Looney Tunes Trivia
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99 free Looney Tunes trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
52 free Looney Tunes trivia questions with answers. Looney Tunes began in 1930 as a way to plug Warner Bros. songs and ended up as the funniest cartoons ever made. This quiz covers the whole golden age and beyond: Bugs's first 'What's up, Doc?', where Daffy's lisp came from, the rules Chuck Jones set for the Road Runner, why Marvin the Martian dresses like a Roman, and how a frog became a TV network's mascot. The early questions are the ones anyone who grew up on Saturday mornings will get: Porky's sign-off, Sylvester's catchphrase, who Michael Jordan teams up with in Space Jam. The later ones are for people who know their Freleng from their Clampett, which short is the only Bugs cartoon to win an Oscar, and what Yosemite Sam's director had to do with his temper. Every answer has been checked against a published source and carries a link, so you can settle an argument about duck season and rabbit season on the spot.
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Q 01The title Looney Tunes was inspired by which Disney cartoon series?
Silly Symphonies
Silly Symphonies, Disney's music-driven series, inspired the name; Warner's shorts began as a way to plug songs from its music-publishing arm.
Q 02In what year did the original run of Looney Tunes theatrical shorts begin?
1930
1930 saw the first Looney Tunes short released, made by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising; the series ran in theatres until 1969 beside Merrie Melodies.
Q 03Which character was the first recurring star of Looney Tunes, appearing in 39 shorts?
Bosko
Bosko, created by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, starred in the first Looney Tunes shorts until 1933; his creators took him with them to MGM.
Q 04Which 1940 Tex Avery short is considered the first official Bugs Bunny cartoon?
A Wild Hare
A Wild Hare (July 1940) gave Bugs his settled design, Mel Blanc's standard voice and the first 'What's up, Doc?'; a prototype rabbit had appeared in Porky's Hare Hunt (1938).
Q 05Which New York borough's accent does Bugs Bunny speak with?
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the borough usually named for Bugs's accent; Mel Blanc blended Brooklyn and Bronx speech, and the fast-talking manner owes something to Oscar Shapely in It Happened One Night (1934).
Q 06Where did Tex Avery pick up the phrase 'What's up, Doc?' that he gave to Bugs?
His school in Texas
His school in Texas is where Tex Avery said 'What's up, Doc?' was everyday slang; he was born in Taylor, Texas, and later created Droopy at MGM.
Q 07Which 1958 short is the only Bugs Bunny cartoon to win the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film?
Knighty Knight Bugs
Knighty Knight Bugs, with Yosemite Sam as the Black Knight, won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons) of 1958, the only Bugs Bunny short to do so.
Q 08In which 1937 short did Daffy first appear?
Porky's Duck Hunt
Porky's Duck Hunt (April 1937), directed by Tex Avery, introduced Daffy as an unhinged black duck who bounces across the lake hooting 'Hoo-hoo!'
Q 09What name did the animators originally want to give Daffy, before the producer objected?
Dizzy Duck
It was after baseball's Dizzy Dean; Leon Schlesinger complained it sounded 'as if he's going to faint'.
Q 10According to the oft-repeated story, whose lisp was the model for Daffy's voice?
Producer Leon Schlesinger
Producer Leon Schlesinger, who lisped, is the model in Mel Blanc's telling; the story is disputed, and the lisp is faint in Daffy's earliest shorts.
Q 11Which character, introduced in 1935, is the oldest continuing Looney Tunes star?
Porky Pig
Porky Pig debuted in a minor role in the Merrie Melodies short I Haven't Got a Hat (1935), and the stuttering pig caught on immediately.
Q 12Which stuttered line does Porky Pig deliver at the end of many cartoons?
'That's all, folks!'
'That's all, folks!' is Porky's stuttered sign-off, delivered as he bursts through a bass drum; earlier Looney Tunes stars had spoken the line straight, without the stutter.
Q 13What is the name of the 1937 song used as the Looney Tunes theme?
'The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down'
Q 21Which radio character directly inspired Warner's blustering Southern rooster?
Senator Claghorn
Senator Claghorn, Kenny Delmar's blustering Southern politician on Fred Allen's radio show, was the model for Foghorn Leghorn; the Leghorn is an Italian chicken breed.
