Nursery Rhymes Quiz

[kelster]

Hi, im trying to complete a 'Nursery Rhymes Quiz' and im trying to find the correct answers to the questions listed below. I would be really thankful and grateful if anyone can please help me find the correct answers. I've also included some answers ive thought of as well listed alongside some questions and if anyone can please help check these for me as well i would be really thankful, thanks,

1. A plague of sound. Answer i thought: A swarm of bees
2. In modern terms, the first of seven ages. Answer i thought: An icycle
3. A cook's XXIV.
4. This was not in the cupboard, poor dog.
5. The staff of life. Answer i thought: A wise old owl
6. To slaughter, one of three.
7. Dairy product, once again good for you.
8. Does it adhere to a source of light.
9. Could be a bud or a frolic.
10. Its strike signalled a descent.
11. Early morning wake-up call (hyphenated). Answer i thought: Cock-a-doodle-doo
12. Inclined to do the opposite of the expected.
13. Cross dresser in the pantomine. Answer i thought: Dame trot and her cat
14. One could be a girl's best friend.
15. Soft feathers. Answer i thought: Down down baby
16. Tagine cooking lead to this. Answer i thought: Ducks and drakes
17. American season.
18. To cheat by manipulation. Answer i thought: Hokey pokey
19. These could be fishy ones.
20. A glance like this is very cool. Answer i thought: Grandma's spectacles
21. Exotic flower loses a quarter at the end, but grows there.
22. Elegance.
23. Dried grass followed by a rooster.

[mallyh]

56 tommy stout in ding dong bell etc

[JJ109]

29 Polly put THE KETTLE on

[kelster]

Hi, thankyou for your help, i meant to say as well that the answers are all cryptic and don't have to be the names of the nursery rhymes but the answer appears in the nursery rhyme, thanks,

[JJ109]

59 Little Miss Muffett sat on her tuffett eating her curds and whey

[cashier]

5 bread (the queen was in the parlour earing bread and honey)

[kettledrum]

2. Cry baby bunting.
From Shakespeare's 'As you like it'
"...their acts being seven ages.
At first the infant, mewling and puking ..."

[kettledrum]

3. Four & twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.

[cashier]

12 Mary, Mary quite contrary

[kettledrum]

12. Mary, Mary quite contrary

[JJ109]

50 The old woman who lived in a shoe
push = shove - 5 (V) = shoe

[cashier]

26 Horse (ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross)

[cashier]

51 Silver nutmeg (I had a little nut tree)

[JJ109]

52 Sing a Song of Sixpence
leather worker is a tanner which has a double meaning of a sixpence

[kettledrum]

47 The roast beef of old England

[JJ109]

16. Little miss Muffett sat on her tuffett EATING her curds and whey
a tagine is a conical cook put and leads to eating. EATING is an anagram of TAGINE 'tagine "cooking" = anagram

[cashier]

14 Diamond (twinkle, twinkle little star)

[JJ109]

55 Tart
The queen of hearts, she made some tarts

[kelster]

Hi, sorry for the delay in reply to all your help just been held up with work unfortunately for the past few days, thankyou for all the help and answers, does anyone have any ideas and answers for the rest of the questions, the questions listed are for the whole quiz as well, thanks,

[kelster]

Hi, ive thought of some answers as well to some of the questions listed below, if anyone can please help me out the correct answers and help check them for me i would be really thankful again for the help, thanks,

1. A plague of a sound. Answer i thought: Atishoo
6. To slaughter, one of three. Answer i thought: Blind mice
7. Dairy product, once again good for you. Answer i thought: Butter
8. Does it adhere to a source of light. Answer i thought: Candlestick
9. Could be a bud or frolic. Answer i thought: Caper
13. Cross dresser in the pantomine. Answer i thought: Dame
15. Soft feathers. Answer i thought: Down
21. Exotic flower loses a quarter at the end, but grows there. Answer i thought: Garden
22. Elegance. Answer i thought: Grace
25. You could blow this instead of your own trumpet. Answer i thought: Horn
28. Where all children should be after eight. Answer i thought: In their bed
49. All up and down.Answer i thought: Rocking
64. Sound to halt the milkman's horse? Answer i thought: Whey

[Captain2]

Looks like the full quiz is, or will be, asked for again.

I honestly don't think you are entering into the spirit of quizzing at all.