Birds That Never Really Were, 2nd Flight Quiz

Answer: Donald Duck

Donald Duck is known as Kalle Anka in Sweden, as Paperino in Italy, as Pasko Patak in Croatia, as Pato Donald in Brazil, Portugal, Spain and Mexico, as Andrés Önd in Iceland, as Donal Bebek in Indonesia, as Antulis Donaldas in Lithuania, as Anders And in Denmark, and as Paja Patak in Serbia. That duck certainly gets around! By special licensing agreement with Disney, the image of Donald Duck is used as the fighting duck mascot of the sports teams of the University of Oregon.

Answer: El Cóndor Pasa

Paul Simon was appearing in France at the Théâtre de l'Est Parisien when he first heard Los Incas perform the song "El Cóndor Pasa." He adapted the Andean/Peruvian folk song and recorded it for the album "Bridge Over Troubled Water" released in 1970. The original version of the song was performed in a "zarzuela" (musical dramatic stage production) in 1913. The nation of Peru deemed it part of their national cultural heritage, in 2004.

Answer: Chilly Willy

From 1953, Chilly Willy (a small penguin) and his friends (Smedley, Maxie and Gooney) were featured in Walter Lantz cartoons. When Woody Woodpecker had his own television programme (from 1957), Chilly Willy cartoons were a regular feature on the show.

The creators of this series were untroubled by the fact that penguins live in the Southern Hemisphere and polar bears (of which Maxie is one) live in the Northern Hemisphere.

Answer: Jubjub

The Jubjub is mentioned in both the poem "Jabberwocky" and the poem "The Hunting of the Snark." The first says "Beware the Jabberwock, my son!/The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!/Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun/The frumious Bandersnatch!" Jubjub birds are creatures about which one should be wary according to "Jabberywock" (1871). According to "The Hunting of the Snark" (1874-1876), Jubjub birds live in isolated valleys, scream horribly, and terrify everyone.

Answer: Kellogg's

Corn flakes were invented by brothers William Kellogg and John Kellogg in 1894. John fed it to his patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium; Will added sugar and marketed to a broader audience. Cornelius, a green rooster, was used as a mascot for Kellogg's Corn Flakes. He was voiced by comedic Western actor Andy Devine.

Answer: Polynesia

Beginning in 1920, Lofting wrote a series of stories for his own children about Dr. Dolittle and his animal companions. They describe a physician in a fictional village in the West Country: Puddleby-on-the-Marsh. His parrot, Polynesia, who claims not to know her age but remembers seeing King Charles II, teaches him to speak the languages of the animals. From this premises, wonderful adventures ensue. Polynesia is a parrot in the books; in the 1967 motion picture (with Rex Harrison) and the 2020 motion picture (with Robert Downey Jr.), she is played by a macaw.

Answer: a mission in Southern California

The Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded in 1776 in what would later become Orange County, California. Saint Giovani da Capistrano (1386-1456), a Franciscan from Abruzzo in Italy, was its patron saint. The Sierra Chapel is among the oldest buildings in the state. Cliff swallows leave Goya, Argentina, in March, and remain in San Juan Capistrano until October when they return to South America. Leon René wrote to the song to memorialize the birds' return.

Answer: John Keats

Keats poem "Ode to a Nightingale" was written in the spring of 1819 at the same time as his "Ode on Indolence", "Ode on Melancholy", and "Ode on a Grecian Urn." While the ode may well have been inspired by the song of a nightingale in the garden, the meaning of the verse is about the transience of health and the ability to enjoy life, and the inevitability of death. Critics wonder if his own poor health (he had tuberculosis) inclined him to such sober thoughts.

Answer: Sam the American Eagle

Sam the American Eagle appears on many of the Muppet television programmes and all of the Muppet movies. Created by Frank Oz, Sam is blustery in his support of all things American and insistent upon American superiority. He is stuffy, pompous and often wrong on his facts.

He disapproves of the "low brow" entertainment on the Muppet shows. In one series, he hosts a political news and opinion programme on television called "Everything Stinks."

Answer: the Road Runner

Beginning in 1948, the ravenous and devious coyote pursued the clever and quick roadrunner, often employing some Rube Goldberg contraption delivered by the Acme Company. Animator Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese imagined the perennially unsuccessful coyote and the unwilling-to-be-dinner bird. Neither character spoke but the roadrunner beeped.

The typical scene is one in which the coyote runs off the ledge of an incredibly high cliff, does not fall but rather is suspended in mid-air until he notices his lack of solid group, falls so far that his diminishing image disappears and then, after a moment, a dust cloud arises from his impact.