September+26,+2007


 * 1) In what fairy tale does Hans Christian describe how a little girl dies from hunger and cold on New Year’s Eve? (//The Little Match Girl//)

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 * 1) There is a common magic number often seen in fairy tales. What is that number (3)
 * 1) From what story does the line “Mirror mirror on the wall who’s the fairest of them all” come from? (//Snow white and the seven dwarves//)
 * 1) Who went up the clock in the nursery rhyme //Hickory Dickory Dock//? //(the mouse)//


 * 1) Le Petit Chaperon Rouge is the original version of what fairy tale by Charles Perrault (Little Red Riding Hood)


 * 1) What nationality was children's author Hans Christian Andersen? (//Danish//)


 * 1) In the Arabian Nights, what was the name of both the porter and of the sailor who told tales of the dangers of the sea? (//Sindbad//)


 * 1) In one brothers Grimm story, four animals- a donkey, a dog, a cat, & a rooster- learn that they have outlived their usefulness to their owners, and are to be killed. Rather than accepting this fate, they set off to start a new life in what profession? (musicians)

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 * 1) Which nursery rhyme refers to an unusually large canon which was used by the Royalists in the English Civil War (1642 - 1649)? (//Humpty Dumpty//)
 * 1) What did Georgie do when the boys came out to play? (//he ran away//)


 * 1) In what fairy tale do children nibble from a house? (//Hansel and Gretel//)


 * 1) This nursery rhyme has its origins as a children's ring game. The period in history dates back to the great plague of London in 1665 (bubonic plague). The symptoms of the plague included a raised red rash on the skin and violent sneezing. A pouch of sweet smelling herbs or posies was carried due to the belief that the disease was transmitted by bad smells. Name this nursery rhyme. (//Ring a ring o’rosies//)


 * 1) What fairy tale involves a lot of hair when someone was trying to escape? (//Rapunzel//)


 * 1) Who was the man who led a group of children to their death? (//The Pied Piper of Hamelin//)


 * 1) What and how many birds were hidden in a pie? (//Four-and-twenty// //blackbirds//)


 * 1) What was the name of the evil man who thought nobody knew his name? //(Rumpilstilskin//)


 * 1) What does the phrase Pop Goes the Weasel mean in the nursery rhyme Pop Goes the Wesasel? (To pawn your coat)

Pop goes the Weasel Half a pound of tuppenny rice, Half a pound of treacle. That’s the way the money goes, Pop! goes the weasel. Up and down the City road, In and out the Eagle, That’s the way the money goes, Pop! goes the weasel.


 * 1) Which Nursery Rhyme contains the words "marched them up to the top"? (//The Grand Old Duke of York)//