Q 01/05

Bagpuss was dyed pink by mistake; which colour did Peter Firmin intend the cloth cat to be?

A) Ginger

B) Silver

C) Black

D) Brown

Answer · why

A) Ginger

Ginger was the plan: a dyeing firm in Folkestone got the cloth wrong and it came back pink and cream. Peter Firmin later called the error the best thi...

Q 02/05

In Bagpuss, the mice claim their toy mill turns breadcrumbs and butterbeans into which treat?

A) Butterscotch toffees

B) Chocolate biscuits

C) Strawberry jam tarts

D) Iced fairy cakes

Answer · why

B) Chocolate biscuits

Chocolate biscuits roll out of the mill, but it is a trick. Professor Yaffle looks round the back and finds the mice wheeling the same ones through ag...

Q 03/05

Which band's 2003 single There There takes its subtitle from a song in the children's series Bagpuss?

A) Coldplay

B) Supergrass

C) Radiohead

D) The Verve

Answer · why

C) Radiohead

Radiohead's Thom Yorke even asked Oliver Postgate to make the video for the single. Postgate, by then retired, turned the job down.

Q 04/05

Professor Yaffle, the dry academic of Bagpuss, is said to have been modelled on which philosopher?

A) Ludwig Wittgenstein

B) Karl Popper

C) Isaiah Berlin

D) Bertrand Russell

Answer · why

D) Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell, winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature, is the model usually named for the fact-loving bookend who is forever finding fault wi...

Q 05/05

Peter Firmin, who built the puppets for Bagpuss, also designed which glove puppet known for a posh voice?

A) Roland Rat

B) Lamb Chop

C) Basil Brush

D) Gordon the Gopher

Answer · why

C) Basil Brush

Basil Brush takes his surname from the real fox tail Firmin used for the first puppet in 1962. Brush is the traditional name for a fox's tail.