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Find out how much of an animation geek you are. Answers are in white after the question.

1. Who was the orginal director of the first Pink Panther cartoon series? Friz Freleng

2. Which eyes did director Tex Avery loose the use of? Left, it was cut by a paper clip during office highjinxs

3. True of False: Chuck Jone's wife was an animator. True, she was a cel paiter at Iwerks Studio when they met

3. Who was the executive producer for Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Castle in the Sky? Isoa Takahata, he is most famous for directing Grave of the Fireflies.

4. What studio had a virtual monopoly on the American television animation industy during the 60's and 70's? Hanna-Barbara Productions

5. What was the first rated X cartoon? Fritz the Cat in 1972

6. Which anime series were used to make Robotech? Macross, South Cross, Genesis Climber Mospeada

7. Who was the creator of Foghorn Leghorn and Tasmanian Devil? Robert McKimson

8. Which anime is said to have had a sever influnce on Cowboy Bebop? Lupin III

9. What anime was banned by the Japanese government in 1996 for having racial sterotypes? the 1960's anime Jungle Kurobe

10. What is the Censored Eleven? Eleven Warner Brothers cartoons made unavaible because of heavy racism

11. Which Walt Disney film that has never been released on US home video will be celebrating it's 60th aniversary soon? Song of the South

12. What is the longest running anime series? Saze-san, it has been on Japanese television since 1969

13. Aproxamatly how many television episodes did William Hanna direct in his life time? Over one thousand

14. True or false: Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons is believed to be a caricatured of an animator? True, he is supposedly inspired by Ralph Bakshi, director of the animated Lord of the Rings and Fritz the Cat.

15. What reasons do some historians have as to why Walt Disney reported several employees for communist sympathizing? He beared a grudge from the 1941 employee strike

16. Who co-created Batman: The Animated Series with Bruce Timm? Eric Radomski

17. What is rotoscope? Live-action enhanced with animation

18. What are animation cels made of? They were once made out of celluloid, but are now made of acetate

19. Which was the last television serise to use tradtional ink and paint? Ed, Edd and Eddy

20. What was the first anime for girls? Princess Knight

Scoring:
1-5 correct: Not a geek
6-10 correct: casual geek, you probelly have some life outside of animation
11-19 correct: otaku, you are a ******** loser
20 correct: there is no way you would get them all right unless you were an animation major.

I don't know how that happened, a mod can delete one of them.

Answered 7 right.


Guess that is a good thing?

You may have noticed but I deleted the repeat that had only one reply. ^^;

But this one is the repeat! gonk

s**t, I knew 15. Then again, I've taken classes on animation so bleh. XP

Same.

I surprised myself by getting eight right. whee