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158 free Scooby-Doo trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
25 free Scooby-Doo trivia questions with answers. Think you're a true Scooby-Doo fan? Put your knowledge to the test with our comprehensive 158-question trivia quiz covering everything from the Mystery Inc. gang to their most memorable cases. Whether you grew up watching classic episodes or discovered the franchise recently, this quiz will challenge your expertise on the world's most famous Great Dane and his mystery-solving friends.
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Q 01Scooby-Doo was created after parent groups protested what in 1960s Saturday-morning superhero cartoons?
Violence
Violence: action shows such as Space Ghost were cancelled under pressure from parent groups, so CBS asked for a gentler mystery comedy, and Scooby-Doo debuted in September 1969.
Q 02What breed of dog is Scooby-Doo?
Great Dane
Great Dane: designer Iwao Takamoto asked a breeder what a prize-winning one looked like, then drew the opposite, with bowed legs and a sloped back.
Q 03Who co-created the original "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" series for Hanna-Barbera?
Joe Ruby and Ken Spears
Joe Ruby and Ken Spears were Hanna-Barbera story writers handed the job by Joseph Barbera; designer Iwao Takamoto and CBS's Fred Silverman shaped the show with them.
Q 04What is painted on the sides of the Mystery Machine alongside its name?
Flowers
Flowers: the big blooms on its panels are pure flower power, the hippie style of 1969, the year the show began.
Q 05What is Scooby-Doo's full name?
Scoobert Doo
Scoobert Doo is the name his parents use when they turn up in an episode of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, the prequel series about the gang as children.
Q 06What battle cry does Scrappy-Doo shout as he charges at monsters?
Puppy Power!
Puppy Power! was ad-libbed by Frank Welker, the voice of Fred, while he auditioned to play Scrappy; the producers kept the line but gave the part to someone else.
Q 07What colour is the baggy V-neck T-shirt Shaggy wears in the original Scooby-Doo series?
Green
Green: it stays with him for decades, though he swaps it for a red V-neck in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo and a few 1980s TV films.
Q 08What kind of vehicle is the Mystery Machine?
A van
A van: an episode of What's New, Scooby-Doo? reveals it once belonged to a family pop band, the Mystery Kids, before the gang took it over.
Q 09What is Shaggy Rogers' often-forgotten given first name?
Norville
The 2023 series Velma leans into it, calling its version of the character only Norville.
Q 10Who was the original voice actor for Scooby-Doo in the 1969 series?
Don Messick
Don Messick voiced Scooby-Doo from the 1969 premiere into the 1990s; a stroke during a recording session forced him to retire in 1996, and he died the following year.
Q 11The 'Ultra Instinct Shaggy' meme turned Shaggy into an all-powerful fighter in the style of which anime franchise?
Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball: a 2017 fan video set a clip of a hypnotised Shaggy beating up a biker gang to Dragon Ball Super music, and the joke grew until he became a fighter in the game MultiVersus.
Q 12What is Velma Dinkley's signature catchphrase, often exclaimed when she finds an important clue?
"Jinkies!"
"Jinkies!" is Velma's exclamation on finding a clue; her other running gag is losing her glasses and crawling about saying 'I can't see without my glasses!'
Q 13What nickname has Daphne Blake earned over the Scooby-Doo series?
"Danger-Prone Daphne"
Q 21Why was Scooby's nephew added to the show and its title in 1979?
To boost slipping ratings
To boost slipping ratings: ABC was weighing cancellation in 1979, and putting Scrappy in the title of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo revived the show's numbers.
Q 22Which pint-sized sidekick joined the gang in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo?
Flim-Flam
Flim-Flam is named for his trade: a flimflam is a swindle or con trick, and the boy is a con artist.
Q 23Which of these superhero duos made multiple guest appearances in "The New Scooby-Doo Movies"?
Batman and Robin
Batman and Robin guested twice in 1972, in 'The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair' and 'The Caped Crusader Caper', facing the Joker and the Penguin both times.
Daphne's frequent habit of stumbling into traps or getting captured earned her the memorable nickname "Danger-Prone Daphne."
Q 14In Scooby-Doo, how are Fred's elaborate traps for villains usually undone?
Shaggy or Scooby trip them by mistake
Shaggy or Scooby trip them by mistake, and the crook still tends to end up caught, just by some other accident.
Q 15What is Shaggy Rogers' signature exclamation of surprise or fear in Scooby-Doo?
"Zoinks!"
"Zoinks!" was popularised by the show and is now a dictionary word, an interjection of surprise first recorded in the late 1960s, just as Scooby-Doo began.
Q 16In Scooby-Doo, the unmasked crook's closing complaint blames the gang for spoiling the scheme; what does he call them?
Meddling kids
'Meddling kids' (sometimes 'pesky kids') is the unmasked villain's parting gripe, so familiar that Wayne's World parodied it with a 'Scooby-Doo ending' in 1992.
Q 17Which comedy actor voiced himself in two episodes of The New Scooby-Doo Movies?
Don Knotts
Don Knotts voiced himself twice in 1972: first juggling disguises in a haunted mansion, then as a deputy in the Western town of Juneberry.
Q 18What year saw the release of the first live-action "Scooby-Doo" theatrical film?
2002
The first live-action theatrical film based on the cartoon, simply titled "Scooby-Doo," was released in 2002.
Q 19Which horror icon voiced the warlock who guides the gang in The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo?
Vincent Price
Vincent Price voiced Vincent Van Ghoul, a warlock modelled on him, who guides the gang by crystal ball as they recapture the 13 ghosts.
Q 20Which villain from the original "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" was a glowing deep-sea diver?
Captain Cutler's Ghost
Captain Cutler's Ghost turned out to be Cutler himself, alive and well: he had faked his death and used the glowing diving suit to steal yachts.
Q 24What was Scooby-Doo's working title just before Fred Silverman renamed it?
Who's S-S-Scared?
Who's S-S-Scared? was the more serious version that CBS president Frank Stanton refused to air as too frightening, so the show was reworked around comedy and its cowardly dog.
Q 25Why was Scooby briefly rewritten as a sheepdog before the first pitch?
They feared he looked too much like Marmaduke
They feared he looked too much like Marmaduke, the big dog of the newspaper comics, until Joseph Barbera assured them the two would not be confused.
Q 26After its CBS run ended, which network aired the various Scooby-Doo series from 1976 until 1986?
ABC
Fred Silverman, by then running ABC, brought the gang with him and reshuffled the lineup almost every year.
Q 27In Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998), the gang investigates an island near which US city?
New Orleans
New Orleans is where a stranger invites the reunited gang out to her employer's island in the bayou.
Q 28What are the villains Simone and Lena revealed to be in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island?
Werecats
Simone Lenoir and Lena Dupree are werecats who drain visitors' life force; unusually for the franchise, the island's zombies are real, and they are the pair's past victims.
Q 29Who directed the 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo movie?
Raja Gosnell
Raja Gosnell, who had made Home Alone 3 and Big Momma's House, directed the 2002 film and its 2004 sequel Monsters Unleashed.
Q 30Which actress played Velma in the 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo film?
Linda Cardellini
Linda Cardellini played Velma in both live-action films and later returned to the franchise to voice another character, Marcie Fleach, in Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.