A Cross Bear

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1. Our first bear is the care free, fun loving friend of a young 'man child' whom he teaches the Law of the Jungle. Which literary bear is this? Shardik Old Bear Beorn Baloo

2. Everyone knows that A. A. Milne created Winnie-the-Pooh and he appeared in the book of the same name in 1926. But the bear that would become Pooh first appeared in the 38th poem of the 1924 book "When We Were Very Young". What was his name in this poem that reminds me of a famous talking horse? Mr. Francis Bear Mr. Edward Bear Mr. Mister Bear Mr. Teddy Bear

3. Beorn is a shape-shifter who can become a great black bear in a book subtitled "There and Back Again" by which author more famous for the trilogy that followed this story? J. R. R. Tolkien Terry Pratchett C. S. Lewis Philip Pullman

4. Here's a lovable ursine who comes from "deepest, darkest Peru." Wearing a hat and coat and carrying a battered suitcase, he turns up at a railway station in London, where he's found and adopted by the Brown family. Who is he? Rupert Bear Winkie Paddington Bear Brer Bear

5. King Iorek Byrnison is an armored bear who features prominently in which author's trilogy? J. R. R. Tolkien Philip Pullman C. S. Lewis Terry Pratchett

6. "The Bear" (1889) is a one act comedy written by which Russian author? ("Uncle Vanya" would know). Alexander Pushkin Anton Chekhov Vladimir Nabakov Pavel Katenin

7. This beloved children's character is a bear on a mission: he's lost his button, and he'll search the whole department store for it if he has to. Who is this conscientious teddy bear, who shares his name with the material of his trademark green overalls? Flannel Corduroy Cotton Levi

8. Old Ben is the bear featured in "The Bear", a short story that appears in a collection of short stories by William Faulkner. Which Faulkner book features "The Bear"? A Fable Go Down, Moses Absalom, Absalom! The Sound and the Fury

9. Shardik the Bear is one of the "Guardians of the Beams", a structure that supports the "Dark Tower". In which desolate book from this Stephen King series does Shardik first appear? Song of Susannah Wizard and Glass The Waste Lands Wolves of Calla

10. Which bear features prominently in the Uncle Remus stories, a collection of African American folktales first compiled and published in book form in 1881 by Joel Chandler Harris? Yogi Bear Rupert Bear Br'er Bear Corduroy Bear