Yosemite Sam Trivia Questions with Answers
What is Yosemite Sam?
A: Yosemite Sam is an American
animated
cartoon character.
Yosemite Sam is one of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
series of cartoons produced by whom?
A: Warner Bros. Animation.
During the Golden Age of American animation, how many
shorts did Yosemite Sam appear in?
A: 33 shorts.
Animator Friz Freleng introduced the character in what
1945
cartoon?
A: Hare Trigger.
With his fiery, irascible temper, short stature and fiery
red hair, he was almost an alter-ego of whom?
A: Freleng.
The animator often denied any intentional what?
A: Resemblance.
Yosemite Sam was so short than in a gag in Hare Trigger, a
train he is attempting to rob does what?
A: Passes right over top of him.
In another scene he has to use what to get on his
horse?
A: A set of portable stairs.
What does Sam ride in "Bugs Bunny Rides Again"?
A: He rides a miniature horse.
Freleng created Yosemite Sam to be a more worthy adversary
for who?
A: Bugs Bunny.
Until then, Bugs' major foe had been whom?
A: Elmer Fudd.
Elmer was so mild-mannered and dim-witted that Freleng
worried about Bugs coming off as a what?
A: A bully by duping him.
Sam was extremely violent and belligerent, and not at all
like who?
A: Elmer Fudd.
For over 19 years, except for what one cartoon, Freleng's
unit had exclusive usage of Sam at the Warner studio?
A: Hare-Abian Nights in 1959.
Though officially a cowboy, Freleng put Sam in a different
costume in what?
A: In almost every film: a knight, a Roman legionary, a
pirate, a royal
cook,
and on and on.
Some countries seem to prefer his pirate incarnation, as
"Sam the pirate" is his official name in what country?
A: France.
Despite Sam's bluster, he isn't much smarter than Elmer in
his encounters with whom?
A: Bugs.
Whenever Yosemite Sam is preparing to shoot Bugs, what does
he tell him?
A: "Now say your prayers!", allowing Bugs enough time to foil his intentions.
In Captain Hareblower, Yosemite Sam is a what?
A: A pirate captain who is able to intimidate and scare sailors and other
pirates.
What is Yosemite Sam in Sahara Hare?
A: He is a proud intimidating North African version of a cowboy; a Riff-Raffer
who owns the Sahara Desert.
In Roman Legion-Hare, Yosemite Sam is the what?
A: Captain of the Roman Imperial Guard.
What is he is ordered to do by the Grand Emperor Nero?
A: To find a victim for the lions at once, or else he will be their prey.
In Prince Varmint, what is Sam?
A: A Viking grunt who attempts to raid the archduchy castle, which happens to be
under Bugs Bunny's protection.
What is Sam in "Horse Hare"?
A: Yosemite Sam is the chief of an Indian tribe during the Indian-American wars
in 1866.
In Piker's Peak, Sam is a legendary what?
A: Mountain climber.
In the cartoon Wild and Woolly Hare, Yosemite Sam is a
legendary what?
A: Cowboy gangster who dominates much of the wild west through intimidation.
In the short, Lighter Than Hare, Yosemite Sam of
Outer
Space is a what?
A: An alien from a foreign planet.
Yosemite Sam was a what in Rabbitson Crusoe?
A: Yosemite Sam is a sailor whose boat has sank in a thunderstorm.
Sam was the star of his own comic book series from when to
when?
A: 1970 to
1984, for a total of 81 issues.
What was the official title of the series?
A: It was Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny.
Sam makes a cameo appearance in what hit movie?
A: Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
