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How much do you really know about Chuck Jones? Below are 8 true or false statements. Click each one to reveal the answer and explanation.

1.

Chuck Jones worked on the original 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!' television special.

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Jones directed the 1966 animated special, which remains a holiday classic, with Boris Karloff narrating and voicing the Grinch.

2.

Chuck Jones directed the famous 'What's Opera, Doc?' featuring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.

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Jones directed this 1957 cartoon, a parody of Wagner's operas, widely considered one of the greatest animated shorts ever made.

3.

Chuck Jones based the character of Pepe Le Pew on a French artist Chuck Jones met in Paris.

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Pepe Le Pew was inspired by a skunk Jones saw in a pet store and writer Michael Maltese's idea to parody French romantic stereotypes.

4.

Chuck Jones was the sole creator of the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.

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While Jones directed their classic cartoons, writer Michael Maltese co-created the characters with him, and others contributed to their development.

5.

Chuck Jones won an Academy Award for his animated short 'The Dot and the Line'.

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Jones won the 1965 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film with 'The Dot and the Line,' an abstract love story about a line who falls for a dot.

6.

Chuck Jones never directed a feature-length film during his career.

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Jones co-directed the feature film 'The Phantom Tollbooth' (1970), a live-action/animation hybrid based on the children's book.

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Chuck Jones was fired from Warner Bros. in 1962 for breaching his contract.

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Jones was fired for working on the UPA feature 'Gay Purr-ee' while under exclusive contract to Warner Bros., not for any earlier short's success.

8.

Chuck Jones voiced the character of Marvin the Martian in several cartoons.

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Marvin the Martian was actually voiced by Mel Blanc, not Chuck Jones. Jones created and directed the character but did not perform his voice.

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