Barbapapa Trivia Quiz

Answer: Barbapapa

Barbapapa is the pear-shaped, flamingo pink blob-like character who tries to fit into the human world. The Barbapapas can change their shapes and their sizes, through shift shaping. Through shape shifting, all of the barbapapas could change their shape to whatever they wanted. Barbapapa and Barbamama actually planted their children! They always manage to solve any problem with gentleness. Barbapapa always has a happy smile and a great imagination!

Answer: Black

Barbamama is a beautiful black color and is a shapely female blob, who marries Barbapapa. They eventually have seven children. Barbamama is so black, though, that at night, you can't even see her. She does wear a colorful wreath of red flowers on her head. Her eyelids are a pretty pink too! She is always ready to offer her friendship, along with Barbapapa, to anyone who needs them.

Answer: Barbabelle

Barbabelle is a pretty little violet purple daughter of Barbapapa and Barbamama. She loves everything of beauty. She is so beautiful with her necklace and bracelets. She loves jewelry and perfume very much. Did you know that if she sees hairy bugs like spiders and caterpillars, she faints? She has long eyelashes and wears yellow flowers in her "hair".

Answer: Barbabright

Barbabright is the son who loves science. He is a "true" blue character. In French he is called Barbibul. He knows everything there is to know about all areas of science. He loves to create experiments, but sometimes they end up in a catastrophe!

Answer: Animals

Barbazoo, the yellow son, is a lover of animals. In French he was called Barbidou. Barbazoo knows a lot about many different plants and animals. He is actually an ecologist. He is always watching Barbabright to make sure he doesn't try any dangerous experiments that will harm nature.

Answer: Adventure and sports

Barbabravo loves strength, sports and heroism. He is the red son and is known as Barbidur in French. He is so red, that he is considered to be redder than the setting sun! Now that's red! He loves eating and is very proud of himself. He really likes to dress up like Sherlock Holmes with a hat and magnifying glass. His hound Lolita goes along with him as Barbabravo tries to act like a detective.

Answer: Music

Barbalala is the green daughter of Barbapapa and Barbamama. She loves music of all kinds. She is very talented and can play several instruments. Barbalala enjoys Botany and ecology just like Barbazoo does. Barbalala is a happy girl and seldom ever gets angry or upset. She somehow manages to influence her brothers and sisters into being calm too.

Answer: Barbalib

Barbalib is a lover of books. She is orange and is known as Barbotine in French. She is also described as being as orange as a tangerine. She is so intellectual and can answer many questions due to her vast knowledge from reading so much. She likes a good sense of humor but you'd better not "step on her toes" because she can be pretty difficult at times with her attitude of being superior.

Answer: Art

Barbabeau is a cute little black, furry boy who loves art. He is known as Barbouille in French. Barbabeau loves to play in paint and is very often not the right color, but a mix of colors! He tries so hard to paint and is very sensitive. If his brothers or sisters make comments about his artwork that are a little negative, he can be rather quick-tempered.

He has not yet figured out what his style of painting is.

Answer: "Clickety Click-Barba Trick"

In French, the Barbapapas would say "Hup Hup Hup, Barbatruc", which got translated into English as "Clickety Click-Barba Trick". They would say this whenever they wanted to shape shift. Here is more information about the authors, Tison and Taylor. Annette Tison, born in Paris in 1942 and Talus Taylor, born in San Francisco in 1933, wrote the children's books titled "Barbapapa".

The "Barbapapa" books were written in French, originally, and became translated into over thirty languages. The couple met at a café in Paris.

Their relationship began with creative writing and this is how "Barbapapa" started. Soon after the creation of "Barbapapa" they were married and still live in Paris today. The made-up word "Barbapapa" evolved from the French word for cotton-candy.