The Care UK 2020 bird quiz
Answers
Round One Round Two
1. What bird do you most often find on 11. In the nursery rhyme ‘sing a song of sixpence’,
Christmas cards? what birds were baked into a pie?
Robin Blackbirds
2. Which small brown bird is often associated 12. According to a Monty Python sketch; what
with London or Cockneys? was dead, lifeless and only stayed upright
Sparrow because it was nailed to its perch?
A parrot
3. Mute, whooper and Bewick are all types of
what bird? 13. Which is bigger – a blue tit or a greenfinch?
Swan Greenfinches are much bigger than blue tits
4. Which famous artist well-known for his 14. Complete the name – Little Jenny xxxxx
paintings of birds founded a nature reserve at Wren
Slimbridge? 15. What cartoon bird is always trying to escape
Sir Peter Scott from Sylvester the cat and often says “I tawt I
5. What colour is a male blackbird’s beak? taw a puddy tat. I did, I did see a puddy tat!”
Yellow Tweetie Pie or Tweetie Bird (a yellow canary)
16. In the children’s TV programme Bagpuss, what
6. In the song sung by Vera Lynn, what flew over
was the name of the woodpecker?
the white cliffs of Dover?
Professor Yaffle
Blue Birds
17. Which bird is said to sing ‘Little bit o’bread
7. In the rather naughty Tom Lehrer song, what
and no cheeeese’?
did he do to pigeons in the park?
Yellow hammer
Poisoned them
18. In the saying about magpies, what does two
8. In the famous song, what sang in Barclay magpies foretell?
Square?
Joy - One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a
A nightingale girl, Four for a boy, Five for silver, Six for gold,
9. Which bird drums on trees to find food and Seven for a secret never to be told
mark out its territory? 19. Rod Hull had a very famous bird that used to
Woodpecker cause havoc. What was it?
10. In the world of ballet, which bird is associated An Emu
with a lake? 20. What very special birds live at the Tower of
Swan London and must never leave?
Ravens
Answers
Round One Round Two
1. What bird do you most often find on 11. In the nursery rhyme ‘sing a song of sixpence’,
Christmas cards? what birds were baked into a pie?
Robin Blackbirds
2. Which small brown bird is often associated 12. According to a Monty Python sketch; what
with London or Cockneys? was dead, lifeless and only stayed upright
Sparrow because it was nailed to its perch?
A parrot
3. Mute, whooper and Bewick are all types of
what bird? 13. Which is bigger – a blue tit or a greenfinch?
Swan Greenfinches are much bigger than blue tits
4. Which famous artist well-known for his 14. Complete the name – Little Jenny xxxxx
paintings of birds founded a nature reserve at Wren
Slimbridge? 15. What cartoon bird is always trying to escape
Sir Peter Scott from Sylvester the cat and often says “I tawt I
5. What colour is a male blackbird’s beak? taw a puddy tat. I did, I did see a puddy tat!”
Yellow Tweetie Pie or Tweetie Bird (a yellow canary)
16. In the children’s TV programme Bagpuss, what
6. In the song sung by Vera Lynn, what flew over
was the name of the woodpecker?
the white cliffs of Dover?
Professor Yaffle
Blue Birds
17. Which bird is said to sing ‘Little bit o’bread
7. In the rather naughty Tom Lehrer song, what
and no cheeeese’?
did he do to pigeons in the park?
Yellow hammer
Poisoned them
18. In the saying about magpies, what does two
8. In the famous song, what sang in Barclay magpies foretell?
Square?
Joy - One for sorrow, Two for joy, Three for a
A nightingale girl, Four for a boy, Five for silver, Six for gold,
9. Which bird drums on trees to find food and Seven for a secret never to be told
mark out its territory? 19. Rod Hull had a very famous bird that used to
Woodpecker cause havoc. What was it?
10. In the world of ballet, which bird is associated An Emu
with a lake? 20. What very special birds live at the Tower of
Swan London and must never leave?
Ravens
