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Quiz answers

17-Sep-2020 Theme: 'Marsupitoons'

(1) What is the name of the bettong who appears as an occasional character in The Guardian’s ‘First Dog on the Moon’ cartoon? (bonus: what is the name of the bandicoot character?).

Answer: Fiona the Unemployed Bettong / aka Fiona the Precariously Employed Bettong (bonus: The ABC Interpretive Dance Bandicoot)

(2) What frenetic marsupial made his official debut in a short 1954 Warner Brothers cartoon, which also featured Bugs Bunny?

Answer: Taz, the Tasmanian devil.

(3) What best-selling video game franchise begins on a beach the fictitious Wumpa Islands, an archipelago south east of Australia? (bonus: what is the name of the beach?)

Answer: Crash Bandicoot (bonus: N. Sanity Beach).

(4) In the Magic Pudding, what is the name of Bunyip Bluegum’s be-whiskered uncle?

Answer: Uncle Wattleberry.

(5) What 1990s US animated TV series starred an immigrant wallaby as the main character, whose sidekicks were Heifer, Filbert and Spunky?

Answer: Rocko’s Modern Life.

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