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Quiz about Mixed Up Nursery Rhymes
Quiz about Mixed Up Nursery Rhymes

Mixed Up Nursery Rhymes Trivia Quiz


Some of these nursery rhyme characters have wandered into the wrong rhyme and others are just getting their story wrong. They are all mixed up! Help them find their proper rhyme.

A multiple-choice quiz by nannywoo. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
nannywoo
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
355,901
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
4020
Awards
Editor's Choice
Last 3 plays: Guest 206 (2/10), PrairieRose78 (10/10), burnsbaron (8/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. "Little Miss Muffet, come blow your horn! The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn!" NO, not Miss Muffet! Who should be in this rhyme? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. "Jack B. Nimble, pudding and pie, kissed the girls and made them cry. When the boys came out to play, Jack B. Nimble ran away." NO, not Jack B. Nimble! Who really kissed the girls? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. "Georgie had a little dog. Its fleas were white as snow." NO! Not Georgie! Not a dog! Not fleas! What are the right words for this rhyme? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. "Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey. Along came a bear, who sat in the chair, and frightened Miss Muffet away!" NO, not a bear in a chair! Who really frightened Miss Muffet? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Some children sing "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and some sing "Eensy Weensy Spider" or "Incy Wincy Spider"! But the spider climbed up a fishing pole, right? NO, not a fishing pole! What did the spider climb? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. "Hey, Diddle, Diddle, the mouse and the fiddle, the mouse jumped over the moon. The little mouse laughed to see such sport, and the mouse ran away with the mouse." NO! Too many mice! All are wrong, but what animal really "laughed to see such sport"? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. We all know that Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water, and that Jack fell down and broke his crown. So they mended his crown with a hammer and nail and put it back on his head, right? NO, not a hammer and nail! What did they use to mend Jack's "crown"? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. "There was a man lived in the moon, lived in the moon, lived in the moon. There was a man lived in the moon, and his name was Aiken Fiddle." NO, not Aiken Fiddle! What was the name of the man in the moon? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. "I had a little nut tree, nothing would it bear, but a silver walnut and a golden pear. The King of Spain's daughter came to visit me, and all for the sake of my little nut tree." NO, not a walnut! What did the little nut tree really bear in the rhyme? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. "Georgie Porgie sat on a wall. Georgie Porgie had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men, couldn't put Georgie Porgie together again." NO, not Georgie Porgie! Who was the unfortunate victim of a fall from a wall? Hint





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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. "Little Miss Muffet, come blow your horn! The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn!" NO, not Miss Muffet! Who should be in this rhyme?

Answer: Little Boy Blue

If you "blow your own horn" you are bragging or boasting. Some people think that this rhyme makes fun of a churchman named Cardinal Wolsey, who lived from 1475 to 1530, in the time of Henry VIII. The Cardinal built a fancy palace at Hampton Court and many of the people thought he was more concerned with getting power and wealth for himself than taking care of the spiritual needs of his flock of sheep (the people of England).
2. "Jack B. Nimble, pudding and pie, kissed the girls and made them cry. When the boys came out to play, Jack B. Nimble ran away." NO, not Jack B. Nimble! Who really kissed the girls?

Answer: Georgie Porgie

Georgie Porgie was a nickname that made fun of George Villiers, a duke who was a favorite friend of King James I of England. Georgie Porgie was very naughty, but he was so handsome, rich, and powerful that he could get away with almost anything, which made other men at King James's court angry and jealous.

Many ladies, including the Queen of France, (the girls) fell in love with him, and Parliament (the boys) had to put a stop to it.
3. "Georgie had a little dog. Its fleas were white as snow." NO! Not Georgie! Not a dog! Not fleas! What are the right words for this rhyme?

Answer: Mary / lamb / fleece was white as snow

The song "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was written by Bostonian Sarah Hale in 1830, and most Americans think of it as a nursery rhyme. Children like having pets that love them so much they want to follow them everywhere, even to school. Thomas Edison used the familiar words of this rhyme to make the very first sound recording.
4. "Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey. Along came a bear, who sat in the chair, and frightened Miss Muffet away!" NO, not a bear in a chair! Who really frightened Miss Muffet?

