Tuesday 9 November 2010

QR – Cure – Quizzing Realms – 177

An easy and heartwarming one for today.

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What is depicted here, and what owes its origin to this single cartoon?

Happy quizzing, and have a nice life, folks!

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I have immense respect for this quizzer. And his response is too thorough to be relegated to the comments section. Therefore, I am quoting Kamal Rathi’s answer verbatim. It is correct, like the 11 other answers.

“The name Teddy Bear comes from former United States President Theodore Roosevelt, whose nickname was "Teddy". The name originated from an incident on a bear-hunting trip in Mississippi in November 1902, to which Roosevelt was invited by Mississippi Governor Andrew H Longino. There were several other hunters competing, and most of them had already killed an animal. A suite of Roosevelt's attendants, led by Holt Collier, cornered, clubbed, and tied an American Black Bear to a willow tree after a long exhausting chase with hounds. They called Roosevelt to the site and suggested that he should shoot it. He refused to shoot the bear himself, deeming this unsportsmanlike,but instructed that the bear be killed to put it out of its misery, and it became the topic of a political cartoon by Clifford Berryman in The Washington Post on November 16, 1902.While the initial cartoon of an adult black bear lassoed by a white handler and a disgusted Roosevelt had symbolic overtones, later issues of that and other Berryman cartoons made the bear smaller and cuter.”

Initially, these stuffed toys were called Teddy’s bears. The apostrophe and the ‘s’ were dropped later.

13 comments:

  1. Theodore Roosevelt refusing to shoot a bear cub. The term Teddy Bear originated from this incidence.

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  2. Teddy Bear is my guess... although i don't know the roots of cartoon. I know Teddy bear is named after Ted roosevelt, but don't know why

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  3. This led to the origin of Teddy Bears thanks to Theodore Roosevelt.

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  4. This sketch was drawn by a cartoonist berryman for the washington post. This was drawn with a reference to an incident which happened when President Roosevelt went for hunting. The hunting team brought him a little bear cub and he refused to kill the animal. After this cartoon we saw the birth of present Teddy Bears.

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  5. This cartoon by Clifford Berryman depicts Theodore Roosevelt refusing to shoot a bear cub. This was the origin of Teddy Bear.

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  6. Theodore Roosevelt's refusal to shoot the bear.Started the Teddy Bear craze.

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  7. Cartoon showing Teddy Roosevelt's reluctance to kill a bear during a hunt. this is said to have given the term teddy bear

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  8. The name Teddy Bear comes from former United States President Theodore Roosevelt, whose nickname was "Teddy". The name originated from an incident on a bear-hunting trip in Mississippi in November 1902, to which Roosevelt was invited by Mississippi Governor Andrew H. Longino.

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  9. Theodore Roosevelt refusing to shoot a captured bear and the cartoon depicting this incident led to the phrase "Teddy Bears"

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  10. Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt is the inspiration...during a hunt in missippi he ordered mercy killing of a wounded bear....
    And 2dy v have teddy bears...

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  11. The name Teddy Bear comes from former United States President Theodore Roosevelt, whose nickname was "Teddy". The name originated from an incident on a bear-hunting trip in Mississippi in November 1902, to which Roosevelt was invited by Mississippi Governor Andrew H. Longino. There were several other hunters competing, and most of them had already killed an animal. A suite of Roosevelt's attendants, led by Holt Collier, cornered, clubbed, and tied an American Black Bear to a willow tree after a long exhausting chase with hounds. They called Roosevelt to the site and suggested that he should shoot it. He refused to shoot the bear himself, deeming this unsportsmanlike,but instructed that the bear be killed to put it out of its misery, and it became the topic of a political cartoon by Clifford Berryman in The Washington Post on November 16, 1902.While the initial cartoon of an adult black bear lassoed by a white handler and a disgusted Roosevelt had symbolic overtones, later issues of that and other Berryman cartoons made the bear smaller and cuter.

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  12. A 1902 political cartoon in The Washington Post spawned the Teddy bear name.
    The name Teddy Bear comes from former United States President Theodore Roosevelt, whose nickname was "Teddy". The name originated from an incident on a bear-hunting trip in Mississippi in November 1902, to which Roosevelt was invited by Mississippi Governor Andrew H. Longino.

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  13. Thanks for the immense respect you have for me, I dont know how far I am worthy of it, thanks anyways :)

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