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Q 01What is Homer Simpson's iconic catchphrase?
D'oh!
The script simply called for an 'annoyed grunt'; Dan Castellaneta supplied the sound, and 'd'oh' entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2001.
Q 02What is the Scooby-Doo gang's brightly painted van called?
The Mystery Machine
The Mystery Machine is the flower-painted van Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby drive from case to case, introduced in the 1969 series Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
Q 03What is Bugs Bunny's famous line, often delivered while chewing a carrot?
What's up, Doc?
Tex Avery wrote "What's up, Doc?" for his first Bugs Bunny short, A Wild Hare, and it is usually delivered, carrot in hand, to whoever Bugs meets.
Q 04In the animated series, what kind of dwelling does SpongeBob SquarePants live in?
A pineapple
SpongeBob SquarePants famously resides in a pineapple house located on Conch Street in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom.
Q 05Which two animators created Tom and Jerry for MGM in 1940?
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
They made the cat-and-mouse shorts at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1940 and later struck out on their own as Hanna-Barbera Productions.
Q 06Mickey Mouse officially debuted in which 1928 short, the first of his cartoons released with synchronized sound?
Steamboat Willie
Plane Crazy had only a test screening and The Gallopin' Gaucho was still unreleased when Steamboat Willie, with synchronized sound, gave Mickey his official 1928 debut.
Q 07What is the name of Popeye the Sailor's longtime girlfriend?
Olive Oyl
Olive Oyl had been a lead in E. C. Segar's newspaper strip for a decade before Popeye first appeared in January 1929, and she eventually left Ham Gravy for the sailor.
Q 08Which actor provides the voice for the ogre Shrek in the popular animated film series?
Mike Myers
Chris Farley had recorded most of the part before his death; DreamWorks re-cast Mike Myers in 1998, and he insisted on a full script rewrite so no trace of Farley's version remained.
Q 09Which studio's first feature film was 1995's "Toy Story"?
Pixar Animation Studios
Pixar Animation Studios made Toy Story, the first feature film animated entirely by computer, released by Disney in November 1995 with Tom Hanks and Tim Allen voicing Woody and Buzz.
Q 10Which bow-wearing, polka-dotted character debuted alongside Mickey in 1928?
Minnie Mouse
Minnie Mouse co-starred with Mickey from his first 1928 shorts, playing the lone passenger on his steamboat; her early flowered hat was later replaced by her oversized bow.
Q 11Mickey Mouse was created to replace which earlier Disney character, lost in a contract dispute?
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was Disney's star until distributor Charles Mintz kept the character's rights and hired away most of Disney's animators in 1928, prompting Walt to create Mickey Mouse.
Q 12What was Mickey almost called before Walt Disney's wife Lillian suggested 'Mickey'?
Mortimer
Mortimer later became the name of Mickey's rival for Minnie's affections.
Q 13Which Mickey Mouse short won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1941?
Lend a Paw
Q 21Which two writers created Scooby-Doo?
Joe Ruby and Ken Spears
Silverman had wanted a mystery-solving teen rock group in the mould of The Archies.
Q 22What was the 1980s educational comic by Stephen Hillenburg that seeded SpongeBob called?
The Intertidal Zone
The Intertidal Zone was an educational comic Stephen Hillenburg drew in 1989 while teaching at the Orange County Marine Institute; its talking sponge evolved into SpongeBob after his stint on Rocko's Modern Life.
Q 23Which instrument does SpongeBob's neighbour Squidward Tentacles play?
Clarinet
Lend a Paw, in which Mickey and Pluto take in a stray kitten, won the Oscar for the 1941 cartoon short; it is the only winner among ten nominated Mickey Mouse shorts.
Q 14In 1978 Mickey Mouse became the first cartoon character to receive what honour?
A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Bugs Bunny got his star in 1985.
Q 15Which Looney Tunes character, voiced by Mel Blanc, sputters 'You're despicable!' at Bugs Bunny?
Daffy Duck
Daffy Duck's lisping 'You're despicable!' became his signature insult in Chuck Jones's 1950s shorts pitting him against Bugs and Elmer, with Mel Blanc supplying the sputtering voice.
Q 16Bugs Bunny speaks with an accent from which New York City borough?
Brooklyn
Mel Blanc gave Bugs Bunny a wise-guy Brooklyn accent, the tough New York street voice of the 1940s, and played him from A Wild Hare in 1940 until Blanc's death in 1989.
Q 17In their 1940 debut short Puss Gets the Boot, Tom was called by what name?
Jasper
Jerry was known as Jinx; the pair went on to win seven Academy Awards.
Q 18How many Academy Awards did the MGM Tom and Jerry shorts win, tying the record for the category?
Seven
Gene Deitch later directed 13 shorts in Czechoslovakia and Chuck Jones another 34.
Q 19The Simpsons began as shorts on which variety programme in April 1987?
The Tracey Ullman Show
The Simpsons first appeared as short bumpers on Fox's The Tracey Ullman Show from 19 April 1987, before spinning off into a half-hour series in December 1989.
Q 20Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! premiered in 1969 on which US network?
CBS
CBS executive Fred Silverman wanted a Saturday-morning show that would please parental watch groups.
Squidward Tentacles plays the clarinet, badly but proudly, throughout SpongeBob SquarePants; his screeching recitals have been a running gag since the series began in 1999.
Q 24The Flintstones was the first animated series to air in what slot?
Prime time
The Flintstones was the first animated series to air in prime time, running on ABC from September 1960 to 1966 with a format modelled on The Honeymooners.
Q 25What is the population of Bedrock, the Stone Age town in The Flintstones?
2,500
Bedrock's town sign in The Flintstones lists its population as 2,500; the Stone Age town is home to the Slate Rock and Gravel Company, where Fred Flintstone operates a dinosaur crane.
Q 26The Looney Tunes title was inspired by which rival studio's cartoon series?
Disney's Silly Symphonies
Looney Tunes, launched by Warner Bros. in 1930, took its name as a play on Disney's Silly Symphonies; its sister series Merrie Melodies followed in 1931.
Q 27Popeye first appeared on January 17, 1929, in which comic strip?
Thimble Theatre
Popeye debuted in E. C. Segar's Thimble Theatre on 17 January 1929, ten years into the strip's run, and quickly displaced Castor Oyl and Ham Gravy as its lead.
Q 28Popeye is believed to have been inspired by tough labourer Frank 'Rocky' Fiegel from which Illinois town?
Chester
Chester was creator E. C. Segar's own hometown and now hosts a Popeye statue.
Q 29Betty Boop was originally drawn as what kind of animal?
A French poodle
Betty Boop first appeared in Fleischer's Dizzy Dishes (1930) as a French poodle with floppy ears, a girlfriend for the studio's dog star Bimbo, and was redrawn as fully human by 1932.
Q 30Betty Boop was toned down in the mid-1930s because of what?
The Hays Code
Enforcement of the Hays Code from 1934 forced Fleischer to lengthen Betty Boop's skirt and tame her flirtatious manner; singer Helen Kane's 1932 lawsuit over the 'boop-oop-a-doop' style failed.