Birds That Never Really Were, 1st Flight Quiz

Answer: Woodstock

Woodstock was among similar birds who paused atop Snoopy's doghouse roof while migrating. The tiny bird, who does not fly well, chose to remain in the Browns' yard rather than migrate. Introduced in 1967, Woodstock's name was revealed in 1970. Schulz said he named him after the music festival of 1969.

The bird speaks but only in chicken scratches, which appear to be understood by his canine partner. Occasionally, a group of fellow yellow birds engage in Beagle Scout hikes with Snoopy as their scoutmaster or as French foreign legionnaires with Snoopy as their sergeant. Woodstock is left-handed.

Answer: a partridge

"The Twelve Days of Christmas" dates from at least 1780 and likely earlier. It assumes that the gift-giving season of Christmas lasts from Christmas Day until the Feast of the Epiphany, a span of twelve days. On the first day, the singer gives his true love "a partridge in a pear tree." A partridge is a non-migratory bird common throughout Europe.

A pear tree bears pomaceous edible fruit and is common throughout Europe. A partridge in a pear tree is highly unlikely because partridges are ground-nesting birds.

Answer: magpies

Terry originally created "The Talking Magpies" -- a married couple of identical black birds -- in early 1946 but they were changed to a pair of male magpies at the end of that year. Terrytoons produced 52 Heckle and Jeckle theatrical cartoons from 1946 to 1966.

They also had their own cartoon show in CBS television (1956-1966). Episodes showed on "The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse" (1979-1981). They were yellow-billed magpies, which are corvids similar to crows, ravens and jays.

Answer: Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1789 poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," he describes the killing of an albatross. The bird followed a ship at sea which the sailors took to be a good omen. A mariner shot it with a crossbow and his mates hung the dead bird around his neck to punish him for killing it. An ill wind drove the ship off course and then becalmed it.

They ran out of water, crewmen died and the ship ultimately sank. Modernly, to have an albatross around one's neck is to feel a negative psychological burden as a result of misdoing.

Answer: Tootsie Roll Pop

The Doner Advertising Agency created the bespectacled owl who answered the question "How many licks does it take to reach the center of a Tootsie Pop?" The wise old Strigiform took one lick, then another, and then crunched through the hard-candy shell to reach the chewy center.

The owl was voiced in TV commercials by Paul Winchell, the ventriloquist who provided the voices for numerous TV cartoon characters.

Answer: Owl

Grandad Buck, who is Rabbit's grandfather, appears in "Return to the Hundred Acre Wood" (2009) by David Benedictus. Thesaurus is a large reptile imagined by Piglet, also in Benedictus' "Return to the Hundred Acre Wood." Grandfather Gopher is a character created by Disney who appeared in several Disney Pooh films. Owl takes himself to be the eldest, wisest and best educated of all of the creatures in the Hundred Acre Wood.

He lectures. If he could spell better, he might not sign his name "WOL" nor call his home "the Wolery."

Answer: Fly Like an Eagle

The Steve Miller Band recorded "Fly Like an Eagle" and released it on an album of the same name. The recording reached quadruple platinum from the RIAA. There was much discussion at the time of the meaning of the lyrics, some insisting that they described the kind of escape from troubles afforded by drugs.

Another was that it referred to leaving a Native American reservation. Miller, the author, didn't say. Seal covered the song in 1996; his recording was used in the motion picture "Space Jam."

Answer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The first production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" (Opus 20) in 1877 was not a popular success. The ballet was heavily revised in 1895 and it is this version which is the basis for most modern productions. Based on Russian and German folk tales, "Swan Lake" is a magical love story about a prince (Siegfried), an evil sorcerer (Baron Von Rothbart) and a beautiful woman turned into a swan (Odette).

There have been many endings appended to this ballet, many of them never imagined by the composer.

Answer: Her copyright is held by Walt Disney

Mother Goose arises from many different sources. She appears in Charles Perrault's early 18th century French collection of folk tales "Contes de ma Mère l'Oye." She appears in the 17th century English nursery rhyme collection "Mother Goose's Melody, or, Sonnets for the Cradle." American Mary Goose's grave is located in the Granary Burying Ground in Boston, Massachusetts.

She was the wife of Isaac Goose and, some argue, the prototypic Mother Goose.

Answer: Tweety Bird

Tweety Bird (whose name may be a mispronunciation of Sweetie Bird) is a yellow canary with an unbelievably large head. He appeared in Warner Brothers' Merrie Melodies and Loony Tunes for many years since his introduction in 1942. His nemesis is Sylvester the Cat who is intent on eating him.

Their owner Granny forbids and confounds it. Apparently only semi-retired, Tweety Bird appeared in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" in 1988 and "Space Jam" in 1996.