Curious George Trivia
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50 free Curious George trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
42 free Curious George trivia questions with answers. Curious George has been getting into trouble since 1941, and this quiz covers all of it. The questions run through the seven original books by Margret and H. A. Rey (the balloons, the bicycle, the space flight, the swallowed puzzle piece), the Man with the Yellow Hat and his mysterious name, the PBS Kids series with Hundley, Chef Pisghetti and Professor Wiseman, the 2006 film voiced by Will Ferrell with songs by Jack Johnson, and the direct-to-video sequels. The easy questions are for kids who watch the show: what colour is the Man's hat, what kind of animal is George's friend Hundley, what does George swallow in the hospital book. The harder ones are for the grown-ups reading along: George's original name, why he was called Zozo in Britain, and how the Reys fled Paris on homemade bicycles hours before the Nazis arrived, carrying the manuscript with them. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the books, films and series, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01On the ship in the first Curious George book, George falls overboard while trying to do what?
Fly like a seagull
Fly like a seagull: he copies the gulls circling the ship, drops into the sea and nearly drowns before the crew pull him out.
Q 02Where is Curious George living when the Man with the Yellow Hat first finds him?
Africa
Africa: the Man carries him off to a big-city zoo, but George escapes it at the start of the second book.
Q 03What was George called in H. A. Rey's 1939 book about a giraffe and nine monkeys?
Fifi
Fifi kept that name in the manuscript the Reys carried out of France, but their American publisher thought it an odd name for a male monkey, so he became George.
Q 04When the original books were published in the United Kingdom, George was renamed what?
Zozo
Zozo spared British readers a mischievous monkey called George while King George VI was on the throne, so the London edition gave him a new name.
Q 05How did the Reys flee Paris in June 1940, carrying the Curious George manuscript?
On bicycles they had built themselves
On bicycles they had built themselves: with no ordinary bicycle left to buy in Paris, Hans assembled two from spare parts and the couple pedalled south with the manuscript.
Q 06Which publisher released the first Curious George book in 1941?
Houghton Mifflin
Houghton Mifflin had just hired Grace Hogarth, who had been the Reys' editor in Britain, and she signed the newly arrived refugees to a four-book contract.
Q 07Why was Margret Rey left off the early Curious George covers?
A man's name was thought to sell better
A man's name was thought to sell better in a field 'so dominated by women', Margret recalled; she later asked herself 'Why the devil did I do that?' and added her name.
Q 08In Curious George Learns the Alphabet, George alters a note to the baker to bring home ten dozen what?
Doughnuts
Doughnuts: sent for one dozen, George uses his new letters to change 'one' to 'ten' on the note, in the sixth of the seven books the Reys wrote themselves.
Q 09In the first Curious George book, what does the Man pop George into once the hat covers his eyes?
A bag
A bag: the Man sets his hat on the ground, George pulls it down over his own head, and the bagged monkey is rowed out to a big ship.
Q 10In the first book, who arrives at the house after George plays with the telephone?
The fire department
The fire department: George dials at random and says nothing, so the firemen assume a blaze, race to the house, and have him locked up for the false alarm.
Q 11How does George end up flying over the city in the first book?
Holding a bunch of balloons
Holding a bunch of balloons: he reaches for a single red one, comes away with the whole bunch, and the wind carries him off over the city.
Q 12In Curious George Takes a Job (1947), what job does George get after escaping the zoo?
Window washer
Window washer: after George proves a fine four-handed dishwasher, the grateful cook takes him to an elevator man who needs a tall building's windows cleaned.
Q 13In Curious George Takes a Job, what injury lands George in the hospital?
A broken leg
Q 21What did Hans Rey sell for a living before he and Margret began making children's books?
Bathtubs
Bathtubs paid the struggling artist's bills until he and Margret went into business together, opening an advertising agency before they ever made a book.
Q 22Besides Curious George, H. A. Rey is known for redrawing what to make them easier to remember?
