Three for the Price of One Trivia Quiz

Answer: Walk Right In

"Walk Right In" is a country song written back in 1929 by Gus Cannon, a musician who also helped make jug bands popular back then. It has a really catchy tune, and easy to sing along, but with lyrics that don't particularly make much sense. Revived in 1963 by the Rooftop Singers, it became a world wide hit.

Crocodiles are gruesome (that grew some more) reptiles native to tropical areas of Asia, parts of the Americas and the top end of Australia. They lurk, partly submerged in both salt and fresh water, waiting for their next meal to come along, and - SNAP! Struggling prey are then taken in a death roll by the crocodiles until they drown.

When the crocodile visited the dentist with its sore tooth, he said the outcome was...filling.

Answer: What'll I Do

"What'll I Do" is a rather sorrowful 1923 ballad written by Irving Berlin. The singer in this number is thinking longingly of his love who is far away. The song was based on a time in Berlin's life when his fiancee's disapproving father sent her off overseas, hoping she'd forget Berlin. Spoiler: It didn't work. They were wed and had a long and happy marriage.

Koalas are marsupials (animals that carry their young in a pouch) from the continent of Australia. They can usually be found located in the branches of eucalyptus trees, snoring happily away, because the little balls of furs normally sleep some twenty hours every day.

If you mated a sleeping koala with a jumping kangaroo, you'd have an animal with Restless Leg Syndrome.

Answer: Bye Bye Blackbird

"Bye Bye Blackbird" was written in 1924 by Henderson and Dixon, and most people only know the chorus for this song. It actually has several verses as well. Thought at one stage to be a song about slavery, the verses clearly indicate that the song is just about someone who is feeling homesick for a place he left some time ago, and is about to leave the symbolic dark birds of his thoughts to return to the symbolic bluebirds of happiness.

The crow family of birds is large and varied, but the one shot by the irate farmer for munching on his crops is a large black avian, a little smaller than a raven. Crows are remarkably intelligent birds, but unfortunately they're not pretty to look at, and nor do they have a sweet song - just a harsh cawwww, so people tend to dislike the poor creatures.

Did you know that if blackbirds got sunburned, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference?

Answer: Cheek to Cheek

"Cheek to Cheek" was written by the prolific composer, Irving Berlin, and released in 1935 for the movie "Top Hat", starring the talented Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. This song is just so smooth and creamy with its flowing rhythm and romantic lyric, and has been recorded - wait for it - by almost 440 different singers.

Squirrels are native to the Americas, and Eurasia, are even found in Africa, and have apparently been introduced to Australia - although one tends to doubt that. The bunyips would eat them there. Ground squirrels have large pouches in their cheeks which they fill up with nuts and other food they've gathered, to take back home to their families.

Squirrels are classified in the same animal family as rodents - which somehow seems just a tad insulting, so nuts to that.

Answer: Don't Get Around Much Any More

Duke Ellington wrote the old jazz classic "Don't Get Around Much Any More" in 1940. Originally called "Never No Lament", this double negative title was soon changed, thank goodness. English teachers would have been driven to tears of despair. The song has been released by various performers ever since, including greats such as Rod Stewart, Paul McCartney and Willie Nelson.

Canaries are domesticated birds belonging to the wild canary family, so the encyclopedia says. Well obviously. They're hardly related to penguins. It's the males that do the singing with these lovely little birds. Kept as pets as far back as the 17th century, only the wealthy could afford them. And do you know why? Because some of the earliest breeders were monks - and they only sold the male birds, so others couldn't breed them. This drove the prices up, and the monks made a killing. Did I hear anyone mention the vow of poverty?

Did you hear about the canary that worked in the cannery? It had an identity crisis.

Answer: I've Got a Crush on You

"I've Got a Crush on You" was written by George and Ira Gershwin in 1928 but not published until 1930 after being featured in the revised musical "Strike Up the Band". The song re-appeared in the 1940 film of the same name, starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. The lyrics are pretty woeful to be honest, with lines such as "I'm your big and brave and handsome Romeo, How I won you I shall never, never know, It's not that you're attractive, But oh, my heart grew active".

Boa constrictors are HUGE reptiles found in South America and the Caribbean - places I'll never visit. Females of these creatures are larger than the males, especially around the girth, which, sorrowfully, is a fate common to many of us. These creatures hide in waiting, and then strike with lightning speed, wrapping their bodies around their victims, and slowly crushing them to death - before taking several days to swallow them whole.

