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The Funny Papers

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The comic strip Half Hitch, created by Hank Ketcham in his Navy days during World War II, was revived in 1970 after the tremendous success of which comic by the same artist?

a)

Calvin and Hobbes

b)

Beetle Bailey

c)

Dennis the Menace

d)

Blondie and Dagwood

2.

Which comic strip character created by Chic Young in 1930 went from rich to middle class after marrying his flapper girlfriend in 1933? HINT: He likes big sandwiches and he cannot lie.

a)

Phil Fumble

b)

Dagwood Bumstead

c)

Sluggo Smith

d)

Snuffy Smith

3.

What is the favorite food of Jim Davis' comic strip character Garfield the cat?

a)

Mice

b)

Tuna casserole

c)

Pizza

d)

Lasagna

4.

What comic strip character went from a pampered actress and flapper in the jazz clubs to a responsible aunt and caregiver after artist Ernie Bushmiller introduced her niece Nancy to the strip?

a)

Betty Boop

b)

Fritzi Ritz

c)

Blondie Boopadoop

d)

Torchy Brown

5.

Based on publication numbers, what was the most popular campus-based comic strip featured in college newspapers from 1986 to 1990?

a)

Doonesbury

b)

Academia Waltz

c)

Wimpel Hall

d)

FoxTrot

6.

Which comic strip is generally acknowledged to be the first newspaper comic strip?

a)

The Yellow Kid

b)

Bringing Up Father

c)

Little Orphan Annie

d)

Gasoline Alley

7.

What comic strip college student created by Mort Walker quit school and joined the military during the strip's first year, to get away from his jealous girlfriend and another girl?

a)

Half Hitch

b)

Sad Sack

c)

Archie Andrews

d)

Beetle Bailey

8.

Medieval times comic strip the Wizard of Id was co-created by Brant Parker and Johnny Hart, who was also the creator of what caveman-themed comic strip?

a)

Alley Oop

b)

Neanderthal Man

c)

Captain Caveman

d)

B.C.

9.

Walt Kelly created what comic strip in 1948, about an opossum living in the Okefenokee Swamp?

a)

U.S. Acres

b)

Li'l Abner

c)

Pogo

d)

Swamp

10.

Jim Davis, creator of Garfield, also created what comic strip about farm animals?

a)

Pearls Before Swine

b)

U.S Acres

c)

Farmville

d)

Pogo

11.

Berke Breathed admitted ripping off Doonesbury for his University of Texas comic strip Academic Waltz, which he later transformed into what comic even more successful than Doonesbury?

a)

Bloom County

b)

Calvin and Hobbes

c)

The Far Side

d)

Dilbert

12.

Garry Trudeau created the campus comic strip Bull Tales for The Yale Daily News, then later transformed it into what successful strip that eventually was moved to the editorial pages?

a)

Wimpel Hall

b)

Academia Waltz

c)

Beetle Bailey

d)

Doonesbury

13.

Which comic strip about a family of hillbillies inspired the fictitious holiday Sadie Hawkins Day, as well as a theme park in Northwest Arkansas?

a)

Snuffy Smith

b)

U.S. Acres

c)

Li'l Abner

d)

Bloom County