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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Nursery Rhymes
| Who must fly away home because her house is on fire and all her children are gone? Oh sure it must be the ________? | Nursery Rhymes
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Ladybird . Nursery rhymes occur in variants, as most folk songs do as well.
Ladybug is US English; ladybird is British English.
| Who went to a pieman and wanted to taste his ware? Of course it must have been Simple ______? | Nursery Rhymes
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Simon. Bad luck for Simple Simon: he was asked first to show his penny but had not any.
| Where did the old woman live who had so many children that she did not know what to do? Wasn't it in a _____? | Nursery Rhymes
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shoe. Poor children. They got broth without any bread and were whipped before they were put to bed.
Sprat. Fortunately his wife could not eat the lean and so between them both they licked the platter clean.
| Who sings for his supper and shall be given white bread and butter? Sure it was Little Tom _______? | Nursery Rhymes
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Tucker. Alas, how shall he cut it without a knife, and how will he be married without a wife...
| Who went to the cupboard to fetch her poor dog a bone? Alas when she got there the cupboard was bare and the poor dog had none. Wasn't it old Mother _______? | Nursery Rhymes
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| Why had the pussy cat been to London? Wasn't it to look at the ______? | Nursery Rhymes
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| Shall we all have tea? Have they all gone away? And who put the kettle on before Sukey took it off again? Wasn't it ______? | Nursery Rhymes
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| What grand old Duke had ten thousand men and marched them up to the top of the hill? Wasn't it the Duke of _____? | Nursery Rhymes
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| Where did the old woman live that, if she is not gone, lives there still? Wasn't it under the _____? | Nursery Rhymes
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| Rub-a-dub-dub: who were the three men in a tub, apart from the candlestickmaker? Wasn't it the _______ and the baker? | Nursery Rhymes
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| Who went up the hill to fetch a pail of water? Wasn't it Jack and _____? | Nursery Rhymes
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| If Monday's child is fair of face, what's Tuesday's child like then? Isn't it full of ______? | Nursery Rhymes
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| Who was a merry old soul, called for his pipe, his bowl and his fiddlers three? Wasn't it Old King _____? | Nursery Rhymes
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| Who sat in the corner, eating a Christmas pie, putting in his thumb and pulling a plum? Wasn't it Little Jack _______? | Nursery Rhymes
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| What are little girls made of? What are little girls made of?
Sugar and spice and all things ____,
That's what little girls are made of! | Missing Words From Nursery Rhymes
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| What are little boys made of? What are little boys made of?
Frogs and snails and puppy-dogs' _____,
That's what little boys are made of! | Missing Words From Nursery Rhymes
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tails. There is an alternative phrasing: SNAKES and snails...
| Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement's.
You owe me five farthings, say the bells of St Martin's.
When will you pay me? Say the bells at Old Bailey.
When I grow rich, say the bells at ___________. | Missing Words From Nursery Rhymes
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Shoreditch. Area east of the city of London. Shakespeare had his first theatre there.
| A small girl sat on a stool, eating her treat of the day. What was it that sat beside her, scaring the girl away? | Rhyming Nursery Rhymes
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A spider. From "Little Miss Muffet" Along came a spider that sat down beside her, and scared Miss Muffet away.
A Christmas pie. From "Little Jack Horner" Little Jack Horner sat in a corner eating his Christmas pie.
A tub. From "Rub-A-Dub-Dub" Three men in a tub, the butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker.
One o'clock. From "Hickory Dickory Dock" The clock struck one.
| Fuzzy was the name, of a certain little bear, What odd thing about him, was very very rare? | Rhyming Nursery Rhymes
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He had no hair. From "Fuzzy Wuzzy" Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
The rain. From "Itsy Bitsy Spider" Along came the rain and washed the spider out.
All of these (His bowl, His three fiddlers, His pipe). From "Old King Cole": He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, and he called for his fiddlers three".
You lost your mittens. From "The Three Little Kittens" You lost their mittens, you naughty kittens.
| A boy and girl climbed a up hill, they were going to a well. What were they going after, before the young boy fell? | Rhyming Nursery Rhymes
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A pail of water. From "Jack and Jill" Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
| An egg once set on a wall, he lost his balance and he fell. After he broke apart, who tried to make him well? They failed. | Rhyming Nursery Rhymes
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The King's horses and men. From "Humpty Dumpty" All the King's horses and all the King's men, couldn't put Humpty together again.
| A man once had a wife, who wandered all around. He put her in a special place, so now where is she found? | Rhyming Nursery Rhymes
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In a pumpkin shell. From "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater" He put her in a pumpkin shell, and there he kept her very well.
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