Teletubbies Trivia
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50 free Teletubbies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Teletubbies arrived on BBC2 in March 1997 and within months had two million viewers, a cult following among university students, a Christmas toy shortage and a number-one single that Simon Cowell paid half a million pounds to secure. It went on to air in over 120 countries, earn more than £1 billion in merchandise and, somehow, draw a warning from Jerry Falwell about a purple toddler's handbag. These 50 questions cover the four Teletubbies and their colours, antennae and favourite toys, the Tubbytronic Superdome, Noo-Noo, the Voice Trumpets, the Sun Baby and the Flemish Giant rabbits, plus the creators Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport, the Warwickshire farm that was later flooded into a pond, the banned lion-and-bear sketch, the 2015 reboot, the Netflix redub and the franchise's cameos everywhere from Britain's Got Talent to 28 Years Later. Easy questions stick to the characters every parent knows; the hard tier asks who drew the original characters and which show lost its time slot. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation that adds one more detail.
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Q 01Who created Teletubbies with Andrew Davenport?
Anne Wood
Anne Wood, a former teacher, got the idea while testing how small children reacted to her earlier shows and seeing that television still wasn't reaching the very youngest.
Q 02For which broadcaster was Teletubbies originally made?
The BBC
The BBC sold the show around the world through its commercial arm, and a 2005 Daily Telegraph report on overseas sales called it the most lucrative show in the broadcaster's history.
Q 03What do the Teletubbies have set into their bellies?
Television screens
Television screens play short films of real children, a device the makers used to link the Teletubbies' fantasy land to the real world.
Q 04What color is Tinky Winky?
Purple
Purple Tinky Winky changed performers early on: the first actor was dropped after 70 episodes, told that his 'interpretation of the role was not acceptable'.
Q 05What shape is Tinky Winky's antenna?
Triangle
Triangle: in 1999 a US preacher called that shape a gay-pride symbol and warned parents that Tinky Winky was a gay role model.
Q 06Which Teletubby is green?
Dipsy
Dipsy was played for the whole original run by stand-up comedian John Simmit, who went back to the comedy circuit once the suit came off.
Q 07Dipsy is named after his antenna, which resembles what?
A dipstick
The creators have said Dipsy is of African descent; his face is darker than the others'.
Q 08What color is Laa-Laa?
Yellow
Yellow Laa-Laa, like each of the four, has baby talk all her own: the performers built their characters' speech by recalling how they talked as small children.
Q 09What is Laa-Laa's favorite toy?
An orange ball
An orange ball: the four favourite things are simple playthings, though Tinky Winky's red bag ended up in the headlines when commentators took it for a handbag.
Q 10Which Teletubby is the smallest of the four?
Po
Po, the smallest, zips around on a scooter; her original performer, Pui Fan Lee, went on to become a children's TV presenter in her own right.
Q 11Po's antenna is shaped like what?
A bubble wand
A bubble wand: the ring on a stick is one of four differently shaped antennae, each of which glows when something is about to happen.
Q 12Which language does Po sometimes speak?
Cantonese
Cantonese: Po's cry of 'fidit, fidit' comes from the words for 'faster, faster'; her first performer, who has Hong Kong heritage, drew on her background for the character's baby talk.
Q 13What is the name of the Teletubbies' home?
The Tubbytronic Superdome
The Tubbytronic Superdome was a real structure built into a farmer's field, and while it went up, locals protested to the council about the strange construction.
Q 21Which star voices the Tubby Phone in the 2015 Teletubbies revival?
Jane Horrocks
Jane Horrocks, of Absolutely Fabulous fame, voices a smartphone-style gadget that was added to bring the revived show up to date.
Q 22What are the baby Teletubbies introduced in the 2015 revival called?
Tiddlytubbies
Tiddlytubbies: the babies, among them Mi-Mi, Daa Daa and Umby Pumby, were spun off in 2018 into an animated web series of their own.
Q 23What do the Teletubbies eat along with Tubby toast?
Tubby custard
Tubby custard caused a row of its own: the Teletubbies call it 'Tubby tustard', and critics worried such baby talk would teach toddlers to mispronounce words.
Q 14What kind of appliance is Noo-Noo?
A vacuum cleaner
A vacuum cleaner: Noo-Noo is the Teletubbies' tidy housekeeper, yet he also sucks up their things until they cry 'Naughty Noo-Noo!' and give chase.
Q 15What color was Noo-Noo in the original 1997 Teletubbies series?
Blue
Blue Noo-Noo's chases with the Teletubbies were filmed slowly and speeded up afterwards, a trick co-creator Andrew Davenport borrowed from Benny Hill.
Q 16What are the periscope-like devices that rise from the ground in Teletubbyland called?
Voice Trumpets
Voice Trumpets exist because co-creator Andrew Davenport found that very young children struggle to watch and listen at once, so a rising trumpet tells them a voice is coming.
Q 17Which phrase do the Teletubbies call out before piling into a group cuddle?
Big hug!
Big hug! With that call the four pile into a squeeze, and the phrase stuck: the brand's official site still promises visitors 'big hugs'.
Q 18What appears inside the sun that rises over Teletubbyland in each episode?
A baby's face
A baby's face: the makers reasoned that babies love looking at babies, and the Sun Baby's gurgles and laughs tell small viewers when to laugh along.
Q 19Which real animal shares Teletubbyland with the Teletubbies?
The rabbit
The rabbit: the makers chose a giant breed so the animals would look in scale beside the outsized Teletubbies.
Q 20Which phrase do the Teletubbies shout when they want to see something a second time?
Again, again!
Again, again! Co-creator Andrew Davenport saw that toddlers like the security of repetition, so after the shout each short film is played a second time.
Q 24Which programme's time slot did Teletubbies take over, upsetting some parents?
Playdays
Playdays: parents' letters complaining that 'gibberish' had replaced it were seized on by national newspapers, which turned the new show into a row about teaching styles.
Q 25What starts spinning in Teletubbyland to signal that something special is about to happen?
A windmill
A windmill: the show runs on signals like this so toddlers know what to expect, and when it spins and sparkles the Teletubbies rush off to see what's coming.
Q 26Which US network first brought Teletubbies to American television in 1998?
PBS
PBS launched it in April 1998 with a campaign billing the show as 'PBS for Beginners', pitched at parents of children as young as one.
Q 27Who narrates the Teletubbies series that Netflix launched in 2022?
Tituss Burgess
Tituss Burgess, star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, narrates the Netflix version, which arrived in November 2022 as part of the streamer's push into preschool shows.
Q 28What inspired co-creator Andrew Davenport's toddler-like Teletubbies characters?
The Moon landings
The Moon landings: Davenport thought astronauts in bulky spacesuits, bouncing about on a new world, looked just like toddlers.
Q 29In which English county was Teletubbies filmed, on a farm a few miles from Stratford-upon-Avon?
Warwickshire
Warwickshire: unable to find a natural bowl-shaped dip, the makers rented a farmer's field and dug the hollow for the set themselves.
Q 30What became of the original Teletubbyland set after filming ended?
It was flooded into a pond
It was flooded into a pond: the farm's owner said she was tired of fans jumping fences and crossing cattle fields to find the spot.