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41 free Rugrats trivia questions with answers. Rugrats was one of the first three Nicktoons and, for a while, Nickelodeon's longest-running cartoon. This quiz covers the whole crib: Tommy's screwdriver, Chuckie's fears, the twins nobody can tell apart, Angelica and Cynthia, the parents and grandparents, Spike, Reptar and the three theatrical movies, plus All Grown Up! and the 2021 CGI reboot. It starts easy enough for anyone who watched in the 1990s and works up to the details only serious fans know: full names, voice actors, box-office records and behind-the-scenes history. Use it solo, or as a nostalgia round on trivia night. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the show, its characters, its films and its reboot, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01On which channel did Rugrats premiere in August 1991?
Nickelodeon
It launched the same day as Doug and The Ren & Stimpy Show, the original three Nicktoons.
Q 02How old is Tommy Pickles?
One
One year old, and the courageous, adventurous leader; cousin Angelica lords it over the lot of them.
Q 03What does Tommy keep hidden in his diaper?
A screwdriver
A screwdriver: Tommy keeps a plastic screwdriver in his diaper and uses it to spring the playpen latch so the babies can go exploring.
Q 04Which baby is Tommy's bespectacled, red-headed, cowardly best friend?
Chuckie Finster
Chuckie Finster, two years old and scared of nearly everything, is Tommy's best friend; he was raised alone by his widowed father Chas in the show's early seasons.
Q 05How old is Angelica, Tommy's spoiled cousin?
Three
Being able to talk to both babies and adults is the whole source of her power over the 'dumb babies'.
Q 06What is the name of Angelica's favourite doll?
Cynthia
Cynthia is Angelica's beloved doll, a battered fashion-doll figure with chopped, uneven hair, whom Angelica drags everywhere and defends fiercely from the 'dumb babies'.
Q 07What is Dil Pickles' full first name?
Dylan
Dylan Prescott Pickles was born in the 1998 movie, and Tommy spent much of it wishing he could return him.
Q 08On Rugrats, which baby is the good-hearted neighbour of the Pickles family and Angelica's usual rival?
Susie Carmichael
Susie Carmichael out-ranks Angelica on every front: her father Randy writes for The Dummi Bears Show and her mother Lucy is a doctor.
Q 09What is Stu Pickles' job?
Inventor
Stu Pickles is an inventor of toys, tinkering in the basement on gadgets that rarely work, such as the Mr. Friend doll that terrified the babies.
Q 10Grandpa Boris and Minka are the parents of which character?
Didi
Boris and Minka Kropotkin are Didi's parents, Jewish immigrants from the old country whose bickering and folk tales feature in several holiday episodes.
Q 11Which parent is a workaholic forever on the phone to her assistant Jonathan?
Charlotte Pickles
Charlotte Pickles, Angelica's mother, is chief executive of MergeCorp and is rarely off her cell phone to her assistant Jonathan, treating parenting as another line item.
Q 12What is the name of the Pickles family dog?
Spike
Spike, the Pickles' dog, is a fictional 'Siberian Tiger Hound' who later falls for a purple poodle named Fifi in Rugrats in Paris.
Q 13Which member of the band Devo composed the Rugrats theme song?
Mark Mothersbaugh
Mark Mothersbaugh, Devo's frontman, wrote the plinking theme on a toy-like keyboard; he had already scored Pee-wee's Playhouse and went on to Wes Anderson films such as Rushmore.
Q 21Which two Jewish-themed specials premiered in 1995 and 1996?
Passover and Chanukah
The Passover and Chanukah specials — A Rugrats Passover in April 1995 and A Rugrats Chanukah in December 1996 — centre on Grandpa Boris and Minka and were rare Jewish holiday episodes in 1990s cartoons.
Q 22Rugrats received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in which year?
2001
The star was unveiled on June 28, 2001, for the show's tenth anniversary, making Rugrats the first Nicktoon so honoured.
Q 23The Rugrats Movie was the first non-Disney animated film to pass which US box-office mark?
$100 million
It passed $100 million at the US box office, the first non-Disney animated film to do so, finishing at about $100.5 million domestic and $141 million worldwide on a budget near $24 million.
Q 14Which actress voices Tommy Pickles?
E. G. Daily
E. G. Daily voiced Tommy from the 1991 premiere and returned for the 2021 reboot; she also played Dottie in Pee-wee's Big Adventure and was a 1980s pop singer.
Q 15Which Simpsons voice actress replaced Christine Cavanaugh as the voice of Tommy's best friend?
Nancy Cartwright
Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson, took over Chuckie in 2002 after Christine Cavanaugh retired, and kept the role through the 2021 reboot.
Q 16Kath Soucie voices both twins and which adult character?
Their mother Betty
Kath Soucie plays the twins Phil and Lil and their mother Betty DeVille, three members of the same family, a rare hat-trick in voice acting.
Q 17Which actress voices the Carmichaels' daughter?
Cree Summer
Cree Summer voices Susie Carmichael; she also sang the theme song for All Grown Up! and voiced Penny in the 1983 Inspector Gadget cartoon.
Q 18Which company created Rugrats?
Klasky Csupo
Klasky Csupo, the studio of Arlene Klasky and Gábor Csupó, created Rugrats with Paul Germain; it also animated the early seasons of The Simpsons.
Q 19How many episodes of Rugrats were made in its original nine-season run?
172
Rugrats made 172 episodes over nine seasons, the last airing on August 1, 2004; it was Nickelodeon's longest-running cartoon until SpongeBob SquarePants passed it with its 173rd episode in 2012.
Q 20What revived Rugrats after its production stopped in 1994?
A ratings boost from reruns
A ratings boost from reruns made Rugrats Nickelodeon's top-rated show while no new episodes were being made, so Klasky Csupo restarted production in 1996 and season four arrived in 1997.
Q 24In The Rugrats Movie, what does Stu invent for a toy competition in Japan?
The Reptar Wagon
The Reptar Wagon, Stu's talking toy car that turns into a boat, is commandeered by the babies, which is how they end up lost in the woods with a wolf on their trail.
Q 25Which animals kidnap Dil in The Rugrats Movie?
Circus monkeys
Circus monkeys, escaped from a crashed circus train, snatch Dil in the woods; the film's all-star nursery song features Beck, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith and Lenny Kravitz as newborns.
Q 26Which Oscar-winning actress voices the villain Coco LaBouche in Rugrats in Paris?
Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon, an Oscar winner for Dead Man Walking, voices Coco LaBouche, a child-hating schemer who wants to run the Reptar corporation; John Lithgow voices her put-upon assistant Jean-Claude.
Q 27Which two characters make their first appearance in Rugrats in Paris?
Kimi and Kira
Kimi and Kira Watanabe debut in Rugrats in Paris; the film ends with Chas marrying Kira, so Chuckie gains a stepmother and a stepsister, Kimi, in one go.
Q 28Rugrats Go Wild (2003), which stranded the babies on a desert island, crossed over with which other Nicktoon?
The Wild Thornberrys
The Wild Thornberrys shared the film, the last theatrical outing for both franchises, which came with scratch-and-sniff Odorama cards.
Q 29Which action star voiced Spike the dog in the 2003 crossover film?
Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis voiced Spike in Rugrats Go Wild; thanks to Eliza Thornberry's gift for talking to animals, it was the first time the dog ever spoke.
Q 30Which 2001 special, made for the show's tenth anniversary, led to the spin-off All Grown Up!?
All Growed Up
All Growed Up, a 2001 special for the show's tenth anniversary, imagined the babies as preteens; the spin-off proper ran from 2003 to 2008 for 55 episodes, with Tommy an aspiring filmmaker.