50 free 70s Cartoons trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This 70s cartoon trivia quiz is a Saturday morning in the Hanna-Barbera and Filmation era: Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Super Friends and the Wonder Twins, Hong Kong Phooey, Josie and the Pussycats, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Schoolhouse Rock, Speed Buggy, Jabberjaw, Captain Caveman, Dynomutt, Grape Ape, the Laff-A-Lympics, The Pink Panther Show, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Sealab 2020, the Groovie Goolies, the Jackson 5ive, Godzilla and Battle of the Planets, plus the arrival of Scrappy-Doo in 1979. Expect questions on the voices behind the characters, the networks and years, the catchphrases, the shows that copied Scooby-Doo and the ones that tried to teach something. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who ate cereal in front of these shows, a third need a closer memory of who did what, and the rest reward the completists who know the working titles and the production companies. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series before publishing, 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 01On which network did Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! premiere in September 1969?
CBS
Joe Ruby and Ken Spears created it for Hanna-Barbera, and it ran two seasons before reruns.
Q 02Who voiced Shaggy Rogers in the original Scooby-Doo series?
Casey Kasem
Don Messick voiced Scooby and Frank Welker voiced Fred, and Welker is still voicing Fred today.
Q 03What made The New Scooby-Doo Movies of 1972-73 different from the original series?
Hour-long episodes with celebrity guests
Guests included Don Knotts, Sonny & Cher, the Harlem Globetrotters and Batman and Robin.
Q 04Which puppy was added to the Scooby-Doo franchise in 1979 to rescue its sinking ratings?
Scrappy-Doo
Lennie Weinrib voiced him for one season before Don Messick took over.
Q 05What relation is the Great Dane puppy introduced in 1979 to Scooby-Doo?
Nephew
The Great Dane puppy appeared in various incarnations of the franchise from 1979.
Q 06Which DC Comics team was Super Friends based on?
The Justice League of America
It ran on ABC from 1973 to 1985 under seven different titles.
Q 07Which three sidekicks with no powers were created for the 1973 Super Friends?
Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog
They were dropped in 1977 in favour of the super-powered Wonder Twins and their monkey Gleek.
Q 08What is the name of the Wonder Twins' pet monkey, introduced in The All-New Super Friends Hour?
Gleek
Zan and Jayna, unlike Wendy and Marvin, actually had super powers.
Q 09What is the day job of Penrod Pooch, secret identity of Hong Kong Phooey?
Police station janitor
He changes by jumping into a filing cabinet, gets stuck, and is freed by his cat Spot.
Q 10Who voiced Hong Kong Phooey?
Scatman Crothers
Joe E. Ross, of Car 54, Where Are You?, voiced Sergeant Flint and revived his "Ooh! Ooh!" catchphrase.
Q 11Josie and the Pussycats was based on characters from which publisher?
Archie
Dan DeCarlo created the comic; Hanna-Barbera's 16 episodes aired on CBS from 1970.
Q 12Which Pussycat was the first regularly appearing Black female character in a Saturday morning cartoon?
Valerie
Patrice Holloway provided her singing voice, and the band wore leopard-print leotards with tails and ears.
Q 13Which future Charlie's Angels star was Melody's singing voice in Josie and the Pussycats?
Cheryl Ladd
Jackie Joseph did the drummer's speaking voice.
Where did the band go in the 1972 relaunch of Josie and the Pussycats?
Q 21On which network did Schoolhouse Rock! air between the Saturday morning cartoons?
ABC
The original run lasted from 1973 to 1985 with a revival in the 1990s.
Q 22What kind of vehicle is the title character of the 1973 series Speed Buggy?
A talking orange dune racer
Mel Blanc voiced him, and the concept borrowed from The Love Bug and Speed Racer.
Q 23Which 1968 Disney film inspired the concept for Speed Buggy?
The Love Bug
Its working titles were Speed Bug and Speed Buggs.
Outer space
Sixteen more episodes aired on CBS in 1972-73, giving the show a six-year network run across three networks.
Q 15Which studio produced Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids?
Filmation
Bill Cosby hosted live-action bookends and voiced several characters, including Fat Albert.
Q 16In which city's junkyard did Fat Albert's gang play their cobbled-together instruments?
North Philadelphia
The stories came from Cosby's tales of growing up there, first heard in his "Buck Buck" routine.
Q 17What was Fat Albert's catchphrase?
Hey hey hey!
The show premiered in 1972 and new episodes appeared sporadically until 1985.
Q 18Which Schoolhouse Rock! song was the first, written to teach multiplication?
Three Is a Magic Number
Ad executive David McCall commissioned it after noticing his son could memorise Rolling Stones lyrics but not times tables.
Q 19Which musician wrote and performed most of the Multiplication Rock songs?
Bob Dorough
He was also the series' musical director; Blossom Dearie and Grady Tate sang a few.
Q 20Which Schoolhouse Rock! season was timed to coincide with the US Bicentennial?
America
It aired in 1975 and 1976 and covered the structure of the US government and history.
Q 24What kind of animal is Jabberjaw?
A great white shark
The 15-foot amphibious shark drums for an underwater rock band called the Neptunes.
Q 25Frank Welker voiced Jabberjaw as an impression of which comedian?
Curly of the Three Stooges
The shark's complaint that he gets no respect is a nod to Rodney Dangerfield, but the voice is Curly.
Q 26How is Captain Caveman discovered by the Teen Angels?
Frozen in a block of ice
His club lets him fly and hides tools, and his hair conceals a variety of useful objects.
Q 27Which superhero and robotic dog starred in the 1976 series Dynomutt, Dog Wonder?
The Blue Falcon
The Batman-esque hero and his bumbling mechanical dog began as a segment of The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour.
Q 28How tall is the Great Grape Ape?
40 feet
The purple gorilla with the mind of a child says his name twice after almost anything anyone says.
Q 29What is the name of Grape Ape's canine companion?
Beegle Beagle
Grape Ape calls him "Beegly Beagly".
Q 30Laff-A-Lympics, with 45 Hanna-Barbera characters in Olympic events, parodied which show?
Battle of the Network Stars
It anchored the two-hour Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics block on ABC in 1977-78.