Rocky and Bullwinkle
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50 free Rocky and Bullwinkle trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Rocky and Bullwinkle arrived on television in 1959 looking cheap and sounding brilliant. A flying squirrel and a dim but good-hearted moose blundered through cliffhanger serials while two inept spies plotted against them, and the jokes flew fast enough to keep parents watching alongside their children. This quiz covers the whole variety show: the serial adventures and their villains, Dudley Do-Right, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Fractured Fairy Tales, the voice cast, the people who made it, and the films and reboots that followed. There are also questions on the stunts and near-lawsuits that surrounded the series. It is written for anyone who grew up on the reruns or found the show later. Most questions carry a clue to reason from, so you do not need to remember every episode to do well.
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Q 01On NBC, a Bullwinkle puppet once told children to pull which parts off their television sets?
The tuning knobs
The tuning knobs came off in the homes of an estimated 20,000 children, so the following week the puppet told them to glue the parts back on.
Q 02Bullwinkle the moose took his name, with two letters swapped, from which kind of California business?
A car dealership
A car dealership called Bullwinkel Motors caught the eye of creator Alex Anderson, who swapped its last two letters and gave the name to his moose.
Q 03Jay Ward's van tour for Moosylvania statehood reached the White House gate during which Cold War standoff?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was at its height when the van pulled up, so Ward and his petition were turned away before he could see President Kennedy.
Q 04Which British Invasion band was named for its singer's resemblance to Mr. Peabody's pet boy?
Herman's Hermits
Herman's Hermits owe the name to singer Peter Noone's resemblance to Sherman, which was clipped to Herman.
Q 05Mr. Peabody's time machine lent its name to a tool for viewing old web pages, run by which nonprofit?
Internet Archive
Internet Archive called its service the Wayback Machine after the WABAC, the device the genius dog and his boy Sherman use to drop in on history.
Q 06In the first Rocky and Bullwinkle adventure, which of the heroes' recipes turns out to be a powerful fuel?
Cake
Cake was the unlikely secret: the recipe worked so well as a propellant that two notorious spies came after it, starting the 40-part story Jet Fuel Formula.
Q 07Which actor both co-produced the 2000 Rocky and Bullwinkle film and played its dictator, Fearless Leader?
Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro made the film through his company Tribeca and asked for the villains' national anthem to be added, which changed the shooting schedule and raised the budget.
Q 08Jay Ward turned to cartoons while recovering after what crashed into his real estate office on its opening day?
A runaway truck
A runaway truck pinned him inside the building, and he kept the real estate firm running in Berkeley even after he moved to Los Angeles.
Q 09Which cartoonist gave many of his own characters the middle initial J as a tribute to producer Jay Ward?
Matt Groening
Matt Groening borrowed the initial that Rocky and Bullwinkle themselves both carry in honor of the man who produced them.
Q 10Which time-travel film honors Mr. Peabody with a 1955 character named Peabody who has a son called Sherman?
Back to the Future
Back to the Future has Otis Peabody mistake Marty McFly for an evil alien and his DeLorean for a spaceship.
Q 11Rocky and Bullwinkle share a house in Frostbite Falls, a fictional small town in which US state?
Minnesota
Minnesota is home to International Falls, the real border town that Frostbite Falls spoofs.
Q 12Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale are spies for which fictional nation ruled by Fearless Leader?
Pottsylvania
Pottsylvania's dictator rules from an underground hideout called Central Control and carries the national treasury with him wherever he goes.
Q 13Which top-hatted villain keeps tying Nell Fenwick to railroad tracks in the Dudley Do-Right cartoons?
Snidely Whiplash
Snidely Whiplash ties women to the tracks for no profit at all, simply because he feels compelled to, and in one cartoon he swaps hats with Dudley and becomes the hero.
Q 21Which future star of the detective series Cannon narrated the Rocky and Bullwinkle adventures?
