70 free 2000s Cartoons trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
58 free 2000s Cartoons trivia questions with answers. If you grew up on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel and Kids' WB in the 2000s, this one is for you. The questions cover SpongeBob and Bikini Bottom, Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, Jimmy Neutron and Invader Zim; Ed, Edd n Eddy, Samurai Jack, Codename: Kids Next Door, Foster's, Teen Titans, Ben 10, Billy & Mandy, Chowder and Flapjack; Kim Possible, Phineas and Ferb, The Proud Family and American Dragon; Static Shock, Xiaolin Showdown and Jackie Chan Adventures; plus the primetime crowd of Family Guy, American Dad! and Futurama. It starts with questions any 2000s kid can answer (where does Squidward live?) and works up to the behind-the-scenes stuff: the trademark that renamed SpongeBob, the poll that got Kids Next Door on air, who voiced Aang in the unaired pilot. Difficulty is marked on every question. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia article for the show in question and each question shows its citation, so you can settle the group-chat argument about which network aired what.
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Q 01SpongeBob SquarePants was created by Stephen Hillenburg, who before animation worked as what?
A marine science educator
Many of the show's ideas came from The Intertidal Zone, an educational comic about sea life he drew in the 1980s.
Q 02Hillenburg's original name for SpongeBob was dropped because it was already trademarked by what kind of product?
A mop
He kept "Sponge" in the new name so nobody would mistake the character for a "cheese man"; Tom Kenny supplied "SquarePants".
Q 03Squidward Tentacles lives in a house shaped like what?
An Easter Island moai
Despite the name, he is an octopus, not a squid, and he is Bikini Bottom's most reluctant clarinet player.
Q 04SpongeBob's home town sits beneath which real-life Pacific location?
Bikini Atoll
Voice actor Tom Kenny denied in 2015 that the characters are nuclear-test mutants; Plankton's voice actor Mr. Lawrence said in 2024 that the theory is true.
Q 05Which pirate, played by a real actor, hosts SpongeBob's special episodes alongside his parrot Potty?
Patchy
He is president of a fictional SpongeBob fan club and is played by Tom Kenny, who also voices SpongeBob himself.
Q 06Avatar: The Last Airbender divided its three seasons into "books" named after which elements?
Water, Earth, Fire
Aang is an airbender already, so the books track the three elements he still has to master.
Q 07Avatar's creators, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, met as students where?
Rhode Island School of Design
They met at a Halloween party in 1995; Konietzko later worked on Invader Zim before pitching Avatar to Nickelodeon.
Q 08The four-part Avatar finale "Sozin's Comet" drew about how many viewers on first airing?
5.6 million
That was 195 percent above Nickelodeon's mid-July 2007 average and the most-watched programme among under-14s that week.
Q 09Who voiced Aang in Avatar's 2003 pilot before being replaced by Zach Tyler Eisen?
Mitchel Musso
In the pilot Katara was still called Kya, and the episode was directed by Dave Filoni, later of The Clone Wars.
Q 10The Fairly OddParents began as shorts on which Nickelodeon animation showcase?
Oh Yeah! Cartoons
Butch Hartman had been working on Dexter's Laboratory and Johnny Bravo at Cartoon Network before Fred Seibert lured him over.
Q 11Which brother's name did Butch Hartman originally intend for Timmy Turner before falling out with him?
Mike
Hartman also considered giving Timmy science powers before deciding that was too close to Dexter's Laboratory.
Q 12Timmy Turner's crazed teacher, obsessed with proving fairies exist, is called Mr. ___
Crocker
Carlos Alazraqui voices him; Vicky the babysitter was the show's original main villain.
Q 13Danny Phantom premiered on April 3, 2004, immediately after which event?
The Kids' Choice Awards
Butch Hartman's second Nick series ran 53 episodes across three seasons before ending in August 2007.
Q 21Danny Antonucci pitched Ed, Edd n Eddy to Nickelodeon first. Why did he walk away?
The network refused him creative control
Cartoon Network agreed to his terms, and the show went on to reach 31 million households in 120 countries.
Q 22The three Eds share a suburban cul-de-sac in the fictional town of ___
Peach Creek
Apart from the kids and the Kanker Sisters, no other characters appeared until Santa Claus flew over in a Christmas special.
Q 23The made-for-TV movie that finally gave the three Eds their finale in 2009 was called what?
Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show
Q 14Danny Phantom's hometown is called what?
Amity Park
His parents Jack and Maddie are ghost hunters, and the accident with their Ghost Portal is what makes him half-ghost.
Q 15Jimmy Neutron was the first Nickelodeon cartoon to be animated how?
Entirely in CGI
It was also the network's first series based on one of its own films, and it won two Annie Awards.
Q 16Jimmy Neutron lives in the fictional town of Retroville in which state?
Texas
His friend Sheen later got his own spin-off, Planet Sheen, after crash-landing on the planet Zeenu.
Q 17The Neutron and Turner crossover specials were released under what title?
The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour
There were three of them; the second and third were subtitled "When Nerds Collide!" and "The Jerkinators!".
Q 18Invader Zim was created by which comic-book writer and cartoonist?
Jhonen Vasquez
Nickelodeon wanted a show for older kids; Zim was the first thing Vasquez pitched, and it went "from pitch to series without hardly any waiting".
Q 19In Invader Zim, the Irken Empire's social hierarchy is based solely on what?
Physical height
That is why the empire's leaders are called the Almighty Tallest, a title jointly held by a red one and a purple one.
Q 20Which streaming service premiered the 2019 Invader Zim film Enter the Florpus?
Netflix
Nickelodeon had cancelled the series before its second season was finished, leaving several episodes incomplete.
It had aired in Scandinavia, Australia and Southeast Asia a year before the US premiere.
Q 24Genndy Tartakovsky created Samurai Jack after finishing which earlier Cartoon Network series?
Dexter's Laboratory
Jack's nemesis Aku was voiced by Mako until the actor's death; Greg Baldwin took over for the 2017 revival.
Q 25How many years passed between Samurai Jack's fourth season ending and its fifth starting?
Over twelve
The revival gave the story an ending at last, and the series won eight Primetime Emmys in total.
Q 26Codename: Kids Next Door earned its series order by winning what?
A viewers' poll of pilots
Its pilot was one of 11 shown in Cartoon Network's Big Pick II event in 2001; the series then ran 81 episodes.
Q 27In Codename: Kids Next Door, Numbuh 3 is which character?
Kuki Sanban
Voiced by Lauren Tom, she is Sector V's happy-go-lucky medic; Numbuh 5 famously refers to herself in the third person.
Q 28Which Star Wars actor voices the candy-loving pirate Stickybeard in Codename: Kids Next Door?
Mark Hamill
His ship, the Sweet Revenge, travels by air, land and sea; he and Numbuh 5 are rivals over sugar.
Q 29Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends was Cartoon Network's first series animated mainly with what?
Adobe Flash
Craig McCracken and Lauren Faust conceived it after adopting shelter dogs, which gave them the idea of abandoned imaginary friends.
Q 30In Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, how old is Mac, the boy who created Bloo?
Eight
He visits Foster's every day, and turns hyperactive after eating sugar.