🧠 Sooty and Sweep Quiz

Sooty and Sweep

1Sooty is a puppet bear famous for wielding a magic wand and uttering which five-word catchphrase before performing a spell?

💡 Izzy wizzy let's get busy

2Sweep, Sooty's lovable canine companion, communicates not with words but with what kind of sound?

💡 Squeaks

3Harry Corbett originally discovered the little yellow bear puppet that would become Sooty at a novelty stall in which famous English seaside resort?

💡 Blackpool

4Harry Corbett's son took over presenting duties on The Sooty Show in 1976 — what is his name?

💡 Matthew Corbett

5When Matthew Corbett retired from The Sooty Show in 1998, which entertainer stepped in to become Sooty's new handler?

💡 Richard Cadell

6Sooty first appeared on British television in 1952 on which broadcaster?

💡 BBC

7Although Sooty is famously silent on screen, there is one person he will whisper into the ear of — who is that person, by role?

💡 The presenter / his handler

8Soo the panda made her debut on The Sooty Show in which year?

💡 1964

9Harry Corbett, the man who brought Sooty to life, was born in which Yorkshire city?

💡 Bradford

10Richard Cadell, who took over from Matthew Corbett as Sooty's handler, is also a practitioner of which performance art that involves giving voice to an inanimate figure?

💡 Ventriloquism