Fun Children’s Classics Quiz 2022: Kids’ shows, films & books

On June 4, 2022, Queen Elizabeth II appeared in a pre-recorded comic sketch with Paddington Bear ahead of a pop concert outside Buckingham Palace – marking her platinum Jubilee as a queen. Paddington Bear first appeared in October 1958 in the children’s book A Bear Called Paddington and has been featured in over twenty books written by British author Michael Bond.

Arthur – the longest-running children’s animated series on American television – ended its 25 years and more than 250 episodes run on PBS on Feb. 21, 2022. The series’s final episode provides viewers a glimpse of what Arthur and his friends grow up to be. The Arthur characters will live on in a new podcast, games, and digital shorts, while reruns of the series will continue on PBS Kids.

“Minions: The Rise of Gru” is the title of the 2022 addition to the Despicable Me franchise. The movie made an estimated $125 million domestically for its four-day opening weekend – the biggest opening ever over the July 4th holiday weekend.

Who’s the Previous Record Holder?

Minions 2 surpassed the previous biggest opener over the July 4th weekend, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” which made $115 million in 2011.

Were People Banned From Seeing Minions 2?

A TikTok trend featuring large groups of teenage boys dressed in suits disrupting Minions 2 screenings became viral during the movie’s opening weekend. As a result, some UK cinemas ban young people wearing suits from attending Minions 2 screenings.

Elmo, Jesse, Grover, Rosita, and Abby Cadabby are among the most notable characters on “Sesame Street.” But wait, there’s more.

Sesame Street 2022

“Sesame Street” introduced a new character to the show — a white-and-brown puppy named Tango. Tango joins “Sesame Street’s” 52nd season as both an animated character and a live-action Muppet on HBO Max and streaming on PBS KIDS.

Korean American Ji-Young, the newest muppet resident of “Sesame Street,” is the first Asian American muppet on “Sesame Street.”

When was the new Ji-Young puppet introduced?

Ji-Young was introduced in “See Us Coming Together: A Sesame Street Special.” Simu Liu, Padma Lakshmi, and Naomi Osaka appear in the special, which aired on Thanksgiving Day 2021.

What’s the meaning of Ji-Young in Korean?

Ji means intelligent or wise, and Young means heroic (among other things). Ji also means sesame.

Jim Henson created Fraggle Rock, which aired for 96 episodes on HBO from 1983 to 1987.

Is Fraggle Rock rebooted in 2022?

“Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock” is available from Jan. 21, 2022, on Apple TV+. Watch the trailer!

PAW Patrol: The Movie is the first to premiere on Paramount+ streaming service while simultaneously being released in theatres.

Image: Paramount+

PAW Patrol news facts:

Paramount backed the release of PAW Patrol: The Movie by an “eight-figure” marketing blitz. It involved partnerships with almost 200 companies – from Kellogg’s cereal to Best Western hotels – on purchase opportunities for toys and other products, many of which come with a free trial of Paramount+. The film was released Friday, Aug. 27, 2021.

“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” is a children’s picture book designed, illustrated, and written by Eric Carle. On Saturday, the hungry caterpillar eats a piece of chocolate cake, an ice-cream cone, a pickle, a slice of Swiss cheese, a slice of salami, a lollipop, a piece of cherry pie, a sausage, a cupcake, and a slice of watermelon. It’s on Monday that he eats an apple.

 “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” 2021 fact

Eric Carle, the beloved children’s author/illustrator behind “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and other works, has died Sunday, May 23, 2021, at age 91. “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” published in 1969, has sold 40 million copies and has been translated into 60 languages.

Theodor Seuss Geisel adopted the name “Dr. Seuss” as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and a graduate student at Lincoln College, Oxford. He added the “Dr.” to his pen name because his father wanted him to practice medicine.

Which Dr. Seuss books will no longer be published?

On Dr. Seuss’s birthday, March 2, 2021, which is non-coincidentally National Read Across America Day, the company that preserves the author’s legacy announced it would no longer publish  Six of Dr. Seuss’s books because of racially insensitive imagery. The six children’s titles are If I Ran the Zoo, Scrambled Eggs Super, McElligot’s Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, The Cat’s Quizzer and the 1958 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, in which a character described as Chinese has two lines for eyes, carries chopsticks and a bowl of rice, and wears traditional Japanese-style shoes.

HBO Max named its 2022 Harry Potter reunion “Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts.” The special aired on Jan. 1, 2022, 20 years after the release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone — the first film of J.K. Rowling’s franchise. Watch the trailer.

Cinderella is not considered racist by Disney, but Dumbo, Jungle Book, Peter Pan, and many other Disney classics got an updated content advisory notice saying, “This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now.”

Streaming on Apple TV+ beginning Nov. 18, 2022, after a week in theaters, “Spirited” is a musical spin on “A Christmas Carol” starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. In Charles Dickens’ novella “A Christmas Carol,” Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. It was first published in London in 1843. Watch the trailer.