Mr. Men Trivia
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50 free Mr. Men trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Mr. Men trivia quiz is for anyone who grew up with the little square books. It covers Roger Hargreaves — the Yorkshire ad man behind Askit's Miseries and a Canada Dry slogan — the famous story of his son asking what a tickle looks like, the six books published on launch day in 1971, the Little Miss series, Timbuctoo, and how Adam Hargreaves taught himself to draw his father's characters after 1988. It also digs into the characters themselves: Mr. Strong's eggs, Mr. Lazy's four-hour days in Sleepyland, Mr. Silly's red-leaved trees, Mr. Forgetful's mangled message, the only Mr. Man with ears, and Mr. Bump's job in the orchard, plus the TV adaptations narrated by Arthur Lowe, Pauline Collins and John Alderton and Simon Callow, the Sanrio takeover and the Doctor Who spin-offs. About a third of the questions are easy enough for a well-read eight-year-old; the rest will catch out the grown-ups. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's Mr. Men articles and the sources they cite, and each explanation adds one more thing worth knowing.
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Q 01Which Mr. Man follows a staircase inside a tree trunk and cheers up his gloomy double, Mr. Miserable?
Mr. Happy
Mr. Happy finds him behind a narrow red door at the bottom of the stairs and takes him home to Happyland, where the pair end up laughing until their sides hurt.
Q 02Which character was the very first Mr. Man?
Mr. Tickle
Mr. Tickle is said to have begun when Roger Hargreaves's young son asked what a tickle looks like, though his biographer says the doodle came first and the story was too good to dispute.
Q 03Which Mr. Man says everything back to front, greeting a hotel manager with 'Afternoon good'?
Mr. Topsy-Turvy
Mr. Topsy-Turvy goes on to ask for a room with 'I'd room a like', and by the time he vanishes the whole town has been left speaking the same back-to-front way.
Q 04After a wizard magics away all his worries, what becomes Mr. Worry's next worry?
Having nothing to worry about
Having nothing to worry about: the wizard's cure, a list of every worry that he promises will never happen, keeps Mr. Worry carefree for exactly one week.
Q 05A wizard cures Little Miss Bossy with a magic pair of what?
Boots
Boots: the pair chat to each other and march her off until she has learned her lesson. Little Miss Bossy was the first book in the Little Miss series.
Q 06Which Little Miss visits Miseryland, where smiling is against the rules, and gets its weeping king to laugh?
Little Miss Sunshine
Little Miss Sunshine makes a new sign for the border reading Laughterland, and the king ends the story giggling that he is now the King of Laughterland.
Q 07Which Mr. Man whisks a schoolboy called Jack out of a history lesson for a ride on a huge bird?
Mr. Daydream
Mr. Daydream takes him to the jungle, the North Pole and the Wild West, until the voice calling 'Jack!' from under an outsized hat turns out to be his teacher.
Q 08Whose spotless house is wrecked when his long-lost cousin from Australia, Mr. Clumsy, comes to stay?
Mr. Fussy
Mr. Fussy, who keeps even the blades of grass on his lawn straight, finally waves his cousin off, only for another accident-prone friend to arrive at the door.
Q 09Before the Mr. Men made his name, Roger Hargreaves spent more than a decade working in which industry?
Advertising
Advertising: he rose to creative director of a London agency, and his son says the books were partly a plan to escape the daily commute.
Q 10Which Mr. Man cannot stand books and tears every page out of one at the start of his story?
Mr. Grumpy
Mr. Grumpy is taught better manners by the end, up to a point: these days, when he picks up a book, he tears out only one page.
Q 11Which Little Miss loses job after job, then finds the perfect one as the voice of the speaking clock?
Little Miss Chatterbox
Little Miss Chatterbox keeps talking until closing time and is sacked each morning after, until a caller dials the time and hears her say 'At the third stroke it will be…'
Q 12Which of these Mr. Men was created by Roger Hargreaves's son Adam and first published in 2003?
Mr. Cool
Mr. Cool arrived with Mr. Rude, Mr. Good and three new Little Misses; Adam had never drawn the characters before his father died and says it took about three years to learn.
Q 13Mr. Quiet, miserable in deafening Loudland, finally finds the perfect job working where?
In a library
Q 21Roger Hargreaves drew the original Mr. Men illustrations with what?
