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Watch With Mother in the UK Trivia Quiz

A quiz based on the daily, 15 minute dose of children's shows under the collective title Watch With Mother.

A multiple-choice quiz by DaveH1960. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
DaveH1960

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
333,377

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
619

Last 3 plays: Guest 87 (10/10), zacd (7/10), Guest 90 (7/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. Watch With Mother was the collective title of a daily 15 minutes of programming aimed at young children .

The BBC first began broadcasting the Watch With Mother series in what year? Hint

1952

1957

1955

1960

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Question 2 of 10

2. One of the programmes that was shown under the Watch With Mother 'umbrella' involved two 'people' who lived at the bottom of the garden in flower-pots. What were their names? Hint

Bill and Ted

Rag and Tag

Big and Ben

Bill and Ben

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Question 3 of 10

3. 'The Flower-pot Men' lived in the flower-pots, but who, or what, was growing between the pots? Hint

Plant

Sybil

Flower

Weed

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Question 4 of 10

4. The old clown doll called Andy Pandy also appeared on Watch With Mother, he had two friends, Ted, the Teddy Bear and who else? Hint

Looby-Loo

Hamble

Jemima

Humpty-Dumpty

5. At the end of the Andy Pandy programmes, Andy and Teddy climbed into the toy basket and a song was sung, can you complete the lyric?

'Time to ... ...,
Time to ... ...,
Andy and Teddy are waving goodbye' Hint

be put back in the basket until we can escape

go to bed

go home

go to sleep

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Question 6 of 10

6. Three animals appeared in another series of short programmes, there was Hammy, the Hamster, GP, the Guinea-pig and Roderick, the rat. What was the title of this programme (as shown on the BBC)? 'Tales of the ...'

Answer: (One Word - NINE letters)

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who remembers 'The Woodentops'? If you do then I am sure you can tell me the name of the Woodentop twins. Hint

Willy and Jenny

Alan and Jeremy

Sally and Dicky

Dolly and Susan

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Question 8 of 10

8. One of the programmes from the 'Watch with Mother' series was 'The Woodentops' in this programme who was it that helped Mummy Woodentop in the kitchen? Hint

Mrs Scrubbit

Millie the Maid

Sam

Cook

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Question 9 of 10

9. 'The Woodentops' was a 'marionette' show that was a part of the long running 'Watch With Mother' series; one of the characters was described as 'The very biggest spotty dog you ever did see' Have I remembered that correctly?

Yes

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Question 10 of 10

10. Is it correct that Watch With Mother always began with the famous phrase 'Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin'?

Yes

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Watch With Mother was the collective title of a daily 15 minutes of programming aimed at young children . The BBC first began broadcasting the Watch With Mother series in what year?

Answer: 1952

Watch With Mother began broadcasting in 1952 and continued until 1973 when the name was dropped.

2. One of the programmes that was shown under the Watch With Mother 'umbrella' involved two 'people' who lived at the bottom of the garden in flower-pots. What were their names?

Answer: Bill and Ben

The 'Flower-pot Men' spoke a strange language, all of their own, known as 'Oddle Poddle' where a 'flower-pot' was a 'Flobberpop', the tortoise (Slowcoach) was 'Slobberdob' and 'lovely' was pronounced 'loblob'.

*Useless information* The 'Flower-pot Men' never ever said 'Flobbadob' although everybody remembers them saying it.

3. 'The Flower-pot Men' lived in the flower-pots, but who, or what, was growing between the pots?

Answer: Weed

All of the programmes followed a similar format. The gardener would go for lunch, Bill and Ben would climb from their pots, cause a bit of mischief (Was it Bill or was it Ben?) clean-up the mess and return to their pots, saying goodbye to weed,('Bobop ickle Weed' said Ben, 'WEEEEED' replied Weed, 'Babap ickle Weed' said Bill, 'WEEEED' said Weed.) before the gardener returned.
Every episode ended with:
'and I think the little house knew something about it! Don't you?'

4. The old clown doll called Andy Pandy also appeared on Watch With Mother, he had two friends, Ted, the Teddy Bear and who else?

Answer: Looby-Loo

Looby - Loo only appeared when Andy and Teddy weren't around.
The other three options were toys from the BBC series 'Play School'.

5. At the end of the Andy Pandy programmes, Andy and Teddy climbed into the toy basket and a song was sung, can you complete the lyric? 'Time to ... ..., Time to ... ..., Andy and Teddy are waving goodbye'

Answer: go home

Then the lid to the toy basket would close until the next episode.

Answer: Riverbank

'Tales of the Riverbank' was a Canadian children's programme and was shown on Watch With Mother from 1960.

*Useless information* The BBC did not want Canadian accents on British TV so the animals were all 'voiced' by Johnny Morris of 'Animal Magic' fame.

7. Who remembers 'The Woodentops'? If you do then I am sure you can tell me the name of the Woodentop twins.

Answer: Willy and Jenny

'What have we got for dinner today? Sawdust and Hay, Sawdust and Hay'.

8. One of the programmes from the 'Watch with Mother' series was 'The Woodentops' in this programme who was it that helped Mummy Woodentop in the kitchen?

Answer: Mrs Scrubbit

There was, Daddy Woodentop, Mummy Woodentop, Jenny Woodentop, Willy Woodentop,
Baby Woodentop, Sam Scrubbit and Mrs Scrubbit.

Answer: Yes

Yes, Spotty dog always appeared with the sentence 'The very biggest SPOTTY dog you ever did see'. It seemed to be a dalmatian dog with the strangest gait you ever did see.

*Useless information* A "spotty dog" is an aerobics exercise which resembles the gait of Spotty Dog.
"Woodentop" is a slang term, used in the UK, for a uniformed policeman as opposed to a police officer in 'plain clothes'.

10. Is it correct that Watch With Mother always began with the famous phrase 'Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin'?

Answer: No

No of course not. That was the opening sentence of 'Listen with Mother' which was broadcast on the radio at about 1:45 pm (thanks to Lesley153 for teaching me to tell the time)

Source: Author DaveH1960

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