Q 01/05

Total, the lazy business partner of boy detective Timmy Failure, is what kind of 1,500-pound animal?

A) A walrus

B) A polar bear

C) An elephant seal

D) A bull moose

Answer · why

B) A polar bear

A polar bear called Total supplies half the name of the agency, Total Failure Inc. Readers still argue over whether he is real or a figment of Timmy's...

Q 02/05

The Failuremobile that Timmy Failure borrows from his mother in Mistakes Were Made is really what vehicle?

A) A golf cart

B) A moped

C) A tandem bike

D) A Segway

Answer · why

D) A Segway

A Segway belonging to his mom is the grandly named Failuremobile. Losing it becomes the biggest mystery of the first book.

Q 03/05

Timmy Failure author Stephan Pastis is best known for which long-running newspaper comic strip?

A) Pearls Before Swine

B) Mother Goose and Grimm

C) Over the Hedge

D) Bloom County

Answer · why

A) Pearls Before Swine

Pearls Before Swine made Stephan Pastis famous long before Timmy arrived. He says the tight space of a daily strip taught him the value of every word.

Q 04/05

The Timmy Failure books mix a boy's narration with cartoons, a format modeled on which popular children's series?

A) Dork Diaries

B) The Last Kids on Earth

C) Diary of a Wimpy Kid

D) Captain Underpants

Answer · why

C) Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Diary of a Wimpy Kid set the template. One reviewer noted that, like its hero Greg, Timmy isn't always likable: he is rude to friends and mean to imag...

Q 05/05

Which classmate does Timmy Failure treat as his nemesis and refuse even to name in Mistakes Were Made?

A) Molly Moskins

B) Corrina Corrina

C) Maxine Shellenberger

D) Toody Tululu

Answer · why

B) Corrina Corrina

Corrina Corrina is the girl Timmy calls his nemesis. In the film version she is friendly to him and seems unaware that any feud exists.