Q 01/05

Before settling on a mouse, Laura Numeroff pictured a zebra getting orange dust on its face from which snack?

A) Doritos

B) Cheetos

C) Cheez-Its

D) Goldfish

Answer · why

B) Cheetos

Cheetos were what the zebra ate in her daydream of animals eating her own favourite foods. Next came an orangutan tangled in strings of pizza cheese, ...

Q 02/05

In Laura Numeroff's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, which request leaves the mouse checking a mirror for a mustache?

A) A glass of milk

B) A cup of cocoa

C) A bowl of ice cream

D) A mug of root beer

Answer · why

A) A glass of milk

A glass of milk is his first request, and a straw and a napkin soon follow. By the last page he is thirsty again and wants a cookie to go with his dri...

Q 03/05

Laura Numeroff loved selling cookies as a Girl Scout and still names which Girl Scout cookie as her favourite?

A) Caramel deLites

B) Trefoils

C) Do-si-dos

D) Thin Mints

Answer · why

D) Thin Mints

Thin Mints were her favourites as a girl and still are. She stayed in the Girl Scouts for years and says selling the cookies was the part she enjoyed ...

Q 04/05

Which Harrison Ford thriller quotes the title of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie as a warning against appeasing terrorists?

A) The Fugitive

B) Patriot Games

C) Air Force One

D) Clear and Present Danger

Answer · why

C) Air Force One

Air Force One has the president, hiding aboard his hijacked plane, begin the book's title down the phone, and the vice-president finishes the thought....

Q 05/05

Which talk show host featured Laura Numeroff's If You Give a Pig a Pancake three times in a single year?

A) Rosie O'Donnell

B) Oprah Winfrey

C) Ellen DeGeneres

D) Martha Stewart

Answer · why

B) Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey also recommended it through her first kids' book club and called it her favourite children's book of the year on her holiday special.

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