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Quiz about Looney Tunes Title Puns and Gags
Quiz about Looney Tunes Title Puns and Gags

Looney Tunes Title Puns and Gags Quiz


Many Looney Tunes titles are puns or gags based on cultural references less familiar today than when the cartoons were made over 50 years ago. See if you get the reference; if not, I'll educate you. You don't need to have seen the cartoons to play.

A multiple-choice quiz by PauFlP. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
PauFlP
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
313,450
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
3242
Awards
Editor's Choice
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Question 1 of 10
1. The title "Weasel Stop" is a pun on a term that involved in what kind of real-world activity? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. "Muzzle Tough" is a pun on a Hebrew term. The original term means: Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. "Fox Pop" is a pun on what?
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Question 4 of 10
4. The following cartoon titles are themselves all puns on titles of literary works. Figure out the puns, then decide which work is the odd one out. Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. "Easter Yeggs" is obviously a pun on Easter eggs, but what is a "yegg"? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. "Bunny Hugged." A "bunny hug" is something you'd see in what kind of real-world activity?
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Question 7 of 10
7. "Banty-Raids" is a pun on "panty-raids." Who would be most likely to engage in a "panty-raid"? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. "Person to Bunny" could also be pun on a kind of telephone connection, but in this case it refers to a TV show hosted by which famous newsman? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. "Greetings Bait" is a pun on what? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. If your child asked about a cartoon title, which of these would require the most delicate explanation? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. The title "Weasel Stop" is a pun on a term that involved in what kind of real-world activity?

Answer: Railroad transportation

A whistle stop was a small station at which trains stopped only when signaled to do so. By extension, it became associated with a form of political campaigning in which candidates traveling by rail stopped at small communities and gave speeches from the platform of the last car in the train.

In the 1956 cartoon, rooster Foghorn Leghorn tries to put a stop to a weasel's efforts to steal chickens.
2. "Muzzle Tough" is a pun on a Hebrew term. The original term means:

Answer: Congratulations

"Muzzle Tough" is a pun on mazel tov, a term used to express congratulations. It's a Hebrew term used in Yiddish. The other choice referring to a Yiddish term that has gained some currency in Standard American English is to meddle, or "kvetch." As might be expected, the 1954 Sylvester and Tweety cartoon involves many cat and dog set-tos, but what makes the title pun particularly relevant is the urban New York setting.
3. "Fox Pop" is a pun on what?

Answer: A Latin term

The Latin term "vox pop" is a shortening of "vox populi," literally, voice of the people. In journalism, it was used in reference to the opinions of the general public or man in the street. In the 1942 cartoon, a fox, hearing that silver fur foxes are popular, paints himself silver only to learn that it's just his skin that everyone wants.
4. The following cartoon titles are themselves all puns on titles of literary works. Figure out the puns, then decide which work is the odd one out.

Answer: A Streetcat Named Sylvester

"A Streetcat Named Sylvester" puns "A Streetcar Named Desire," the 1947 play by Tennessee Williams, later made into the well-known Marlon Brando film. All the others are puns on best-selling books by John Steinbeck: "Cannery Row" (1945), "Of Mice and Men" (1937) and "The Grapes of Wrath" (1939).
5. "Easter Yeggs" is obviously a pun on Easter eggs, but what is a "yegg"?

Answer: A slang term for burglar or safecracker

The precise origin of the term remains obscure, but it seems to have come from U.S. underworld slang dating back to the early decades of the 20th century. While it often relates specifically to a safecracker or burglar, it can also mean any thief or thug in general, of which several appear in the 1947 Bugs Bunny cartoon "Easter Yeggs."
6. "Bunny Hugged." A "bunny hug" is something you'd see in what kind of real-world activity?

Answer: A dance

The Bunny hug was a dance popular among the young in the early 20th century. The gag value of the 1951 cartoon title comes does come from Bugs Bunny getting involved in a professional wrestling match, however.
7. "Banty-Raids" is a pun on "panty-raids." Who would be most likely to engage in a "panty-raid"?

Answer: A college student

A panty raid was an early- to mid-1950s type of college prank in which male students invaded co-eds' quarters in order to steal their undergarments. The 1963 cartoon features a bantam (get it?) rooster's repeated attempts to sneak into the chicken yard to make time with the hens.
8. "Person to Bunny" could also be pun on a kind of telephone connection, but in this case it refers to a TV show hosted by which famous newsman?

Answer: Edward R. Murrow

All of these are well-known newscasters of the 1950s, but it was Edward R. Murrow who hosted the popular prime-time interview program "Person to Person" between 1953-61. The novel format consisted of studio-bound Murrow questioning famous people live in their own homes. Murrow was the subject of the 2005 Oscar-nominated film "Good Night and Good Luck," that phrase being Murrow's trademark sign-off.

The 1960 cartoon is a spoof of the show, with a caricatured Murrow interviewing Bugs Bunny.
9. "Greetings Bait" is a pun on what?

Answer: Catch phrase of radio personality

"Greetings, gates!" was a catch phrase of Jerry Colonna, one of Bob Hope's sidekicks on his popular radio show. Along with those phrases and other outlandish vocal mannerisms, Colonna's pop-eyes and walrus mustache made him a prime object of cartoon caricatures.

In addition to this 1943 cartoon, in which he's caricatured as a worm, he voiced and served as a model for the March Hare in Disney's "Alice in Wonderland."
10. If your child asked about a cartoon title, which of these would require the most delicate explanation?

Answer: Quentin Quail

"San Quentin quail" was another term for jailbait. I'll let you explain that one to your kids. Though it's rather startling that any film, much less a cartoon, was given such a title in this period (1946), it's a reminder that theatrical cartoons like the Looney Tunes weren't made just for children. In fact, since movie programs of the time generally always included a cartoon, their success depended on them being funny to adults.

"Quentin Quail" featured quail characters in a take-off on the "Baby Snooks" radio character of entertainer Fanny Brice, herself the subject of Barbra Streisand's 1968 film "Funny Girl." While the phrase "the deuce, you say," might have been inappropriate in polite Victorian-era British society, it was inoffensive by the time the 1956 Daffy Duck/Porky Pig Sherlock Holmes spoof "Deduce, You Say" was made. "Mexican Joyride" refers to the 1944 Cole Porter Broadway musical "Mexican Hayride."
Source: Author PauFlP

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