Nursery rhymes are timeless treasures passed down through generations. Whether you sang them as a child or to your own children, they carry fond memories and familiar rhythms. This fill-in-the-blanks quiz is a fun and engaging activity designed to help seniors reminisce and spark conversations. This is our second nursery rhyme quiz – perfect for those who loved the first one and want more! Give it a go and see how many you remember!
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📝 Quiz Content:
1. Miss Molly had a dolly that was sick, sick, sick, so she called for the Doctor to come?
Answer: Quick, quick, quick.
2. I’m a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle, here is my spout. When I get all steamed up, hear me shout?
Answer: Tip me over and pour me out.
3. Here is the church, here is the steeple. Open the doors?
Answer: And see all the people.
4. Two little dicky birds sitting on a wall, one named Peter, one named?
Answer: Paul.
5. Round and round the garden like a teddy bear. One step, two steps?
Answer: Tickle you under there.
6. Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily?
Answer: Life is but a dream.
7. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick?
Answer: Jack jump over the candlestick.
Continuation:
8. Oh do you know the muffin man, the muffin man, the muffin man? Who lives in?
Answer: Drury Lane.
9. Yankee Doodle went to town, riding on a pony. He stuck a feather in his hat?
Answer: And called it macaroni.
10. Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse. With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes?
Answer: She shall have music wherever she goes.
11. Ring-a-ring o’ roses, a pocket full of posies, a-tishoo, a-tishoo?
Answer: We all fall down.
12. There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o.
Answer: B-I-N-G-O (repeat 3 times), and Bingo was his name-o.
13. A sailor went to sea, sea, sea, to see what he could see, see, see. But all that he could see, see, see?
Answer: Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea.
14. Lou, Lou, skip to my Lou. Lou, Lou, skip to my Lou.
Answer: Skip to my Lou, my darling.
15. There were ten in the bed and the little one said?
Answer: Roll over, roll over.
16. Ten green bottles hanging on the wall. And if one green bottle?
Answer: Should accidentally fall, there’ll be nine green bottles hanging on the wall.
Continuation:
17. One, two, three, four, five, once I caught a fish alive. Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, then I let it go again. Why did you let it go?
Answer: Because it bit my finger so.
Which finger did it bite?
Answer: This little finger on the right.
18. This old man, he played one, he played knick-knack on my thumb. With a knick-knack?
Answer: Paddy whack, give the dog a bone. This old man came rolling home.
19. Five little ducks went out one day, over the hills and far away. Mother duck said?
Answer: Quack, quack, quack, quack – but only four little ducks came back.
20. Hush little baby, don’t say a word, Papa’s going to buy you a mockingbird. If that mockingbird won’t sing?
Answer: Papa’s going to buy you a diamond ring.
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