18-Mar-2021 Theme: 'Budgies'

(1) What are budgerigars called in the US?

Answer: Parakeets.

(2) What UK celebrity wrote the children’s books series featuring ‘Budgie the Little Helicopter’?

Answer: Sarah Ferguson.

(3) Which one of the following did not have pet budgerigars? (a) Joseph Stalin (b) Adolph Hitler (c) Winston Churchill (d) John F Kennedy.

Answer: (b) Adolph Hitler.

(4) 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).

(5) 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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