Bugs Bunny Trivia
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47 free Bugs Bunny trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Bugs Bunny made his official debut in Tex Avery's A Wild Hare in 1940, starred in more than 160 Warner Bros. shorts, and has appeared in more films than any other cartoon character. He is Warner Bros.' mascot, the first cartoon on a US postage stamp and TV Guide's greatest cartoon character of all time. This quiz covers the prototype rabbit of Porky's Hare Hunt, how he got his name, Mel Blanc's Bronx-Brooklyn voice and the carrot spittoon, the wartime cartoons, the Rabbit Season trilogy, What's Opera, Doc?, the one Oscar win, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Space Jam and the later TV revivals. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who grew up on Saturday mornings, a third are medium and the rest are for animation historians. Every answer is checked against the character's reference history.
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Q 01Which Bugs Bunny line did Tex Avery borrow from his Texas high school's everyday slang?
"Eh... What's up, doc?"
"Eh... What's up, doc?" was plain teenage talk at Avery's Dallas high school in the 1920s, where "doc" meant what "dude" means now, so he thought nothing of the line.
Q 02Which cartoon line is carved on the gravestone of Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny?
"That's all, folks!"
"That's all, folks!" is on his stone at Hollywood Forever. Bugs made Blanc famous, but the farewell he took to the grave belonged to another of his voices, Porky Pig.
Q 03Which 1940 Tex Avery short is considered Bugs's official debut?
A Wild Hare
A Wild Hare gave the rabbit his voice, his carrot and his catchphrase in one cartoon, yet it never names him: "Bugs Bunny" only reached the screen the following year.
Q 04In which 1938 cartoon did a prototype of Bugs first appear?
Porky's Hare Hunt
Porky's Hare Hunt was close to a remake of Porky's Duck Hunt from the year before: the studio swapped its crazy bird for an equally crazy rabbit and reran the chase.
Q 05Bugs is famously gray, but what color was his 1938 prototype?
White
White. The prototype was a small white rabbit, more country clown than city slicker, though he already tormented his pursuer with the wit and relish of the later Bugs.
Q 06Which director's nickname gave Bugs his name, via a model sheet labelled "Bugs's Bunny"?
Ben Hardaway
Ben Hardaway was known as "Bugs", so a sketch made for his cartoon was marked as Bugs's bunny, and studio publicity soon turned that label into the rabbit's own name.
Q 07Which predator, unnamed in his 1949 debut, got his full name and a speaking voice hunting Bugs in 1952?
Wile E. Coyote
Wile E. Coyote introduces himself to Bugs as a genius in Operation: Rabbit, then loses to him every time, his best trap ending under a train.
Q 08Who plays DJ Drake, the stuntman who teams up with Bugs and Daffy in Looney Tunes: Back in Action?
Brendan Fraser
Brendan Fraser also plays himself: DJ is the star's long-suffering stunt double, a joke the actor suggested, and he ends the film by punching Fraser.
Q 09In Space Jam (1996), what are the tiny Nerdlucks called once they steal NBA talent and turn into hulking players?
The Monstars
The Monstars drain the skills of five NBA players and win the first half easily, then have to hand the talent back when Bugs's Tune Squad wins on a last-second dunk.
Q 10Which 1958 Friz Freleng short is the only Oscar winner among Bugs's cartoons?
Knighty Knight Bugs
Knighty Knight Bugs makes Bugs a court jester sent to recover the Singing Sword from the Black Knight, whose fire-breathing dragon has a sneezing cold.
Q 11Whose opera cycle does What's Opera, Doc? (1957) parody?
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner's Ring cycle is squeezed into about seven minutes, with Elmer as Siegfried and Bugs disguised as Brünnhilde; the Library of Congress added it to the National Film Registry in 1992.
Q 12Which director made the rabbit-season, duck-season hunting trilogy that turned Bugs and Daffy into rivals?
Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones began the trilogy with Rabbit Fire in 1951, which ends with the two of them tearing down hunting signs until one reads "Elmer Season".
Q 13In which 1953 short is the unseen animator tormenting Daffy Duck finally revealed to be Bugs?
Duck Amuck
Q 21Which songwriter wrote the war-bond song that Bugs sings in a 1942 short for the US Treasury?
Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin wrote Any Bonds Today? at the Treasury's request and signed away his rights, so he never made a penny from it; Porky and Elmer join Bugs for the last refrain.
Q 22In 2018 a frame of Bugs mocking a chubby Elmer Fudd went viral as which fake video-game character?
