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1. What was the first date that Popeye appeared in Elzie Segar's Thimble Theatre?
2. Which comic strip did Frederick Opper not create?
3. What was the name of Pogo's turtle friend in Walt Kelly's classic, Pogo?
4. What was the last name of Linus and his big sister Lucy in Charles Schultz's classic, Peanuts?
5. What comic strip did Milton Caniff create just prior to making his classic, Terry and the Pirates?
6. Who was the creator of Dick Tracy?
7. What strip did Ham Fisher create?
8. Who created the classic strip the Gumps?
9. What catch-phrase was not created in Billy DeBeck's Barney Google?
10. What is considered the first successful daily comic strip?
11. How did Lil' Abner's creator Al Capp lose his Leg?
12. Who was the tall one, Mutt or Jeff?
13. Here is an easy one. Who created Krazy Kat?
14. Who created Winnie Winkle the Breadwinner?
15. What was the name of Nancy's aunt in Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy?
16. In what year did Al Capp's Lil' Abner appear in newspapers?
17. Who was the first cartoonist to draw the comic strip Tarzan?
18. In Dick Tracy, who is the name of B.O. Plenty's hideous wife?
19. What was the name of the cartoon character who drew Fearless Fosdick, Lil' Abner's 'ideel', in AL Capp's Lil' Abner?
20. In what year did Frank King's Gasoline Alley start?
21. Who created Polly and her Pals?
22. What was Mort Walker's father's favorite comic strip?
23. After Rudolph Dirks left the Hearst papers, taking the characters but not the title, who took over the Katzenjammer Kids strip?
24. What was the character's name in Pogo that looked and acted coincidently like Senator Joseph McCarthy?
25. Who created Little Orphan Annie?
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