T103 ORNITHOLOGICAL QUIZ
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 12:42 pm1 What type of bird is the Swiss counterpart of the Easter bunny?
CUCKOO
2 What sport is played by the Pittsburgh Penguins?
ICE HOCKEY
3 Which bird is the symbol of peace in Japan?
CRANE
4 What was the first bird that Noah released from the Ark?
RAVEN
5 What game is named after the Chinese for sparrow?
MAH JONG
6 How were Keith, Shirley, Laurie, Danny, Tracy and Chris collectively known?
PARTRIDGE FAMILY
7 What is the favourite song of the animated bird Foghorn Leghorn?
CAMPTOWN RACES
8 Which bird is the symbol for the children’s section of Penguin Books?
PUFFIN
9 In the song The Twelve Days of Christmas what is six geese a-laying said to be symbolic of?
THE 6 DAYS OF CREATION
10 What bird is the symbol of the RSPB?
AVOCET
11 Whose alleged last words were, “Get my swan costume ready”?
ANNA PAVLOVA
12 Which was the first team from outside the United States to win the baseball World Series?
TORONTO BLUE JAYS
13 Who wrote the poem Ode to a Nightingale?
JOHNKEATS
14 Which sporting projectile was patented by George Ligowsky?
CLAY PIGEON
15 Who owned a plane called the Spruce Goose?
HOWARD HUGHES
16 In which TV game show do contestants greet the Dove from Above?
SHOOTING STARS
17 What bird did Michael Parkinson decapitate with a guillotine when a guest on Room 101?
EMU
18 Which bird’s name is an anagram of a river that rises in Valais in Switzerland?
HERON (RHONE)
19 What was the title of the novel on which Ken Loach based his film Kes?
KESTREL FOR A KNAVE
20 Who played Clarice Starling in the film Hannibal?
JULIEANN MOORE
21 Which bird indigenous to the British Isles lays the largest egg?
MUTE SWAN
22 What is the smallest species of owl?
ELF OWL
23 Which T Rex song contains the lyric, “Wear a tall hat like a Druid in the old days”?
RIDE A WHITE SWAN
24 A convocation is the collective noun for which bird?
EAGLE
25 What is the alternative one word name for a fish hawk?
OSPREY
CUCKOO
2 What sport is played by the Pittsburgh Penguins?
ICE HOCKEY
3 Which bird is the symbol of peace in Japan?
CRANE
4 What was the first bird that Noah released from the Ark?
RAVEN
5 What game is named after the Chinese for sparrow?
MAH JONG
6 How were Keith, Shirley, Laurie, Danny, Tracy and Chris collectively known?
PARTRIDGE FAMILY
7 What is the favourite song of the animated bird Foghorn Leghorn?
CAMPTOWN RACES
8 Which bird is the symbol for the children’s section of Penguin Books?
PUFFIN
9 In the song The Twelve Days of Christmas what is six geese a-laying said to be symbolic of?
THE 6 DAYS OF CREATION
10 What bird is the symbol of the RSPB?
AVOCET
11 Whose alleged last words were, “Get my swan costume ready”?
ANNA PAVLOVA
12 Which was the first team from outside the United States to win the baseball World Series?
TORONTO BLUE JAYS
13 Who wrote the poem Ode to a Nightingale?
JOHNKEATS
14 Which sporting projectile was patented by George Ligowsky?
CLAY PIGEON
15 Who owned a plane called the Spruce Goose?
HOWARD HUGHES
16 In which TV game show do contestants greet the Dove from Above?
SHOOTING STARS
17 What bird did Michael Parkinson decapitate with a guillotine when a guest on Room 101?
EMU
18 Which bird’s name is an anagram of a river that rises in Valais in Switzerland?
HERON (RHONE)
19 What was the title of the novel on which Ken Loach based his film Kes?
KESTREL FOR A KNAVE
20 Who played Clarice Starling in the film Hannibal?
JULIEANN MOORE
21 Which bird indigenous to the British Isles lays the largest egg?
MUTE SWAN
22 What is the smallest species of owl?
ELF OWL
23 Which T Rex song contains the lyric, “Wear a tall hat like a Druid in the old days”?
RIDE A WHITE SWAN
24 A convocation is the collective noun for which bird?
EAGLE
25 What is the alternative one word name for a fish hawk?
OSPREY
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