March 18, 2025

Sunny Days - A Sesame Street Special

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Mark Ellison takes you to the most famous address in children's television with five fascinating questions about Sesame Street! Discover what type of bird Big Bird really is, learn about Oscar the Grouch's colorful past, and explore the impressive height of television's tallest yellow friend. From the show's groundbreaking premiere to beloved puppet characters, this episode celebrates over five decades of educational television magic!

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Greeting's trivia fans. I'm Mark Ellison, and today we're taking

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a trip down Sesame Street to celebrate this beloved children's show.

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Question one, What type of bird is Big Bird? According

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to Sesame Street's creators? Question two? What color was Oscar

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the Grouch when he first appeared on Sesame Street in

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nineteen sixty nine? Question three? What year did Sesame Street

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first premiere on public television? Question four? Which character lives

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in a trash can and loves his pet worm named Slimy?

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Question five? How tall is Big Bird? According to official

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Sesame Street specifications. We'll be right back with these educational

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answers after this break. Welcome back, trivia fans. Let's reveal

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today's answers. Question one, The type of bird is Big Bird?

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Answer a canary, though he stands eight feet two inches tall.

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Sesame Workshop formerly Children's Television Workshop, has officially described Big

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Bird as a six year old yellow canary. His nest

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name is even officially listed as Canary nest one two three.

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Question two what color was Oscar the Grouch? Originally answer orange?

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For the first season of Sesame Street in nineteen sixty nine,

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Oscar the Grouch was orange not green, Jim Henson decided

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to change him to green before the second season. Oscar

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has explained this change by saying, I went on vacation

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to the very damp swamp, mushy muddy and turned green overnight.

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Question three What year did Sesame Street? Premiere? Answer nineteen

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sixty nine. The first episode aired on November tenth, nineteen

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sixty nine, on public television stations. The groundbreaking show was

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created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrissett with the

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goal of preparing underprivileged children for school. Question four, which

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character lives in a trash can? Answer? Oscar the Grouch

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has lived in a trash can since the show's beginning.

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His petworm, Slimy, is his closest companion, and despite his

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grouchy exterior, Oscar has shown his softer side numerous times

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throughout the years. Question five, How tall is Big Bird? Answer?

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Eight feet two inches tall. Carol Spinney, who portrayed Big

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Bird for nearly fifty years until twenty eighteen, operated the

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elaborate costume by holding Big Bird's head up with his

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right arm while operating the mouth and eyes with his

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right hand. That concludes today's five daily trivia questions. I'm

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Mark Ellison, and today's questions were crafted with the help

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of AI technology. If you'd like to enjoy five daily

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trivia questions without ads, check the link in our show notes.

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See you tomorrow.

Sunny Days - A Sesame Street Special

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