Q 01/05

Which cat-and-mouse duo did Hanna and Barbera create before founding their own studio?

A) Tom and Jerry

B) Sylvester and Tweety

C) Pixie and Dixie

D) Itchy and Scratchy

Answer · why

A) Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry won seven Oscars for best cartoon short, yet the producer credited on every one was Fred Quimby, a studio executive who had almost no cr...

Q 02/05

Hanna-Barbera began on which silent star's old lot?

A) Buster Keaton

B) Charlie Chaplin

C) Harold Lloyd

D) Mary Pickford

Answer · why

B) Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin had sold the lot in 1953, the year after he left the United States, and it was being rented out as Kling Studios. The pair's first tel...

Q 03/05

Before founding their studio, Hanna and Barbera quietly made cartoon titles and adverts for which 1950s sitcom?

A) Ozzie and Harriet

B) I Love Lucy

C) Make Room for Daddy

D) Burns and Allen

Answer · why

B) I Love Lucy

I Love Lucy's cartoon versions of its two stars were made on the side, without credit, so that the pair's film-studio bosses would not find out. When ...

Q 04/05

What was Hanna-Barbera's first animated television series, premiering in 1957?

A) The Peter Potamus Show

B) The Yogi Bear Show

C) The Huckleberry Hound Show

D) The Ruff and Reddy Show

Answer · why

D) The Ruff and Reddy Show

The Ruff and Reddy Show, about a cat and a dog, went out in short chapters wrapped around old Columbia cinema cartoons. Television paid a small fracti...

Q 05/05

Which Hanna-Barbera series was the first cartoon to win an Emmy?

A) The Atom Ant Show

B) The Huckleberry Hound Show

C) The Magilla Gorilla Show

D) The Flintstones

Answer · why

B) The Huckleberry Hound Show

The Huckleberry Hound Show was the studio's first big hit, and the pair followed it with something bigger: a prime-time cartoon sitcom meant for paren...