Q 01/05

Disney's cartoon chipmunks Chip and Dale take their names from a pun on a famous maker of what?

A) Clocks

B) Chandeliers

C) Furniture

D) Pianos

Answer · why

C) Furniture

Furniture is the joke: animator Bill Justice first drew the pair, who were named after the furniture designer Thomas Chippendale.

Q 02/05

All but one species of chipmunk are native to North America; the odd one out comes from which continent?

A) Africa

B) Asia

C) Europe

D) Oceania

Answer · why

B) Asia

Asia is home to the Siberian chipmunk, found from Russia across China to northern Japan. It is the only one of the 25 species found outside North Amer...

Q 03/05

When a chipmunk's cheek pouches are stuffed full, they can swell to nearly the size of which body part?

A) Its head

B) Its tail

C) Its front paw

D) Its ear

Answer · why

A) Its head

Its head is the measure: the pouches sit between jaw and cheek and work like shopping bags, hauling seeds and nuts back to the burrow.

Q 04/05

The singing brothers of Alvin and the Chipmunks were named after executives at which kind of company?

A) A film studio

B) A toy manufacturer

C) A cereal brand

D) A record label

Answer · why

D) A record label

A record label supplied the names: creator Ross Bagdasarian borrowed them from his bosses at Liberty, the company that released the trio's first hit.

Q 05/05

In the Chipmunks' chart-topping Christmas song of 1958, Alvin keeps wishing for which toy craze of that year?

A) A yo-yo

B) A hula hoop

C) A pogo stick

D) A Frisbee

Answer · why

B) A hula hoop

A hula hoop was 1958's hot new toy, so Alvin's wish dated the tune at once. The single still spent four weeks at number one.