Dr. Seuss: His Life in Rhyme Trivia Quiz

Answer: Massachusetts

Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Mass. His father once made beer to pour in a glass. Seuss was born in the month of March, because no month is called Septarch. The date was number two, no brothers, only sisters, I tell you.

Answer: Least likely to succeed

Yes, yes, it's true. I hope you knew. They voted him the least likely to succeed. At least he was not voted most likely to get skunked on weed. Also, in school, for the "Jack O'Lantern," magazine he did edit. This was long before we had Reddit.

Answer: The Washington Post

Dr. Seuss' first job - sold a cartoon to "The Washington Post." They thought it was the most! They paid him in dollars - twenty-five! I bet he felt so alive! This led to a great career in writing, over 60 books - so much better than fighting.

Answer: Flit

A bug on a lady's head did sit. She yelled, "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" The ad did quite well. How do I know? Much Flit did sell. For Seuss, Flit gave him a job. Mr. Gisel was no slob.

Answer: The Pocket Book of Boners

"The Pocket Book of Boners" featured classroom papers filled with mistakes, for goodness sakes! This was Dr. Seuss's first book, but soon he'd learn children's books were his nook.

Answer: Mulberry Street

In 1937, "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," Seuss wrote. The story does not contain a single goat. In 2021, this story faced a ban. Why? You ask. A racist drawing of a Chinese man. "This will never do," his company said. "Racism is wrong; it's true. We cannot do that; we must not publish it, we dread."

Answer: nerd

The nerd looks like a bird; at least, that's what I heard. I have seen it; it's true, and underneath was "a seersucker, too!" "If I Ran a Zoo" was published in 1950, and many children thought that it was nifty. Sadly, of his banned books, it is one of the six. I am serious; this is not one of my tricks.

Some say he did not invent that word. But he was the first to use it in writing; how absurd! In 1951, "Newsweek" used it as the slang we know today. Did Dr. Seuss invent it? I cannot truly say.

Answer: 50

Words? "Green Eggs and Ham" contains only fifty. Wow! That is quite nifty. He won the bet, and Bennet Cerf did pay. "I do not like them, Sam-I-Am," the character would say. Three years before, he wrote "Cat in the Hat" and only used a few words more. Two hundred and twenty, that was enough. Dr. Seuss had the right stuff!

Answer: Pulitzer Prize

Let me tell you a bit more. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984. Why did he win it? What did he do? Come close, and I will tell you. By contributing to children's education, he did give children a chance to really live. He made reading fun for so many years. Children could read without any fears.

He was the first to win for writing children's books. Maybe you should take a couple of looks.

Answer: Oh, the Places You'll Go

Alas, alas! Dr. Seuss on September 24, 1991, did pass. The last book he published, you know, was "Oh, the Places You'll Go." He let us know sometimes we may fail, and it's okay to let out a wail. However, he tells us we must always try. He even tells us why. He says, "And will you succeed? Yes, you will, indeed!"