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This Cartoon Network trivia quiz has 100 free questions with answers and covers the channel from its launch on 1 October 1992 to today. It starts with the Hanna-Barbera library and Space Ghost Coast to Coast, moves through the Cartoon Cartoons era (Dexter's Laboratory, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, The Powerpuff Girls, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Courage the Cowardly Dog), the 2000s (Samurai Jack, Codename: Kids Next Door, Teen Titans, Foster's Home, Ben 10, Billy & Mandy, Chowder, Flapjack) and the modern classics (Adventure Time, Regular Show, Gumball, Steven Universe, We Bare Bears, Over the Garden Wall, Craig of the Creek), plus Toonami and the birth of Adult Swim. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who grew up with the channel, a third are medium, and the rest ask about creators, premiere dates, pilots and awards that only real fans will know. Everything is family-friendly. Every answer has been checked against a primary or encyclopaedic source, and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01Which cartoon dog was the official host of Cartoon Network when it signed on in October 1992?
Droopy
Droopy. The mournful MGM hound fronted an hour-long guide to the new channel at noon on 1 October 1992, and the first cartoon it showed was Bugs Bunny's Rhapsody Rabbit.
Q 02In 1991 Ted Turner bought the library of which animation studio, home of Scooby-Doo and The Flintstones?
Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera. The $320 million deal topped up a vault that already held Tom and Jerry and the early Bugs Bunny cartoons, and a year later Turner launched Cartoon Network to show them.
Q 03Cartoon Network launched in 1992 from the headquarters of Ted Turner's broadcasting empire in which US city?
Atlanta
Atlanta. Turner's company was based there, but the channel's own cartoons came to be made on the other side of the country, at a studio in Burbank.
Q 04Which 1994 parody talk show made from recycled 1960s superhero footage was an early Cartoon Network original?
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Short of money, its makers re-edited clips of a 1966 superhero cartoon into a chat show whose host quizzed real celebrities on a monitor; it later helped launch Adult Swim.
Q 05Which 1995 anthology of shorts launched many of Cartoon Network's first original series?
What a Cartoon!
What a Cartoon! Its creator promised the network 48 shorts as 48 chances 'to succeed or fail', and the hits, from Johnny Bravo to Courage the Cowardly Dog, were ordered as full series.
Q 06Which animator created both Dexter's Laboratory and Samurai Jack for Cartoon Network?
Genndy Tartakovsky
Genndy Tartakovsky. Dexter grew out of his student films at CalArts, and the boy genius's thick accent echoes the one he was teased for as a child immigrant in Chicago.
Q 07In Dexter's Laboratory, what is the name of the older sister who keeps wrecking Dexter's experiments?
Dee Dee
Dee Dee. She came first: the show's creator drew a tall ballerina for a student film, then invented a short, boxy scientist brother to be her opposite.
Q 08What was the original title of Craig McCracken's student film that became The Powerpuff Girls?
Whoopass Stew!
Whoopass Stew! Its heroines were the Whoopass Girls, powered by a can of Whoopass; Cartoon Network would not sell a children's show with that word in it, so the girls and their secret ingredient were renamed.
Q 09The Powerpuff Girls' arch-enemy Mojo Jojo is what kind of animal?
A chimpanzee
A chimpanzee. As Jojo he was Professor Utonium's unruly lab assistant, and it was his shove that tipped Chemical X into the mix; the blast that made the girls also swelled his brain.
Q 10In which fictional city do the Powerpuff Girls fight crime?
Townsville
Townsville. Its helpless Mayor keeps a hotline to the girls and rings it for every emergency, while his far cleverer secretary, Ms. Bellum, does the real thinking.
Q 11Johnny Bravo's home, Aron City, is named after the middle name of which singer he is modelled on?
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley. Creator Van Partible first drew the character as an Elvis impersonator for his college thesis film, Mess O' Blues, and later mixed in the looks of James Dean.
Q 12Who voiced Cow, Chicken and the villainous Red Guy in the 1997 series Cow and Chicken?
Charlie Adler
Charlie Adler. He played the squabbling brother and sister and their tormentor alike; the Red Guy is a comic Devil who turns up in a new disguise to scam them.
Q 13In Ed, Edd n Eddy, the boys' endless scams are all aimed at buying which sweet?
Jawbreakers
Q 21In Codename: Kids Next Door, Sector V fights 'adult and teenage tyranny' from what kind of base?
