Looney Tunes Trivia
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99 free Looney Tunes trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
52 free Looney Tunes trivia questions with answers. Looney Tunes began in 1930 as a way to plug Warner Bros. songs and ended up as the funniest cartoons ever made. This quiz covers the whole golden age and beyond: Bugs's first 'What's up, Doc?', where Daffy's lisp came from, the rules Chuck Jones set for the Road Runner, why Marvin the Martian dresses like a Roman, and how a frog became a TV network's mascot. The early questions are the ones anyone who grew up on Saturday mornings will get: Porky's sign-off, Sylvester's catchphrase, who Michael Jordan teams up with in Space Jam. The later ones are for people who know their Freleng from their Clampett, which short is the only Bugs cartoon to win an Oscar, and what Yosemite Sam's director had to do with his temper. Every answer has been checked against a published source and carries a link, so you can settle an argument about duck season and rabbit season on the spot.
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Q 01The title Looney Tunes was inspired by which Disney cartoon series?
Silly Symphonies
Silly Symphonies, Disney's music-driven series, inspired the name; Warner's shorts began as a way to plug songs from its music-publishing arm.
Q 02After Warner closed its cartoon studio in 1963, Friz Freleng co-founded a company that created which character for a film's opening titles?
The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther was drawn for the opening titles of the 1963 comedy, then spun off into cartoons of his own; the first, The Pink Phink, won DePatie-Freleng an Oscar.
Q 03Which character, created by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, was the first recurring star of Looney Tunes in 1930?
Bosko
Bosko starred in the first Looney Tunes shorts until 1933, when his creators quit in a budget dispute and took the rights to him with them.
Q 04Which 1940 Tex Avery short is considered the first official Bugs Bunny cartoon?
A Wild Hare
A Wild Hare (July 1940) gave Bugs his settled design, Mel Blanc's standard voice and the first 'What's up, Doc?'; a prototype rabbit had appeared in Porky's Hare Hunt (1938).
Q 05Which New York borough's accent does Bugs Bunny speak with?
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the borough usually named for Bugs's accent, with a trace of the Bronx; his fast-talking manner owes something to Oscar Shapely, a salesman in It Happened One Night (1934).
Q 06Where did Tex Avery pick up the phrase 'What's up, Doc?' that he gave to Bugs?
His school in Texas
His school in Texas used 'What's up, Doc?' as everyday slang, so Avery thought nothing of the line; the joke was a rabbit greeting an armed hunter that casually.
Q 07Which 1958 short is the only Bugs Bunny cartoon to win the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film?
Knighty Knight Bugs
Knighty Knight Bugs sends court jester Bugs to take the Singing Sword back from Yosemite Sam's Black Knight, whose sneezing dragon ends up trapped with him in a tower full of explosives.
Q 08In which 1937 short did Daffy Duck first appear?
Porky's Duck Hunt
Porky's Duck Hunt (April 1937), directed by Tex Avery, introduced Daffy as an unhinged black duck who bounces across the lake hooting 'Hoo-hoo!'
Q 09By one animator's later account, what name did the team first want for Daffy Duck before their producer objected?
Dizzy Duck
Dizzy Duck was to honour pitcher Dizzy Dean; the producer said it sounded 'as if he's going to faint', so the team borrowed the nickname of Dean's brother Daffy instead.
Q 10According to an oft-repeated studio story, whose lisp was the model for Daffy Duck's voice?
Producer Leon Schlesinger
Producer Leon Schlesinger lisped, and studio legend made him the model; Mel Blanc's memoir disagreed, reasoning that a bill that long would simply get in the way of a duck's s sounds.
Q 11Which character, introduced in 1935, is the oldest continuing Looney Tunes star?
Porky Pig
Porky Pig debuted as a stuttering schoolboy reciting 'Paul Revere's Ride' in I Haven't Got a Hat (1935), one of a classroom of new characters tried out to see who would catch on.
Q 12Which Looney Tunes line did voice actor Mel Blanc ask in his will to have carved on his gravestone?
'That's all, folks!'
'That's all, folks!' is the epitaph on Blanc's marker in Hollywood; earlier Looney Tunes stars had spoken the sign-off straight before he began stuttering it in 1937.
Q 13What is the name of the 1937 song used as the Looney Tunes theme?
'The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down'
Q 21Which Looney Tunes character took his catchphrase 'That's a joke, son' from a Southern senator on 1940s radio?
Foghorn Leghorn
Foghorn Leghorn borrowed the line from Senator Claghorn, Kenny Delmar's blustery politician on Fred Allen's radio show; Delmar had taken it from a rancher who gave him a lift when he was hitchhiking.
