100 Years of Winnie-the-Pooh – answers and explanations
Here are the answers to all 15 questions in the 100 Years of Winnie-the-Pooh quiz, each with a short explanation. Celebrate a century in the Hundred Acre Wood with Pooh and friends. Haven't played yet? Take the quiz first and compare your score.
Play the quiz · 15 questions1. Which gloomy grey donkey is famous for losing his tail in Winnie-the-Pooh?
Answer: Eeyore
Eeyore, the old grey donkey, loses his tail in Chapter IV of A. A. Milne's 1926 Winnie-the-Pooh; Pooh tracks it down to Owl's house, where it was being used as a bell-pull, and Christopher Robin nails it back on.
2. The real black bear named Winnipeg, who inspired Pooh, lived at which zoo?
Answer: London Zoo
The black bear Winnipeg, or Winnie, lived at London Zoo from 1915 until her death on 12 May 1934; Canadian army vet Harry Colebourn bought her as a cub in Ontario and named her after his home city of Winnipeg.
3. Which English forest was the real-life inspiration for the Hundred Acre Wood?
Answer: Ashdown Forest
Ashdown Forest in East Sussex inspired Pooh's world; Milne bought Cotchford Farm nearby in 1924, and the Hundred Acre Wood takes its name from the forest's real Five Hundred Acre Wood.
4. Who drew the original illustrations for A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books?
Answer: E. H. Shepard
Ernest Howard (E. H.) Shepard drew the original line illustrations for Milne's Pooh books, visiting Ashdown Forest with the author so the drawings matched the real landscape.
5. Which Pooh character was invented by Disney and never appeared in Milne's books?
Answer: Gopher
Gopher is a Disney invention, debuting in the 1966 featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree; he even jokes that he is not in the book, and was created as an all-American figure originally meant to replace Piglet.
6. What is the name of the game where players drop sticks off a bridge in Pooh's books?
Answer: Poohsticks
Poohsticks is the stick-dropping bridge game that first appeared in A. A. Milne's 1928 book The House at Pooh Corner, after Pooh accidentally drops a fir cone into the river. A World Poohsticks Championships has been held at Day's Lock on the Thames since 1984.
7. The bear Winnie, who inspired Pooh, was named after which Canadian city?
Answer: Winnipeg
Canadian army vet Harry Colebourn bought a black bear cub at White River, Ontario, in 1914 and named her Winnipeg, or Winnie, after his adopted home city; she lived at London Zoo until 1934 and inspired Christopher Robin Milne to rename his teddy.
8. In which year was A. A. Milne's first Winnie-the-Pooh book published?
Answer: 1926
Winnie-the-Pooh, written by A. A. Milne with illustrations by E. H. Shepard, was published on 14 October 1926 by Methuen in London and Dutton in New York; the sequel The House at Pooh Corner followed in 1928.
9. In Disney's cartoons, what colour shirt does Winnie the Pooh wear?
Answer: Red
Disney's Winnie the Pooh is a yellow bear in a small red shirt, a look first seen in 1930s American merchandise by licensee Stephen Slesinger and adopted for the 1966 short Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree. Milne's original Pooh wore no clothes.
10. Bouncy Tigger first appeared in which A. A. Milne book?
Answer: The House at Pooh Corner
Tigger was introduced in The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Milne's second and final Pooh novel, in the chapter in which Tigger comes to the forest and has breakfast after Pooh hears him outside at night.
11. What is the title of A. A. Milne's 1928 sequel to Winnie-the-Pooh?
Answer: The House at Pooh Corner
A. A. Milne's second and final Pooh book, The House at Pooh Corner, was published in 1928 by Methuen with E. H. Shepard illustrations, and it introduced Tigger as well as the game of Poohsticks.
12. What does the broken sign outside Piglet's beech-tree home read?
Answer: TRESPASSERS W
In Chapter III of Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), the broken board beside Piglet's beech-tree home reads TRESPASSERS W; Piglet claims it is his grandfather's name, short for Trespassers Will, itself short for Trespassers William, a joke on "Trespassers will be prosecuted" signs.
13. Christopher Robin's original stuffed Pooh and friends are on display where?
Answer: New York Public Library
Christopher Robin Milne's original toys - Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga and Tigger - live at the New York Public Library, donated by US publisher Dutton in 1987 and now in the Polonsky Exhibition of the Library's Treasures.
14. Which actor gave Pooh his voice in Disney's first 1960s Pooh featurettes?
Answer: Sterling Holloway
Sterling Holloway, famed for his reedy tenor, first voiced Disney's Pooh in the 1966 featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree and continued through Blustery Day (1968) and Tigger Too (1974).
15. Ashdown Forest, the model for the Hundred Acre Wood, lies in which county?
Answer: East Sussex
Ashdown Forest in East Sussex inspired the Hundred Acre Wood; Milne bought Cotchford Farm near Hartfield just north of the forest in 1924 and explored it with his son Christopher Robin.