 22Which Japanese band performed the English and Japanese Teen Titans (2003) theme songs?
Puffy AmiYumi
The series ended with the TV film Trouble in Tokyo in 2006, and the reboot Teen Titans Go! followed in 2013.
Q 23In Teen Titans, Starfire is an alien princess from which planet?
Tamaran
Raven, by contrast, comes from the parallel world Azarath.
Q 14In Ed, Edd n Eddy, what surname do the sisters Lee, Marie and May share?
Kanker
The series wrapped up with the TV film Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show in November 2009.
Q 15Courage the Cowardly Dog lives in the fictional town of Nowhere, in which state?
Kansas
John R. Dilworth's 1996 pilot, The Chicken from Outer Space, was nominated for an Academy Award.
Q 16The Courage the Cowardly Dog pilot, which aired in 1996 and was nominated for an Oscar, had what title?
The Chicken from Outer Space
The full series did not premiere until November 1999.
Q 17Which lava-man character from a 1994 parody talk show first hosted Toonami in 1997?
Moltar
The robot TOM took over as host in 1999, voiced for most of his run by Steve Blum.
Q 18Which two anime were among the first Toonami brought to American afternoons in the late 1990s?
Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon
Toonami's spaceship was called the Absolution; the block was revived on Adult Swim after an April Fools' stunt in 2012.
Q 19Adult Swim, Cartoon Network's late-night adult block, launched on which date?
2 September 2001
The first night featured a new Home Movies episode and Cowboy Bebop; Williams Street programs the block.
Q 20Samurai Jack pits a samurai flung into the future against which shape-shifting demon?
Aku
Mako voiced the villain for the first four seasons; the fifth and final season aired on Adult Swim in 2017 and the show won eight Emmys.
Q 24Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (2004) was Cartoon Network's first series animated mainly in which software?
Adobe Flash
Craig McCracken's follow-up to The Powerpuff Girls won seven Emmys.
Q 25In Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, what is the name of Mac's blue imaginary friend?
Bloo
Wilt, Eduardo and Coco are fellow residents of the home run by Madame Foster and her granddaughter Frankie.
Q 26In Ben 10 (2005), what is the alien device on ten-year-old Ben Tennyson's wrist?
The Omnitrix
Ben spends the summer in his Grandpa Max's RV, the Rustbucket, with his cousin Gwen.
Q 27Ben 10 was created by which four-person writing collective, later behind Generator Rex and Big Hero 6?
Man of Action
The series premiered as a sneak peek on 27 December 2005.
Q 28Billy and Mandy win the Grim Reaper as their 'best friend forever' after beating him at what?
A limbo contest
Greg Eagles voices Grim with a Jamaican accent; the show began as a segment of Grim & Evil in 2001.
Q 29In Chowder (2007), the title character is an apprentice in whose catering company?
Mung Daal's
Panini, apprentice to the rival chef Endive, has a perpetual crush on Chowder.
Q 30In The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, what kind of animal is Bubbie, who raised Flapjack?
A whale
He and Captain K'nuckles set out from Stormalong Harbor in search of Candied Island.