Question: In what year was the rabbit in Tortoise Wins by a Hare originally created?

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David Parlett: David Parlett (born 1939) is a games scholar, historian, and translator from South London, who has studied both card games and board games. His published works include many popular books on games and the more academic volumes "The Oxford Guide to Card Games" and "The Oxford History of Board Games", both now out of print.  Parlett also invented a number of board games, the most successful of which is Hare and Tortoise (1974).  The German edition was awarded Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) in 1979.

Silly Symphony: Silly Symphony is a series of 75 animated short films produced by Walt Disney Productions from 1929 to 1939.  As their name implies, the "Silly Symphonies" were originally intended as whimsical accompaniments to pieces of music.  As such, the films usually had independent continuity and did not feature continuing characters, unlike the "Mickey Mouse" shorts produced by Disney at the same time.  (Exceptions to this include "Three Little Pigs", "The Tortoise and the Hare", and "Three Orphan Kittens", which all had sequels.)  The series is notable for its innovation with Technicolor and the multiplane motion picture camera, as well as its introduction of the character Donald Duck making his first appearance in the Silly Symphony cartoon "The Wise Little Hen" in 1934.

Homer Pigeon: Homer Pigeon is a Walter Lantz funny animal cartoon character, who made his first appearance in the cartoon "Pigeon Patrol", in 1942.  His final appearance was in 1964, in The Woody Woodpecker Show episode "Spook-A-Nanny".  He also makes cameo appearance in Toontown in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".  He was seen walking with some of the other animals from "The Tortoise and the Hare".

Lynch Family Skatepark: Lynch Family Skatepark is a skate park operated by the Department of Conservation and Recreation located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Built on land that was originally used for the Big Dig, the park has found support from Nancy Schon, who found her tortoise and hare sculptures being used in Copley Square by skateboarders who had nowhere else to practice.

Bugs Bunny: Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character; created in 1940 by Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros.  Cartoons) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc.  Bugs is best known for his starring roles in the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series of animated short films, produced by Warner Bros. During the golden age of American animation, his popularity increased.  This era led to his becoming an American cultural icon and the official mascot of Warner Bros.  Entertainment.

List of films directed by Tex Avery: Tex Avery was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director.  He became famous for producing animated cartoons during the Golden age of American animation and produced his most significant work while employed by the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios.  He created the characters of Daffy Duck in "Porky's Duck Hunt" (1937), Elmer Fudd in "Egghead Rides Again" (1937), Bugs Bunny in "A Wild Hare" (1940), Cecil Turtle in "Tortoise Beats Hare" (1941), Droopy in "Dumb-Hounded" (1943), Screwy Squirrel in "Screwball Squirrel" (1944), George and Junior in "Henpecked Hoboes" (1946), Spike/Butch the bulldog (Tex Avery's version) in "Bad Luck Blackie" (1949), and Smedley Dog in "I'm Cold" (1954).  He would develop the characters of Porky Pig from the Warner Bros. studio and Chilly Willy from the Walter Lantz Studio into the personas for which they are best remembered.

Easter Bunny: The Easter Bunny (also called the Easter Rabbit or Easter Hare) is a folkloric figure and symbol of Easter, depicted as a rabbit bringing Easter eggs. Originating among German Lutherans, the "Easter Hare" originally played the role of a judge, evaluating whether children were good or disobedient in behaviour at the start of the season of Eastertide.  The Easter Bunny is sometimes depicted with clothes.  In legend, the creature carries colored eggs in his basket, candy, and sometimes also toys to the homes of children, and as such shows similarities to Santa Claus or the Christkind, as they both bring gifts to children on the night before their respective holidays.  The custom was first mentioned in Georg Franck von Franckenau's "De ovis paschalibus" ('About Easter Eggs') in 1682, referring to a German tradition of an Easter Hare bringing Easter eggs for the children.

Tortoise Wins by a Hare: Tortoise Wins by a Hare is a Merrie Melodies cartoon released on February 20, 1943 and directed by Bob Clampett.  It stars Bugs Bunny and Cecil Turtle.  Bob Clampett took Tex Avery's scenario from "Tortoise Beats Hare" and altered it for this film.  The title is an appropriate pun on "hair".  This is one of the first shorts to feature Robert McKimson's design of Bugs Bunny.  A newspaper's front page (the "Chicago Sunday Tribunk") shown in this cartoon accurately predicts Adolf Hitler's suicide two years later.

Run Rabbit Run (album): Run Rabbit Run is an album by the Osso String Quartet, which was released on October 6, 2009.  It is a re-working of the 2001 instrumental album "Enjoy Your Rabbit" by Sufjan Stevens.  The songs, originally performed with electronic instruments, were arranged by New York composers Michael Atkinson, Olivier Manchon, Maxim Moston, Nico Muhly, Rob Moose and Gabriel Kahane and performed by the Osso String Quartet.  All of the original sounds—glitches, white noise, etc.—are reproduced by these string instruments.  In contrast to "Enjoy Your Rabbit", live musicians are used; live musicians weren't present on the original album—something Stevens thought it lacked.  .  Despite the name of the album being "Run Rabbit Run," a hare is depicted on the cover.

Jazz Jackrabbit: Jazz Jackrabbit is a video game trilogy featuring the eponymous character of Jazz Jackrabbit, a green anthropomorphic hare, who fights with his turtle nemesis, Devan Shell, in a science fiction parody of the fable of "The Tortoise and the Hare".  Created by Arjan Brussee and Cliff Bleszinski and developed by Epic MegaGames, the series debuted on the personal computer in 1994 with "Jazz Jackrabbit".  The series consists of two computer games and a handheld console game.

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Answer: 1940