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98 free Sesame Street trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
10 free Sesame Street trivia questions with answers. How well do you know Sesame Street? Put your knowledge to the test with our fun trivia quiz featuring 98 questions about the iconic educational television series. From Big Bird to Oscar the Grouch, see if you can answer all the questions correctly!
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Q 01In what year did the television show Sesame Street first premiere?
1969
1969's debut reached only about two-thirds of American TV homes yet drew 1.9 million households; the Muppets were added late, after test screenings found kids tuned out during the all-human street scenes.
Q 02Which television producer and psychologist dreamed up Sesame Street after a 1966 dinner party?
Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett
Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett hatched the show at her 1966 dinner party, after he described his three-year-old daughter staring at the TV test pattern while she waited for cartoons.
Q 03What does Oscar the Grouch call home on Sesame Street?
A trash can
A trash can: Oscar's can is far bigger inside than out, and he says it holds a swimming pool, an ice rink and his pet elephant, Fluffy.
Q 04What does Big Bird regularly order at the lunch counter of Hooper's Store?
A birdseed milkshake
A birdseed milkshake is Big Bird's regular order at Hooper's, though he rarely got the owner's name right, calling Mr. Hooper 'Mr. Looper' and other rhyming variants.
Q 05What kind of animal is Oscar the Grouch's pet, Slimey?
A worm
A worm: Slimey is Oscar's closest companion, and Germany's Sesamstrasse later gave its own Grouch, Rumpel, a pet caterpillar named Gustav who was modelled on him.
Q 06Which geometric shape is Telly Monster's absolute favorite?
Triangle
Triangle is Telly's favorite shape; the street's great worrier began in 1979 as a television-obsessed monster with whirling eyes, hence his name.
Q 07In his best-known Sesame Street sketches, Kermit the Frog interviews fairy-tale characters while working as what?
A news reporter
A news reporter: from 1972 Kermit's roving 'News Flash' bulletins dropped in on fairy tales and nursery rhymes, which tended to go wrong around him.
Q 08What is the name of Oscar the Grouch's girlfriend?
Grundgetta
Grundgetta and Oscar love each other, though the relationship is somewhat rocky, as you would expect when both halves are Grouches.
Q 09Which human character appeared in Sesame Street's very first episode in 1969?
Gordon
Gordon was there from the first episode, in which he shows a girl named Sally around the street; three actors have played him on air, Roscoe Orman for more than 40 years.
Q 10Which puppeteer performed Big Bird from Sesame Street's 1969 debut until retiring in 2018?
Caroll Spinney
Caroll Spinney wore the feathers for almost 50 years; in the 1980s NASA even discussed flying him, in costume, aboard the shuttle Challenger, before the plan was dropped.
Q 11Big Bird's teddy bear shares its name with which M*A*S*H character?
Radar
Radar lives in Big Bird's nest; the name is said to be his performer's tribute to M*A*S*H's Corporal 'Radar' O'Reilly, who slept with a teddy bear of his own.
Q 12In 2000, Big Bird was named a Living Legend by which institution?
The Library of Congress
The Library of Congress named Big Bird a Living Legend in 2000 as part of its bicentennial celebration, honoring Americans who made creative contributions to the nation's life.
Q 13How old does Elmo describe himself as being?
Three and a half
Three and a half is Elmo's permanent age, yet in 2002 he put on a suit and tie to testify before a US House subcommittee, urging more money for music education.
Q 21In Elmo's World, which silent, bumbling character mimes answers to Elmo's questions and usually gets them wrong?
Mr. Noodle
Mr. Noodle, first played by the Broadway actor Bill Irwin, never speaks: the Noodles were kept silent so that Elmo does the talking and children at home can call out the answers.
Q 22In a 1971 Little Golden Book, which Muppet begs readers to stop turning pages, dreading the monster at the end?
Grover
Grover pleads, ties the pages shut and even bricks them up to stop the reader, only to find that the monster at the end of the book is himself.
