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1. Who had a UK number one hit single in 1966 with "Pretty Flamingo"?
2. This was a UK number two hit single in 1970, can you name the song?
"Catch a bright star and a place it on your forehead
Say a few spells and baby, there you go
Take a black cat and sit it on your shoulder
And in the morning you'll know all you know, oh."
3. Here is an old romantic number which name-checks a few birds.
Which type of birds are missing?
"Let there be ___
A lark and a dove
But first of all please...let there be love."
4. Which of these is a song by The Beatles?
5. Who had a hit single singing these words?
"Take time for your pleasure
And laugh with love
Take the hand of another
And sing for the wings of a dove."
6. Can you recognise who first sang these lyrics?
"You can't plant me in your penthouse;
I'm going back to my plough,
Back to the howling old owl in the woods,
Hunting the horny back toad..."
7. Which of these is the correct title of a UK hit single?
8. Can you name the song here?
"_________________________________________________."
Need more info maybe? It was the first UK number one for Fleetwood Mac.
9. Well I've heard loved ones be called swans, ducks, doves, pigeons even "My Little Chickadee", but gannets? A great big seabird known for its voracious appetite, how romantic is that?
"I'd rendezvous with Janet
Quite near the Isle of Thanet
She looked more like a gannet
She wasn't half a prannet
Her mother tried to ban it
Her father helped me plan it
And when I captured Janet
She bruised her pomegranate."
Charming; who sang this little ditty?
10. A beautiful Spring Sunday afternoon in the park, surely no-one is harbouring dark thoughts here?
"Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.
Life is skittles and life is beer.
I think the loveliest time of the year is the Spring.
I do, don't you? Course you do.
But there's one thing that makes Spring complete for me,
And makes ev'ry Sunday a treat for me.
All the world seems in tune
On a Spring afternoon,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park."
OK, so maybe one man is bent on carnage. Who is he?
Source: Author
Mutchisman
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