Q 22Which director created Foghorn Leghorn and the Tasmanian Devil?
Robert McKimson
Robert McKimson created both: Foghorn debuted in his 1946 Henery Hawk short Walky Talky Hawky, and Taz in Devil May Hare (1954).
Q 23Marvin's helmet and skirt copy the armour of which Roman god?
Mars
Mars, the Roman war god, supplied the crested helmet and skirt; Marvin first appeared in Haredevil Hare (1948) and went unnamed on screen until 1979.
'The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down', written by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin in 1937, became the Looney Tunes theme; 'Merrily We Roll Along' went to Merrie Melodies instead.
Q 14Which director created Tweety in the 1942 short A Tale of Two Kitties?
Bob Clampett
Bob Clampett directed A Tale of Two Kitties, in which cats Babbit and Catstello, modelled on Abbott and Costello, hunt a surprisingly aggressive early Tweety.
Q 15What is Sylvester the Cat's trademark exclamation?
'Sufferin' succotash!'
'Sufferin' succotash!' is Sylvester's spluttering catchphrase, usually read as a minced oath on 'suffering Savior'; Mel Blanc said the voice was close to his own, with a lisp added.
Q 16How many Academy Awards did cartoons starring Sylvester win, the most for any Looney Tunes character?
Three
Three Sylvester shorts won the Academy Award, including Tweetie Pie (1947) and Birds Anonymous (1957); Tweety shared two of those wins.
Q 17Which voice actress played Granny for almost 60 years after taking over from Bea Benaderet?
June Foray
June Foray voiced Granny from 1955 until 2014, after Bea Benaderet originated the part; Granny's full name is Emma Webster.
Q 18In which 1949 short did Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner first appear?
Fast and Furry-ous
Fast and Furry-ous (1949), directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese, introduced the pair; Jones drew on Mark Twain's description of the coyote in Roughing It.
Q 19From which fictional company does Wile E. Coyote mail-order his contraptions?
Acme
One of Chuck Jones's rules was that no outside force could harm the coyote, only his own ineptitude or the failure of Acme products.
Q 20The Road Runner's 'beep, beep' was inspired by whose imitation of a car horn?
Background artist Paul Julian
Background artist Paul Julian made the 'beep, beep' noise while hurrying through the studio corridors, and Chuck Jones recorded his version for the bird.
Q 24How many shorts did the Tasmanian Devil appear in during the original theatrical era?
Five
Five theatrical shorts featured Taz, from Devil May Hare (1954) to Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare (1964); his wider fame came from merchandising and Taz-Mania.
Q 25What is the name of the black cat with a painted white stripe whom Pepé Le Pew pursues?
Penelope Pussycat
Penelope Pussycat usually gets her white stripe by accident, for instance squeezing under a freshly painted fence, which fools Pepé into thinking she is a skunk.
Q 26Which Pepé Le Pew short won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short?
For Scent-imental Reasons
For Scent-imental Reasons (1949), directed by Chuck Jones, won the Academy Award; at its end the roles reverse, and a blue-painted Pepé is chased by a smitten cat.
Q 27Which director is Yosemite Sam said to have been modelled on?
Friz Freleng
He introduced Sam in Hare Trigger in 1945; his crew and daughter both say the short-fused redhead was based on him.
Q 28Elmer Fudd evolved from which earlier Tex Avery character?
Egghead
Egghead debuted in 1937 with a bulbous nose and a Joe Penner voice; Elmer's 'wabbit' speech is a disorder called rhotacism.
Q 29Which 1955 Oscar-winning cartoon introduced the redesigned Mexican mouse?
Speedy Gonzales
Speedy Gonzales (1955) won the Academy Award and fixed the mouse's sombrero-and-white-suit design; a cruder prototype had appeared in Cat-Tails for Two (1953).
Q 30Which baby kangaroo does Sylvester repeatedly mistake for a giant mouse?
Hippety Hopper
Hippety Hopper, a boxing baby kangaroo, first appeared in Hop, Look and Listen (1948); Sylvester, often with his son watching, never learns he is not a giant mouse.