28-Oct-2021 Theme: 'Pelican'

(1) How many species of pelican are native to Australia?

Answer: One (Pelecanus conspicillatus).

(2) What is the name of the pelican in Finding Nemo? (bonus: who is the pelican’s voice actor?)

Answer: Nigel (bonus: Geoffrey Rush).

(3) True or false: The pelican has the longest beak of any bird in the world?

Answer: True.

(4) What is the second line of this 1910 limerick by Dixon Merritt: “A wonderful bird is the Pelican…”?

Answer: “His beak will hold more than his belican”

(5) Who wrote the 1964 Australian children’s book Storm Boy, featuring a pelican named Mr Percival?

Answer: Colin Thiele.

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