Answer: a spider who sat down beside her

It was a spider, which has led some people to believe the story is about a little girl named Patience Muffet, whose stepfather wrote a book about insects. Of course, as we know, a spider is not an insect but an arachnid. A tuffet is a comfortable, cloth-covered stool. Curds and whey are the white lumps and liquid in a dairy product like cottage cheese.
5. Some children sing "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and some sing "Eensy Weensy Spider" or "Incy Wincy Spider"! But the spider climbed up a fishing pole, right? NO, not a fishing pole! What did the spider climb?

Answer: the water spout

In Canada, nannywoo's children learned "Eensy, Weensy Spider"; in the United States, nannywoo's grandchildren learned "Itsy, Bitsy Spider"! Some children say "climbed up the water spout" and others say "climbing up the spout"! This is what happens with folk songs. The words can change. But, as far as I know, it's always a spider. How do you sing it?
6. "Hey, Diddle, Diddle, the mouse and the fiddle, the mouse jumped over the moon. The little mouse laughed to see such sport, and the mouse ran away with the mouse." NO! Too many mice! All are wrong, but what animal really "laughed to see such sport"?

Answer: dog

It goes: "Hey, Diddle, Diddle, the cat and the fiddle. The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon." This one was always nannywoo's favorite as a child, maybe because she played the violin, had dogs for pets, lived on a farm where there were cows, and often ate yummy desserts from a dish with a spoon.
7. We all know that Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water, and that Jack fell down and broke his crown. So they mended his crown with a hammer and nail and put it back on his head, right? NO, not a hammer and nail! What did they use to mend Jack's "crown"?

Answer: vinegar and brown paper

I used to think that Jack's crown was like a king's crown that they put back on his head, but it was really the crown of his head! So, we wouldn't use a nail, for sure. People really did use vinegar and brown paper to help bruises and wounds to the head feel better. The paper was soaked in the vinegar and heated, then torn into strips and put on the head in layers.
8. "There was a man lived in the moon, lived in the moon, lived in the moon. There was a man lived in the moon, and his name was Aiken Fiddle." NO, not Aiken Fiddle! What was the name of the man in the moon?

Answer: Aiken Drum

I first heard this song on a Raffi recording, but it is much older than Raffi, going back to Scotland in the 1700s. The chorus goes: "He played upon a ladle, a ladle, a ladle. He played upon a ladle, and his name was Aiken Drum." His clothes are made of cream cheese, roast beef, penny loaves, and haggis bags.

He may have been an elf-like creature called a Brownie, but he sounds delicious!
9. "I had a little nut tree, nothing would it bear, but a silver walnut and a golden pear. The King of Spain's daughter came to visit me, and all for the sake of my little nut tree." NO, not a walnut! What did the little nut tree really bear in the rhyme?

Answer: nutmeg

This story is about a royal visit. In 1506, two princesses came from Spain to visit the royal court of Henry VII in England. One of them, thirteen-year-old Catherine of Aragon, had been married in 1501 to the English crown prince, whose name was Arthur.

But Prince Arthur died, so Catherine then married his younger brother, who became King Henry VIII. Real trees don't bear silver and gold fruit or nuts, but nutmeg was a fragrant spice worth as much as silver or gold in Catherine's time.
10. "Georgie Porgie sat on a wall. Georgie Porgie had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men, couldn't put Georgie Porgie together again." NO, not Georgie Porgie! Who was the unfortunate victim of a fall from a wall?

Answer: Humpty Dumpty

It was Humpty Dumpty, of course, and we know from the famous picture in the "Alice" stories of Lewis Carroll that he was an egg. But this may be only part of the story. People who study nursery rhymes say that "Humpty Dumpty" was a nickname for anyone or anything that was big and round, and they think the nursery rhyme refers to a big cannon, belonging to the king's side, that was blasted off a castle wall during the English Civil War in July of 1648.
Source: Author nannywoo

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