Ornithological

1 What type of bird is the Swiss counterpart of the Easter bunny?

2 What sport is played by the Pittsburgh Penguins?

3 Which bird is the symbol of peace in Japan?

4 What was the first bird that Noah released from the Ark?

5 What game is named after the Chinese for sparrow?

6 How were Keith, Shirley, Laurie, Danny, Tracy and Chris collectively known?

7 What is the favourite song of the animated bird Foghorn Leghorn?

8 Which bird is the symbol for the children’s section of Penguin Books?

9 In the song The Twelve Days of Christmas what is six geese a-laying said to be symbolic of?

10 What bird is the symbol of the RSPB?

11 Whose alleged last words were, “Get my swan costume ready”?

12 Which was the first team from outside the United States to win the baseball World Series?

13 Who wrote the poem Ode to a Nightingale?

14 Which sporting projectile was patented by George Ligowsky?

15 Who owned a plane called the Spruce Goose?

16 In which TV game show do contestants greet the Dove from Above?

17 What bird did Michael Parkinson decapitate with a guillotine when a guest on Room 101?

18 Which bird’s name is an anagram of a river that rises in Valais in Switzerland?

19 What was the title of the novel on which Ken Loach based his film Kes?

20 Who played Clarice Starling in the film Hannibal?

21 Which bird indigenous to the British Isles lays the largest egg?

22 What is the smallest species of owl?

23 Which T Rex song contains the lyric, “Wear a tall hat like a Druid in the old days”?

24 A convocation is the collective noun for which bird?

25 What is the alternative one word name for a fish hawk?

Answers

1 Cuckoo
2 Ice hockey
3 Crane
4 Raven
5 Mah Jong
6 Partridge Family
7 Camptown Races
8 Puffin
9 The six days of the creation
10 Avocet
11 Anna Pavlova
12 Toronto Blue Jays
13 John Keats
14 Clay pigeon
15 Howard Hughes
16 Shooting Stars
17 Emu
18 Heron, anagram of Rhone
19 Kestrel for a Knave
20 Julianne Moore
21 Mute swan
22 Elf owl
23 Ride a White Swan
24 Eagle
25 Osprey