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50 free Samurai Jack trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The pitch was one sentence: 'Hey, remember David Carradine in Kung Fu? Wasn't that cool?' Cartoon Network greenlit 26 episodes before a pilot existed, and Genndy Tartakovsky made a cartoon that could go whole minutes without a word of dialogue. It won eight Primetime Emmys, stopped without an ending in 2004, and came back thirteen years later on Adult Swim to finish the story properly. This quiz covers all of it: the nameless prince and the three gods who forged his sword, Mako's Aku and Greg Baldwin's, the Scotsman's claymore and machine-gun leg, the Roman-numeral episode titles and the jump from LII to XCII, the Daughters of Aku, Ashi's fate, the Frank Miller comic and the Kurosawa films behind the look, the cancelled Brett Ratner film, the IDW comics and the 2020 game Tartakovsky declared canon. Early questions suit anyone who watched the original run; later ones ask for animation studios, award counts, cast replacements and the April Fools' night Rick and Morty stole Jack's slot. Fifty questions, every one sourced.
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Q 01Who created Samurai Jack?
Genndy Tartakovsky
He made it as a follow-up to his first Cartoon Network series, Dexter's Laboratory.
Q 02Which 1970s TV drama starring David Carradine inspired Samurai Jack?
Kung Fu
Executive Mike Lazzo said 'Remember David Carradine in Kung Fu? Wasn't that cool?' was literally the whole pitch.
Q 03Which Frank Miller comic provided the premise of a nameless samurai in a dystopian future?
Ronin
Miller's 300 separately inspired the episode 'Jack and the Spartans'.
Q 04Jack's magic katana was forged by a trinity of which gods?
Ra, Rama and Odin
It is the only weapon that can harm Aku, who was born from an ancient cosmic black mass.
Q 05How does the samurai come to be called 'Jack'?
Future beings address him that way as slang
His given name is never revealed in the series.
Q 06Who voices Samurai Jack?
Phil LaMarr
He returned for the 2017 revival alongside John DiMaggio as the Scotsman.
Q 07Who voiced Aku in the first four seasons?
Mako
After his death, Greg Baldwin mimicked the voice for season five, as he had done for Iroh in Avatar.
Q 08Greg Baldwin, Aku's season-five voice, had earlier replaced Mako as which Avatar character?
Iroh
He voiced Iroh in Avatar's final season and in The Legend of Korra.
Q 09What does the Scotsman use as a prosthetic leg?
A submachine gun
He fights with an enchanted claymore and becomes Jack's closest ally.
Q 10Who voices the Scotsman?
John DiMaggio
The Futurama Bender actor returned for the revival's elderly Scotsman.
Q 11Who voices Ashi in season five?
Tara Strong
Tom Kenny, another earlier guest star, voiced the assassin Scaramouche.
Q 12The Daughters of Aku raise how many septuplet sisters to kill Jack?
Seven
Jack kills six; the eldest, Ashi, becomes his ally and then his love.
Q 13Samurai Jack premiered on Cartoon Network in which year?
2001
It debuted on 10 August with the three-part special 'The Beginning'.
Q 14How many episodes were in each of the first four seasons?
Q 21On what date did the original run end, with four final episodes aired as a marathon?
25 September 2004
Tartakovsky chose to leave it open rather than rush an ending, then moved straight into Clone Wars.
Q 22Which Tartakovsky project overlapped with Samurai Jack's end, leaving no time for a finale?
Star Wars: Clone Wars
Art director Scott Wills said the two productions even overlapped.
Q 23Which director was hired for the abandoned live-action Samurai Jack film around 2002?
Brett Ratner
Tartakovsky later said he was thankful it was abandoned.
13
The original run totalled 52 episodes, all numbered in Roman numerals.
Q 15What was the title of the three-part 2001 premiere special?
The Beginning
It was later released on its own as a VHS and DVD in March 2002.
Q 16How many episodes was Samurai Jack greenlit for before its pilot was even produced?
26
Then-president Betty Cohen credited Tartakovsky's success with Dexter's Laboratory.
Q 17Which company sponsored the launch sweepstakes whose prize was a trip for four to Japan?
AOL
A countdown CD-ROM shipped with AOL 6.0.
Q 18Which two studios handled animation services on the original series?
Rough Draft Korea and Digital eMation
Both were Korean studios used across many Cartoon Network shows.
Q 19The episode 'Jack and the Spartans' was inspired by which Frank Miller graphic novel?
300
It retold the Battle of Thermopylae, as Miller's book did.
Q 20Which Japanese manga was among the inspirations for Samurai Jack?
Lone Wolf and Cub
Films by Akira Kurosawa and Hollywood epics like Ben-Hur and Spartacus also fed the look.
Q 24Frederator's planned 2007 Samurai Jack movie had what budget?
$20 million
Fred Seibert said in 2009 it was being co-produced with J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot; it never materialised.
Q 25On which programming block did season five premiere in March 2017?
Toonami on Adult Swim
Reruns on Toonami from 2014 had led to a deal for ten more episodes within two weeks of Tartakovsky's first call.
Q 26Season five is set roughly how many years after the original four seasons?
50
Jack has not aged, a side effect of time travel, but has lost his sword.
Q 27Original episodes ended with 'LII'; with which Roman numeral does season five open?
XCII
The jump signifies the elapsed time since season four.
Q 28How many Primetime Emmy Awards did Samurai Jack win?
Eight
It also took six Annie Awards and an OIAF Award.
Q 29Where did Samurai Jack place in Channel 4's 2004 poll of the 100 greatest cartoons?
42nd
IGN later ranked it eleventh among primetime animated series in 2006.
Q 30What approval rating does the series as a whole hold on Rotten Tomatoes?
93%
Seasons four and five each scored 100%.