Did you know that if boa constrictors go into the building business, they become boa constructors?

Answer: High Hopes

"High Hopes" is a 1959 song written by James van Heusen and Sammy Cahn. Though other performers have also performed this number over time, it was Frank Sinatra who took it into the music charts of the day, after he and child actor, Eddie Hodges, performed it together in the 1959 film, "A Hole in the Head". This happy number describes two different creatures - an ant and a goat - achieving herculean tasks, simply because they had high hopes of achieving the impossible. "High Hopes" was subsequently awarded an Oscar for Best Original Song.

A giraffe is the tallest mammal on the planet, know for its amazing neck, which can be as much as eight feet long. This enables this fascinating creature to reach very high up into trees to feast on various foods out of reach of other animals, so its high hopes are never in vain. When two giraffes fight, they swing their necks at each in mighty whacks to try to establish dominance. This is known as necking. Necking? Ahh, memories are sweet.

Tip for tourists: Never stand behind a tall giraffe, without holding an umbrella.

Answer: I Get a Kick Out of You

"I Get a Kick Out of You" was written by the multi-talented Cole Porter. It was introduced to the public in the 1934 stage musical "Anything Goes" and then, two years later, in the film of the same name. Interestingly, Porter had to twice change some of the lyrics of this song. He replaced one line that mentions the "fair Mrs Lindbergh" in a plane, because of the tragic Lindbergh baby kidnapping - and, of all things, in another verse that mentions some people getting a kick from cocaine, the 1934 production code saw that line getting kicked as well.

The hard working little donkey has been utilised by humans for thousands of years in all types of work, and often badly treated along the way. Though it has a bad name for being a stubborn ass, it is, instead, an intelligent little creature with a stronger perception of possible danger than other animals. That is why it will refuse to budge if it feels it is at risk. The modern donkey's ancestry can be traced back to Somalia and Nubia and it spread out to the rest of the world from there. Christopher Columbus introduced these little animals to the Americas on his world famous trip to the West Indies. Donkeys do kick, but only for defence purposes or if they are startled. They have the ability to kick, not only backwards, but, rather amusingly, sidewards as well.

The relationship between the male donkey and female pig failed. He complained that she snorted at all his suggestions - and she said his laugh irritated her when she was watching television.

Answer: I Only Have Eyes For You

"I Only Have Eyes For You" is a dreamy, romantic ballad by Harry Warren and Al Durbin that was written in 1934 for the film "Dames". What a dreadful title. "Dames" starred Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell, and had a just passable plot that also included groan worthy numbers such as "The Girl at the Ironing Board" and "When You Were a Smile on Your Mother's Lips (And a Twinkle in Your Daddy's Eye)". Yet, the lovely "I Only Have Eyes For You", in spite of the "Sha bop, sha bop" lyrics scattered throughout, has stood the test of time, and continues even today to be one of the dreamiest love songs ever written.

Peacocks are beautiful birds famous for their stunning display of feathers, which, when fanned out, appear to be covered with hundreds of eyes looking at one. Peahens are normally demurely shaded, with nothing like the vivid colouring of the males, but as some hens age, they actually begin to grow bright feathers and make the same piercing calls normally only heard from males. Scientists suggest this is caused by the lack of estrogen in older females.

Sadly, the myopic optometrist, who generously provided free spectacles for the peacock, went bankrupt.

Answer: I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles

"I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" was composed in 1918 by John Kellette, and with lyrics by a group of writers who used the pseudonym Jaan Kenbrovin. Originally designed to be performed as a gentle waltz, with lyrics mourning dreams that never come true, it was used to draw attention to corrupt players during the 1919 Black Sox baseball scandal with the line "I'm Forever Blowing Ballgames".

2021 internet research indicates that there appears to be quite a debate going on over whether whales produce gas or not. Lord luv a duck, who cares? What is known about whales, though, is that the smaller ones engage in a form of play by creating vortex rings or bubble rings. They do this by giving a quick puff of air under the water and allowing it to rise to the surface, where it pops - or they bite it themselves under the water, sending many smaller popping bubbles to the surface instead. More serious minded scientists, however, believe this could possibly be a form of communication or food foraging, and pooh-pooh any notion of play entirely. Those are the same scientists who are whales of fun at a party.

The annoyed whale vowed he'd never date that clam again - because she hardly ever opened her mouth.