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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
The shorts began as a way to plug songs from Warner's music publishing arm; the first, Sinkin' in the Bathtub, puns on 'Singin' in the Bathtub'.
Q 02In what year did the original run of Looney Tunes theatrical shorts begin?
1930
They ran until 1969 alongside the Merrie Melodies spin-off, first produced by Leon Schlesinger with animators Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising.
Q 03Which character was the first recurring star of Looney Tunes, appearing in 39 shorts?
Bosko
He was created by Harman and Ising, who took him with them to MGM when they left Warner.
Q 04Which 1940 Tex Avery short is considered the first official Bugs Bunny cartoon?
A Wild Hare
It was the first time Mel Blanc used Bugs's standard voice and the first 'What's up, Doc?'; a prototype had appeared in Porky's Hare Hunt in 1938.
Q 05Which New York borough's accent does Bugs Bunny speak with?
Brooklyn
His fast-talking delivery was partly inspired by Oscar Shapely in the 1934 film It Happened One Night.
Q 06Where did Tex Avery pick up the phrase 'What's up, Doc?' that he gave to Bugs?
His school in Texas
He was born in Taylor, Texas, and later created Droopy and Screwy Squirrel at MGM.
Q 07Which 1958 short is the only Bugs Bunny cartoon to win the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film?
Knighty Knight Bugs
The 1958 Friz Freleng short pits Bugs against Yosemite Sam as the Black Knight and was also the last Warner cartoon to win the Oscar.
Q 08In which 1937 short did Daffy first appear?
Porky's Duck Hunt
Tex Avery, a lifelong duck hunter, based it on his own trips to White Rock Lake in Dallas.
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
The origin is disputed; the slobbery lisp is barely there in the earliest cartoons.
Q 11Which character is the oldest continuing Looney Tunes star, introduced in the 100th short in 1935?
Porky Pig
He had only a minor role in I Haven't Got a Hat, but the stuttering pig caught on immediately.
Q 12Which stuttered line does Porky Pig deliver at the end of many cartoons?
'That's all, folks!'
Bosko, Buddy and Beans had used the same slogan, without the stutter, before him.
Q 13What is the name of the 1937 song used as the Looney Tunes theme?
'The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down'
Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin wrote it; 'Merrily We Roll Along' became the Merrie Melodies theme instead.
Q 21Foghorn Leghorn was directly inspired by which radio character?
Senator Claghorn
Kenny Delmar played the blustery Southern politician on Fred Allen's show; 'Leghorn' is an Italian chicken breed.
Q 22Which director created Foghorn Leghorn and the Tasmanian Devil?
Robert McKimson
Foghorn debuted in the 1946 Henery Hawk short Walky Talky Hawky.
Q 23Marvin the Martian's helmet and skirt are modelled on the armour of which Roman god?
Mars
He first appeared in the 1948 Bugs Bunny short Haredevil Hare and went unnamed until 1979.
Q 14Which director created Tweety in the 1942 short A Tale of Two Kitties?
Bob Clampett
The two cats hunting him, Babbit and Catstello, were based on Abbott and Costello; the early Tweety was surprisingly aggressive.
Q 15What is Sylvester the Cat's trademark exclamation?
'Sufferin' succotash!'
It is said to be a minced oath for 'Suffering Savior'; three of his cartoons won Oscars, more than any other Looney Tunes star.
Q 16How many Academy Awards did cartoons starring Sylvester win, the most for any Looney Tunes character?
Three
They were Tweetie Pie, Speedy Gonzales and Birds Anonymous.
Q 17Which voice actress played Granny for almost 60 years after taking over from Bea Benaderet?
June Foray
Granny's full name is Emma Webster; she owns Tweety and, usually, Sylvester.
Q 18In which 1949 short did Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner first appear?
Fast and Furry-ous
Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese created them in 1948; early model sheets called the coyote 'Don Coyote'.
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
The desert backgrounds of the first three shorts were designed by Robert Gribbroek and were quite realistic.
Q 24How many shorts did the Tasmanian Devil appear in during the original theatrical era?
Five
He debuted in Devil May Hare in 1954; his later 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
She usually gets her stripe by accident, such as squeezing under a wet-painted fence.
Q 26Which Pepé Le Pew short won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short?
For Scent-imental Reasons
In the 1949 short the roles reverse: a blue-painted Pepé is chased by a smitten Penelope.
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 'fastest mouse in all Mexico'?
Speedy Gonzales
He had first appeared in name only in Cat-Tails for Two in 1953; Cartoon Network shelved the character in 1999 over stereotype concerns.
Q 30Which Warner director made the most cartoons at the studio, 266 in all, and won five Oscars?
Friz Freleng
He later co-founded DePatie-Freleng, which produced The Pink Panther Show.