60s Cartoons
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50 free 60s Cartoons trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The 1960s put cartoons in prime time and then handed them Saturday morning. The Flintstones and The Jetsons played to whole families after dinner, Hanna-Barbera turned out talking animals by the dozen, and Jay Ward's shows slipped jokes past the children to the adults sitting behind them. By the end of the decade a mystery-solving Great Dane and a field of wacky racers had arrived, and the characters from those years have never really left television. This quiz covers the characters people still remember: the families of Bedrock and Orbit City, the bears of Jellystone Park, the heroes and villains of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Japanese imports, superheroes, Peanuts and the holiday specials that return every December, plus a few Disney faces from the big screen. It also goes behind the microphone, to the actors, musicians and sponsors who shaped the shows. It is pitched for anyone who grew up with these cartoons in first run or in decades of reruns, and for younger fans who met them later. Most questions carry a clue you can reason from, and every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which Looney Tunes voice legend recorded Barney Rubble's lines from a hospital bed after a crash?
Mel Blanc
Mel Blanc lay flat in a full-body cast while his co-stars gathered round the bed to record, after a stand-in had covered a handful of episodes.
Q 02Which cigarette brand sponsored early seasons of The Flintstones, with Fred and Barney in its ads?
Winston
Winston pulled out as the audience grew younger, and Welch's grape juice and jellies took over as the main sponsor.
Q 03Which 1950s sitcom about a blustering New York bus driver was a model for The Flintstones?
The Honeymooners
The Honeymooners star Jackie Gleason considered suing Hanna-Barbera, but decided he did not want to be the man who took Fred Flintstone off the air.
Q 04Which horror film star both narrated How the Grinch Stole Christmas! in 1966 and voiced the Grinch?
Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff, famous as Frankenstein's monster, had his higher pitches removed by sound engineers to give the Grinch a gravelly growl.
Q 05Which bubblegum hit by the cartoon band from The Archie Show topped the US charts in 1969?
Sugar, Sugar
Sugar, Sugar finished as Billboard's number one song of 1969, credited to a band that existed only as drawings.
Q 06Which Flintstones character was planned as Fred Junior until a toy company pushed for a doll?
Pebbles
Pebbles became a girl after Ideal Toy Company told Hanna-Barbera it could build a doll around her, and the baby arrived in 1963.
Q 07Which cartoon character played Ebenezer Scrooge in 1962 in TV's first animated Christmas special?
Mr. Magoo
Mr. Magoo plays an actor starring as Scrooge in a Broadway musical, so the whole Dickens story is staged as a show within a show.
Q 08Which future radio countdown host first voiced Shaggy in Scooby-Doo after hoping to play Fred?
Casey Kasem
Casey Kasem wanted to voice Fred, and the actor cast as Fred wanted Shaggy, but the CBS network assigned the two roles its own way.
Q 09Which cartoon cat debuted in the titles of a 1963 Peter Sellers film, then won an Oscar for a short?
Pink Panther
The Pink Panther was drawn only for the film's credits, but audiences liked him so much that United Artists signed up a whole series of shorts.
Q 10Which Marvel hero's 1967 cartoon produced the meme of two identical figures pointing at each other?
Spider-Man
Spider-Man and his double point at each other in the episode Double Identity, a frame the films Into the Spider-Verse and No Way Home later restaged.
Q 11Which Flintstones pet knocks Fred flat and licks his face whenever he comes home from work?
Dino
Dino speaks in the early episode showing how Fred found him, chattering like the comedian Phil Silvers, unlike in his other appearances.
Q 12Which tiny green alien, exiled to Earth for inventing a doomsday device, pesters Fred Flintstone?
The Great Gazoo
The Great Gazoo was voiced by Harvey Korman, and only Fred, Barney, the children and animals are able to see him.
Q 13Which Jellystone Park sidekick acts as Yogi Bear's conscience and shared a voice with Ranger Smith?
Boo-Boo
Boo-Boo is Yogi's constant companion, not his son as viewers sometimes assume, and Don Messick voiced both him and the ranger.