A treehouse
A treehouse. The series owes its existence to viewers: in 2001 its pilot won a Cartoon Network poll in which the audience chose which of several pilots would become a full show.
Q 22Which Japanese band performed the English and Japanese Teen Titans (2003) theme songs?
Puffy AmiYumi
Puffy AmiYumi. The pop duo recorded the theme in English and in Japanese, and a year later Cartoon Network gave them a cartoon of their own, Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi.
Q 23In Teen Titans, Starfire is an alien princess from which planet?
Tamaran
Jawbreakers. Creator Danny Antonucci, known for adult cartoons, made the series on a dare to prove he could write for children, and it ran for more than ten years.
Q 14In Ed, Edd n Eddy, what surname do the sisters Lee, Marie and May share?
Kanker
Kanker. Lee, Marie and May live in a nearby trailer park and have decided that the three Eds are their boyfriends, which makes them the one thing every kid in the cul-de-sac fears.
Q 15Courage the Cowardly Dog lives in the fictional town of Nowhere, in which state?
Kansas
Kansas. Muriel Bagge found the abandoned puppy and took him home to the farm there; her husband Eustace has resented the dog ever since.
Q 16Which Oscar-nominated 1996 short was the pilot for Courage the Cowardly Dog?
The Chicken from Outer Space
The Chicken from Outer Space. John R. Dilworth's short lost the Oscar to Wallace & Gromit's A Close Shave, but it earned Courage a full series three years later.
Q 17Which villain from a 1960s superhero cartoon was the first host of Toonami in 1997?
Moltar
Moltar. The helmeted lava man introduced the block's shows for two years, then handed over in 1999 to TOM, a robot voiced for most of his run by Steve Blum.
Q 18Which two anime were among the first Toonami brought to American afternoons in the late 1990s?
Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon
Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon. Both arrived in 1998 as reruns of English dubs first shown elsewhere, and new episodes of each were ordered once they had settled into the after-school slot.
Q 19Which anime series was the first shown on Adult Swim, on the block's opening night in September 2001?
Cowboy Bebop
Cowboy Bebop. It went out at midnight, two hours after the block opened with an episode of Home Movies that its original network had shelved.
Q 20Samurai Jack pits a samurai flung into the future against which shape-shifting demon?
Aku
Aku. Mako voiced the demon until his death in 2006, so when the series returned for a final season in 2017 the part passed to Greg Baldwin.
Tamaran. Starfire is heir to the planet's throne, and her sunny puzzlement at Earth customs hides one of the team's fiercest fighters.
Q 24Which software was mainly used to animate Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (2004)?
Adobe Flash
Adobe Flash. Craig McCracken and Lauren Faust dreamed up the series after adopting dogs from a shelter and imagining a similar home for imaginary friends that children had outgrown.
Q 25In Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, what is the name of Mac's blue imaginary friend?
Bloo
Bloo, short for Blooregard Q. Kazoo. Mac's mother decided he was too old for an imaginary friend, so Bloo moved into Foster's, where he stays safe from adoption as long as Mac visits every day.
Q 26In Ben 10 (2005), what is the alien device on ten-year-old Ben Tennyson's wrist?
The Omnitrix
The Omnitrix. It turns up in a crashed alien pod on the first night of a summer road trip, clamps onto Ben's wrist and lets him turn into ten different aliens.
Q 27Ben 10 was created by which collective of four comic-book writers, who went on to make Generator Rex?
Man of Action
Man of Action. Its writers had earlier created a Marvel comics team, Big Hero 6, which Disney later turned into an Oscar-winning animated film.
Q 28Billy and Mandy win the Grim Reaper as their 'best friend forever' after beating him at what?
A limbo contest
A limbo contest. Grim had come for Billy's pet hamster, and the children played him for its life; losing left the Reaper bound to them as a most unwilling best friend.
Q 29In Cartoon Network's Chowder, the young hero is an apprentice at whose catering company?
Mung Daal's
Mung Daal's. Chowder's appetite and haste wreck most of the orders, yet the old chef keeps teaching him, while rival chef Endive's apprentice Panini insists that Chowder is her boyfriend.
Q 30In The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, what kind of animal is Bubbie, who raised Flapjack?
A whale
A whale. Bubbie found Flapjack adrift as a baby and raised him as her own, and he and the old sea captain K'nuckles still live inside her mouth.