Q 01/05

How many words did Dr. Seuss limit himself to in Green Eggs and Ham, to win a bet?

A) 50

B) 75

C) 100

D) 150

Answer · why

A) 50

The whole book really does use just 50 distinct words, and 49 of them have only one syllable; the odd one out is 'anywhere'.

Q 02/05

Which Random House publisher bet Dr. Seuss $50 he could not write Green Eggs and Ham with so few words?

A) William Spaulding

B) Bennett Cerf

C) Ursula Nordstrom

D) Alfred Knopf

Answer · why

B) Bennett Cerf

Seuss later insisted the book had no deeper meaning at all: 'the only meaning was that Bennett Cerf, my publisher, bet me fifty bucks.'

Q 03/05

The finished text of The Cat in the Hat contains how many different words?

A) 236

B) 350

C) 500

D) 750

Answer · why

A) 236

Geisel wrote it as a more entertaining reading primer, choosing from a school word list, and claimed he built the story around the first two rhyming w...

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

He is sent to bed without supper, sails to the island of the Wild Things, and comes home to find his dinner waiting, still hot.

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 monsters that replaced them were caricatures of Sendak's own aunts and uncles, drawn from memories of their noisy weekly visits to his Brooklyn ho...