90s Cartoons Trivia
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119 free 90s Cartoons trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
56 free 90s Cartoons trivia questions with answers. If your after-school routine in the 1990s ran through Nickelodeon, the Disney Afternoon, Fox Kids, Kids' WB and Cartoon Network, this quiz is for you. It covers the first Nicktoons (Doug, Rugrats, Ren & Stimpy), Rocko, Hey Arnold!, the Klasky Csupo shows, the Disney Afternoon lineup from TaleSpin to Gargoyles, the Fox Kids superheroes (Batman: The Animated Series, X-Men, Spider-Man), Spielberg's Animaniacs and Freakazoid!, and the Cartoon Cartoons wave of Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, Ed Edd n Eddy and Courage. It also visits the grown-up side of the decade (Beavis and Butt-Head, Daria, King of the Hill, South Park, Family Guy, Futurama) and the anime that arrived from Japan. Questions start easy (what kind of animal is Rocko?) and work up to the behind-the-scenes stuff: the studio that took over Ren & Stimpy, the original name of the Powerpuff Girls short, and the network that aired the very first Tiny Toon Adventures episode. Every question shows a difficulty score. 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 01Who voiced Tommy Pickles on Rugrats from its 1991 debut?
E. G. Daily
Only the unaired pilot used a different actor, Tami Holbrook. Daily also played Dottie in Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
Q 02Which 2003-2008 spin-off followed the Rugrats babies as preteens?
All Grown Up!
All Grown Up! ran on Nickelodeon from 2003 to 2008, expanding the 2001 tenth-anniversary special 'All Growed Up', which had jumped the babies forward ten years.
Q 03Which three shows premiered together on August 11, 1991 as the first Nicktoons?
Doug, Rugrats and The Ren & Stimpy Show
Doug, Rugrats and The Ren & Stimpy Show debuted back to back on Sunday 11 August 1991 in a 90-minute block, all chosen by Nickelodeon animation executive Vanessa Coffey.
Q 04Doug Funnie's new hometown on Doug is called what?
Bluffington
Doug moves to Bluffington, whose residents come in a rainbow of skin colours — a deliberate choice by creator Jim Jinkins — and attends Bluffington School.
Q 05After Disney acquired Doug's studio in 1996, the show moved to which network?
ABC
Disney bought Jumbo Pictures in 1996, months after closing its purchase of ABC, and Brand Spanking New! Doug premiered in ABC's Saturday-morning line-up that September.
Q 06Who created Hey Arnold!?
Craig Bartlett
Craig Bartlett first built the football-headed Arnold in claymation shorts, one of which aired on Sesame Street, before Nickelodeon launched the series in October 1996.
Q 07On Hey Arnold!, Arnold's grandparents run a boarding house with what name?
Sunset Arms
The Sunset Arms boarding house, run by Grandpa Phil and Grandma Gertie, shelters eccentric boarders such as Oskar Kokoshka and Mr. Hyunh in the city of Hillwood.
Q 08Rocko of Rocko's Modern Life is what kind of animal?
A wallaby
Rocko is a wallaby who emigrated from Australia to O-Town; the 2019 Netflix special Static Cling revived the series.
Q 09Which future SpongeBob creator got his first animation-directing job on Rocko's Modern Life?
Stephen Hillenburg
Stephen Hillenburg, a former marine-science teacher, directed and later ran Rocko's Modern Life; crew members including Tom Kenny and Paul Tibbitt followed him to SpongeBob.
Q 10Ren Höek of The Ren & Stimpy Show is what kind of animal?
A chihuahua
Ren is a scrawny, bad-tempered 'asthma-hound chihuahua'; his partner Stimpy is a dim but good-natured Manx cat.
Q 11After Nickelodeon fired John Kricfalusi in 1992, Ren & Stimpy moved from Spümcø to which studio?
Games Animation
Games Animation, Nickelodeon's newly created in-house studio, took over Ren & Stimpy for seasons three to five; it later grew into Nickelodeon Animation Studio.
Q 12Which film director served as executive producer of Animaniacs?
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment co-produced Animaniacs; 'Steven Spielberg Presents' ran above the title and he personally approved the characters pitched by creator Tom Ruegger.
Q 13On Animaniacs, where had Yakko, Wakko and Dot been locked away since the 1930s?
