Q 01/05

The teddy bear is named after which US president?

A) Theodore Roosevelt

B) Thomas Jefferson

C) Franklin D. Roosevelt

D) William Taft

Answer · why

A) Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt openly disliked being called Teddy. After newspapers made a story of his 1902 bear hunt in Mississippi, toymakers put the nickname ...

Q 02/05

Why did the president spare the bear on the hunt behind the teddy bear?

A) It was a protected species

B) It had been tied to a tree

C) It was a nursing mother

D) He had bagged his limit

Answer · why

B) It had been tied to a tree

It had been tied to a tree: his guides had run the old bear down with dogs and roped it to a willow for him. He called shooting it unsportsmanlike, th...

Q 03/05

Clifford Berryman's 1902 cartoon of a president sparing a bear ran in which newspaper?

A) The New York Times

B) The Chicago Tribune

C) The Boston Globe

D) The Washington Post

Answer · why

D) The Washington Post

The Washington Post ran it on November 16, 1902. Berryman first drew a full-grown bear, then shrank it into a small, frightened cub that he kept tucki...

Q 04/05

What did Morris Michtom sell at the Brooklyn business where he displayed the first 'Teddy's bear'?

A) Books

B) Hardware

C) Suits

D) Candy

Answer · why

D) Candy

Candy was the day job. His wife Rose sewed the first bears, two of them went into the shop window, and the demand that followed soon turned the sweet ...

Q 05/05

Which toy company did Morris Michtom found on the back of his teddy bear?

A) Ideal

B) Hasbro

C) Mattel

D) Fisher-Price

Answer · why

A) Ideal

Ideal began with a request: Michtom asked the president's permission to call his toys 'Teddy's bears', then sold so many that he went into mass produc...