My True Love Guild to Me - 6th Day Quiz

Answer: Anatidae

Geese are strongly migratory birds and are members of the Anatidae family. They tend to breed in northern parts and fly south to winter in warmer climes. Geese have been domesticated for thousands of years and were known to both the ancient Chinese and the ancient Egyptians. Examples of the Hirundinidae family include the swallow; the Corvidae family, the magpie and the Serinus family, the canary.

Answer: Bobby Moore

Moore, Hurst and Peters, of course, all played their club football with West Ham United. Moore was regarded as one of the best defenders and finest 'readers' of the game of his generation. He was 'capped' 108 times for England. After Moore died of colon cancer in 1993, West Ham 'retired' the number 6 shirt from its squad numbers.

Answer: Newfoundland and Labrador

Happy Valley-Goose Bay sprang up around an air base that was built in 1941 for aircraft escorting ships on the first part of their perilous voyages across the U Boat-infested waters of the Atlantic. The town was incorporated in 1973 and in 2006 its population was given as about 7,500. It is located at the mouth of the Goose River, and, of course, it has a goose on its town seal.

Answer: Saturn

The reminder that many people used to name the planets was "Man Very Early Made Jugs Stand Up Nearly Perpendicular" (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto). After Pluto was, seemingly, downgraded from planet status, perhaps that mnemonic needed a change: "Man Very Early Made Jugs Stand Up Neatly?"

Answer: Hughes H-4 Hercules

The Hughes H-4 Hercules was constructed out of aluminum and wood (birch, rather than spruce) and flew for the first, and only, time on November 2 1947. It was the largest flying boat ever built and had eight engines. Its maiden flight was only about a mile long, and the plane only reached an altitude of about 70 feet.

In more recent years it was put on display at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, USA.

Answer: Thou shalt not kill

The 10 Commandments can be found in the Old Testament Book of Exodus, chapter 20.

Answer: 20 to 22 years

Sources vary on this question, but domestic geese will live longer than their wild 'cousins'. This is mainly due to better care, availability of food and protection from predators. There have, though, been reports of geese living much longer. [Source: www.ashtonwaterfowl.net]

Answer: Boston, Massachusetts

Boston was first settled in 1630. The other towns mentioned are St. Augustine, Florida (1565), Santa Fe, New Mexico (1609) and Hampton, Virginia (1610). The Bostonian legend is that Mother Goose was a widow and mother of six children who married a man called Isaac Goose, a widower with 10 children of his own in the 1660s. Tourists like to visit her gravestone in Granary Burial Ground.

Answer: 28 to 35 days

Each goose hen can produce four or five eggs. In captivity, help is needed from human hands since the eggs are too big for the hen to turn by herself. (Sorry, my source does not tell me what they do in the wild).

Answer: Patrick McGoohan

'The Prisoner' was a 1960s science fiction show that was made for British TV but quickly earned cult status in both the UK and the USA. McGoohan played a secret agent imprisoned in a seaside town where the authorities tried to break his resistance. No one had names, just numbers, and McGoohan was 'number six'.