Results: Bear With Me: The Teddy Bear
Published on 01/22/2022
This is a survey about the origin and popularity of the Teddy Bear.
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Are you familiar with the history of the Teddy Bear? Please select all the facts you know. The Teddy Bear evolved from a bear hunting trip in Mississippi in 1902 taken by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
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806 votes
When Roosevelt did not locate a bear like the others in his group, his assistants tied a bear to a tree and suggested he shoot it.
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313 votes
Roosevelt refused, seeing this as extremely unsportsmanlike.
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265 votes
Articles and cartoons about the event followed.
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282 votes
I was not aware of any of these facts.
46%
1139 votes
N/A
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Are you familiar with the creation of the first Teddy Bear? Please select all the facts you know. Besides sweets, New York candy shop owner Morris Michtom and his wife also made stuffed animals.
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152 votes
In 1902, the couple decided to create a honey-colored plush toy bear after seeing a Clifford Berryman cartoon about the Roosevelt event.
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248 votes
They wanted to dedicate the bear to the president, calling it "Teddy's Bear" , and got permission from the president to use his name.
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432 votes
The Michtoms mass-produced the bears, which were so popular, they were soon able to found the Ideal Toy Company.
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I was not aware of any of these facts.
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N/A
18%
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Are you familiar with this information about Steiff bears? Please select all the facts that you know. Around the same time, a German company founded in 1880 by seamstress Margarete Steiff began making a toy bear with jointed limbs, covered with shorn mohair plush.
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Margarete's nephew, Richard, designed the life-like bears based on bears he sketched at the zoo.
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Steiff bears debuted in 1903 at a German toy fair.
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Steiff bears officially became known as teddy bears in 1906 and helped to drive international popularity.
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I was not aware of any of these facts.
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N/A
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Teddy Bears remain one of the most popular toys in the world. Please select all options that apply to you. I think teddy bears create a sense of companionship and security.
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I love teddy bears.
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Teddy bears are not special to me.
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I dislike teddy bears.
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37 votes
I had a teddy bear(s) as a kid.
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I have a teddy bear (s) now.
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425 votes
I have a teddy bear collection.
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137 votes
I have been to a Teddy Bear Museum.
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39 votes
I have a Steiff bear or other Steiff stuffed animal.
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95 votes
I can sing the song, "The Teddy Bears' Picnic" (written in 1907).
5%
134 votes
I never saw a stuffed teddy bear.
3%
80 votes
N/A
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527 votes
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