nursery rhyme quiz

Subject: nursery rhyme quiz
From: grannyjan
Date: 27 Oct 01 - 05:36 PM

My 4 year old niece has brough a quiz home. It has the initial letters of the words in the first line of nursery rhymes, eg LTT = Little Tommy Tucker.

We are stuck on JBN (as well as for Jack be Nimble, there is another one) and TNWDB.

Can anyone help out?

So far we have looked in all our nursery books, checked with my grand daughter (she is nearly three), and other parents and grandparents. We have also checked the childrens songs database, and my folk song books.

thanks

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Oct 01 - 05:54 PM

I'm no help at all......I know I am gonna feel reeeeeel stoopid when the answers show up. Jack be nimble, Jack Sprat, Jack and Jill, Johnny Jump Over the Candlestick..........all (well, not ALL) the Ts start with There Was.........or Three.

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: MMario
Date: 27 Oct 01 - 05:54 PM

I'm blank.

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: Madam Gashee
Date: 27 Oct 01 - 06:51 PM

TNWDB = The North Wind Doth Blow No idea for JBN, sorry

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Oct 01 - 08:46 PM

Is that a nursery rhyme, or a song? I thought it was a song........

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: alison
Date: 27 Oct 01 - 10:00 PM

the north wind doth blow
and we shall have snow
and what will the robin do then, poor thing
he'll sit in the barn and keep himself warm
and hide his head under his wing, poor thing

definately a nursery rhyme

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: alison
Date: 27 Oct 01 - 10:06 PM

I had a look at Kididdles (brilliant site for kids songs)

and found no other JBN's....... closest was "John Brown's body"...... wouldn't be a misprint??? mind you its not a nurssery rhyme.......

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: masato sakurai
Date: 27 Oct 01 - 10:13 PM

No other JBN rhyme than "Jack Be Nimble" in the Opies' Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes.

~Masato

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: grannyjan
Date: 28 Oct 01 - 06:45 AM

Thank you all very much.

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: Dead Horse
Date: 28 Oct 01 - 08:04 AM

TNWDB. Got to be Taliban Not With Dat Bin-Laden. Definately a fairy story.........

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Apr 11 - 04:17 PM

hello everyone i am doing a similar quiz and i need help only one left please anyone

R R G A

any help gladly accepted

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 14 Apr 11 - 04:27 PM

Rain, rain, go away (come again another day)

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Apr 11 - 04:38 PM

thanks a lot it was starting to bug me

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 14 Apr 11 - 05:03 PM

Are you sure it's not a misprint for JRN = Jolly Red Nose = ODNR 379?
I'm pretty certain there aren't any others with JBN. Teachers aren't infallible you know. They could easily put the same one in twice.

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: GUEST,Lost Fiona
Date: 27 Feb 16 - 06:19 PM

Doing a fireside quiz and stuck on last 4 clues
TOATPWTS
RACHTBC
LLLHP
GGGWSIW
Hope someone can figure these out
Thanks

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: GUEST,Lost Fiona
Date: 27 Feb 16 - 06:19 PM

Doing a fireside quiz and stuck on last 4 clues
TOATPWTS
RACHTBC
LLLHP
GGGWSIW
Hope someone can figure these out
Thanks

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 28 Feb 16 - 04:08 AM

RACHTBC = Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross

GGGWSIW = Goosey Goosey Gander wither shall I wander

DC

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 28 Feb 16 - 04:11 AM

LLLHP = Lucy Locket lost her pocket

DC

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 28 Feb 16 - 06:53 AM

TOATPWTS = The Owl And The Pussycat Went To Sea

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

by Edward Lear - This is one of my favorites.

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 28 Feb 16 - 07:19 AM

Indeed a favourite -- but scarcely a nursery rhyme, surely, unless we are to include all Lear's Nonsense Verse within that taxonomy! And, if so, what about Lewis Carroll's, Hilaire Belloc's, &c &c &c?

≈M≈

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 28 Feb 16 - 10:43 AM

JBN (#2) = Johnny, Be Nice

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 28 Feb 16 - 05:14 PM

Where are the borders of nursery rhyme country? I've certainly read Owl & Pussycat to children from books of nursery rhymes in my day.

And I'd count rhymes like

When the rain raineth
And the goose winketh
Little wotteth the gosling
What the goose thinketh

in the canon; many's the child I've irritated by answering with that in a meaning tone, and when asked what the feck I'm talking about, just tapped my nose meaningly.

And the same with

God made the bees
And the bees make the honey
The miller's men do all the work
But the miller makes the money.

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 28 Feb 16 - 09:10 PM

This has been a fun, and entertaining thread.

It is a thread well posted.

Please ignore "the critic" that briefly released his "Lower kingdom" for a dash of judgement.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

He will soon be expunged....3 0f the 5 ...say he must go.

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: Mo the caller
Date: 02 Mar 16 - 09:03 AM

"Goosey Goosey Gander wither shall I wander"
Yes I worked that out, but surely it should be GGGWWYW -
Whither will you wander?

Subject: RE: nursery rhyme quiz
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 02 Mar 16 - 02:45 PM

Whither will you wander?

Not in the nursery rhyme that I learnt as a little'un nor in any of the bedtime books that I read to my kids. A quick Google search comes up with many examples of "wither shall I wander".

DC