Q 23What happens whenever Count von Count finishes counting a set of items?
Thunder and lightning roll
Q 14Which pet rock belonging to Zoe regularly drives Elmo to exasperation on Sesame Street?
Rocco
Rocco is the rock Zoe treats as a living friend; a 2004 clip of Elmo fuming that he is 'just a rock' became an internet meme in 2022.
Q 15Which Sesame Street Muppet began as the Wheel-Stealer in unaired 1966 commercials?
Cookie Monster
Cookie Monster grew out of the Wheel-Stealer, who swiped wheel-shaped snacks in General Foods ads that never aired; in a later IBM training film the same puppet devoured a talking coffee machine.
Q 16What is the title of the blue biscuit-loving monster's signature song, first aired in the 1971-72 season?
"C Is for Cookie"
'C Is for Cookie', by Joe Raposo, has its singer reason that a bitten doughnut and the Moon look like a C too, though neither will do.
Q 17Where did Big Bird's original puppeteer find inspiration for Oscar the Grouch's voice?
A New York taxi driver
A New York taxi driver snapped 'Where to, Mac?' when the puppeteer climbed into his cab on the way to the studio, and that growl became Oscar's voice.
Q 18Oscar the Grouch took his name from which New York seafood restaurant, where Jim Henson relished the rude service?
Oscar's Salt of the Sea
Oscar's Salt of the Sea was a Manhattan lunch haunt of Jim Henson and Jon Stone; accounts differ on whether its gruff owner or a rude waiter was the model, but the pair kept going back for more.
Q 19Which of these is one of Bert's famously dull passions on Sesame Street?
Paper clips
Paper clips sit beside bottle caps, pigeons and oatmeal among Bert's passions; his long-time performer Frank Oz cheerfully called him 'a very boring facet of myself'.
Q 20Bert and Ernie share their names with two minor characters from which classic film?
It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life has a policeman named Bert and his friend Ernie; Sesame Street's writers call the match a coincidence, and the pair walk past the film on a TV in Elmo Saves Christmas.
Thunder and lightning roll even indoors, because the Count has his own personal storm cloud hovering overhead; a 1978 bedtime story is titled 'Who Stole the Count's Thunder?'
Q 24The Count's castle is home to many bats, a cat named Fatatita, and a wolf named what?
Yuba
Establishing shots in the 1970s used Central Park's Belvedere Castle, and visitors always remark on the squeaky door.
Q 25Which Sesame Street character did the adults finally see in 1985, after years of thinking him imaginary?
Mr. Snuffleupagus
Mr. Snuffleupagus was revealed so children would feel believed: amid high-profile stories of child abuse, the writers feared that adults doubting Big Bird taught viewers that grown-ups would not believe them either.
Q 26What is Mr. Snuffleupagus's first name?
Aloysius
Aloysius Snuffleupagus is his full name, though friends say Snuffy; a 1992 episode in which his parents divorce was taped but never aired, after it upset and confused its child test audiences.
Q 27The landmark episode in which Big Bird learns that Mr. Hooper has died aired on which holiday in 1983?
Thanksgiving
It aired on Thanksgiving Day, 24 November 1983, chosen so parents would be home to watch with their children; child-development experts helped the writers address the death honestly rather than recast the role.
Q 28Which actor played Mr. Hooper from Sesame Street's premiere until his death in 1982?
Will Lee
Will Lee had been blacklisted from mainstream roles after refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee; his Mr. Hooper was named Harold.
Q 29A Sesame Street co-creator was a vice president of which foundation, which paid for the show's first feasibility study?
Carnegie
Carnegie money paid for the study, and the Carnegie Corporation then joined the Ford Foundation and the federal government in the $8 million of grants that launched the show.
Q 30What was the nonprofit that makes Sesame Street called until June 2000?
Children's Television Workshop
Children's Television Workshop was its name from 1968 until June 2000, when it rebranded because, it said, the media world children live in had become so much more than television.