Q 21Which caped cartoon hero is secretly humble Shoeshine Boy and always speaks in rhyming couplets?
Underdog
Underdog was voiced by Wally Cox and dreamed up to help sell General Mills cereals, flying in whenever Sweet Polly Purebred was in danger.
Q 22Which boy hero of a 1964 prime-time cartoon travels with bodyguard Race Bannon and bulldog Bandit?
Jonny Quest
Jonny Quest grew out of a studio plan to adapt a radio adventure hero, and the comic book artist Doug Wildey gave the series its realistic look.
Q 23Which Jay Ward hero thinks his huge pet Shep is a dog and keeps falling out of his own home?
George of the Jungle
Q 14What is the name of the Jetsons' robot maid, an old demonstrator model hired from U-Rent a Maid?
Rosie
Rosie is spelled Rosey on the title card of the very first episode, which also gives her model number as XB-500.
Q 15Which short-tempered boss keeps firing George Jetson in The Jetsons, only to rehire him soon after?
Mr. Spacely
Mr. Spacely owns Spacely Space Sprockets, where George's job is mostly pushing buttons, and his chief business rival is Mr. Cogswell.
Q 16Which policeman patrols the alley in Top Cat, trying to keep the gang off the police phone?
Officer Dibble
Officer Dibble's series was retitled The Boss Cat by the BBC after four weeks, because a British brand of cat food was already called Top Cat.
Q 17Which canine genius adopts a boy named Sherman and takes him through history in the WABAC machine?
Mr. Peabody
Mr. Peabody is said to have graduated from Harvard at the age of three, and he needs the President's help in court to adopt Sherman.
Q 18Which dim-witted Canadian Mountie chases Snidely Whiplash and rides a horse named simply Horse?
Dudley Do-Right
Dudley Do-Right pines for Nell Fenwick, but in a running gag she seems far more taken with his horse than with him.
Q 19Which Wacky Races dog, sidekick to the villain Dick Dastardly, is known for his rasping laugh?
Muttley
Muttley got his wheeze from the voice actor Don Messick, and the dog followed his boss into a 1969 spin-off about flying machines.
Q 20Which cartoon Southern belle, introduced in 1968, fled the Hooded Claw in her own series a year later?
Penelope Pitstop
Penelope Pitstop began as the only woman driver in Wacky Races, at the wheel of a pink car called the Compact Pussycat.
George of the Jungle treats his elephant Shep as a lap dog and forgets he lives in a treehouse, while his closest friend, an ape named Ape, is far brighter than he is.
Q 24Which Hanna-Barbera big cat sounded so like the Cowardly Lion that Bert Lahr took legal action?
Snagglepuss
Snagglepuss drew the complaint by appearing in Kellogg's cereal commercials, which Lahr feared viewers would take as his own endorsement.
Q 25Which Peanuts character takes the spotlight to recite a Bible passage in A Charlie Brown Christmas?
Linus
Linus drops his security blanket before reciting from the King James Version, then picks it up again once he has finished.
Q 26Which Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer character quits Santa's workshop to become a dentist?
Hermey
Hermey puts his training to use in the end, pulling the Abominable Snow Monster's teeth while the beast is knocked out cold.
Q 27Which 1961 Disney villain was drawn by one animator, Marc Davis, and modeled on Tallulah Bankhead?
Cruella de Vil
Cruella de Vil got her long, lanky frame from a different performer, Mary Wickes, who acted out the part as a live-action model.
Q 28Which carefree Disney character, voiced by bandleader Phil Harris, befriends Mowgli in a 1967 film?
Baloo
Baloo is a stern teacher of the law in Kipling's stories, but Disney remade him as a carefree idler with no responsibilities at all.
Q 29Which Winnie the Pooh character, voiced by ventriloquist Paul Winchell, debuted on screen in 1968?
Tigger
Tigger nearly went to Wally Boag, Walt Disney's first choice, whose take on the role was later judged too zany for a children's film.
Q 30Which real band starred in a 1965 ABC cartoon, the first weekly series to animate living people?
The Beatles
The Beatles did not voice themselves: Paul Frees played John and George, and Lance Percival played Paul and Ringo.