The rhymes are ready, the creatures are curious, and the trivia is about to begin.
These Dr. Seuss trivia questions bounce through beloved books, unforgettable characters, peculiar places, deeper cuts, adaptations, and the author’s documented life.
The Cat Comes to Call
Start with a rainy day, one tall striped hat, and a visitor who is spectacularly bad at tidying up.
- What book features a tall visitor in a red-and-white striped hat?
Answer: The Cat in the Hat - What is the weather like when the Cat arrives?
Answer: It is cold, wet, and rainy - Who are the two children at home?
Answer: Sally and her unnamed brother - What household pet objects to the Cat’s antics?
Answer: The fish - What two helpers emerge from the Cat’s box?
Answer: Thing One and Thing Two - What does the Cat balance while standing on a ball?
Answer: A collection of objects, including the fish and a cake - What color is the Cat’s bow tie?
Answer: Red - What machine cleans the house at the end?
Answer: The Cat’s cleaning machine - Who is about to return home when the mess is at its worst?
Answer: The children’s mother - What question ends the book?
Answer: What would you do if your mother asked what happened?
Green Eggs, Ham, and Beginner Books
Simple words create wonderfully stubborn conversations in this early-reading round, perfect before our kids trivia.
- Who repeatedly offers the unusual meal in Green Eggs and Ham?
Answer: Sam-I-Am - What two foods make up the title dish?
Answer: Green eggs and ham - Does the unnamed character like the dish at first?
Answer: No - Where does Sam suggest eating the food with a mouse?
Answer: In a house - Which animal does Sam suggest as a dining companion aboard a boat?
Answer: A goat - Where does the skeptical character finally try the food?
Answer: After the train, boat, and other characters tumble into the water - What happens after the first taste?
Answer: He discovers he likes green eggs and ham - Which publisher’s reading challenge helped inspire the book’s limited vocabulary?
Answer: Beginner Books - How many different words did Seuss famously use in Green Eggs and Ham?
Answer: Fifty - What 1957 book helped launch the Beginner Books imprint?
Answer: The Cat in the Hat
Horton’s Big Heart
One elephant protects tiny neighbors and an egg with the same steady promise: he means what he says.
- What kind of animal is Horton?
Answer: An elephant - What does Horton hear in Horton Hears a Who!?
Answer: A tiny voice from a speck of dust - Where do the Whos live?
Answer: Whoville - On what object does the dust speck rest?
Answer: A clover - What does Horton insist about people?
Answer: A person’s a person, no matter how small - Who is the mayor of Whoville?
Answer: The Mayor - How many children does the Mayor have in Horton Hears a Who!?
Answer: Ninety-six daughters and one son - What is the Mayor’s son called?
Answer: JoJo - What does Horton agree to sit on in Horton Hatches the Egg?
Answer: Mayzie’s egg - What promise does Horton repeat while guarding the egg?
Answer: He meant what he said and was faithful one hundred percent
The Grinch and Whoville Christmas
Steal a sleighful of questions, then unwrap more fun in our Christmas trivia.
- Where does the Grinch live?
Answer: In a cave on Mount Crumpit - Which community celebrates below his mountain?
Answer: Whoville - What is the Grinch’s dog’s name?
Answer: Max - What disguise does the Grinch wear?
Answer: Santa Claus - What does he place on Max’s head?
Answer: A single antler - What household item does the Grinch use as a makeshift chimney tool?
Answer: A tree - Which young Who catches the Grinch at the Christmas tree?
Answer: Cindy-Lou Who - How old is Cindy-Lou in the book?
Answer: No more than two - What happens to the Grinch’s heart?
Answer: It grows three sizes - What part of the feast does the Grinch carve?
Answer: The roast beast
The Lorax Speaks for the Trees
Bright Truffula tufts and a cautionary business boom lead into our animal trivia.
- Who speaks for the trees?
Answer: The Lorax - What kind of trees does the Once-ler cut down?
Answer: Truffula Trees - What product does the Once-ler manufacture?
Answer: Thneeds - What does the Once-ler claim everyone needs?
Answer: A Thneed - Which creatures eat Truffula fruits?
Answer: Brown Bar-ba-loots - Why must the Bar-ba-loots leave?
Answer: There is not enough Truffula fruit to eat - Which birds are driven away by smog?
Answer: Swomee-Swans - Which fish leave because of polluted water?
Answer: Humming-Fish - What word does the Lorax leave on a stone?
Answer: Unless - What does the Once-ler give the listener at the end?
Answer: The last Truffula seed
Sneetches, Zax, and Other Lessons
Stars, stubbornness, and social rules get delightfully scrambled in Seuss’s sharpest fables.
- Where do the Sneetches wear stars?
