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This kids TV trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and covers 50 years of children's television, from Howdy Doody and Captain Kangaroo through Sesame Street, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Reading Rainbow, up to Bluey, Paw Patrol, Cocomelon and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. Some questions are easy enough for an 8-year-old who watches Peppa Pig; others will stump the parents who grew up on Fraggle Rock and Pee-wee's Playhouse. It is built for families to play together. Kids get their turn on Chase's breed and Boots the monkey, adults get theirs on Big Bird's height, Cookie Monster's real name and why Snuffleupagus was invisible to grown-ups for so long. Every question comes with a short explanation, so nobody has to just take our word for it. Each answer was checked against Wikipedia and the shows' own production histories before publishing, and every question includes a source. If you spot something wrong, use the report button and we will fix it.
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Q 01In which year did Sesame Street first air on television?
1969
It debuted on November 10 to strong ratings, and was the first children's show built around a formal educational curriculum.
Q 02How tall is Big Bird?
8 feet 2 inches
That is 249 cm of yellow feathers, all worn by Caroll Spinney for 49 years until 2018.
Q 03As of 2022, roughly how many Emmy Awards had Sesame Street won?
222
By its 40th anniversary the show was already airing in more than 140 countries.
Q 04Which is Cookie Monster's favorite kind of cookie?
Chocolate chip
The blue, googly-eyed monster was performed by Frank Oz for 35 years before David Rudman took over.
Q 05What real first name did Cookie Monster reveal in a 2004 song?
Sid
He repeated it in a 2017 interview, so the monster has been on the record twice.
Q 06How old does Elmo say he is?
Three and a half
He also refers to himself in the third person and speaks in a high falsetto, a voice created by Kevin Clash in 1985.
Q 07On what date does Elmo celebrate his birthday?
February 3
The furry red monster has hosted the closing segment of the show, Elmo's World, since 1998.
Q 08What color was Oscar the Grouch during the first season?
Orange
The trash-can dweller was recolored green from season two onward, and later gained a pet worm named Slimey.
Q 09The Sesame Street episode that dealt with Mr. Hooper's death aired on which holiday in 1983?
Thanksgiving Day
The producers chose to explain death directly rather than recast the storekeeper after actor Will Lee died in 1982.
Q 10What is Mr. Snuffleupagus's first name?
Aloysius
His head looks like a mammoth's, but he has no tusks and no visible ears.
Q 11In which year did the grown-ups on Sesame Street finally see Snuffy for themselves?
1985
The writers ended the gag because they worried children might conclude adults would not believe them about serious things either.
Q 12Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was produced by a public TV station in which city?
Pittsburgh
Station WQED made 912 episodes and specials before the show ended in August 2001.
Q 13Fred Rogers kept his weight at exactly 143 pounds because he said the number stood for what?
I love you
One letter, four letters, three letters. He also swam nearly every morning of his adult life.
Q 21Roughly how much did Hasbro pay to acquire Entertainment One, the owner of Peppa Pig?
$3.8 billion
The deal, completed in 2019, also brought Hasbro the PJ Masks franchise.
Q 22How old is Ryder, the boy who leads the PAW Patrol?
10
The Canadian series, made by toy company Spin Master, protects the seaside town of Adventure Bay.
Q 23What breed of dog is Chase, the police pup on PAW Patrol?
German Shepherd
Marshall the firefighter is the Dalmatian, Rubble the builder is the Bulldog and Zuma the water rescuer is the chocolate Lab.
Mayor Humdinger, the PAW Patrol's rival, is mayor of which town?
Q 14Fred Rogers was ordained as a minister in which church?
Presbyterian
He was ordained in 1963, five years before his show's national debut.
Q 15Which actor played Fred Rogers in the 2019 film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood?
Tom Hanks
Rogers had received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush in 2002.
Q 16After Steve left Blue's Clues in 2002, what was the name of the new host?
Joe
Actor Donovan Patton played the character for the fifth and sixth seasons.
Q 17On Blue's Clues, where does the host sit down to work out what the three clues mean?
The Thinking Chair
The clues themselves get recorded in the Handy Dandy Notebook.
Q 18Which Australian city inspired the setting of Bluey?
Brisbane
Creator Joe Brumm's show is made by Ludo Studio in Queensland and premiered in October 2018.
Q 19What is the job of Bandit, Bluey's dad?
Archaeologist
Mum Chilli works part-time in airport security, and each episode runs a tidy seven minutes.
Q 20Peppa Pig World, a themed area based on the show, opened in 2011 at which English attraction?
Paultons Park
The show itself began on Channel 5 in May 2004, seven years before the park area opened.
Foggy Bottom
Mayor Goodway of Adventure Bay, by contrast, carries a pet chicken named Chickaletta.
Q 25What kind of animal is Boots, Dora the Explorer's best friend?
A monkey
The show ran on Nickelodeon from 2000 to 2014 and doubled as a basic Spanish lesson.
Q 26What kind of animal is Arthur Read?
An aardvark
Marc Brown's character lives in Elwood City with his sister D.W. and his dog Pal.
Q 27Which reggae artist performed the Arthur theme song 'Believe in Yourself'?
Ziggy Marley
The show ran 25 seasons, ending in February 2022 as the longest-running American children's cartoon at the time.
Q 28What color is Tinky Winky, the biggest of the Teletubbies?
Purple
Dipsy is green, Laa-Laa is yellow and Po is red; the show debuted on BBC2 in March 1997.
Q 29What type of dinosaur is Barney?
Tyrannosaurus rex
Barney began in 1988 home videos called Barney & the Backyard Gang before moving to PBS in 1992.
Q 30Barney's friend Baby Bop is what type of dinosaur?
Triceratops
Her brother BJ is a yellow and green Protoceratops.