That Turkey's in a Fowl Mood Trivia Quiz

Answer: Robinson

Jackie Robinson was an outstanding athlete in baseball, basketball, football and track. He was an officer in the U. S. Army and later a TV analyst, a businessman, and a financial officer. He crossed the color line as the first black major league baseball player in the 20th Century in 1947. A robin is a well known and popular red-breasted bird.

Answer: Sparrow

Johnny Depp has played Captain Jack Sparrow in the blockbuster screen series of "Pirates of the Caribbean". A sparrow is a small bird who is often the poor victim of a BB gun or an arrow.

Answer: Byrd

USN Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd was a naval officer who specialized in aviation and polar exploration, claiming to have been the first man to reach the North Pole in 1926. A bird is the last existing relative of the dinosaurs, some still probably embedded in polar ice.

Answer: Finch

Gregory Peck received an Oscar For Best Actor in portraying lawyer Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird". He defended a poor black man wrongly accused of rape. The peck of a finch usually does not kill a mockingbird.

Answer: Wren

Sir Christopher Wren is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects of all time. The building of St. Paul's Cathedral was completed in 1710. A wren is a small bird noted for its loud and complex songs.

Answer: Nightingale

This "Lady with the Lamp" was known for making her medical rounds of wounded soldiers at night in the Crimea from 1854 to 1855. She did pioneering work in nursing and championed sanitary methods by writing and keeping statistical records in her career, as she believed God created her to be a nurse. A nightingale is a bird whose male gender sings songs at night to attract females.

Answer: Swanson

Gloria Swanson was at her finest with William Holden in the 1950 great movie "Sunset Boulevard". She was reputed to be a mistress of Joseph Kennedy Sr. A swan is a beautiful and graceful bird.

Answer: Phoenix

Joaquin Phoenix, also known as Leaf Phoenix, was twice nominated for the Oscar in the film "Gladiator" as Emperor Commodus and "Walk the Line" as Johnny Cash. He announced his "retirement" from acting in 2008. A phoenix is a mythical bird that burns to ashes at end of its 500 to 1000 year life cycle and is soon reborn again from its ashes. So it is an immortal.

Answer: Cannary

Martha Jane Cannary became famous as a frontierswoman and professional scout who claimed ties with Marshall Wild Bill Hickok. She was in Dakota territory when he was shot and killed in 1876. Another well known canary is Tweety Bird.

Answer: Quayle

James Danforth Quayle went by the first name of "Dan". Many people consider him handsome but lacking intellectually. A quail is a game bird that hunters like to shoot.