Wackie Wabbit Trivia Quiz

Answer: Egghead

Elmer Fudd began his life as Egghead in 1937 in the cartoon short "Egghead Rides Again". He would continue under this name until 1940 when his name was changed to Elmer in the short "Elmer's Candid Camera". This was also his first meeting with Bugs Bunny although the character was not yet called Bugs Bunny at this time. Bugs' official debut came later that year in "A Wild Hare" and featured Elmer as his foil.

This first 'official' appearance of Bugs was also the first instance in which he used the catchphrase "What's up, Doc?" The short was a huge success and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Although this was Bugs' debut, it was not until 1941's "Elmer's Pet Rabbit" that we learned his name. Elmer and Bugs would teamed time and again over the decades.

Answer: Marvin the Martian

"Let's Get it On" sang the being = Marvin. Marvin Gaye's signature song was "Let's Get it On", released in 1973 as a single from the album of the same name.
The being from Venus' opposite = the Martian. As the saying goes men are from Mars and women are from Venus so it follows Mars is Venus' opposite.

Marvin the Martian first appeared in "Haredevil Hare"(1948) where Bugs was sent to the moon as the first rabbit in space and there he ran into Marvin and his dog, K-9. Marvin was intent on blowing up the earth but Bugs thwarted his plans. Marvin was voiced by Mel Blanc from 1948 to 1989 and by Joe Alaskey thereafter. Marvin appeared opposite Bugs again in "The Hasty Hare"(1951) and "Hare-Way to the Stars"(1958). He was not actually given an official name until decades later when there was interest in merchandising him. He has appeared in numerous shorts and features throughout the decades.

Answer: Daffy Duck

With the ascension of Bugs Bunny to prominence in the 1950s at Warner Bros., Daffy Duck was tapped to play Bugs' rival, a rivalry that was mostly one sided as Bugs remained indifferent to Daffy's designs to supplant him as the star. As was usual with anyone who went up against Bugs, Daffy always ended up on the losing end. Chuck Jones' "Hunting Trilogy" explored the relationship between the two and Elmer Fudd and introduced Daffy's catchphrase "You're despicable!".

These three cartoons were "Rabbit Fire"(1951), "Rabbit Seasoning"(1952), and "Duck! Rabbit, Duck!"(1953).

They all involve Elmer Fudd hunting and the fight between Bugs and Daffy over which one was in season. The conflict always ended with Daffy being outsmarted by Bugs.

Answer: Foghorn Leghorn

The mist = fog
A bugle = horn
fog + horn = Foghorn
An appendage = leg
A trumpet = horn
leg + horn = Leghorn

Foghorn Leghorn first appeared in 1946 in the short "Walky Talky Hawky". His name was a play on a famous radio character at the time, Senator Beauregard Claghorn from the "Fred Allen Show". Foghorn was a southern good ol' boy rooster with a proclivity toward mischief most often involving the local barnyard dog. Almost always his shenanigans backfired with him getting the worst of it.

Foghorn Leghorn made a cameo appearance in the last classic theatrical release for Bugs Bunny, "False Hare"(1964). In the short Bugs matched wits with the Big Bad Wolf. The Big Bad Wolf tried to trick Bugs by opening a Club Del Conejo, a club for rabbits, so he can eat Bugs. Bugs played along but thwarted the Wolf's attempts to trick him. By the end of the cartoon the Wolf was ready to give up and told his nephew maybe they should open a chicken club instead at which time Foghorn popped out saying "Someone--I say, did someone mention my name?".

Answer: Witch Hazel

The character Witch Hazel is a pun on the name of the astringent. Looney Tunes animator Chuck Jones admitted he got the idea for Witch Hazel from the 1952 Disney cartoon "Trick or Treat" which featured a witch of the same name. The Looney Tunes witch however was a much different character than the Disney version.

She first appeared in the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Bewitched Bunny"(1954). In this cartoon, Bugs saved Hansel and Gretel from Witch Hazel by posing as a truant officer. Once Hazel realized she had been dooped by a rabbit, she decided to cook Bugs instead. Hazel's plan went awry when Bugs used her magic powder to turn the witch into a beautiful lady bunny.

The character appeared in two more cartoons - "Broom-Stick Bunny"(1956), considered by many to be the funniest of the three, and "A Witch's Tangled Hare"(1959).

