Howdy Doody Trivia Challenge - Activity Connection

Howdy Doody Trivia Challenge
1) What was the name of the "Buffalo Bob" character in the Canadian
version of The Howdy Doody Show? ___________________
2) What word was coined by the show’s character Chief
Thunderthud? ________________
3) How tall was Howdy Doody? ___________________
4) How many original episodes of The Howdy Doody Show were
there? ___________________
5) Who played the original Clarabell the Clown? ________________
6) What famous reporter won a Howdy Doody look-a-like contest as
a child? ___________________
7) What was Howdy Doody's original name? __________________
8) When Howdy Doody ran for “president of the kids of America” in
1948, how many kids sent in their votes? ___________________
9) How many freckles did Howdy Doody have on his face? _______
10) Which animals made up Flub-a-Dub? (Hint, there were 8 different
animals.) ___________________
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Howdy Doody Trivia Challenge
Answers
1) What was the name of the "Buffalo Bob" character in the Canadian version
of The Howdy Doody Show? (Timber Tom)
2) What word was coined by the show’s character Chief Thunderthud?
("Kowabonga!" By the 1960s, surfers who had grown up watching
Howdy Doody adopted it for surfing use, turning it to "Cowabunga.")
3) How tall was Howdy Doody? (He was a 27-inch marionette.)
4) How many original episodes of The Howdy Doody Show were there?
(2,343)
5) Who played the original Clarabell the Clown? (Bob Keeshan, who became
Captain Kangaroo.)
6) What famous reporter won a Howdy Doody look-a-like contest as a child?
(Carl Bernstein of Woodward and Bernstein – the famous Watergate
reporters.)
7) What was Howdy Doody's original name? (Elmer)
8) When Howdy Doody ran for “president of the kids of America” in 1948,
how many kids sent in their votes? (Over 1,000,000!)
9) How many freckles did Howdy Doody have on his face? (He had 48
freckles, which was one for each of the states in the U.S. when the show
first went on the air.)
10) Which animals made up Flub-a-Dub? (Hint, there were 8 different animals.)
(Flub-a-Dub had: the bill of a duck, the whiskers of a cat, the ears of a
cocker spaniel, the neck of a giraffe, the body of a dachshund, the
flippers of a seal, the tail of a pig, and the memory of an elephant.)
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