Big City Greens
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This Big City Greens trivia quiz has 49 free questions with answers and covers the Disney Channel cartoon about a country family living in the city: Cricket and his big sister Tilly, their dad Bill and Gramma Alice, their mom Nancy, Cricket's rich best friend Remy and his bodyguard Vasquez, Gloria at Big Coffee, the villain Chip Whistler and Wholesome Foods, the family's old home in Smalton, and the movie Spacecation. It also covers how the show was made, from the two brothers who created it and their childhood in Michigan to the voice cast, the theme song by The Mowgli's, the pen-and-paper animation, the episode counts, the awards and the fifth season. It is written for fans aged eight and up and for families who watch together, so the easy questions are things any regular viewer will know and the harder ones are for kids who have seen every episode twice. Every answer has been checked against a reliable source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Why did the Greens leave the countryside for Big City?
Bill lost the family farm
Bill lost the family farm. He, Cricket and Tilly moved in with his mother, Gramma Alice, whose house in the middle of the city has just enough yard to keep farming.
Q 02What is Cricket Green's catchphrase?
Bingo bango!
Bingo bango! The line began behind the scenes, where Cricket's voice actor used to fire it, finger guns and all, at a storyboard partner who hated it and who now works on the show.
Q 03What is unusual about the way Cricket Green usually dresses?
He goes barefoot
He goes barefoot. Cricket refuses shoes on principle: in one episode he kicks off a borrowed pair, throws away his free slushie and ends up banned from the store for life.
Q 04What is the name of the doll Tilly carries around, which she made from an old sack?
Saxon
Saxon. When Nancy accidentally wrecked him in the wash, Tilly blamed Gramma and set out for revenge.
Q 05How did Bill Green lose part of one of his fingers?
A hay baler accident
A hay baler accident. It cost him a fingertip, and the cautious farmer got his name from a real person: one creator's father-in-law, also called Bill.
Q 06How is Gramma Alice, Bill's mother, usually described?
Cantankerous and combative
Cantankerous and combative. Gramma keeps a sword and knows how to use it, but the grouchy act mostly hides how deeply she cares for her son and grandkids.
Q 07Why was Nancy Green, the kids' mom, briefly in jail?
Trying to free cows from a factory
Trying to free cows from a factory. Her kids took the wrong lesson: to make her proud, Cricket and Tilly later tried to free one zoo orangutan and let every animal out.
Q 08What is the name of the countryside town the Greens came from?
Smalton
Smalton. The brothers behind the show grew up in the small farm town of St. Johns, Michigan, and built the Greens' country life out of their own childhood.
Q 09Cricket's best friend Remy Remington comes from what kind of background?
A rich family
A rich family. His parents once threatened to pack him off to boarding school for skipping violin lessons to hang out with Cricket.
Q 10What is the name of Remy's protective bodyguard?
Vasquez
Vasquez. He started out as Tiger Fang, an agent of the Order of the Fang, and changed sides the day he came face to face with baby Remy.
Q 11Where does Gloria Sato work when the Greens first meet her?
Big Coffee
Big Coffee. Cricket soon ends up behind the counter with her, hired to work off the damage after his Critterball feud with Gloria leaves the café trashed.
Q 12Chip Whistler, the main villain of Big City Greens, runs which business?
Wholesome Foods
Wholesome Foods. The supermarket chain, a send-up of Whole Foods, gives Chip the clout to flatten the block around the Greens and plan a parking lot where their house stands.
Q 13What kind of animal is Melissa, whom Tilly once entered in the Big City Dog Show?
A goat
A goat. Tilly decides Melissa has the spirit of a dog; Melissa wins nothing even after rescuing a judge's dog, so the Greens give her a medal of their own back home.
Q 21How is Big City Greens animated?
Traditional pen and paper
Traditional pen and paper. A co-creator boasts that it is animated with pencils and pens on paper, though the odd episode jumps into 3D for scenes set inside a video game.
Q 22Which rite of passage must every member of the Green family complete?
Wrestling a wild animal
Wrestling a wild animal. Each Green has to pin a fierce beast before sundown to earn the family name; finding none in the city, Cricket decides the most ferocious creature around is Gramma.
Q 23How does Ms. Cho, Cricket's grumpy boss, communicate for nearly all her time on Big City Greens?
By grunting
Q 14Which co-creator of Big City Greens also provides the voice of Cricket?
Chris Houghton
Chris Houghton. Cricket is based on Chris as a boy, and he says the voice simply came out of acting the character while he and his brother pitched the show.
Q 15Who voices Tilly Green?
Marieve Herington
Marieve Herington. She auditioned in 2015 from a home studio under her stairs, which she likens to a Harry Potter closet, a year and a half before the series began recording.
Q 16Which Bridesmaids actress voices Nancy Green?
Wendi McLendon-Covey
Wendi McLendon-Covey. She has said she loves how honestly the show treats divorce: Nancy and Bill are split up, yet they co-parent and still get along.
Q 17Which band wrote and performs the Big City Greens theme song?
The Mowgli's
The Mowgli's. The California band supplied the opening tune, while the song over the closing credits, 'Do It All Again', was written by the show's two creators themselves.
Q 18When does Gramma Alice agree to bake her famous butter biscuits?
When someone gets hurt
When someone gets hurt. Her Feel Better Butter Biscuits are strictly medicine, so when Cricket and Tilly have healed and still crave more, they try to steal the recipe.
Q 19In the Big City Greens premiere, what does Cricket try to launch into space?
A chicken
A chicken. Out to impress the new neighbours, he rigs a slingshot from a piece of Gramma's old clothing, but the bird falls short and causes a ruckus at the café next door.
Q 20Disney XD first picked up Big City Greens in 2016 under what working title?
Country Club
Country Club. The title was dropped the next year, and the channel changed too: ordered by Disney XD, the series ended up premiering on Disney Channel instead.
By grunting. Everyone seems to understand her anyway, and she only breaks into speech at the very end, with a cheery farewell as she takes a bribe to retire.
Q 24In Spacecation, whom is Gwendolyn Zapp trying to prove wrong with her farm in space?
Her kindergarten teacher
Her kindergarten teacher. Mrs. Kay once called little Gwendolyn's dreams a fantasy, yet when the teacher finally congratulates her, Zapp finds the victory hollow.
Q 25In Spacecation, Cricket tricks his family into thinking a real space mission is what?
A simulator
A simulator. Bill marvels at how realistic it all feels, right up until he takes the airlock for the exit and is nearly sucked out into space.
Q 26What kind of film is Spacecation?
A musical
A musical. It opens with a big number about the Greens' yearly road trip, and the family is still singing about its next vacation while drifting through space at the end.
Q 27Which real astronaut appears as himself in Spacecation?
Scott Kelly
Scott Kelly. For research the crew also toured NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, heard about the lucky jar of peanuts kept in its control room, and hid peanut jars all through the film.
Q 28In Spacecation, what does Tilly name the gooey creature she befriends?
Cookie
Cookie. The glass-smashing blob is voiced by the film's own director, Anna O'Brian, and Tilly hands it to astronaut Colleen Voyd as a parting gift.
Q 29Which Hamilton star voices a new character in Spacecation?
Renée Elise Goldsberry
Renée Elise Goldsberry. She plays Colleen Voyd, a by-the-book astronaut whom Cricket and Gramma shut in a cryo-pod so that she can't spoil their fun.
Q 30Which Nickelodeon show did the Houghton brothers work on before creating Big City Greens?
Harvey Beaks
Harvey Beaks. They did not leave alone: Chris's storyboard partner from that show, Charlie Gavin, followed the brothers over and went on to write and board Big City Greens episodes.