Who is Dr. Seuss? Trivia Quiz

Answer: March 2, 1904

Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904 in Springfield, MA.

Answer: Dartmouth

He graduated Dartmouth College in 1925, and proceeded on to Oxford University with the intent of acquiring a doctorate in literature.

Answer: Helen Palmer

Theodor married Helen Palmer on November 29, 1927. Their marriage came to a tragic end when she comitted suicide on October 23, 1967.

Answer: Army

He joined the Army during WWII.

Answer: 236

His publisher heard that 1st graders were having trouble learning to read because the books were boring so he thought he would send Dr. Seuss a list of 400 words. He asked him to narrow it down to 250 and Dr. Seuss narrowed it to 236 words.

Answer: 50

In 1960, a gentleman by the name of Bennett Cerf bet Theodor that he couldn't write a book using only 50 words. He then wrote "Green Eggs and Ham".

Answer: 0

He never had any of his own although I think we all feel we are his children.

Answer: trees

"He snapped, I'm the Lorax who speaks for the trees, which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please." "The Lorax" was originally released in the U.S. on August 12, 1971 by the publishing company, Random House Books for Young Readers.

Answer: middle name and his father's dream

Seuss was his middle name and he put Dr. in front of it because his father had always wanted him to be a doctor.

Answer: True

Theo (as in Theodor and LeSieg, Geisel spelled backwards). Books under this name are "In a People House", "Maybe You Should Fly a Jet", "The Tooth Book" and "The Eye Book". When he wrote under this name, others illustrated the pictures.

Answer: Mulberry Street

Young Marco is coming home from school but he knows that his father will interrogate him on his return home and be dissatisfied with his observation of nothing more than a horse and a wagon on Mulberry Street. So, he starts adding interest to the sight, changing first the horse and then the wagon to bigger more outrageous things.

Then, he reaches home and his father asks the dreaded question, "What did you see on the way home from school?" Marco tells him, not the wild sights in his head, but what he really saw, "A horse and a wagon on Mulberry Street."

Answer: Audrey

Theodor married his second wife, Audrey on August 6, 1968. Their marriage came to an end on September 24, 1991, the day he died.

Answer: Jim Carrey

"How the Grinch Stole Christmas" aka "The Grinch" was released in the U.S. on November 8, 2000.

Answer: September 24, 1991

Theodro died on September 24, 1991 from jaw cancer.

Answer: cancer

It's been calculated that by the time he died, there were more than 200 million copies of his books which have appeared in as many as 15 different languages.