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49 free TV Pets trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This TV pets trivia quiz is about the animals who stole the show. It covers the classics, from Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, Mister Ed and Flipper to Arnold Ziffel the pig and Gentle Ben the bear, and the sitcom scene-stealers: Eddie from Frasier, Comet from Full House, Marcel the monkey, Buck the Bundys' dog, Salem the cat, Cheddar the corgi, Stella the French bulldog and Murray from Mad About You. Cartoon pets get their turn too, with Santa's Little Helper, Snowball II, Brian Griffin, Astro, Dino, Ladybird and Porkchop, along with British favourites K9, Wellard from EastEnders and the Blue Peter dogs. The questions ask about breeds, real animal actors, voice actors, origin episodes and the odd behind-the-scenes fact. About a third are easy for anyone who watches television, a third are medium, and the rest are for people who know which piglet won three Patsy Awards. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the production sources it cites, and each question carries the sentence that establishes it. If you think one is wrong, use the report button and we will look again.
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Q 01Eddie, Martin Crane's dog on Frasier, was what breed?
Jack Russell terrier
Eddie was a Jack Russell terrier whose habit of staring down Kelsey Grammer became a running sight gag; the dog reportedly received more fan mail than the human cast.
Q 02What was the name of the dog who played Eddie on Frasier for the first several seasons?
Moose
Moose played Eddie from the 1993 premiere; his son Enzo, bred as a stand-in, took over the role later in the run and did the stunt work.
Q 03Comet, the Tanners' golden retriever on Full House, was played by which dog?
Buddy
Buddy, the golden retriever who played Comet, went on to star as the basketball-playing dog in the 1997 film Air Bud.
Q 04Salem, the talking cat on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, was sentenced to how long as a cat?
100 years
Salem was sentenced to 100 years as a cat for trying to take over the world; on the sitcom he was mostly an animatronic puppet, voiced by Nick Bakay.
Q 05The talking horse Mister Ed was played by a palomino gelding with what name?
Bamboo Harvester
Bamboo Harvester, a palomino gelding, played Mister Ed through all 143 black-and-white episodes; the voice was former Western actor Allan Lane.
Q 06Mister Ed will only talk to which character?
Wilbur Post
Mister Ed speaks only to his owner, architect Wilbur Post; the running gag is other characters overhearing Wilbur and asking whom he is talking to.
Q 07Flipper, the 1960s TV dolphin, was played mainly by female dolphins with which two names?
Susie and Kathy
Susie and Kathy were the two female dolphins most often credited as Flipper; the show was co-created by Ricou Browning, who had played the monster in Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Q 08The first dog to play Lassie on screen, and the founder of the Lassie line, was named what?
Pal
Pal was male, though Lassie is female; the Saturday Evening Post called his the most spectacular canine career in film history.
Q 09For how many seasons did the Lassie TV series run on CBS before moving into first-run syndication?
17
Lassie ran 17 seasons on CBS, from 1954 to 1971, then two more in first-run syndication; the Jeff Miller years gave way to the orphan Timmy and the Martins on the farm.
Q 10In The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, the dog and the boy Rusty live at which cavalry post?
Fort Apache
Rusty and Rin Tin Tin live at Fort Apache with the 101st Cavalry after surviving a raid on their wagon train; the role was credited to Rin Tin Tin IV.
Q 11The original Rin Tin Tin was rescued as a puppy from a World War I battlefield in which country?
France
American soldier Lee Duncan found the puppy in a bombed kennel at Flirey, France, in 1918 and nicknamed him Rinty; he went on to make 27 films.
Q 12What was the name of the dog who played Wishbone on PBS?
Soccer
Soccer played Wishbone on the PBS series from 1995; voice actor Larry Brantley supplied the dog's inner monologue.
Q 13Brian Griffin of Family Guy is what breed of dog?
White Labrador retriever
Brian's breed is given as White Labrador retriever; Seth MacFarlane created, designed and voices him, and he can talk, drive and stand on two legs.