The studio water tower
Q 21Who voiced Peter Parker in the 1994 Spider-Man animated series?
Christopher Daniel Barnes
Barnes had already been the voice of Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid, and the show ran 65 episodes on Saturday mornings.
Q 22Who voiced Goliath on Gargoyles?
Keith David
Keith David voiced Goliath, surrounded by Star Trek: The Next Generation alumni — Jonathan Frakes as Xanatos and Marina Sirtis as Demona.
Q 23On Gargoyles, when do the gargoyles turn to stone?
During the day
Gargoyles turn to stone during the day and wake at sunset; a spell froze the clan in Scotland for a thousand years until their castle was rebuilt atop a Manhattan skyscraper.
The Warners were locked in the Warner Bros. studio water tower, a real landmark on the Burbank lot that the show turned into their home.
Q 14In Pinky and the Brain, whose voice did Maurice LaMarche base the Brain on?
Orson Welles
LaMarche based the Brain on Orson Welles, with a touch of Vincent Price by his own account, and dubbed Welles's voice for Vincent D'Onofrio's cameo in Ed Wood (1994).
Q 15In 1998, Pinky and the Brain was retooled so the mice were owned by which Tiny Toon Adventures character?
Elmyra Duff
The retitled show, Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain, was a network-mandated change the writers openly mocked in its theme.
Q 16The first Tiny Toon Adventures episode aired in September 1990 as a prime-time special on which network?
CBS
The pilot 'The Looney Beginning' aired on CBS on 14 September 1990 as a prime-time special; the series then ran in first-run syndication before its final season moved to Fox Kids.
Q 17Which villain was created for Batman: The Animated Series, debuting in 'Joker's Favor'?
Harley Quinn
Paul Dini and Bruce Timm created her as a one-off henchwoman; she became so popular DC brought her into the comics.
Q 18Who voiced the Joker on Batman: The Animated Series?
Mark Hamill
Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, voiced the Joker opposite Kevin Conroy's Batman and kept the role for decades of DC animation and the Arkham games.
Q 19The producers of Batman: The Animated Series called its noir-meets-1940s visual style by what name?
Dark Deco
Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski dubbed the look 'Dark Deco'; backgrounds were painted on black paper instead of white, which is why Gotham always seems to be at night.
Q 20X-Men: The Animated Series premiered on Halloween 1992 as part of which programming block?
Fox Kids
The two-part opener "Night of the Sentinels" ran as a sneak preview, and the show went on to reach more than 23 million households.
Q 24What is Darkwing Duck's mild-mannered secret identity?
Drake Mallard
Drake Mallard — a pun on Kent Allard, the Shadow's alter ego — lives in St. Canard with adopted daughter Gosalyn and pilot Launchpad McQuack.
Q 25On TaleSpin, what is the name of Baloo's seaplane?
The Sea Duck
Baloo flies the Sea Duck, a Conwing L-16 cargo seaplane, for Higher for Hire; the show dropped Jungle Book characters into a 1930s aviation world with Shere Khan as a tycoon.
Q 26On Goof Troop, who is Goofy's next-door neighbor and old high-school friend?
Pete
Pete, a used-car salesman, lives next door in Spoonerville; his son P.J. becomes Max's best friend, a pairing carried into A Goofy Movie (1995).
Q 27On Recess, the Third Street playground is ruled by a sixth grader with what title?
King Bob
King Bob, a sixth grader, rules the Third Street playground from a throne atop the jungle gym, in a playground monarchy the show played entirely straight.
Q 28Who created Pepper Ann, the first Disney animated TV series made by a woman?
Sue Rose
Sue Rose created Pepper Ann, which debuted on ABC's One Saturday Morning on 13 September 1997, the same day as Recess.
Q 29Who created Dexter's Laboratory?
Genndy Tartakovsky
Genndy Tartakovsky created Dexter's Laboratory (1996) and gave the boy genius an accent because, he said, famous scientists all have accents; he went on to make Samurai Jack.
Q 30Craig McCracken's CalArts short that became The Powerpuff Girls was originally titled what?
Whoopass Stew!
McCracken's 1992 CalArts short Whoopass Stew! starred the Whoopass Girls; Cartoon Network would not market that word, so they became the Powerpuff Girls.