Quiz: How Many of These Classic Cartoons Can You Name?

"Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" first debuted in 1969, and its characters have remained some of the most popular heroes in animation ever since.

Originally created in 1930, Betty Boop is one of the most memorable cartoon characters of all time. While her star waned in the decades since her heyday, this century she's enjoyed a career resurgence because some of her earliest appearances are no longer under copyright.

The 1963 movie "The Pink Panther" tells the story of the theft of a valuable gem of the same name. The movie starts with an animated title sequence featuring a cartoon panther, and this became so popular that the character quickly became the star of his own TV show.

Hanna Barbera's business model during the company's height was to take any vaguely profitable idea (such as Scooby-Doo) and create endless reworkings of the same formula. Hence, a crime-fighting group of teens with an animal mascot named Jabberjaw was also made.

An episode of "The Quick Draw McGraw Show," features an orange mountain lion named Snaggletooth. This character was later refined into the pink cougar Snagglepuss.

Called "Cat Ninja Legend Teyandee" in its native Japan, "Samurai Pizza Cats" was localized into English by Saban, the same company that gave the world the Power Rangers. The approach was similar, as writers came up with wacky new jokes and episode plots based on the show's visuals without caring too much about the writing.

Popeye the Sailor Man's fascination with spinach came as the result of a typo. A mistake in a medical book claimed that spinach contained ten times more iron than it really does, so popular wisdom at the time of Popeye's creation assumed that spinach was basically the first superfood.

Mighty Mouse was originally called Super Mouse, but this parody of Superman was believed to be a little too obvious, so his name was eventually changed.

In his animation debut, Casper the Friendly Ghost got so lonely that he laid down on a railroad track— before a pair of impoverished children find him and cheer him up. Cartoons were dark back in the day.

Despite looking very similar to the Transformers, the Gobots are a completely different team of blocky cartoon robots. Think of the Gobots as the Pepsi to the Transformers' Coca-Cola.

Believe it or not, George Lucas himself served as executive producer when Lucasfilm set out to make a cartoon series based on the Ewoks from "Return of the Jedi."

Seriously, why does Officer Dibble give Top Cat and his friends so much trouble? Are there no bigger problems in the neighborhood than a few stray cats?

Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels drove around together solving crime, despite the fact that the Teen Angels are also a pop group, and Captain Caveman is, well, a caveman. During its heyday, Hanna Barbara really knew how to drive the "Scooby Doo" premise into the ground.

"Astro Boy" creator Osamu Tezuka was heavily influenced by Disney cartoons, and as such, he gave his robot character big, expressive eyes that matched Mickey Mouse. "Astro Boy" became so popular that its influences in Japanese comics and animation can be felt to this day.

Tom and Jerry mostly keep quiet during their adventures, but they have been known to speak in order to land a funny joke. Tom often sings to try and woo female cats, while the pair both talked incessantly through "Tom & Jerry: The Movie," which released in 1991 to critical and commercial failure.

The original "My Little Pony" was envisioned as an animated vehicle to sell toys to children, in much the same vein as the Transformers and basically every cartoon from the '80s. At least the ponies came in more varied colors.

"TailSpin" featured classic characters from Disney's "The Jungle Book," but with a pulp adventure twist. Nobody knows how Baloo ended up owning an air cargo freight business, and nobody ever needs to know.

"Kimba the White Lion" existed long before Disney created "The Lion King," but that didn't stop the House of Mouse from trying to sue Kimba's creators when people began to notice similarities between the two stories.

Starting first as a comic strip before branching into animation, "Peanuts" is one of the best loved cartoons of all time. After fifty years of work, "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz arranged to finally retire in 2000, but died mere hours before the final comic strip hit news stands.

Try not to get Droopy confused with the rest of his family. Droopy's twin brother is named Drippy, and Droopy's son is, of course, named Dripple.

Walt Disney created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit while working for Universal. While Disney wanted to make more cartoons featuring Oswald, the rabbit legally belonged to the studio, so Disney was forced to invent a new character instead. That character was, of course, Steamboat Willie (his name was changed to Mickey Mouse soon after).

Jonny Quest was an attempt to create an off-brand version of popular radio play character Jack Armstrong. Cartoon magnate Joe Barbera wanted a bit of "James Bond" sprinkled into the mix as well, having recently seen "Dr. No."

Wile E. Coyote is based on a passage from a Mark Twain novel that describes a perpetually hungry coyote. He was originally going to be called Don Coyote, a play on the famous novel "Don Quixote."

Long before "The Simpsons" would parody comic book heroes with Radioactive Man, Atom Ant performed basically the same roll. Shouting "Up and at 'em, Atom Ant," he would spring into action for about fifteen minutes, before turning the time over to the vastly superior Secret Squirrel.

There's nothing like an easy question to end a quiz about cartoon characters. The Flintstones are a page right out of history, and were originally a parody of then-popular show "The Honeymooners," back when it was on the air.