Q 01/05

Which future Academy Award winner played Easy Reader on the 1970s PBS series The Electric Company?

A) Denzel Washington

B) Forest Whitaker

C) Morgan Freeman

D) Louis Gossett Jr.

Answer · why

C) Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman stayed for all six seasons, also playing a disc jockey called Mel Mounds and a vampire who was obsessed with eating vegetables.

Q 02/05

Which rock drummer played Mr. Conductor in the first season of PBS's Shining Time Station?

A) Ringo Starr

B) Phil Collins

C) Charlie Watts

D) Mick Fleetwood

Answer · why

A) Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr handed the part to comedian George Carlin after one season. The series wrapped American stories around clips of the British show Thomas th...

Q 03/05

Which Muppet was orange during the first season of Sesame Street before turning the green that viewers know?

A) Kermit the Frog

B) Oscar the Grouch

C) Cookie Monster

D) Mr. Snuffleupagus

Answer · why

B) Oscar the Grouch

Oscar the Grouch changed colour for the second season. Grouch is his species as well as his mood, and his pet is a worm named Slimey.

Q 04/05

Which children's TV host's 1969 Senate testimony helped save $20 million in public broadcasting funding?

A) Bob Keeshan

B) Jim Henson

C) Shari Lewis

D) Fred Rogers

Answer · why

D) Fred Rogers

Fred Rogers spoke for about six minutes, and his calm delivery won over the sceptical subcommittee chairman, Senator John Pastore, after the White Hou...

Q 05/05

Which soft-spoken artist finished a landscape in each half-hour episode of PBS's The Joy of Painting?

A) Bob Ross

B) Bill Alexander

C) Thomas Kinkade

D) Norman Rockwell

Answer · why

A) Bob Ross

Bob Ross spent twenty years in the US Air Force and rose to master sergeant. Tired of being the man who shouted orders, he decided never to raise his ...