NURSERY RHYME CHARACTERS

(e.g., They went up a hill to fetch a pail of water. Answer: Jack & Jill.)

Freshman level

1. He kissed the girls and made them cry.

2. He called for his fiddlers three.

3. He had a wife but couldn’t keep her.

Graduate level

4. He sat in a corner eating his Christmas pie.

5. She went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone.

6. A spider sat down beside her and frightened her away.

Ph.D. level

7. She was asked, “How does your garden grow?”

8. He lives on Drury Lane.

9. He went to bed with his britches on.

Answers: 1. Georgie Porgie. 2. Old King Cole. 3. Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater. 4. Little Jack Horner. 5. Old Mother Hubbard. 6. Little Miss Muffet. 7. Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. 8. The Muffin Man. 9. My Son John.

— North America Syndicate