Q 21Buck, the Bundy family dog on Married... with Children, was what breed?
Briard
Buck was a Briard, a French herding breed, the joke being that French-hating Al owned one; Buck's thoughts were usually voiced by writer Kevin Curran.
Q 22After Buck died on Married... with Children, he was reincarnated as which dog?
Lucky, a cocker spaniel
Buck came back as Lucky, a cocker spaniel, in season 10 (1995); the reincarnation plot let the ageing dog actor Michael retire.
Q 23What stayed in the Brady Bunch back yard for the show's entire run after the dog Tiger disappeared?
His doghouse
Q 14How did the Simpsons come to own Santa's Little Helper?
His owner abandoned him for finishing last in a race
His owner abandoned him for finishing last in a race at the dog track, where Homer and Bart had gone hoping to win Christmas money in the first episode, 'Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire'.
Q 15Alongside Santa's Little Helper, what is the name of the Simpsons' cat?
Snowball II
The original Snowball died before the series began; later replacements were renamed Snowball II so nothing had to change.
Q 16Astro, the Jetsons' dog, talks with every word beginning with which letter?
R
Astro's every word begins with R, as in 'Ruh-roh, Rorge'; Don Messick voiced him and later reused the same growling trick for Scooby-Doo.
Q 17Dino, the Flintstones' pet dinosaur, was voiced for nearly 30 years by which legendary voice actor?
Mel Blanc
Mel Blanc voiced Dino from The Flintstones' 1960 debut until his death in 1989, alongside his better-known role as Barney Rubble.
Q 18Scooby-Doo is what breed of dog?
Great Dane
Scooby-Doo is a Great Dane; in early treatments the dog was a bongo-playing sidekick called Too Much whose breed wavered between Great Dane and sheepdog.
Q 19Ross Geller's pet in the first season of Friends was a capuchin monkey named what?
Marcel
Marcel, Ross's capuchin, was played by a female monkey named Katie; Ross gives him up to the San Diego Zoo late in season one.
Q 20On Lost, whom does Walt give his dog Vincent to before leaving the island on the raft?
Shannon
Walt leaves Vincent with Shannon before boarding the raft in the season one finale 'Exodus'; the Labrador survives the whole series and lies beside Jack in the final shot.
His doghouse stayed on the back-yard set for the rest of the series; the original dog playing Tiger died early in season one and the replacement was soon written out.
Q 24Cheddar, the beloved dog of Captain Holt and his husband Kevin on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, is what breed?
Pembroke Welsh corgi
Cheddar is a Pembroke Welsh corgi; the dog actor Stewart played him from the early seasons until his death in 2019.
Q 25Stella, Jay Pritchett's French bulldog on Modern Family, first belonged to an inventor played by which Broadway star?
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda played Guillermo, a would-be inventor, in a 2012 episode; Jay talked him out of his dog-related invention and into going back to school, and got the dog in the deal.
Q 26The Buchmans' dog Murray on Mad About You was played by a dog with what name?
Maui
Maui, a collie mix, played Murray and became famous for chasing an imaginary mouse around the Buchmans' apartment.
Q 27Bear, the dog on Person of Interest, is what breed?
Belgian Malinois
Bear is a Belgian Malinois trained to obey Dutch commands; Reese took him from a gang of white supremacists and gave him to Finch as protection.
Q 28Happy, the Camden family dog on 7th Heaven, had what name with her previous owners?
Whitey
Simon prayed for a dog in the pilot; the former owners' daughter spotted her on TV in the season two finale and wanted her back.
Q 29What does Lieutenant Columbo call the basset hound that occasionally accompanies him?
Dog
Columbo simply calls his basset hound Dog, never settling on a real name; it fits a detective who never carries a gun and rarely reveals his own first name.
Q 30Punky Brewster's dog was named after whom?
NBC executive Brandon Tartikoff
The dog Brandon was named for NBC executive Brandon Tartikoff, who had also named the show after Peyton 'Punky' Brewster, a girl he had a crush on as a boy.