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Schoolyard Taunts, Rhymes, and Songs 3

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Introduction:
"As both a child and as a teacher, I've become familiar with playground vernacular. Can you remember your grade school protocol? All references are American."


1. Every Halloween, children go out trick or treating. Some kids will instruct you to smell a certain part of their body when asking for candy. What part?
    Their breath
    Their...ahem...rear end
    Their armpits
    Their feet


2. When racing to dive into a pool, kids will often declare: last one in is a rotten....what?
    chicken
    tooth
    tomato
    egg


3. If someone says the exact same thing at the exact same time as you, you may shout 'jinxed!' What happens to the person who is jinxed?
    They have to kiss the next person who talks to them.
    Everyone in the room can punch them in the arm.
    They may not speak again until someone says their name.
    They must perform a humiliating task (a silly song, or a goofy face).


4. In the rhyme 'Hello, Operator', what kind of boat did Miss Lucy have? (remember the 'almost dirty' lyrics)
    a john boat
    a rowboat
    a steamboat
    a motorboat


5. In kindergarten, I was horrified when a classmate told me that a certain word actually meant 'elephant butt hair'. Seventeen years later I was teaching kindergarten, and I heard the same rumor repeated. What word supposedly has this unpleasant meaning?
    Cool
    Homey
    Radical
    Dude


6. Anyone who's ever taken a long car trip with a brother or sister knows this game. When you see a certain type of vehicle, you may punch someone in the arm. What kind of vehicle?
    A motorcycle
    A Volkswagen Beetle
    A Hummer (Humvee)
    An ambulance


7. Kids like to repeat horrifying information to alarm other kids. Even more guilty than the kids, however, are the mothers. According to matriarchal wisdom, what will happen if you swallow a watermelon seed?
    A watermelon will grow in your stomach
    Worms will grow in your stomach
    You'll go blind and grow hair on your palms
    You'll get terrible constipation


8. According to the song, where do the naked ladies dance?
    France
    China
    Peru
    Italy


9. What swimming pool game is named after a famous explorer?
    Francis Drake
    Marco Polo
    Chris Columbus
    Leif Erikson


10. Of course, no quiz would be whole without a song dealing with the destruction of the school and murder of the teacher. Sung to the tune of 'Joy to the World', how did the teacher die?
    I barbecued her head!
    She ate until she exploded!
    I fed her to the pigs!
    I hit her with a truck!


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