Answer: Wile E. Coyote

Artfully cunning = wily aka Wile E.
Canine = Coyote

Although Wile E. Coyote was most often paired with the Road Runner, he faced off against Bugs in five shorts from 1952 to 1963. These were "Operation: Rabbit"(1952), "To Hare Is Human"(1956), "Rabbit's Feat"(1960), "Compressed Hare"(1961), and "Hare-Breadth Hurry"(1963). Contrary to his normally silent role in the Road Runner cartoons, Wile E. Coyote spoke in four of the five cartoons. He spoke with a decidedly upper-class possibly even English voice and described himself as a 'super genius', a fact disproven time and again in his dealings with Bugs. In "Hare-Breadth Hurry", Bugs actually took the place of the Road Runner by taking 'speed pills' because the Rood Runner had sprained a giblet.

Answer: Cecil Turtle

The hint to think of Aesop's Fables refers to the story of "The Tortoise and the Hare" upon which Cecil Turtle's three cartoons with Bugs were based. Cecil, along with the Gremlin from "Falling Hare"(1943), the unnamed mouse from "Rhapsody Rabbit"(1946), and the fly from "Baton Bunny"(1959), were the few characters who ever got the better of Bugs.

Cecil faced off against Bugs in three cartoons - "Tortoise Beats Hare"(1941), "Tortoise Wins by a Hare"(1943), and " Rabbit Transit"(1947). In the first short, Cecil used his relatives to fool Bugs during the race. Whether it was really Cecil at the end who beat Bugs or one of his relatives was not made clear. In the second short, it was revealed Cecil actually won the race in the first short so Bugs decided to try to discover Cecil's secret. Through trickery Cecil got Bugs to look like a turtle while he donned a rabbit suit so that the bunny mob attacked Bugs and Cecil won again. In the third short, Cecil used a rocket propelled shell but Bugs still beat him. After the race, however, Cecil got Bugs to admit that he was going 100 mph in a 30 mph speed limit zone so Bugs gets hauled off by the police. Cecil then used one of Bugs' catchphrases to close the cartoon, "Ain't I a stinker."

Answer: Yosemite Sam

From the home of Half Dome = [Yosemite] National Park
The founding father famous for his beer = [Sam] Adams which is also a brand of beer.

Yosemite Sam appeared in 33 shorts throughout the years. He was first introduced opposite Bugs in "Hare Trigger"(1945). Sam was a foul-tempered short cowboy with somewhat of a Napoleon complex. Although at heart he was a cowboy, throughout his appearances he would be dressed as many different characters including a pirate, a knight, a Roman legionnaire, a Confederate soldier, among others. He also had different names including 'Riff Raff Sam', 'Sam Schultz', 'Seagoin' Sam', 'Shanghai Sam', and many others.

Sam even became the mascot emblem for the 20th Intelligence Squadron of the US Air Force, a unit with roots from WWII that was reactivated in 1992 and is still active with Sam as the mascot.

Answer: Rocky

Rocky Marciano was born Rocco Francis Marchegiano. Bugs' adversary was a gangster named Rocky who at first was paired with Hugo, a caricature of Peter Lorre. They appeared in "Racketeer Rabbit"(1946) where Bugs stummbled upon their hideout while they were away.

The duo returned in "Bugs and Thugs"(1954) but this time Hugo was called Mugsy, a name he kept for the rest of the time the duo appeared. They made two more appearances in "Bugsy and Mugsy"(1957) and "The Unmentionables"(1963). In all the shorts, the two played foils to Bugs' antics.

Answer: Tasmanian Devil

South of Australia = Tasmania, hence Tasmanian.
Beelzebub was his name = Devil, Beelzebub is another name for the devil.

The Tasmanian Devil, aka Taz, first appeared opposite Bugs in "Devil May Hare"(1954). He appeared in four shorts with Bugs and one with Daffy before Warner Bros. Cartoons closed down in 1964. The Bugs cartoons were "Bedeviled Rabbit"(1957), "Bill of Hare"(1962), and "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare"(1964). A running gag between the two was for Bugs to look up Tasmanian Devil in the encyclopedia and point out to Taz that rabbits were not on the list. At this point Taz would either write in rabbit or point out it was on the list.

Taz went on to have his own show in 1991 called " Taz-Mania" which aired for three seasons on TV. He was and is one of the most popular merchandising figures.