I gave this little quiz to my students today to see how well they remember nursery rhymes. How many do you know? NO CHEATING!!
1.Who went up the hill?
2.Who lost her sheep?
3.Who could eat no
lean?
4.Who ran away when the
boys came out to play?
5.Who sat on a wall?
6.Who was under the
haystack fast asleep?
7.Whose cupboard was
bare?
8.Who had a wife and
could not keep her?
9.Who called for his
pipe, bowl, and fiddlers?
10.Who lived in a shoe?
11.Who was frightened of
spiders?
12.Who jumped over the
moon?
13.Who ran up the clock?
14.Who kissed the girls
and made them cry?
15.Who was in the
counting house counting his money?
16.What time was it when
the mouse fell down in
Hickory Dickory Dock?
17.Who stuck in his
thumb and pulled out a plumb?
18.Who jumped over a
candlestick?
19.How many men were in
a tub?
20.What ran away with
the spoon?
21.Who could eat no fat?
22.Who couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together
again?
23.Who was in the parlor
eating bread and honey?
How did you do?
1.Jack and Jill
2.Little Bo Peep
3.Jack Sprat’s wife
4.Georgie Porgie
5.Humpty Dumpty
6.Little Boy Blue
7.Old Mother Hubbard
8.Peter Peter Pumpkin
Eater
9.Old King Cole
10.An old Woman
11.Little Miss Muffet
12.The Cow
13.The mouse
14.Georgie Porgie
15.The king
16.1 o’clock
17.Little Jack Horner
18.Jack
19.Three
20.The dish
21.Jack Sprat
22.All of the king’s
horses and all the king’s men
23.The Queen