Origins Quiz — Friday, October 16, 2026

What bear was named after a London railway station, because the author who bought the lone toy off a shop shelf on Christmas Eve 1956 lived nearby? Michael Bond wrote the first book in about ten days. He later said he had wartime evacuee children in mind, with labels round their necks.

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