2000s Cartoons Trivia
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66 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 01Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, worked as what before he moved into animation?
A marine science educator
Hillenburg was a marine science educator, and 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
Squidward's home is an Easter Island moai, and despite the name he is an octopus, not a squid, as well as Bikini Bottom's most reluctant clarinet player.
Q 04SpongeBob's home town sits beneath which real-life Pacific location?
Bikini Atoll
Bikini Bottom takes its name from Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, site of US nuclear tests, and the show places the town on the seabed directly beneath the real atoll.
Q 05Which pirate, played by a real actor, hosts SpongeBob's special episodes alongside his parrot Potty?
Patchy
Patchy the Pirate, president of the SpongeBob fan club, is played in live action by Tom Kenny, who also voices SpongeBob; his parrot Potty is a puppet.
Q 06Avatar: The Last Airbender divided its three seasons into "books" named after which elements?
Water, Earth, Fire
The books run Water, Earth, Fire in that order: Aang already bends air, so the seasons follow the remaining elements he must master in the Avatar cycle.
Q 07Avatar's creators, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, met as students where?
Rhode Island School of Design
Both studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, where they met in the 1990s; Konietzko later designed characters on Invader Zim before the pair pitched Avatar to Nickelodeon.
Q 08The four-part Avatar finale "Sozin's Comet" drew about how many viewers on first airing?
5.6 million
'Sozin's Comet' aired on 19 July 2008 and drew about 5.6 million viewers, the most-watched programme that week among viewers under 14.
Q 09Who voiced Aang in Avatar's 2003 pilot before being replaced by Zach Tyler Eisen?
Mitchel Musso
Mitchel Musso, later of Hannah Montana, voiced Aang in the unaired 2003 pilot, in which Katara was still called Kya; Dave Filoni, later of The Clone Wars, directed it.
Q 10The Fairly OddParents began as shorts on which Nickelodeon animation showcase?
Oh Yeah! Cartoons
The Fairly OddParents began as shorts on Oh Yeah! Cartoons, Fred Seibert's Nickelodeon showcase, after Butch Hartman left Cartoon Network work on Dexter's Laboratory and Johnny Bravo.
Q 11On The Fairly OddParents, Timmy Turner's crazed teacher, obsessed with proving fairies exist, is called Mr. what?
Crocker
Denzel Crocker, voiced by Carlos Alazraqui, wants to prove to the world that fairies exist; Vicky the babysitter was the show's original main villain.
Q 12Danny Phantom premiered on April 3, 2004, immediately after which event?
The Kids' Choice Awards
Danny Phantom debuted right after the 2004 Kids' Choice Awards on 3 April 2004; Butch Hartman's second Nick series ran 53 episodes across three seasons before ending in August 2007.
Q 13Danny Phantom's hometown is called what?
Amity Park
Danny lives in Amity Park, where his parents Jack and Maddie Fenton are ghost hunters; the accident in their Ghost Portal is what made him half-ghost.
Q 21The 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
It had aired in Scandinavia, Australia and Southeast Asia a year before the US premiere.
Q 22Genndy Tartakovsky created Samurai Jack after finishing which earlier Cartoon Network series?
Dexter's Laboratory
Tartakovsky created Samurai Jack after his run on Dexter's Laboratory; Jack's nemesis Aku was voiced by Mako until the actor's 2006 death, with Greg Baldwin taking over for the 2017 revival.
Q 23How many years passed between Samurai Jack's fourth season ending and its fifth season premiering on Adult Swim in 2017?
Over twelve
Q 14Jimmy Neutron was the first Nickelodeon cartoon to be animated how?
Entirely in CGI
Jimmy Neutron was Nickelodeon's first series animated entirely in CGI, and the first Nicktoon spun off from one of the network's own films, the 2001 feature Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
Q 15Jimmy Neutron lives in the fictional town of Retroville in which state?
Texas
Retroville is in Texas, home state of creator John A. Davis, whose studio DNA Productions animated the show in the Dallas area.
Q 16The Neutron and Turner crossover specials were released under what title?
The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour
They were released as The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour; three were made, the second and third subtitled 'When Nerds Collide!' and 'The Jerkinators!'.
Q 17Invader 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 18In 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 19Which streaming service premiered the 2019 Invader Zim film Enter the Florpus?
Netflix
Enter the Florpus premiered on Netflix on 16 August 2019; Nickelodeon had cancelled the original series in 2002 before its second season was finished, leaving several episodes unfinished.
Q 20In which fictional town do the three Eds share their suburban cul-de-sac?
Peach Creek
The Eds live in a cul-de-sac in Peach Creek, a town where adults are kept off screen throughout the series; the other regulars are the cul-de-sac kids and the Kanker Sisters.
Over twelve years separated the two, and the revival finally gave the story an ending; the series won eight Primetime Emmys in total.
Q 24Codename: 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 25In Codename: Kids Next Door, Numbuh 3 is which character?
Kuki Sanban
Numbuh 3 is Kuki Sanban, voiced by Lauren Tom, Sector V's happy-go-lucky medic; Numbuh 5, Abigail Lincoln, famously refers to herself in the third person.
Q 26Which Star Wars actor voices the candy-loving pirate Stickybeard in Codename: Kids Next Door?
Mark Hamill
Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker himself, voices Stickybeard, whose ship the Sweet Revenge travels by air, land and sea; he and Numbuh 5 are rivals over candy.
Q 27Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends was Cartoon Network's first series animated mainly with what?
Adobe Flash
Foster's was Cartoon Network's first series produced mainly in Adobe Flash; Craig McCracken and Lauren Faust conceived it after adopting shelter dogs, which suggested abandoned imaginary friends.
Q 28In Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, how old is Mac, the boy who created Bloo?
Eight
Mac is eight years old; he visits Foster's every day to see Bloo, and becomes wildly hyperactive after eating sugar.
Q 29Foster's Home business manager Mr. Herriman is an imaginary friend of what kind?
A lop-eared rabbit
Mr. Herriman is a lop-eared rabbit imagined by Madame Foster herself as a girl; he runs the house in a tailcoat, top hat and monocle.
Q 30The theme song of Teen Titans (2003) was performed by which Japanese band?
Puffy AmiYumi
Puffy AmiYumi performed the theme in English and Japanese versions; the English lyrics opened serious episodes and the Japanese ones the sillier episodes.