What's The Missing Word? Trivia Quiz

Answer: bus

"The wheels on the bus go round and round,
Round and round, round and round.
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
All day long!"

The last line is often sung as "All through the town".

"The Wheels on the Bus" is an American folk song written by Verna Hills.

Answer: mountain

"She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes
She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes
She'll be coming round the mountain, she'll be coming round the mountain,
She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes"

"She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" is believed to have originated during the late 19th century, and is derived from a Christian song known as "When The Chariot Comes".

Answer: trunk

"Nellie the Elephant packed her trunk
And said goodbye to the circus
Off she went with a trumpety-trump
Trump, trump, trump"

Ralph Butler and Peter Hart wrote this well-known children's song, about a fictional intelligent elephant, in 1956.

Answer: boat

"Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream,
Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream"

This English nursery rhyme is often sung as a round for four voice parts, with each part starting when the subsequent one has finished the first line.

Answer: star

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!"

A popular English lullaby, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is sung to the tune of the French melody "Ah! vous dirai-je, maman", with the lyrics coming from the early 19th century poem "The Star" by Jane Taylor.

Answer: roses

"Ring-a-ring o' roses,
A pocket full of posies,
A-tishoo! A-tishoo!
We all fall down"

It is a common belief that this song is referencing the Black Death that devastated Europe in the mid 14th century, however students of folklore reject this idea.

Answer: wolf

"Who's afraid of the big bad wolf
The big bad wolf, the big bad wolf
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf
Tra la la la la"

Written by Frank Churchill and Ann Ronell, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" originally featured in the 1933 Disney cartoon "Three Little Pigs". It was the inspiration for the 1963 play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" by Edward Albee.

Answer: garden

"Round and round the garden
Like a teddy bear.
One step, two step,
Tickle you under there!"

This popular nursery rhyme is often accompanied by the circling on a finger on a child's upturned palm, followed by "stepping" the fingers up the child's arm, and finally giving a tickle under the arm as the song is sung.

Answer: lamb

"Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow,
Everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go"

"Mary Had a Little Lamb" was an original poem written by Sarah Josepha Hale that was first published in 1930. It was apparently inspired by a real-life incident where a young girl named Mary Sawyer actually took her pet lamb to school.

Answer: farm

"Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O
And on his farm he had a cow, E-I-E-I-O
With a moo moo here
And a moo moo there
Here a moo, there a moo
Everywhere a moo moo
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O"

This popular children's song and nursery rhyme can go on for as long as the singers can think of different animals that Old MacDonald keeps on his farm!