These heroes in a half-shell seem to find plenty of fans in every new generation. Grab a slice of pizza and test your turtle knowledge with our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles quiz!
TMNT started as a comic book.
TRUE
FALSE
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Your favorite weapon-wielding turtles actually started in comic form, when Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird sketched out the turtles in November 1983, then self-published a black-and-white comic book starring the foursome.
More than a billion dollars worth of turtle figures were sold from 1988 to 1991.
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FALSE
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Retail sales for TMNT figures topped a billion dollars in the late '80s, and turtles represented around 60 percent of the entire action figure market during that period.
When did the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" cartoon hit the airwaves?
1985
1986
1987
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Playmates made a five-part cartoon series to promote its line of turtle toys. The show hit the air in 1987, and 188 episodes aired between 1988 and 1996.
The TMNT series that ran from 2003 to 2009 was more closely based on the original comic series.
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FALSE
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While the original turtle cartoon strayed from the comics, creator Peter Laird got more involved in the 2003 to 2009 series and based it more closely on the original comic book.
How many sequels did the 1990 version of the TMNT movie end up having?
2
3
4
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"Secret of the Ooze" grossed $78 million in 1991, while "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III" made just $42 million in 1993, putting a temporary end to the turtle movie franchise.
