70s Cartoons Trivia
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48 free 70s Cartoons trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 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 01What did Hanna-Barbera's 1975 The Tom and Jerry Show do to the cat and mouse?
Made them friends
Made them friends, since Hanna-Barbera had to meet strict rules against violence on children's TV.
Q 02Who voiced Shaggy Rogers, Scooby's best friend, in the original Scooby-Doo series?
Casey Kasem
Casey Kasem, a vegan, quit as Shaggy over a Burger King ad and returned in 2002 once Shaggy was made vegetarian.
Q 03What set The New Scooby-Doo Movies apart from earlier Scooby-Doo cartoons?
Hour-long episodes with celebrity guests
Hour-long episodes with celebrity guests such as Don Knotts ran for two seasons, and 2019's Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? brought the guest-star idea back.
Q 04Which puppy was added to the Scooby-Doo franchise in 1979 to rescue its sinking ratings?
Scrappy-Doo
Scrappy-Doo debuted in Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979) and lifted the ratings; 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
Nephew: the 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo film made the pup its villain, out for revenge on the gang that had abandoned him.
Q 06Which DC Comics team was Super Friends based on?
The Justice League of America
The Justice League of America became the Super Friends, and to meet broadcast standards the villains were often talked into better ways instead of being beaten.
Q 07Which three sidekicks with no powers were created for the 1973 Super Friends?
Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog
Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog were powerless teen sidekicks invented for the 1973 show; they were dropped in 1977 in favour of the super-powered Wonder Twins.
Q 08What is the name of the Wonder Twins' pet monkey, introduced in The All-New Super Friends Hour?
Gleek
Gleek, an alien monkey, arrived in 1977 with Zan and Jayna, sidekicks given real powers so they could finally join the fights.
Q 09What is the day job of Penrod Pooch, secret identity of Hong Kong Phooey?
Police station janitor
Police station janitor Penry turns into Hong Kong Phooey by leaping into a filing cabinet, but it's his cat Spot who quietly solves the cases.
Q 10Which actor, later Dick Hallorann in The Shining, voiced Hong Kong Phooey?
Scatman Crothers
Scatman Crothers took his stage name from his scat singing while he had his own radio show in Dayton, Ohio.
Q 11Josie and the Pussycats was based on characters from which publisher?
Archie
Archie Comics artist Dan DeCarlo named Josie after his wife, whose cat costume on a Caribbean cruise was how the character started.
Q 12Which Pussycat was the first regularly appearing Black female character in a Saturday morning cartoon?
Valerie
Valerie replaced a planned white character, Pepper, after producer Danny Janssen refused to drop singer Patrice Holloway from the trio.
Q 13Which future Charlie's Angels star was Melody's singing voice in Josie and the Pussycats?
Cheryl Ladd
Cheryl Ladd, billed as Cherie Moor, sang as Melody; in 1977 she replaced Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels, playing her character's younger sister.
Q 21Which voice actor gave the talking car its voice in Hanna-Barbera's 1973 cartoon Speed Buggy?
Mel Blanc
Mel Blanc voiced the car, and after a 1961 crash left him in a coma, he first responded when a doctor asked how Bugs Bunny was feeling.
Q 22What kind of animal is Jabberjaw?
A great white shark
A great white shark, Jabberjaw drums for the Neptunes, and the show cashed in on the shark mania stirred up by the film Jaws.
Q 23Frank Welker voiced Jabberjaw as an impression of which comedian?
Curly of the Three Stooges
Curly of the Three Stooges shaped the voice, and his cry of getting no respect fit a society where robots guarded buildings and cities against his kind.
Q 14Where did the band go in the 1972 relaunch of Josie and the Pussycats?
Outer space
Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space sent the band into the cosmos after Alexandra accidentally launched their rocket; sixteen episodes aired on CBS in 1972–73.
Q 15In A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973), what do Charlie Brown and Snoopy serve their uninvited guests?
Toast, popcorn and jelly beans
Toast, popcorn and jelly beans, plus pretzel sticks and sundaes, made up the meal, so Peppermint Patty blew up, then apologised once Marcie reminded her she'd invited herself.
Q 16In which city's junkyard did Fat Albert's gang play their cobbled-together instruments?
North Philadelphia
North Philadelphia was Cosby's own childhood neighbourhood, and his stand-up stories about the gang there, first heard on 1967's Revenge album, became the cartoon.
Q 17What was Fat Albert's catchphrase?
Hey hey hey!
'Hey hey hey!' was Fat Albert's catchphrase, and Bill Cosby wrote his 1976 doctoral dissertation on using the cartoon as a classroom teaching aid.
Q 18Which Multiplication Rock song launched Schoolhouse Rock! in 1973?
Three Is a Magic Number
'Three Is a Magic Number' came first: ad man David McCall asked jazz musician Bob Dorough to set the times tables to music, and the song won Dorough the musical director job.
Q 19Which Star Wars bounty hunter first appeared on screen in a cartoon inside the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special?
Boba Fett
Boba Fett made his screen debut in a Nelvana cartoon, the high point of a widely panned special that was never rebroadcast.
Q 20Which Fantastic Four member did the 1978 cartoon The New Fantastic Four swap for a robot named H.E.R.B.I.E.?
The Human Torch
The Human Torch had been optioned for a Universal film that was never made, so the cartoon couldn't use him.
Q 24How is Captain Caveman discovered by the Teen Angels?
Frozen in a block of ice
Frozen in a block of ice, the caveman was thawed out to join three teen detectives, though his power to fly always seemed to fail at the worst moment.
Q 25Which superhero teamed with the robotic dog in the 1976 series Dynomutt, Dog Wonder?
The Blue Falcon
The Blue Falcon, a Batman spoof, relied on Dynomutt, whose endless built-in gadgets often malfunctioned.
Q 26How does Grape Ape usually travel?
On a van's roof
On a van's roof: at 40 feet tall, he has to ride on top of the small yellow van his friend drives.
Q 27What is the name of Grape Ape's canine companion?
Beegle Beagle
Beegle Beagle, voiced by Marty Ingels, travels with the gentle 40-foot ape, whose size sends strangers running off screaming.
Q 28Laff-A-Lympics, which pitted Hanna-Barbera characters in Olympic events, parodied which show?
Battle of the Network Stars
Battle of the Network Stars was the target, and Mumbly captained the cheating Really Rottens because Dick Dastardly and Muttley were co-owned by Heatter-Quigley.
Q 29The Pink Panther Show originally paired Pink Panther cartoons with shorts starring which character?
The Inspector
The Inspector shared the 1969 show with the Panther, and NBC added a laugh track and narrator segments to the theatrical cartoons.
Q 30Which two men produced the Pink Panther cartoons?
David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng
David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng's studio made the Panther for the 1963 film's opening titles, and it proved so popular that United Artists ordered cartoon shorts.