Songs Strictly for the Birds

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1. Who had a UK number one hit single in 1966 with "Pretty Flamingo"? Roy Orbison Manfred Mann The Hollies The Searchers

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." Ride a White Swan Don't Stop Teal You Get Enough Disco Duck Fly Like an Eagle

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." robins vultures cuckoos linnets

4. Which of these is a song by The Beatles? No Egrets Magpie Lark Blackbird

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." Madness The Specials Bad Manners The Selector

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..." Stevie Wonder Rod Stewart Elton John David Bowie

7. Which of these is the correct title of a UK hit single? Rockin' Robin Wren Will I See You Again? He Ain't Heavy, He's My Plover (Hey There) Lonely Gull

8. Can you name the song here? "_________________________________________________." Need more info maybe? It was the first UK number one for Fleetwood Mac. Petrel Fulmar Albatross Seagull

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? Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers Ian Dury and The Blockheads The Divine Comedy Half Man Half Biscuit

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? Allan Sherman Tom Lehrer Spike Jones Frank Zappa