Big Chungus
Big Chungus came from joke cover art for a game that never existed, using a frame of 1941's Wabbit Twouble; Warner Bros. later put him in a real mobile game and moved to trademark the name.
Q 23In a cameo for Paramount's Puppetoons, Bugs pops out of his hole, looks around and says what?
"Hey, I'm in the wrong picture!"
Duck Amuck has the animator erase Daffy's scenery and then Daffy himself before the camera pulls back to the drawing board, where Bugs asks, "Ain't I a stinker?"
Q 14Friz Freleng traced part of Bugs's fast-talking manner to a pushy salesman in which 1934 screwball comedy?
It Happened One Night
It Happened One Night: its hero scares off the pushy Oscar Shapeley by inventing a gangster friend called "Bugs" Dooley, one of several echoes of the film in the cartoons.
Q 15Which actor's carrot-eating scene did three of Bugs's directors cite as the model for his habit?
Clark Gable
Clark Gable talks fast through a mouthful of raw carrot while explaining how to hitch a ride, the offhand pose the cartoon rabbit made his own.
Q 16Mel Blanc denied being allergic to carrots, so why did he spit them out while recording Bugs?
Chewing interrupted the dialogue
Chewing interrupted the dialogue: there was no time to swallow between lines, so Blanc bit a real carrot for the crunch, spat it into a spittoon and carried on.
Q 17Mel Blanc described Bugs's voice as a blend of which two New York accents?
Bronx and Brooklyn
Bronx and Brooklyn was Blanc's mix for a tough city slicker in 1940, replacing the goofy country guffaw he had given the rabbit's prototype two years earlier.
Q 18Which DC hero got joint billing with Bugs in the title of a four-issue crossover comic in 2000?
Superman
Superman shared the title with Bugs in a miniseries where the imp Mr. Mxyzptlk and the Do-Do send the Looney Tunes loose among DC's heroes, then set about swapping Superman with Elmer Fudd.
Q 19Which US military branch made Bugs an honorary member after he marched off singing its hymn in Super-Rabbit?
Marines
Marines: the Corps enrolled him as a private and kept promoting him until he mustered out at the war's end as a master sergeant.
Q 20Whenever his tunnelling lands him somewhere strange, Bugs says he should have turned left at which city?
Albuquerque
Albuquerque first took the blame in Herr Meets Hare (1945), when Bugs surfaces in Germany's Black Forest, asks Hermann Göring the way to Las Vegas and has to run for it.
"Hey, I'm in the wrong picture!" is his exit line in Jasper Goes Hunting: ordered out of a rabbit hole at gunpoint by a scarecrow, he greets him as usual, looks round and ducks back down.
Q 24Which creature gets the better of Bugs for once in Falling Hare (1943), nearly crashing the bomber he is trapped in?
A gremlin
A gremlin outwits him from airfield to cockpit, and the plane's nosedive stops just above the ground only because it has run out of gas, a joke about wartime rationing.
Q 25Which drawling rival outsmarts Bugs in three cartoons in a row, each time in a race?
Cecil Turtle
Cecil Turtle wins the first race by posting lookalike cousins along the course; when Bugs finally crosses the line first in the third, the turtle gets him arrested for speeding.
Q 26On which network did The Bugs Bunny Show debut in prime time in 1960?
ABC
ABC ran it in prime time for two seasons, then moved it to Saturday mornings, where versions of the show kept running on network television until 2000.
Q 27In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Bugs had to share every frame equally with which character?
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse and Bugs fall through the sky side by side because Warner lent its biggest star to a Disney production only on condition that he got exactly as much screen time as Disney's.
Q 28In which Warner Bros. fighting game, launched in 2024, could players pit Bugs against Batman, Shaggy and Arya Stark?
MultiVersus
MultiVersus put Bugs at the front of its cover art, but the free-to-play brawler was delisted and its servers closed in May 2025, a year after its full launch.
Q 29Which two Tiny Toon Adventures stars does Bugs mentor at Acme Looniversity?
Babs and Buster
Babs and Buster are his counterparts among the students: the show's premise is that the old Looney Tunes stars have retired from show business to teach cartoon skills to the young.
Q 30Which 1991 short was Bugs's first theatrical cartoon since 1964?
Box-Office Bunny
Box-Office Bunny opens with a 100-screen multiplex built right over Bugs's rabbit hole: he surfaces inside, and usher Elmer tries to throw him out for having no ticket.