Q 22Which director created Foghorn Leghorn and the Tasmanian Devil?
Robert McKimson
Robert McKimson created both, basing Taz on the real Tasmanian devil's voracious appetite and surly temper; as an animator he had earlier drawn the definitive Bugs Bunny model sheet.
Q 23Marvin's helmet and skirt copy the armour of which Roman god?
Mars
'The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down' was a 1937 pop song by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin; the cartoons open with its tune alone, though Daffy Duck sings a version of it in a 1938 short.
Q 14Which director created Tweety in the 1942 short A Tale of Two Kitties?
Bob Clampett
Bob Clampett directed A Tale of Two Kitties, in which cats Babbit and Catstello, modelled on Abbott and Costello, hunt a surprisingly aggressive early Tweety.
Q 15What is Sylvester the Cat's trademark exclamation?
'Sufferin' succotash!'
'Sufferin' succotash!' is Sylvester's spluttering catchphrase, which Daffy Duck borrows now and then; Mel Blanc said the cat's voice was the closest to his own, minus the lisp.
Q 16How many Academy Awards did cartoons starring Sylvester win, the most for any Looney Tunes character?
Three
Three Sylvester shorts won the Academy Award, including Tweetie Pie (1947) and Birds Anonymous (1957); Tweety shared two of those wins.
Q 17Which voice actress played Granny for almost 60 years after taking over from Bea Benaderet?
June Foray
June Foray took over Granny in 1955 after Bea Benaderet originated the part; director Chuck Jones quipped that she was not the female Mel Blanc, because Blanc was the male June Foray.
Q 18In which 1949 short did Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner first appear?
Fast and Furry-ous
Fast and Furry-ous (1949), directed by Chuck Jones, launched the desert chase and its running gag of mock-Latin species names: the coyote is billed as Carnivorous Vulgaris.
Q 19From which fictional company does Wile E. Coyote mail-order his contraptions?
Acme
One of Chuck Jones's rules was that no outside force could harm the coyote, only his own ineptitude or the failure of Acme products.
Q 20The Road Runner's 'beep, beep' began as a Warner background artist's imitation of what, first made in the studio hallways?
A car horn
A car horn was what painter Paul Julian mimicked around the studio; his recordings, not a voice actor's, were reused for the Road Runner for decades, and he was never credited on screen.
Mars, the Roman war god, supplied the crested helmet and skirt; Marvin first appeared in Haredevil Hare (1948) and went unnamed on screen until 1979.
Q 24Which Looney Tunes character, later a merchandising star with his own 1990s series, appeared in only five original theatrical shorts?
The Tasmanian Devil
The Tasmanian Devil made so few because producer Edward Selzer shelved him as too obnoxious, until studio boss Jack Warner, citing boxes of fan letters, ordered him back.
Q 25What is the name of the black cat with a painted white stripe whom Pepé Le Pew pursues?
Penelope Pussycat
Penelope Pussycat usually gets her white stripe by accident, for instance squeezing under a freshly painted fence, which fools Pepé into thinking she is a skunk.
Q 26Which Pepé Le Pew short won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short?
For Scent-imental Reasons
For Scent-imental Reasons (1949), directed by Chuck Jones, won the Academy Award; at its end the roles reverse, and a blue-painted Pepé is chased by a smitten cat.
Q 27Which director is Yosemite Sam said to have been modelled on?
Friz Freleng
Friz Freleng introduced Sam in Hare Trigger (1945) as a tougher foe for Bugs, and once admitted being the model: he had the same temper, small size and, in earlier days, a red moustache.
Q 28Many animation historians say Elmer Fudd evolved from which earlier Tex Avery character?
Egghead
Egghead debuted in 1937 with a bulbous nose; Warner publicity billed an early Elmer as his brother, and historian Michael Barrier disputes the link, arguing that the two were always distinct characters.
Q 29Which Looney Tunes character did Cartoon Network keep off the air over stereotype concerns until fan campaigns brought him back in 2002?
Speedy Gonzales
Speedy Gonzales was shelved as an ethnic stereotype, but many of the fans who campaigned for him were Hispanic themselves, and the network put his shorts back on the air.
Q 30Sylvester keeps mistaking Hippety Hopper for a giant mouse, but what kind of animal is Hippety really?
A baby kangaroo
A baby kangaroo, Hippety usually escapes from a zoo or circus; Sylvester decides he is a giant mouse and is kicked, punched and spun around for his trouble.