Big Bird Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers

Trivia quiz with answers about the sesame street character Big Bird

Big Bird Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers

Who is “Big Bird” from Sesame Street?
A: Big Bird is the main protagonist of the children's television show Sesame Street.

Officially performed by Caroll Spinney what actor performed as big bird from 1969 to 2018?
A: Caroll Spinney.

Big bird is an eight-foot two-inch (249 cm) tall bright yellow what?
A: Anthropomorphic canary.

What can Big Bird do?
A: He can roller skate, ice skate, dance, swim, sing, write poetry, draw, and even ride a unicycle.

Despite this wide array of talents, he is prone to frequent what?
A: Misunderstandings, on one occasion even singing the alphabet as one big long word.

Where does he live?
A: In a large nest behind the 123 Sesame Street brownstone and right next to Oscar the Grouch's trash can and he has a teddy bear named Radar.

In Season 46, Big Bird's large nest is now where?
A: Sitting within a small, furnished maple tree, and is no longer hidden by used construction doors.

In 2000, Big Bird was named what by the United States Library of Congress?
A: A Living Legend.

As Muppeteer Caroll Spinney has aged, the show has gradually started doing what?
A: Training new performers to play Big Bird.

Caroll Spinney was sick during the taping of a few first-season episodes, so who performed Big Bird in those episodes?
A: Daniel Seagren.

He also performed Big Bird when he appeared on what TV show?
A: The Ed Sullivan Show in 1969 and on Hollywood Squares in the 1970s.

Director Jon Stone, in the 1994 documentary The World of Jim Henson, revealed what?
A: That the Big Bird costume actually did not have any openings that would allow the actor to see; a small television was strapped to the actor's chest to allow him to navigate.

The camera was set up for Spinney by whom?
A: Technician Walt Rauffer, on the suggestion of director Bob Myhrum.

Rauffer rigged the camera to a harness strapped to what?
A: Spinney's chest.

Spinney reported that they called the camera what?
A: "The electronic bra".

During instances where Spinney (or to a lesser extent, Matt Vogel) is performing on location and cannot get a video feed, what is done?
A: A small hole is made in the costume to allow him to see.

In such cases, Big Bird must wear a what to cover the hole?
A: Necktie.

This can also be seen in what?
A: The Sesame Street Live shows.

Likewise, during instances where Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch (both performed by Spinney) are to be in a scene together, Jim Martin operates Oscar unless what?
A: Unless Matt Vogel is operating Big Bird, in which cases Oscar is performed by Spinney as usual.

In 2015, due to being diagnosed with dystonia, Spinney no longer did what?
A: Puppeteered the bird suit full-time.

Matt Vogel performed the bird suit on-set the majority of the time, with Spinney doing what?
A: Looping the dialogue later or having Vogel do the voice himself.

On October 17, 2018, Spinney announced what?
A: His full retirement from the character beginning the very same week as he planned to finish his final recordings on the following day.

His final performance as Big Bird (and Oscar the Grouch) will air the following year for the series' what?
A: Landmark 50th anniversary.

Big Bird was originally designed by a drawing from whom?
A: Jim Henson and built by Kermit Love in 1969.

The design was based on what previous Henson creation?
A: A seven foot tall dragon that the puppeteer created for a La Choy advertising campaign.

The Big Bird performer is completely enclosed within the costume, and extends his right hand over his head to do what?
A: To operate the head and neck of the puppet.

The Muppeteer's left hand serves as the Bird's what?
A: Left wing.

The right wing is stuffed and hangs loosely from a fishing line that runs through a loop under the neck and attaches to what?
A: The wrist of the left hand.

The right hand thus does the opposite of the left hand: as the left hand goes down, the right hand is what?
A: Pulled up by the fishing line.

For some of the Journey to Ernie segments, a second puppeteer (usually Jim Martin) controls what?
A: Big Bird's right wing.

He is concealed by dressing in a what?
A: A body suit the same color as their chroma key background (something that obviously cannot be done on the main Sesame Street set).

Big Bird's body suit weighs how much?
A: The suit is ten pounds and the head weighs four pounds.

According to writer Louise Gikow, the heat inside the suit is what?
A: "Unbearable and it's extraordinarily difficult to hold Big Bird's head."

In the Dutch version of Sesame Street, Big Bird is what color?
A: Blue and is called Pino.

Big Bird's appearance has changed over the years, as has his what?
A: His personality.

He originally had very few feathers where?
A: On top of his head.

His body feathers were also what?
A: More shaggy and unkempt, and his body was not as rounded and full as it is now.

He gradually got more feathers on top, giving his head a what?
A: A more rounded appearance, and developed a blaze-like crest of lighter yellow feathers above his eyes.

His body got fluffier, rounder and what?
A: Better groomed as well.

His personality developed over time from being a dim, slow-witted character into what?
A: The childlike innocence he is known for today.

Although all the Sesame Street Muppet characters are technically ageless, Big Bird is psychologically written to represent a what?
A: A six-year-old.

The costume is partially assembled by company American & Fancy Feather, using the tail feathers from what?
A: Turkeys.

Sesame Workshop is said to reject how many of all the feathers selected for use on the costume?
A: Roughly 90 percent because they are too dirty.

In an episode of Sesame Street, Big Bird was asked if he was related to whom?
A: The cassowary; he replied, "I'm more of a condor."

On the January 23, 1976 episode of Hollywood Squares, Big Bird was asked what kind of bird he is and said what?
A: He said he was a lark, causing host Peter Marshall to crack up.

In the film Don't Eat the Pictures, Osiris calls Big Bird a what?
A: An ibis.

Big Bird appeared in a series 11 episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, in which he declares he is a what?
A: A golden condor.

Zoologist Mike Dickison suggested in his popular Pechakucha talk that Big Bird represents a unique species that evolved from what?
A: The whooping crane.

Big Bird is always described as being what?
A: Flightless.

During the first presidential debate on October 3, 2012, Mitt Romney used Big Bird as an example of what?
A: Spending cuts he would make to reduce the federal budget deficit.

Barack Obama’s campaign later released a satirical advertisement which described Big Bird as a what?
A: An "evil genius" and "a menace to our economy", and depicted Romney as more concerned with cracking down on Big Bird than on white collar criminals such as Bernie Madoff and Ken Lay.

Sesame Workshop subsequently asked that both campaigns to do what?
A: To remove Sesame Street characters from campaign materials, stating on their website: "Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and we do not endorse candidates or participate in political campaigns."

Big Bird is one of two Muppets to have a what?
A: A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame