Two comments. First off, this is the first quiz I've ever visited on this site whose accompanying avatar was not in any way related to the quiz contents. Secondly, anyone who would have needed the help of an avatar to help fill in clues that any kindergartener would consider "too easy" may be in need of serious help. This is far and away the easiest quiz I have ever seen on this site (and I've seen pretty much all of them).
For someone with English as a second language this is way more difficult. Before you start laughing and wondering about some low percentages, you might want to consider not everybody is speaking English since kindergarten.
I had a lot of fun, especially when I read 'Hee-Haw' and I wondered since when cow-boys are animals, it made me laugh so hard I couldn't finish the quiz :D
(My mother language is French, I live in Germany for seven years now.)
My father had a record produced by Cornell in the 50s that collected frog calls from around the world. I believe it had a few ribbits from places outside of Hollywood -- but point taken.
I always heard that small frogs (in a fast, high voice) say, "Knee-deep, knee-deep, knee-deep." Middle-sized frogs say in a normal voice, "Belly-deep, belly-deep, belly-deep." In a slow, descending, deep voice, bullfrogs say, "Drown, drown, drown."
One of my girlfriends here was named Hadeel. I guess it means the same as "coo," she told me it meant "pigeon's voice." I told her it would be better to tell people it meant "dove song" or "bird song" since that sounds more appealing than "pigeon voice."
Too hard. Probably the most I've sweated since the fifth grade. I'm in tears now, curled up on the floor, wondering where I went wrong. Please consider making this quiz easier.
Nice little Quiz ... BUT the only one I would change is "Tweet" .. leading to the answer "BIRD" .. which is FAR too general in my opinion ... so would it be possible to amend the quiz and evolve that one question to a more specific creature like "Roar" for a Lion or anything else equally specific?? ... I notice you did not have the answer "AMPHIBIAN" when the question was "Ribbit" ....
I can never remember the ones that go oink. I'm a bit hazy on the ones that go woof too. :) Actually, it's quiet interesting hearing what animal noises are in other languages. Hey... maybe that'd be a good quiz. (If it hasn't been done already.)
Yes, this is actually pretty challenging for anyone who learned English in adolescence or adulthood, because we skipped all the kindergarden stuff that native English-speakers would consider basic. I managed to get them all, but a lot of those were random guesses of barn animals and various birds. I find it highly amusing that English people actually have a specific name for the sound of a goose or a turkey. I sure as hell never learned of any for them in French.
Quizmaster, you might want to add that this is how these "sounds" are rendered in English. As mentioned in the comments, some of the actual sounds are quite different.
And for those who want to hear what real frogs and toads sound like, you can listen to the 1958 recordings that the Smithsonian put out on a CD forty years later by going to http://www.folkways.si.edu/sounds-of-north-american-frogs/science-nature/album/smithsonian. Great samples, along with the monotone narration by a professor of herpetology that adds a nostalgic flavor to the whole affair.
Animals do not speak the same language the world over. For example, in Sierra Leone, roosters crow "kokorioko," and in Thailand the sound is a distinct, "ayeyeyee," as best I can spell it. You had to be there.
Couple of animals "sound" differently here in Poland: our dogs go "how-how", pigeons go "grooo", pigs go "kfeack" horses go "eee-ha-ha" and frogs go "coom-coom" (I tried to use the English phonology, so it looks pretty weird)
could people stop complaining about this quiz? First of all, it is in the kid's tag. Second of all, who cares if a quiz is easy? Why does it matter to you? If you are complaining that it is an easy 5 points, you must have taken the quiz to have made that comment. So it's only an undeserved 5 points if it's not YOUR 5 points? And third, different languages have different animal sounds. This quiz could reasonably be difficult for an adult whose 1st language is not English. Try taking an animal sounds quiz made by an Indonesian, Finnish, or Eritrean person.
What's the difference between a rooster, an American patriot and Mae West? The rooster says, "Cock-a-doodle doo!" The American patriot says, "Yankee doodle doo!" And Mae West says, "Any dude'll do!"
Supposed animal sounds vary in different languages. For the Greek versions listen to Donald Swann here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nRlAPtoM0g So this quiz is unfair on anyone not brought up speaking English. Perhaps you could use clips of real animal sounds instead?
(My mother language is French, I live in Germany for seven years now.)
This is if I made that quiz. You should check out mine!
I'd say 'to taste', except you can't taste it.
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JK, this quiz was a piece of cake. I got 100%, and I assume most people did too.