Daws Butler

Choose an answer from the three choices offered after each question and True or False.  Then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1. One of his first voice roles was one of the Rice Krispies elf mascots Snap, Crackle, and Pop. Who was he the voice?

• Snap
• Crackle
• Pop

2. His first major success, however, came in the mid-1940s at MGM. He was hired to provide narration work for several of his cartoons. Who hired him?

• Chuck Jones
• Tex Avery
• Joseph Barbera

3. In 1949, Butler landed a role in a televised puppet show created by former Warner Brothers cartoon director Bob Clampett called Time for Beany. Who did he team up with for the show?

• Stan Freberg
• Mel Blanc
• Lloyd George

4. In the 1950s, Stan Freberg asked Butler to help him write comedy skits for his Capitol Records albums. Their first collaboration, “St. George and the Dragon-Net” (based on Dragnet). It was the first comedy record to sell over one million copies.

• True or False?

5. In 1957, MGM closed their animation division, and producers William Hanna and Joseph Barbera found themselves unemployed. They quickly formed their own company, and Daws Butler was on-hand to provide voices. What was the first cartoon that set the formula for the rest of the series of cartoons that the two would helm until the mid 1960s.

6. Chilly Willy is a cartoon character, a diminutive anthropomorphic penguin living in Fairbanks, Alaska, although the species is native only to the southern hemisphere. He was the voice form 1954 to 1957.

• True or False?

7. In The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, Butler was the voice of what character?

• Fleegle
• Bingo
• Snorky

8. Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon which premiered September 16, 1964. The show was presented as a segment of Peter Potamus and his Magic Flying Balloon, along with Breezly and Sneezly and Peter Potamus. Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey are dogs who serve the King as his royal guards. Who was Butler the voice of?

• Yippee
• Yappee
• Yahooey

9. Wacky Races is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Who was NOT one of the characters he voiced?

• Peter Perfect
• Penelope Pitstop
• Rock Slag

10. In 1975, Butler began an acting workshop that spawned such talents as Nancy Cartwright (The Simpsons), Corey Burton (Old Navy, Disney), and Joe Bevilacqua (NPR).

• True or False?

Check Your Answer

1. Snap
2. Tex Avery
3. Stan Freberg
4. True
5. The Ruff & Reddy Show
6. True
7. Bingo
8. Yahooey
9. Penelope Pitstop
10. True

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