Q 01/05

Misremembering the Berenstain Bears as the 'Berenstein' Bears is a famous example of which false-memory phenomenon?

A) Zeigarnik effect

B) Mandela effect

C) Barnum effect

D) Baader-Meinhof effect

Answer · why

B) Mandela effect

The Mandela effect is the label for the shared false memory of an '-ein' spelling. Mike Berenstain says the mix-up goes back to his father's childhood...

Q 02/05

Which famous author, then head of Random House's Beginner Books, edited the first Berenstain Bears book?

A) Dr. Seuss

B) Maurice Sendak

C) Richard Scarry

D) Roald Dahl

Answer · why

A) Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss put Stan and Jan Berenstain through two years of rewrites before the book came out in 1962. He also trimmed their credit from Stanley and Ja...

Q 03/05

What was Brother Bear called in the earliest Berenstain Bears books, before a sister joined the family in 1974?

A) Little

B) Sonny

C) Small

D) Freddy

Answer · why

C) Small

Small Bear was renamed Brother once Sister was born. The family never got personal names because the first books needed words that new readers could s...

Q 04/05

Which future Superbad star voiced Brother Bear in the 2000s Berenstain Bears cartoon?

A) Jonah Hill

B) Jesse Eisenberg

C) Jay Baruchel

D) Michael Cera

Answer · why

D) Michael Cera

Michael Cera voiced Brother Bear for the first two seasons, then handed the part to Michael D'Ascenzo for the third. The series ran to 40 half-hour ep...

Q 05/05

What did Berenstain Bears co-creator Jan Berenstain make from spare aluminum collected at a wartime aircraft factory?

A) Cookie cutters

B) Wedding rings

C) Toy airplanes

D) Picture frames

Answer · why

B) Wedding rings

Wedding rings were what Jan shaped from the scrap metal, and she and Stan exchanged them when they married in April 1946. She had spent the war riveti...