Q 01/05

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood went national in 1968 on NET, which gave way two years later to which network?

A) NPR

B) PBS

C) C-SPAN

D) Nickelodeon

Answer · why

B) PBS

PBS. The network that became his home did not yet exist when he first went national; it took over in 1970 and aired his new episodes until August 2001...

Q 02/05

In which country did Misterogers, the forerunner of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, first go on air?

A) Australia

B) United Kingdom

C) New Zealand

D) Canada

Answer · why

D) Canada

Canada. The CBC coaxed him out from behind the puppet stage; he later wrote that he doubted he would ever have faced a camera without its children's c...

Q 03/05

Which Pittsburgh public broadcaster produced Mister Rogers' Neighborhood?

A) WNET

B) WQED

C) KQED

D) WGBH

Answer · why

B) WQED

WQED. Rogers left a job at NBC in New York to help start it in 1953, when it was about to become the country's first community-supported public TV sta...

Q 04/05

In the first national week of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in 1968, King Friday went to war against what?

A) Noise

B) Change

C) Strangers

D) Bedtime

Answer · why

B) Change

Change. Furious that the neighborhood had been rearranged, he posted border guards around his castle until peace messages floated in on balloons and h...

Q 05/05

Which foundation's 1967 grant took Mister Rogers' Neighborhood onto national television?

A) The Carnegie Corporation

B) The Sears-Roebuck Foundation

C) The Ford Foundation

D) The Rockefeller Foundation

Answer · why

B) The Sears-Roebuck Foundation

The Sears-Roebuck Foundation. A wave of public support for the threatened show came first, and the foundation's money then took it national and gave i...