Birds That Never Really Were, 5th Flight Quiz

Answer: Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck was introduced in 1937. He was voiced by Mel Blanc for the next 52 years. In his autobiography, Blanc says he invented Daffy's lisp. Daffy Duck, drawn by Ed Wleczyk of Warner Brothers, appeared on a 33-cent U.S. postage stamp in 1999. He is shown looking upset because there are two letters in his mailbox with Bugs Bunny postage stamps on them.

Answer: comes bob, bob, bobbin' along

Harry Woods wrote the words and music to "When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin' Along)" in 1926. Several artists recorded it (which is how things worked in those days), the most popular of which was the one by Al Jolson. It was subsequently recorded by Bob Crosby, Doris Day, Bing Crosby, Julie London, Eydie Gormé, and Dean Martin.

The first restaurant in the North American gourmet hamburger chain Red Robin was named in Seattle after this song. The English rugby club Hull Kingston Rovers, whose colours are red and white, use "Red, Red Robin" as their club anthem.

Answer: Huey, Dewey, and Louie

The young duck triplets are sometimes Donald's allies and sometimes his adversaries in the cartoons. Huey, Dewey, and Louie are a lot like their uncle, which is part of what drives him crazy about them. Their mother is identified as Donald's sister Della Duck. As twins sometimes do, the ducklings complete each other's sentences. While all three of the boys are members of the Junior Woodchucks, Huey keeps the Junior Woodchuck guidebook with him at all times for ready reference.

Answer: Tales of My Mother Goose

There are numerous possibilities for the origin of Mother Goose. One of them is the collection of French fairy tales published by Charles Perrault. Another is Thomas Carnan's collection "Mother Goose's Melody, or, Sonnets for the Cradle" (1780). Mother Goose is the imaginary author of numerous nursery rhymes, songs and stories.

Answer: loonie

The Royal Canadian Mint introduced a gold-coloured one-dollar coin in 1987. It has the head of Queen Elizabeth II on one side and a common loon on the reverse. The coin was humourously called a "loonie" at first until the Mint legally secured the rights to the name in 2006 to prevent its misuse. When the government issued a two-dollar coin in 1996, it was promptly called a "toonie."

Answer: "Turkey in the Straw" has racist roots

"Turkey in the Straw" was built on an Irish ballad called "The Old Rose Tree." There were numerous variations from the early 1800s, most of them featuring fiddle players. Following the Civil War, a series of racist and still more racist versions became popular. [The names are not reproduced here so as not to repeat ethnic slurs.] In June 2020, Good Humor announced that it would replace the familiar song with something written by Wu-Tang Clan's RZA.

Answer: a snowbird

"Snowbird" was written by Canadian Gene MacLellan and recorded by various artists but none so popular as Anne Murray. Bing Crosby's and Elvis Presley's versions were good but Anne Murray's topped both the Canadian and US pop charts. In an interview for Canadian television, Murray reported that the songwriter told her he wrote the song "in twenty minutes while walking on a beach on Prince Edward Island."

Answer: Sarcophagus MacAbre

"Pogo" was syndicated in American newspapers from 1948 until 1975. An occasional character was Sarcophagus MacAbre, a vulture, who was an undertaker. He lived in a decrepit mausoleum. He wore a black stove-pipe hat draped with black veil. In some of the strips, MacAbre's speech balloons were square, outlined in double black lines, and lettered in the manner of Victorian funeral announcements.

Answer: May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose

Little Jimmy Dickens achieved his only Billboard Top 40 hit with "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose." It was a silly song describing three situations in which the singer was cheap and heartless, to which the person he offended responded: "May the bird of paradise fly up your nose / May an elephant caress you with his toes / May your wife be plagued with runners in her hose / May the bird of paradise fly up your nose." This refrain was based on a shtick where Johnny Carson, dressed as Carnac the Magnificent, a seer from the Middle East, would insult/curse the audience if they didn't laugh at one of his jokes.

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"

When owner Art Modell wanted to move the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore in 1985, the City of Cleveland balked and required him to rename his new team as an expansion club. A naming competition was held and the Ravens was selected. The allusion is to Edgar Allan Poe who lived in Baltimore and is buried there. It also created a sort of avian parallelism with the city's Baltimore Orioles professional baseball team.