General Knowledge Questions
Oua weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. William S Barrett, Buelmell, Bicester, Oxon, for the following :-
Questions on Birds
1. What trait of character is particularly shown in wild ducks
2. What birds build supplementary nests but de not use them ?
3. What is the smallest bird that walks ?
4. What bird has erroneously been called a ventriloquist I' 5. What bird upon alighting does not, for the moment move itself a hair's breadth ?
6. What bird never builds a nest although it lays eggs ?
7. What is a female Swan called ?
8. About what time of the year does the Swallow arrive in, the Midlands, and what time the Cuckoo ? 9. Which British bird is the earliest to lay eggs, and which one of the latest ?
10. Which British birds lay the greatest number of eggs at clutch ?
11. Which British bird lays its eggs in the greatest number of months ?
12. What bird uses the least materials to 'build its nest ?
13. What bird sings sweetly during the dull winter months when all other songsters are silent ?
Answers will be found on page 648.
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