Q 01/05

On NBC, a Bullwinkle puppet once told children to pull which parts off their television sets?

A) The power cords

B) The back panels

C) The tuning knobs

D) The picture tubes

Answer · why

C) The tuning knobs

The tuning knobs came off in the homes of an estimated 20,000 children, so the following week the puppet told them to glue the parts back on.

Q 02/05

Bullwinkle the moose took his name, with two letters swapped, from which kind of California business?

A) A funeral home

B) A car dealership

C) A bowling alley

D) A hardware store

Answer · why

B) A car dealership

A car dealership called Bullwinkel Motors caught the eye of creator Alex Anderson, who swapped its last two letters and gave the name to his moose.

Q 03/05

Jay Ward's van tour for Moosylvania statehood reached the White House gate during which Cold War standoff?

A) The Cuban Missile Crisis

B) The Berlin Wall crisis

C) The U-2 incident

D) The Bay of Pigs invasion

Answer · why

A) The Cuban Missile Crisis

The Cuban Missile Crisis was at its height when the van pulled up, so Ward and his petition were turned away before he could see President Kennedy.

Q 04/05

Which British Invasion band was named for its singer's resemblance to Mr. Peabody's pet boy?

A) The Hollies

B) The Searchers

C) The Dave Clark Five

D) Herman's Hermits

Answer · why

D) Herman's Hermits

Herman's Hermits owe the name to singer Peter Noone's resemblance to Sherman, which was clipped to Herman.

Q 05/05

Mr. Peabody's time machine lent its name to a tool for viewing old web pages, run by which nonprofit?

A) Wikimedia Foundation

B) Internet Archive

C) Mozilla Foundation

D) Electronic Frontier Foundation

Answer · why

B) Internet Archive

Internet Archive called its service the Wayback Machine after the WABAC, the device the genius dog and his boy Sherman use to drop in on history.