Q 01/05

What is the name of Elmo's pet goldfish, who silently stars beside him in Elmo's World?

A) Goldie

B) Dorothy

C) Ginger

D) Penelope

Answer · why

B) Dorothy

Dorothy was played by several goldfish, swapped in as needed. The fish that made it through a season were given good homes afterward.

Q 02/05

Which talk show host helped spark the 1996 Tickle Me Elmo craze by showing the doll on her program?

A) Oprah Winfrey

B) Ricki Lake

C) Rosie O'Donnell

D) Kathie Lee Gifford

Answer · why

C) Rosie O'Donnell

Rosie O'Donnell showed the giggling doll in early October, and it sold out the day after Thanksgiving. Two women were arrested in Chicago for fighting...

Q 03/05

Sesame Street's Elmo, like many preschoolers, usually talks about himself in which way?

A) In the plural

B) In the past tense

C) In the third person

D) In a whisper

Answer · why

C) In the third person

In the third person is how Elmo nearly always speaks, a habit with a formal name, illeism. Sesame Workshop says it mimics 3-year-olds who lack the ski...

Q 04/05

Elmo testified before a US House subcommittee in 2002 to urge more funding for which cause?

A) Public libraries

B) Children's hospitals

C) School lunches

D) Music education

Answer · why

D) Music education

Music education was the cause Elmo pleaded before a House Appropriations subcommittee in April 2002. Congressman Duke Cunningham arranged for the Mupp...

Q 05/05

Which treasured possession does the greedy Huxley steal from Elmo in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland?

A) His blanket

B) His tricycle

C) His goldfish

D) His crayons

Answer · why

A) His blanket

His blanket drives the whole plot: after a tug-of-war tears it, Elmo follows it to Grouchland, where Huxley steals anything he sees. Elmo gets it back...