Sayings About Animals Quiz

This is easy if you know your animals

14/20. I don't know my animals.

12/20. And I thought I did know my animals.

Love PBS XD

Didn't know the pearls one

Never heard that one in my entire life.

The only one I missed as well.

really. there's even a comic named after it. and it's a pretty common phrase

This is a Bible one, so no wonder only 36% get it.

It's also the name of a comic :)

20 of 20...got stuck on rabbit for over a minute!

16/20! yes didnt know the gander, bee, fly, or swine ones. :/

got stuck for a second on the chicken one, the saying here is like a chook with it's head cut off. i had to American it up a bit :)

Man these are brutal for the animals!

20/20

rabbit was the one I had trouble with. Forgot Alice for a moment.

missed bull...

We always say crazy as a loon (or crazy like a loon).

The pearls one would be easier if they had the whole quote: "like casting pearls before _______". The bird one didn't show up when i entered it but i still got credit for it

I got 20/20.

Oops. Double post.

The "its" in the last clue shouldn't have an apostrophe.

Never heard Pearls before swine so I got 19/20.

There's actually a comic strip in America called Pearls Before Swine :) It's a great one

i insist, it's camel

i agree.. that's the expression i've heard.

I've heard it too! I first thought it was camel... then I put down horse..

95% not bad at all

100% :)

15/20! Thanks sea patrol for naming one of the episodes Pearls Before Swine :) Can't believe I didn't know the monkey one :L

20/20 woot woot

Thanks to Harry Potter for "Bee in your Bonnet", I'd never heard that before reading the books

Oops. I missed Chicken.

Early bird gets the worm, but the early worm gets.............

eaten

I'm surprised so many people have never heard pearls before swine. You should all read God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.

it's good to be older sometimes. took 59 seconds to do it and i can't type. woo hoo

17/20

Didn't know bee, swine or fox. 17/20 so I'm happy.

Always heard "stubborn as a bull". Huh. Guess I'm wrong.

Early bird gets the worm, second mouse gets the cheese.

If you don't get it, after the mouse trap has been activated, the second mouse gets the cheese :P! So it's not good to always be the early bird D:!

Can't donkey be used along with mule?

It's definitely "headless chicken" - no-one (in UK at least) would say a chicken with its head cut off. Nice game!!!

For some reason I thought it was 'water off a camel's back'...

ohhh even i thought it was camels back...wonder y ??

Good quiz, though now I'm going to have They Might Be Giants in my head for the rest of the day. ♫ Not to put too fine a point on it / say I'm the only bee in your bonnet / Build a little birdhouse in your soul.... ♪

Aaaa!!! Sweet picture of the darling little bird. Quiz good too!!!

always thought foxes were sly, or crafty...

I believe it's a quote from the Simpsons

It is water off a camels back... I have never heard of water off a ducks back in my life...

Google it.

All of these were easy for me except "crazy like a fox." I think I've heard that before, but I'm more familiar with "crazy as a hoot owl" or "crazy as a loon."

Also, would someone please explain why "water off a camel's back" makes sense? "Like water off a duck's back," which is very common in America as a way of saying that a person was not affected by something bad that was aimed at them, makes sense because ducks secrete oil with which they cover their feathers, and then water runs right off their feathers, making it much easier for them to swim. Does it work the same way for a camel, or does the expression mean something slightly different?

No, water off a camel's back doesn't mean anything. It's a corruption, probably an elision of water off a duck's back and the straw that broke the camel's back.

20/20 with 2:29 left