Which Animal Belongs? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Spider

There she was, just sitting on a tuffet, which is usually described as a low stool with no legs, which sounds like a cushion to me, having something to eat, when poor Miss Muffet was frightened away by a spider. There doesn't seem to be any record of what happened to the curds and whey which she abandoned.

Answer: Wolf

The story of Little Red Riding Hood is one of those collected by the famous German brothers named Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm. While Red Riding Hood was journeying through the woods to visit her grandmother, the wolf discovered where she was going and managed to get there first. Having eaten grandma, the wolf tried his best to eat Red Riding Hood too, but his plans were spoiled by a woodcutter who cut the wolf open and rescued granny. All ends well, unless you're the wolf, of course.

Answer: Pig

'Tom, Tom the piper's son; stole a pig and away he ran' are the first two lines. Tom ended up with a beating for being a thief, and the pig ended up being eaten anyway.

Answer: Lamb

This Mary is the one who 'had a little lamb' with 'fleece as white as snow'. This nursery rhyme was written in America, unlike most of the stories and rhymes for children, which come from Europe. The lamb followed Mary to school, although the teacher wouldn't allow it to stay in the classroom. The lamb waited patiently for Mary to finish school, so they could go home together.

Answer: Horse

Humpty Dumpty was the character who managed to fall off a wall and damage himself so badly that 'all the king's horses and all the king's men; couldn't put Humpty together again'. Lewis Carroll included Humpty Dumpty in his second book about Alice - 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There', which was published in 1871.

Answer: Mouse

'Hickory, dickory dock; the mouse ran up the clock' are the opening lines of the rhyme. As soon as the clock struck one o'clock, the mouse ran back down again. You could also find a mouse in the rhyme which begins 'Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been', when the cat visited London to see the queen and managed to frighten a mouse he found under her chair.

Answer: Rabbit

This might not be as well known as some of the other rhymes and stories in the quiz, although it is an old, traditional nursery rhyme dating from the eighteenth century in England. The lyrics are 'Bye baby Bunting; daddy's gone a-hunting; gone to get a rabbit skin; to wrap the baby Bunting in'.

It's probably best not to think too much about the poor rabbit whose fur was used to keep baby warm.

Answer: Bear

The first version of the story is associated with an English poet named Robert Southey, who wrote about three bears living in a house in the woods. Their visitor wasn't a girl, though, but an old woman although the rest of the story is very similar to the version we now know.

The old woman tasted the porridge, broke the chair and fell asleep in just the same way as in the later story of Goldilocks.

Answer: Swan

These characters come from a story written by Hans Christian Andersen. The poor ugly looking duckling was tormented by the other creatures and birds on the farm and was driven away by them because he didn't look as they think he should. After a miserable and lonely winter, he met a flock of swans who welcomed him as one of them.

He only discovered that he had grown into a swan when he saw his own reflection in the water.

Answer: Dog

'Old Mother Hubbard' is an English rhyme, originally written in 1805. Mother Hubbard went to her cupboard to find a bone for her dog, only to discover that there was nothing there. She went off to the baker to buy some bread for her dog, only to discover a dead dog when she returned.

Many versions stop there, but there are lots of other verses in which Mother Hubbard visited various shops and returned home to find the dog performing various tricks, like sitting in a chair, smoking a pipe and dancing a jig.

The two of them have lots of fun together, until the dog eventually dies (again) having led a long and happy life.