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Exploring the World of Cartoons: A Quiz

Test your knowledge about the history and significance of cartoons in art and media with this engaging quiz.

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1 The first of these parodied the preparatory cartoons for grand historical frescoes in the then-new ________.

2 The modern meaning refers to both humorous illustrations in print and ________ films.

3 The original meaning was in fine art, where cartoon meant a preparatory ________ for a piece of art, such as a painting or tapestry.

4 The word cartoon is sometimes used to refer to a ________.

5 Noteworthy cartoonists in this sense include Charles Schulz, ________, Scott Adams, Mort Walker and Steve Bell.

6 Cartoons by painters, such as the Raphael Cartoons in London and examples by ________, are highly prized in their own right.

7 These are usually shown on ________ or in cinemas and are created by showing illustrated images in rapid succession to give the impression of movement.

8 The word cartoon has various meanings, based on several very different forms of ________ and illustration.

9 Cartoons were typically used in the production of ________, to accurately link the component parts of the composition when painted on damp plaster over a series of days (giornate).

10 Tapestry cartoons, usually coloured, were followed by eye by the weavers on the ________.

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • The Encyclopædia of Ball Juggling contains completely cross-referenced A to Z article indexing, complemented by Charlie Dancey’s light-hearted writing and cartoon illustration style.
  • Yucca Mountain Johnny is a cartoon character created to explain nuclear waste disposal to children, and has attracted controversy, being compared to Joe Camel.
  • a 1997 wrestling event at Chantilly High School was canceled because of the "cartoonish" sterotypes portrayed by such wrestlers as "Wiseguy" Jimmy Cicero.
  • the Russian composer Vladimir Shainsky created music and songs for popular cartoons such as Cheburashka and his best friend Crocodile Gena.
  • the Randy Van Horne Singers performed the theme songs for many classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including The Flintstones and The Jetsons.
  • Moose A. Moose is a fictional cartoon moose who hosts TV shows on Nickelodeon's educational spin-off Noggin.
  • Dennis Berry was a musician, composer, arranger and producer who not only produced the music to the first Monty Python film, but has also had his music featured on the BBC's Little Britain, MTV's The Osbournes and the Nickelodeon cartoon Spongebob Squarepants.
  • Superman stops a mad scientist and his army of robots in the 1941 animated short film The Mechanical Monsters.
  • Michael Kupperman's Snake 'n' Bacon are a pair of cartoon characters, a snake and a strip of bacon, whose conversations are limited to hissing (on Snake's part) and making bacon-related comments (on Bacon's part).
  • "I Am Your Gummy Bear", a silly novelty song whose video features a "jolly and jiggly" lime green cartoon gummi bear and a 30-second video clip in eight languages, is an internet meme.
  • "I Love to Singa," an Al Jolson song written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, is also the title of a popular 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon.
  • Alfred J. Kwak, a duck from a Dutch television cartoon, lives in a clog.
  • children's TV show Supernormal was developed by the creators of the controversial internet cartoon Happy Tree Friends.
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