Answer: On their bellies - Which Sneetches initially consider themselves superior?
Answer: Star-Belly Sneetches - Who sells the Sneetches trips through machines?
Answer: Sylvester McMonkey McBean - What does the first machine add?
Answer: Stars upon thars - What does another machine remove?
Answer: The stars - What lesson do the Sneetches learn?
Answer: Sneetches are Sneetches, with or without stars - What two characters refuse to step aside in The Zax?
Answer: A North-Going Zax and a South-Going Zax - What is built around the motionless Zax?
Answer: A highway - What kind of creature is Gertrude McFuzz?
Answer: A bird - What does Gertrude envy about Lolla-Lee-Lou?
Answer: Her elaborate tail feathers
Foxes, Socks, and Tongue-Twisting Trouble
Read slowly if you must because these tongue twisters are designed to tie even confident mouths in knots.
- Who challenges Mr. Knox to say tongue twisters?
Answer: Fox - What clothing item appears in the title Fox in Socks?
Answer: Socks - What creature battles with a bottle?
Answer: A beetle - Where do the tweetle beetles battle?
Answer: In a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle - Who becomes frustrated by the tongue twisters?
Answer: Mr. Knox - What does Mr. Knox finally put Fox into?
Answer: A bottle - What book asks whether you would rather be a bullfrog or butterfly?
Answer: I Can Read with My Eyes Shut! is not that book; Would You Rather Be a Bullfrog? asks those choices - What character reads with his eyes shut in the title?
Answer: The Cat in the Hat - What body part does The Foot Book celebrate in opposites?
Answer: Feet - What book begins by asking about many kinds of fish?
Answer: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
Oh, the Places and People You’ll Meet
Travel from Mulberry Street to Solla Sollew, with several wonderfully impossible stops in between.
- What street inspires Marco’s imaginative parade?
Answer: Mulberry Street - What is Marco actually supposed to report seeing?
Answer: A horse and wagon - Who rules the Kingdom of Didd in Bartholomew and the Oobleck?
Answer: King Derwin - What sticky substance falls from the sky in that story?
Answer: Oobleck - What causes the oobleck disaster to stop?
Answer: King Derwin says he is sorry - How many hats does Bartholomew remove in The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins?
Answer: Five hundred - Who tries to buy Bartholomew’s final hat?
Answer: King Derwin - What mountain does Morris McGurk imagine transforming into a circus?
Answer: Mount Dill-ma-dilts - What carefree destination promises no troubles in I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew?
Answer: Solla Sollew - What does the traveler decide at the end of Solla Sollew?
Answer: To return home and face troubles with a bat
Author, Pen Names, and Publishing History
Meet Theodor Geisel, the artist behind Dr. Seuss, and sort the documented biography from playground legend.
- What was Dr. Seuss’s full name?
Answer: Theodor Seuss Geisel - In which Massachusetts city was he born?
Answer: Springfield - In what year was Geisel born?
Answer: 1904 - Was Dr. Seuss a medical doctor?
Answer: No - What was Seuss’s middle name and his mother’s maiden name?
Answer: Seuss - Which college did Geisel attend as an undergraduate?
Answer: Dartmouth College - What was his first children’s book?
Answer: And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street - In what year was that first book published?
Answer: 1937 - What pen name did Geisel use for books he wrote but others illustrated?
Answer: Theo. LeSieg - What is LeSieg?
Answer: Geisel spelled backward
Books, Screens, and Final Seussian Surprises
Finish with later books and adaptations, then take a cinematic detour through our movie trivia.
- Which Dr. Seuss book is often given as a graduation gift?
Answer: Oh, the Places You’ll Go! - In what year was Oh, the Places You’ll Go! published?
Answer: 1990 - What was the final book Seuss published during his lifetime?
Answer: Oh, the Places You’ll Go! - Who narrated the 1966 animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas! special?
Answer: Boris Karloff - Who sang You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch in that special?
Answer: Thurl Ravenscroft - Who played the Grinch in the 2000 live-action film?
Answer: Jim Carrey - Who voiced the Lorax in the 2012 animated film?
Answer: Danny DeVito - Who voiced Horton in the 2008 animated Horton Hears a Who!?
Answer: Jim Carrey - Who voiced the Once-ler in the 2012 animated film?
Answer: Ed Helms - Which annual observance shares Geisel’s March 2 birthday?
Answer: Read Across America Day
Sources and Further Reading
- Dr. Seuss Enterprises: Books and Characters
- UC San Diego Library: Dr. Seuss Collection
- Encyclopaedia Britannica: Dr. Seuss
- Library of Congress: Dr. Seuss Materials
- National Education Association: Read Across America
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