Quiz: Budgies

Bulletin of 23 October 2025

What are budgerigars called in the US?
Answer
Parakeets.
What UK celebrity wrote the children’s books series featuring ‘Budgie the Little Helicopter’?
Answer
Sarah Ferguson.
Which one of the following did not have pet budgerigars? (a) Joseph Stalin (b) Franklin D. Roosevelt (c) Winston Churchill (d) John F Kennedy.
Answer
(b) Franklin D. Roosevelt.
What Guinness World Record is still held by Puck, a male budgerigar which died in California in 1994?
Answer
Largest vocabulary of any bird (1,728 words).
Best known for his 1970s hit ‘The Newcastle Song’, which Australian singer, broadcaster and archaeologist also recorded the comic song ‘Jonathon Livingston Budgerigar’
Answer
Dr Bob Hudson.

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