Q 01/05

In which city was Matt Groening born?

A) Eugene, Oregon

B) Portland, Oregon

C) Seattle, Washington

D) Olympia, Washington

Answer · why

B) Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon gave him a childhood he calls idyllic, though he says he was bored at school from the first day of first grade and kept getting into ...

Q 02/05

Which college in Olympia, Washington did Matt Groening attend from 1972?

A) Western Washington

B) Evergreen State

C) Lewis & Clark

D) Reed

Answer · why

B) Evergreen State

Evergreen State had no grades and no required classes, which suited him. He graduated in 1977 and still recommends it to 'self-disciplined creative we...

Q 03/05

In the 1980s Matt Groening drew Life in Hell advertisements for which computer company?

A) IBM

B) Apple

C) Commodore

D) Atari

Answer · why

B) Apple

Apple hired him while he was still an underground cartoonist: the Life in Hell ads ran before The Simpsons became a series and made him famous.

Q 04/05

Which fellow cartoonist, a college friend, has Matt Groening named as his biggest inspiration?

A) Gary Panter

B) Lynda Barry

C) Roz Chast

D) Alison Bechdel

Answer · why

B) Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry owes him her start as well: as a student he printed her earliest comic strip in the campus paper without telling her.

Q 05/05

Which Broad City star voices Princess Bean in Matt Groening's Netflix fantasy series?

A) Ilana Glazer

B) Aubrey Plaza

C) Abbi Jacobson

D) Kristen Schaal

Answer · why

C) Abbi Jacobson

Abbi Jacobson plays the hard-drinking princess. Groening says the show began as sketchbooks full of imps, gnomes and trolls he could never use on The ...