Constellation diagrams
Constellation diagrams: Rey began rethinking them as a soldier in the First World War, though his simpler star figures did not reach print until 1952.
Q 23In which German port city were both Hans and Margret Rey born?
Hamburg
Hamburg: Hans grew up near its Hagenbeck Zoo and learned to draw there, and for the rest of their lives the couple's first stop in any new city was the zoo.
A broken leg: chased down a fire escape, George jumps the last stretch to the sidewalk, and once it heals he knocks himself out with a bottle of ether on the ward.
Q 14In Curious George Rides a Bike, what does George fold the undelivered newspapers into?
Paper boats
Paper boats: he sails a whole fleet down a stream, and the book stops to show readers, fold by fold, how to make one from a sheet of newspaper.
Q 15Which animal is George warned against feeding at the animal show in Curious George Rides a Bike?
The ostrich
The ostrich proves the warning right by snatching George's bugle, which sticks in its throat, and later it tugs open a cage door and lets the bear cub out.
Q 16How does George earn his award in Curious George Gets a Medal?
Rides a space ship and bails out
Rides a space ship and bails out: the invitation had lain unread since the mailman brought it, until the Man waved it just in time to save George from punishment at the museum.
Q 17In Curious George Gets a Medal, what does George knock over at the museum while reaching for nuts?
A dinosaur display
A dinosaur display: he had reached the museum by jumping onto a truck while fleeing a farmer whose pigs he had let out, and the nuts hung on a model palm tree.
Q 18In Curious George Flies a Kite, who gives George a baby bunny at the end?
Bill, the neighbour boy
Bill, the neighbour boy, had left George minding his kite when the wind carried monkey and kite away, and the Man had to fetch them back by helicopter.
Q 19What does George swallow at the start of Curious George Goes to the Hospital (1966)?
A puzzle piece
A puzzle piece: he takes it for candy, an X-ray finds it in his stomach, and after the operation the nurse sends it home with him so the puzzle can be finished.
Q 20Which hospital's staff asked the Reys to write Curious George Goes to the Hospital?
Boston Children's
Boston Children's wanted a book to prepare young patients for a stay, so the story walks George through every routine from the X-ray table to the operating room.
Q 24In which Massachusetts city did the Reys settle in 1963 and live for the rest of their lives?
Cambridge
Cambridge: Margret stayed on after Hans died there in 1977, teaching creative writing at nearby Brandeis University and editing new George stories drawn from a series of short films.
Q 25What is the Man with the Yellow Hat called in the 2006 animated film?
Ted
Ted: the original books only ever call him the Man, and a scene cut from the film went further and gave him a surname, Shackleford.
Q 26Who voiced the Man with the Yellow Hat in the 2006 Curious George film?
Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell changed the story: with a star in the part, the director felt the Man could no longer just bookend George's adventure, and the film became a buddy movie.
Q 27Which musician wrote and performed the songs for the 2006 Curious George film?
Jack Johnson
Jack Johnson was hired after the studio's head of film music learned the surfing songwriter was 'obsessed by Curious George'.
Q 28In the 2006 Curious George film, the monkey gets his name from a nearby statue of whom?
George Washington
George Washington: pressed by schoolchildren at the zoo, the Man blurts out 'Washington', is told it is a dumb name, and settles on George instead.
Q 29In the 2006 Curious George film, what does the Man with the Yellow Hat sail off to find for the Bloomsberry Museum?
A giant stone idol
A giant stone idol, the Lost Shrine of Zagawa, is meant to stand forty feet tall, but the one he digs up is three inches high and turns out to be a map to the real thing.
Q 30Which veteran actor voiced museum owner Mr. Bloomsberry in the 2006 Curious George film?
Dick Van Dyke
Dick Van Dyke plays the museum's elderly owner, who is all set to lead the expedition himself until he remembers he is 'really, really old' and lets his tour guide go instead.