William Conrad
William Conrad dropped his usual rumbling baritone for a brisk, high-pitched nasal tenor, a voice he kept for these cartoons and used nowhere else.
Q 22Which head writer of the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons also voiced Bullwinkle, Mr. Peabody and Dudley Do-Right?
Bill Scott
Bill Scott never received an on-screen credit for any of those voices, and producer Jay Ward had simply assumed he would play the moose.
Q 23Which voice actor, the Ghost Host of the Haunted Mansion ride, also played the spy Boris Badenov?
Paul Frees
Q 14Which voice actress played both Rocky the Flying Squirrel and the villainous spy Natasha Fatale?
June Foray
June Foray voiced hero and villain alike, and she is also credited with coming up with the idea for animation's Annie Awards.
Q 15The genius dog Mr. Peabody is said to have graduated at the age of three from which university?
Harvard
Harvard gave the pup his degree, and in the first cartoon he rescues an orphan boy from bullies and goes to court to adopt him.
Q 16The voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel played which Flintstones character in the pilot before being recast?
Betty Rubble
Betty Rubble was hers only in the pilot before Bea Benaderet won the series role, and she later described losing the part as a terrible disappointment.
Q 17In the Fractured Fairy Tales take on Sleeping Beauty, the prince is a caricature of which showman?
Walt Disney
Walt Disney's stand-in never wakes the princess; he builds a theme park called Sleeping Beautyland around her instead.
Q 18Jay Ward's studio, makers of Rocky and Bullwinkle, designed which cereal mascot and made its television commercials?
Cap'n Crunch
Cap'n Crunch came from the Ward studio along with the cereal characters Quisp and Quake, and the head writer of the moose's adventures wrote many of the ads.
Q 19Which George of the Jungle star played the Mountie hero in the 1999 live-action film Dudley Do-Right?
Brendan Fraser
Brendan Fraser was making his second film from a Jay Ward cartoon, and the ads played on the coincidence, but it failed with critics and at the box office.
Q 20In one Rocky and Bullwinkle story, six-foot robot mice descend on Earth to devour which household fixtures?
TV antennas
TV antennas across the nation are on the menu in the story Metal-Munching Mice, and the heroes have to stop the mechanical swarm.
Paul Frees, nicknamed the Man of a Thousand Voices, was also the Pillsbury Doughboy in television commercials.
Q 24Boris Badenov's look was modeled on which member of a famously macabre cartoon household?
Gomez Addams
Gomez Addams lent Boris his look, and Natasha was drawn from the cartoon wife who had not yet been given the name Morticia.
Q 25Which Seinfeld actor played the live-action Boris Badenov in the 2000 Rocky and Bullwinkle film?
Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander took the part years after early plans for the film had imagined Danny DeVito as the spy opposite Meryl Streep.
Q 26Which Modern Family star voiced the genius dog in the 2014 animated film Mr. Peabody & Sherman?
Ty Burrell
Ty Burrell replaced Robert Downey Jr., who had first been announced for the role, and his sitcom daughter Ariel Winter voiced Penny.
Q 27Rocky and Bullwinkle was among the first cartoons outsourced abroad, to Gamma Productions in which country?
Mexico
Mexico's Gamma studio worked so fast and unchecked that Boris's mustache popped on and off and Bullwinkle's antlers changed between shots.
Q 28Which cereal maker sponsored Rocky and His Friends on condition that it air in a late-afternoon children's slot?
General Mills
General Mills kept the US television rights to the series, and its advertising agency set up the overseas studio that animated it.
Q 29Rocky and His Friends premiered on ABC in 1959 in the afternoon slot right after which teen dance show?
American Bandstand
American Bandstand handed over a young audience, and the cartoon became the highest-rated daytime network program.
Q 30Bullwinkle played football on a scholarship at which fictional college, later the setting of a whole story?
Wossamotta U
Wossamotta U sees its forlorn team go undefeated once it discovers Bullwinkle's unstoppable passing, which soon attracts gamblers Boris and Natasha.