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1. Tennessee Tuxedo and his buddy Chumley the walrus were residents of the Megapolis zoo. His misadventures at the zoo led to run ins with gangsters, evil kangaroo rats and one very irate zoo-keeper. Who provided the voice for this adventurous penguin?
2. Created by Larry Ewing, Tux the penguin is the mascot of what multi million dollar company?
3. Which of these famous video game icons has fought a villain named Chill Penguin?
4. In this Newberry award winning book a house painter and his wife take in a dozen penguins. In order to support them he turns them into a performance act, before ultimately returning them to the wild. What was the title named owner of these penguins?
5. What movie features a character named Jack, with a penguin as his power animal?
6. In the mid 90s what beer company featured a very creepy penguin with a kleptomaniac urge for a certain brand of beer?
7. What is the name of the large nosed, existentialist penguin who began life in Bloom County", and then moved on to his own self titled strip in 2003?
8. "Happy Feet" was the story of a young penguin named Mumbles who preferred dance to song as his way of making his mark. Long before that movie there was a trio of tap dancing penguin waiters who also made a mark. Alongside what limber thespian did these elegant birds dance to their hearts content?
9. One of my favorite penguins growing up was a cartoon penguin who was often paired with fellow Universal Studios creation Woody Woodpecker in a double bill. What is the name of this penguin whom part of his theme song went
"I shake until I'm blue.
My head is hot and my feet are cold.
Ha...Hee...Hachoo!"?
10. Often times in movies it is not the main stars but smaller characters who steal the show. In "Madagascar" the same thing happened when a quartet of secret agent like penguins became so popular that they earned their owned short spin-off "The Penguins in a Christmas Caper". In that movie which penguin gets kidnapped while on a mission?
11. What are the official names for all penguin representatives from Sea World?
12. Massimo Fenati wrote the first of a planned series books about a pair of penguins named Gus and Waldo. The story used the cute and popular penguins to explore what important social issue?
13. The 1996 movie "The Pebble and the Penguin" tells the story of a young penguin named Hubie who is in search of the perfect pebble to use to propose to the love of his life. What species of penguin is this story of courtship about?
14. Nils Olav is a very special penguin residing in the Edingburgh Zoo in Scotland. Due to the fascination with the penguin exhibit by a visiting Norwegian what special position did this penguin achieve in Norway?
15. My love of penguins first began due to the "Batman" villain Oswald Cobblepot, aka The Penguin. In 2006, a political figure was lampooned in an on-line video with the political figure's head superimposed on the body of the Penguin and surrounded by an assortment of real penguins. What politician was this?
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