A Magic Marker
A Magic Marker: the bold black outlines hid the way its colour bled across the paper, and his son still remembers the chemical smell of the pens.
Q 22Which actor narrated and voiced the original 1974 BBC animated series The Mister Men?
Arthur Lowe
Arthur Lowe, Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army, was expected to read a trial story straight, his producer recalled, but put on funny little voices for the characters instead.
Q 23How do the baker and the butcher finally get Mr. Noisy to lower his voice?
They pretend not to hear him
In a library, where everybody has to keep their voices down; he is so pleased with the job that, for once, he laughs out loud.
Q 14Mr. Dizzy, the one dim resident of Cleverland, turns clever after drinking from what?
A wishing well
A wishing well: tired of being teased by a clever pig and elephant, he wishes he were clever as he drinks, then goes back and stumps them both with riddles of his own.
Q 15In 2011 the Mr. Men were bought by the Japanese company behind which character?
Hello Kitty
Hello Kitty's owner, Sanrio, bought the Mr. Men when the British firm Chorion was broken up, seven years after Chorion had paid the Hargreaves family £28 million for them.
Q 16The first Little Miss based on a real person, made as a fashion-show invitation in 2006, honoured whom?
Stella McCartney
Stella McCartney: in the story, Little Miss Stella designs a suit for the ignored Little Miss Nobody and turns her into a somebody; just 1,000 copies were printed.
Q 17Adam Hargreaves's 2017 Mr. Men-style series was based on which BBC show?
Doctor Who
Doctor Who: each book recast a different Doctor as a Mr. Man, starting in 2017 with Dr. First, Dr. Fourth, Dr. Eleventh and Dr. Twelfth; Spice Girls editions followed in 2019.
Q 18Which Mr. Man cures Little Miss Naughty by turning invisible and tweaking her nose whenever she misbehaves?
Mr. Impossible
Mr. Impossible is enlisted by Mr. Small, whom she had wrapped up in Mr. Bump's bandages; the tweaks last all week, three of them on Saturday alone, and by Sunday she is cured.
Q 19A 1970s single by the Mr. Men invited listeners 'Let's Go to' which place?
Misterland
Misterland outlived the single: it is the setting of the 1990s television cartoon, and a 2010 BBC radio documentary about the books reused the song's title.
Q 20If you line up all the Mr. Men books in order, what appears across the spines?
The words 'My Mr. Men library'
The words 'My Mr. Men library' run across the spines, a trick the books themselves pointed out: 'If you collect all 43 Mr Men books, look what happens when you put them together.'
They pretend not to hear him: 'Can't hear you,' says Mrs Crumb when he roars for a loaf, and he keeps leaving empty-handed until he learns to whisper.
Q 24The 2008–09 series The Mr. Men Show is set in which fictional town?
Dillydale
Dillydale was invented for the show: in the books each character has a home town or land of his own, but on screen they all became neighbours in one place.
Q 25What happens to Mr. Right after Mr. Wrong stays a month to learn his ways?
He starts getting things wrong
He starts getting things wrong: the longer the pair share a house, the more Mr. Wrong gets right and the more his host slips into his guest's old habits.
Q 26Which Mr. Man is called Mr. Nervous in America and in The Mr. Men Show?
Mr. Jelly
Mr. Jelly, who trembles at the snap of a twig, kept his American book title on screen; in his story a tramp teaches him to steady himself by counting up to ten.
Q 27What colour is Mr. Bump?
Blue
Blue, and bandaged for good reason: fetching a very long ladder to mend his chimney pot, he swings it round the corner of the house and straight through the glass.
Q 28Mr. Strong gets his strength from eating a great many of what?
Eggs
Eggs: when a farmer's cornfield catches fire, Mr. Strong lifts a whole barn, fills it with water and tips it over the flames, and the grateful farmer pays him in eggs.
Q 29Which two Mr. Men clean Mr. Messy's house and give him his first ever bath?
Mr. Neat and Mr. Tidy
Mr. Neat and Mr. Tidy scrub him so thoroughly that he is no longer a scribble at all, and he laughs that he will have to change his name.
Q 30Mr. Greedy's story teaches him a lesson when he is caught by whom?
A giant
A giant catches him nibbling in a cave of enormous food, makes him eat every outsized dish until he feels fit to burst, and frees him only on a promise never to be greedy again.