Q 01/05

On the ship in the first Curious George book, George falls overboard while trying to do what?

A) Catch a flying fish

B) Fly like a seagull

C) Climb the tallest mast

D) Steer the ship

Answer · why

B) 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 02/05

Where is Curious George living when the Man with the Yellow Hat first finds him?

A) India

B) Borneo

C) Africa

D) The Amazon

Answer · why

C) Africa

Africa: the Man carries him off to a big-city zoo, but George escapes it at the start of the second book.

Q 03/05

What was George called in H. A. Rey's 1939 book about a giraffe and nine monkeys?

A) Lulu

B) Fifi

C) Jinny

D) Momo

Answer · why

B) 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 bec...

Q 04/05

When the original books were published in the United Kingdom, George was renamed what?

A) Bobo

B) Zozo

C) Jojo

D) Kiki

Answer · why

B) 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 05/05

How did the Reys flee Paris in June 1940, carrying the Curious George manuscript?

A) On a fishing boat to England

B) In a borrowed farm truck

C) On bicycles they had built themselves

D) Hidden in a freight train

Answer · why

C) 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 sout...