70 free 90s Cartoons trivia questions with answers — pop culture quiz, new questions added Aug 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 has voiced Tommy Pickles on Rugrats since the series began in 1991?
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!
The premise came from a 2001 tenth-anniversary special that 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
The trio launched in a single 90-minute Sunday block, and all three were picked from pitches by executive Vanessa Coffey.
Q 04Doug Funnie's new hometown on Doug is called what?
Bluffington
The town's residents come in a rainbow of skin colors, a deliberate choice by creator Jim Jinkins.
Q 05In 1996, Disney bought Doug from Nickelodeon's parent company and moved it to which network?
ABC
Disney had just closed its purchase of ABC, and the retitled Brand Spanking New! Doug aired there that fall.
Q 06Who created Hey Arnold!?
Craig Bartlett
The football-headed hero first appeared in claymation shorts before Nickelodeon picked up the series in 1996.
Q 07On Hey Arnold!, Arnold's grandparents run a boarding house with what name?
Sunset Arms
Grandpa Phil and Grandma Gertie share the place with a cast of eccentric boarders in the fictional city of Hillwood.
Q 08Rocko of Rocko's Modern Life is what kind of animal?
A wallaby
He is an Australian immigrant living in O-Town, and the show's satire of adult life got it a Netflix revival special in 2019.
Q 09Which future SpongeBob creator got his first animation-directing job on Rocko's Modern Life?
Stephen Hillenburg
He was a marine science educator before animation, and several Rocko crew members followed him to Bikini Bottom.
Q 10Ren Höek of The Ren & Stimpy Show is what kind of animal?
A chihuahua
His partner Stimpy is the cat, a good-natured Manx. Together they were Nickelodeon's most controversial early hit.
Q 11After Nickelodeon fired John Kricfalusi in 1992, Ren & Stimpy moved from Spümcø to which studio?
Games Animation
The newly founded studio was Nickelodeon's own in-house shop, and it later became Nickelodeon Animation Studio.
Q 12Which film director served as executive producer of Animaniacs?
Steven Spielberg
He personally approved or rejected the character concepts pitched by creator Tom Ruegger, and his name went above the title.
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
The cast was packed with Star Trek: The Next Generation actors, including Frakes as Xanatos and Marina Sirtis as Demona.
Q 23On Gargoyles, when do the gargoyles turn to stone?
During the day
The clan slept as statues in Scotland for a thousand years before waking on a Manhattan skyscraper.
The landmark on the real Warner Bros. lot became so associated with the show that fans still call it the Warners' home.
Q 14In Pinky and the Brain, whose voice did Maurice LaMarche base the Brain on?
Orson Welles
LaMarche puts the blend at about 65 percent Welles and 35 percent Price, and once voiced Welles for a scene in Ed Wood.
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
After that one-off, the show ran in first-run syndication for two years before its final season landed on Fox.
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
The Star Wars actor kept the role for decades of DC animation and games, opposite Kevin Conroy's Batman.
Q 19The producers of Batman: The Animated Series called its noir-meets-1940s visual style by what name?
Dark Deco
Backgrounds were painted on black paper rather than white, which is why Gotham always looks like it is 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
The name spoofs Kent Allard, the alter ego of pulp hero The Shadow, and his city of St. Canard spoofs Gotham.
Q 25On TaleSpin, what is the name of Baloo's seaplane?
The Sea Duck
The show dropped Jungle Book characters into a 1930s aviation world, with Shere Khan recast as a tycoon.
Q 26On Goof Troop, who is Goofy's next-door neighbor and old high-school friend?
Pete
The used-car salesman's son P.J. becomes Max's best friend, a pairing carried into A Goofy Movie in 1995.
Q 27On Recess, the Third Street playground is ruled by a sixth grader with what title?
King Bob
The playground has its own monarchy, laws and legends, a running joke the show played entirely straight.
Q 28Pepper Ann was the first Disney animated TV series created by a woman. Who was she?
Sue Rose
The show debuted on ABC's One Saturday Morning block on the same day in 1997 as Recess.
Q 29Who created Dexter's Laboratory?
Genndy Tartakovsky
He gave the boy genius an accent because, in his words, all well-known scientists have accents. He later made Samurai Jack.
Q 30Craig McCracken's CalArts short that became The Powerpuff Girls was originally titled what?
Whoopass Stew!
Cartoon Network executives would not market a show with that word in it, so the heroines were renamed for TV.