Kids TV Show Trivia
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This kids TV trivia quiz has 49 free questions with answers and covers 50 years of children's television, from Howdy Doody and Captain Kangaroo through Sesame Street, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Reading Rainbow, up to Bluey, Paw Patrol, Cocomelon and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. Some questions are easy enough for an 8-year-old who watches Peppa Pig; others will stump the parents who grew up on Fraggle Rock and Pee-wee's Playhouse. It is built for families to play together. Kids get their turn on Chase's breed and Boots the monkey, adults get theirs on Big Bird's height, Cookie Monster's real name and why Snuffleupagus was invisible to grown-ups for so long. Every question comes with a short explanation, so nobody has to just take our word for it. Each answer was checked against Wikipedia and the shows' own production histories before publishing, and every question includes a source. If you spot something wrong, use the report button and we will fix it.
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Q 01Which famous puppeteer did Sesame Street's producers ask to work full-time on the show in 1969?
Jim Henson
Jim Henson waived his performance fee in exchange for full ownership of the Sesame Street Muppets, rights the show's workshop finally bought in 2000.
Q 02Which Sesame Street Muppet did NASA discuss sending into space aboard the shuttle Challenger?
Big Bird
Big Bird's performer, Caroll Spinney, said the puppet wouldn't fit, so a teacher, Christa McAuliffe, flew on the doomed 1986 mission instead.
Q 03Sesame Street's Count von Count is modeled on which actor's portrayal of Dracula?
Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi's Dracula inspired the Count's cape pose and laugh, and European folklore held that vampires felt compelled to count scattered seeds.
Q 04Which is Cookie Monster's favorite kind of cookie?
Chocolate chip
Chocolate chip is his favorite, but after 2005 health segments sparked rumors he would become Veggie Monster, he began calling cookies a sometimes food.
Q 05Which Muppet performer, also the voice of Yoda, played Cookie Monster when Sesame Street began in 1969?
Frank Oz
Frank Oz never planned a career in puppetry: he has said he really wanted to be a journalist or direct movies, and he later became a film director.
Q 06Which Sesame Street Muppet describes himself as three and a half years old?
Elmo
Elmo never caught on until Kevin Clash took over the puppet from a frustrated Richard Hunt and gave him his high falsetto voice.
Q 07Which Sesame Street pair shares its names with two characters in the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life?
Bert and Ernie
Bert and Ernie share names with the film's characters played by Ward Bond and Frank Faylen, but the show's makers have said the match is a coincidence.
Q 08Which Muppet had orange fur in Sesame Street's first season before turning green?
Oscar the Grouch
Oscar the Grouch was orange in season one and green from season two, and he exists because producers wanted Muppets who could share the street with the human cast.
Q 09What did Sesame Street tell children about Mr. Hooper after actor Will Lee passed away in 1982?
That he had died
That he had died: producers chose to be honest, airing the episode on Thanksgiving Day 1983 so parents would be home to talk it through with their children.
Q 10In a classic 1971 Sesame Street picture book, which Muppet begs readers to stop turning the pages?
Grover
Grover ties the pages down and even builds a brick wall to stop you, only to discover that the monster at the end of the book is himself.
Q 11Which Sesame Street Muppet did the adults dismiss as imaginary for 14 years, until they finally met him in 1985?
Mr. Snuffleupagus
Mr. Snuffleupagus was finally revealed because writers feared children would stop telling adults about disturbing things if the grown-ups on the show never believed.
Q 12Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was produced by a public TV station in which city?
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh's station WQED made the show, and Fred Rogers said he went into television because he hated it and wanted to use it to nurture viewers.
Q 13Fred Rogers weighed 143 pounds for decades and said the number stood for what?
I love you
Q 21Which toy giant bought Peppa Pig's owner, Entertainment One, in 2019?
Hasbro
Hasbro kept Peppa Pig but sold eOne's film and TV business to Lionsgate in 2023 for $500 million.
Q 22Which Canadian toy company produces PAW Patrol?
Spin Master
Spin Master developed PAW Patrol as a TV show and a toy line at the same time, working out the story before the toys were designed.
Q 23What breed of dog is Chase, the police pup on PAW Patrol?
German Shepherd
German Shepherd Chase has a sad backstory: PAW Patrol: The Movie reveals he was abandoned as a puppy on the streets of Adventure City.
I love you takes one, four and three letters, and after his morning swims Rogers stepped on a scale that kept reading 143.
Q 14Fred Rogers was ordained as a minister in which church?
Presbyterian
Presbyterian leaders ordained him with an unusual charge: to minister to children and their families through television rather than leading a congregation.
Q 15Which actor played Fred Rogers in the 2019 film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood?
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks plays Rogers, yet the story follows a jaded Esquire journalist who is assigned to profile him and comes away changed.
Q 16After Steve left Blue's Clues in 2002, what was the name of the new host?
Joe
Joe, played by Donovan Patton, took over after Steve Burns quit, saying he refused to lose his hair on a kids' TV show.
Q 17On Blue's Clues, where does the host sit down to work out what the three clues mean?
The Thinking Chair
The Thinking Chair is where the host pieces the clues together, after drawing each one in the notebook, a device meant to teach children memory skills.
Q 18Which Australian city inspired the setting of Bluey?
Brisbane
Brisbane is where Bluey is set, and creator Joe Brumm based the show on his own experience raising two daughters.
Q 19What is the job of Bandit, Bluey's dad?
Archaeologist
Archaeologist is Bandit's job, and his voice, Custard frontman David McCormack, first assumed he was being asked to record just a couple of lines.
Q 20What does Peppa Pig love jumping in?
Muddy puddles
Muddy puddles are Peppa's favorite thing, yet thousands of Peppa clips were once pulled from China's Douyin video app.
Q 24In the PAW Patrol TV series, rival Mayor Humdinger is mayor of which town?
Foggy Bottom
Foggy Bottom is Humdinger's town in the series, but in PAW Patrol: The Movie he grabs the mayor's job in Adventure City.
Q 25What kind of animal is Boots, Dora the Explorer's best friend?
A monkey
A monkey named Boots is Dora's best friend, and in the show's Spanish and Italian dubs the lesson flips, teaching English words instead.
Q 26What kind of animal is Arthur Read?
An aardvark
An aardvark is what Marc Brown made Arthur, and a still of Arthur's clenched fist from one episode later became a hugely popular internet meme.
Q 27Which reggae artist performed the Arthur theme song 'Believe in Yourself'?
Ziggy Marley
Ziggy Marley sang it with the Melody Makers, and in 2019 Alabama's public TV network refused to air the episode where teacher Mr. Ratburn marries a man.
Q 28What color is Tinky Winky, the biggest of the Teletubbies?
Purple
Purple Tinky Winky was accused by Jerry Falwell in 1999 of being a hidden gay symbol, because of his color and his triangle-shaped antenna.
Q 29What type of dinosaur is Barney?
Tyrannosaurus rex
Tyrannosaurus rex Barney started as a 1988 home-video series that Sheryl Leach made because she couldn't find good videos for her young son.
Q 30Which future pop stars both appeared as children on Barney & Friends?
Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato
Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato met at age 7 while waiting in a Barney audition line, sat down to color together and became close friends.