Q 01/05

Dr. Seuss won a bet by writing which book with just 50 different words?

A) Hop on Pop

B) Green Eggs and Ham

C) Fox in Socks

D) The Lorax

Answer · why

B) Green Eggs and Ham

Green Eggs and Ham uses exactly 50 different words, and 'anywhere' is the only one with more than one syllable.

Q 02/05

Which Random House co-founder lost a book-writing bet to Dr. Seuss?

A) William Spaulding

B) Bennett Cerf

C) Ursula Nordstrom

D) Alfred Knopf

Answer · why

B) Bennett Cerf

Bennett Cerf bet Seuss $50 that he couldn't write an engaging children's book using only 50 different words.

Q 03/05

Which Seuss book grew from a school word list?

A) The Sneetches

B) The Lorax

C) Yertle the Turtle

D) The Cat in the Hat

Answer · why

D) The Cat in the Hat

The Cat in the Hat: Houghton Mifflin's William Spaulding challenged Geisel to write a primer children couldn't put down, and it uses just 236 differen...

Q 04/05

In Where the Wild Things Are, what is the name of the boy in the wolf suit?

A) Sam

B) Toby

C) Max

D) Oliver

Answer · why

C) Max

Max, sent to bed without supper, sails to the island of the Wild Things and is crowned their king, then returns home to find his hot supper waiting fo...

Q 05/05

Sendak's Wild Things replaced which animals from his original idea, which he couldn't draw?

A) Bears

B) Wolves

C) Dragons

D) Horses

Answer · why

D) Horses

The book began as Where the Wild Horses Are until Sendak admitted he could not draw horses; the 'things' he drew instead were caricatures of his own a...