Q 01/05

Bugs Bunny's habit of chewing a carrot while talking was borrowed from which star's scene in a 1934 comedy?

A) Clark Gable

B) Cary Grant

C) Groucho Marx

D) James Cagney

Answer · why

A) Clark Gable

Clark Gable munches carrots while talking with his mouth full in It Happened One Night, and three Looney Tunes directors said that scene gave the rabb...

Q 02/05

In The Flintstones' early sponsor commercials, Fred and Barney were shown relaxing with which adult product?

A) Pipe tobacco

B) Canned beer

C) Cigarettes

D) Sleeping pills

Answer · why

C) Cigarettes

Cigarettes from Winston co-sponsored the first two seasons, until the audience skewed younger and Welch's grape juice took over.

Q 03/05

In the Peanuts animated specials, which muted brass instrument supplies the garbled voices of teachers and adults?

A) Trumpet

B) Trombone

C) French horn

D) Cornet

Answer · why

B) Trombone

Trombone was the suggestion of the specials' composer, Vince Guaraldi, and the makers kept the wah-wah effect because they found it funny.

Q 04/05

Which voice actor recorded Barney Rubble's Flintstones lines in a full-body cast after a 1961 car crash?

A) Daws Butler

B) Alan Reed

C) Don Messick

D) Mel Blanc

Answer · why

D) Mel Blanc

Mel Blanc had been in a coma after the head-on crash on Sunset Boulevard, so producers set up recording gear in his hospital room and later at his hom...

Q 05/05

Which fictional band from a Saturday-morning cartoon had America's top single of 1969 with Sugar, Sugar?

A) The Monkees

B) The Banana Splits

C) The Archies

D) The Groovie Goolies

Answer · why

C) The Archies

The Archies were cartoon teenagers, so session singer Ron Dante supplied the lead vocal on a record that topped the Hot 100 for four weeks.