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Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
Calling all _flossy-sleuths who have a thing for Dr. Seuss!
Think you know your Floob-Boober-Bab-Boober-Bubs from your Ham-ikka-Schnim-ikka-Schnam-ikka-Schnopp? Try this here Seussian quiz and see if you come out on top.
8 of 10…I read WAY too many of these books as a kid and to my kids! :) “Happy Birthday To You” was a fave.
~Bethy
posted by Bethy on 7-18-2008 at 10:46 am
9 of 10. I never do well on these quizzes, but Dr. Seuss’ ABC Book is one of my daughter’s favorites.
posted by adrienne on 7-18-2008 at 10:51 am
Why were over half of them from one book (the ABC book)?
posted by Dan on 7-18-2008 at 11:01 am
That was fun! Wish it were twice as long :)
posted by Debi on 7-18-2008 at 11:07 am
5/10. I feel like I failed childhood! :) But I feel better if most of them were from one book (which I never read). I was a big “Wocket in my Pocket” fan.
posted by kate on 7-18-2008 at 11:13 am
I think that was actually Thing Two… but we’ll never know, since someone blurred out the numbering! :)
posted by Kevin on 7-18-2008 at 11:14 am
I got 8/10. Funny that most of them I didn’t know. (Just made good guesses.)
And I’ve read a TON of Seuss to/with my daughter–and as a kid myself.
Just not the ABC book for some reason.
posted by Nerak on 7-18-2008 at 11:44 am
Yipee! 100%. But then again I have the ABC book memorized. Did you know that you can read/sing the ABC book to the tune of the ABC song.
posted by James on 7-18-2008 at 11:49 am
I enjoyed it, and got a perfect score (I’m a sahm of two) - but I agree with the earlier comment that it doesn’t make sense to have most of these come from the ABC book! I move for a NEW quiz, with no more than one character per book! All in favor?
posted by Piseco on 7-18-2008 at 12:35 pm
I second Piseco!
posted by Lindsey on 7-18-2008 at 12:45 pm
I third Piseco! Seven of them were from the ABC book (which was one of my daughter’s favorites when she was little and the first book she could “read”)
posted by Lindsey B on 7-18-2008 at 12:53 pm
Wow! I got 9 out of 10 correct.
I was floober-gasted!
posted by Joe B on 7-18-2008 at 3:47 pm
Am I the only one that thinks Uncle Ubb looks remarkably like Uncle Adolf?
posted by Cassie on 7-18-2008 at 3:55 pm
okay gang. this was just a warmup. look for the next seuss quiz coming next month!
posted by David K. Israel on 7-18-2008 at 4:50 pm
100% I can almost recite th entire ABC book from memory and my youngest is now 12. Must have read it every night for 4 years. Have to agree that it would have been more of a challenge to see characters from One Fish, Two Fish, The Lorax and Fox in Sox to name of few.
reCAPTCHA: amendment war
posted by KJ on 7-18-2008 at 6:03 pm
100%! I was afraid of running into a bunch of books that were written after my childhood, but my kids had the ABC book.
posted by Miss Cellania on 7-18-2008 at 6:39 pm
Yeah, 100%. Dr. Seuss’s ABC’s was one of my favorite books as a kid. I actually have portions of it memorized. :)
posted by Kmanpat on 7-18-2008 at 10:32 pm
Wow, that was my best quiz yet! 100%…and yes, Young Yolanda Yanderson was Yodeling on that poor Yak’s back.
I had the ABC book about 100% memorized 6 months in to kid #1. After kid #2, it was not even worth turning the pages! ;-)
Dr. Seuss FTW!
posted by NY Sox Fan on 7-18-2008 at 10:35 pm
100%…though I wish I could claim its due to my enormous love for Dr. Seuss (and I do have a serious love for Ted!), my success was directly attributable to being a mom to a 3yo who LOVES the ABC book. Love the 100%, but we need some Lorax love on the next round.
posted by Ashley on 7-19-2008 at 1:04 am
I smoked it too. 100%, yee ha! My son is *8* now and I still know the whole flippin’ ABC book by heart (scary).
posted by Ingrid on 7-19-2008 at 4:14 pm
100% baby! Course, I read these books to my son every night- I may have had an unfair advantage. i actually thought this was too easy! It would be more difficult to name some of the creatures from the Sleep Book, the Sneetches and other stories, etc.. On beyond Zebra too. I love Dr.Seuss!
posted by Ashley on 7-19-2008 at 10:54 pm
8/10… thank goodness for the ABC book, and my 4-year-old. What acool idea for a quiz.
Josh
posted by Josh on 7-21-2008 at 10:02 am