| It's the nursery rhyme that says, "the cow jumped over the moon"; in the military it precedes "straight up the middle" |
<i>Hey Diddle Diddle</i> |
200 |
March 27, 2014 |
| It's the nursery rhyme that says, "the cow jumped over the moon"; in the military it precedes "straight up the middle" |
<i>Hey Diddle Diddle</i> |
200 |
March 27, 2014 |
| Jack is urged to be nimble & quick, helping him do this |
jump over the candlestick |
400 |
March 27, 2014 |
| Jack is urged to be nimble & quick, helping him do this |
jump over the candlestick |
400 |
March 27, 2014 |
| Little Jack Horner put his thumb in a Christmas pie & pulled out this fruit |
plum |
600 |
March 27, 2014 |
| Little Jack Horner put his thumb in a Christmas pie & pulled out this fruit |
plum |
600 |
March 27, 2014 |
| Jack of Jack & Jill got his head patched with these 2 things |
vinegar and brown paper |
800 |
March 27, 2014 |
| Jack of Jack & Jill got his head patched with these 2 things |
vinegar and brown paper |
800 |
March 27, 2014 |
| "Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has" this |
far to go |
1000 |
March 27, 2014 |
| "Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has" this |
far to go |
1000 |
March 27, 2014 |
| Peter, Peter was an eater of this; he kept his wife in its shell |
pumpkin |
200 |
January 19, 2012 |
| Peter, Peter was an eater of this; he kept his wife in its shell |
pumpkin |
200 |
January 19, 2012 |
| "I had a little hobby-horse and it was dapple gray; its head was made of pea-straw, its tail was made of" this |
hay |
400 |
January 19, 2012 |
| "I had a little hobby-horse and it was dapple gray; its head was made of pea-straw, its tail was made of" this |
hay |
400 |
January 19, 2012 |
| In a counting nursery rhyme, they were "a-courting", "in the kitchen" & "a-waiting" |
maids |
600 |
January 19, 2012 |
| In a counting nursery rhyme, they were "a-courting", "in the kitchen" & "a-waiting" |
maids |
600 |
January 19, 2012 |
| While "January brings the snow", "May brings flocks of pretty" these, "skipping by their fleecy dams" |
lambs |
800 |
January 19, 2012 |
| While "January brings the snow", "May brings flocks of pretty" these, "skipping by their fleecy dams" |
lambs |
800 |
January 19, 2012 |
| "Here we go round" this bush "on a cold and frosty morning" |
the mulberry bush |
1000 |
January 19, 2012 |
| "Here we go round" this bush "on a cold and frosty morning" |
the mulberry bush |
1000 |
January 19, 2012 |
| He "was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he" |
Old King Cole |
200 |
May 18, 2011 |
| He said, "What a good boy am I!"--if he's so good, why was he in the corner? |
(Little Jack) Horner |
400 |
May 18, 2011 |
| "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over" this |
the candlestick |
600 |
May 18, 2011 |
| Mary, Mary who grows silver bells in her garden is quite this, opposite in position or character |
contrary |
800 |
May 18, 2011 |
| This little guy "runs through the town, upstairs and downstairs, in his nightgown" |
Wee Willie Winkie |
1000 |
May 18, 2011 |
| Illustrators often showed her sitting on a 3-legged stool as there was no such thing as a tuffet |
Miss Muffet |
200 |
October 11, 2004 |
| It's what Mary's little lamb did even though it was against the rules |
followed her to school one day |
400 |
October 11, 2004 |
| She went to the baker's to buy her dog some bread; "when she came back the poor dog was dead" |
Old Mother Hubbard |
600 |
October 11, 2004 |
| "Ding, dong, bell, the cat is in the well! Who put her in?" This "Little" guy |
Little Johnny Green |
800 |
October 11, 2004 |
| Simple Simon thought he could not fail to catch this because he had "a little salt to put upon his tail" |
a bird |
1000 |
October 11, 2004 |
| Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to fetch this poor creature a bone |
Her dog |
100 |
July 17, 2000 |
| It's the precarious location of the Rock-a-bye Baby's cradle |
In the tree top |
200 |
July 17, 2000 |
| Jack, of Jack & Jill, had his head patched with this & brown paper |
Vinegar |
300 |
July 17, 2000 |
| He indulged in self-congratulation after using his pollex to extract a fruit from a baked food |
Little Jack Horner |
400 |
July 17, 2000 |
| In a popular rhyme, "I had a little" one of these & "his name was Dapple-Gray" |
Pony |
500 |
July 17, 2000 |
| This piper's son "learnt to play when he was young" |
Tom |
100 |
April 5, 1999 |
| Some believe that these 2 pail fetchers actually represent Cardinal Wolsey & Bishop Tarbes |
Jack & Jill |
200 |
April 5, 1999 |
| "Betwixt them both, they lick'd the platter clean" |
Jack Sprat & his wife |
300 |
April 5, 1999 |
| Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater put his wife here "and there he kept her very well" |
Pumpkin shell |
100 |
April 14, 1997 |
| He told the pieman, "Let me taste your ware" |
Simple Simon |
200 |
April 14, 1997 |
| They were the "Three Men In A Tub" |
The butcher, the baker & the candlestick maker |
300 |
April 14, 1997 |
| "There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile, he found" this "beside a crooked stile" |
Crooked sixpence |
400 |
April 14, 1997 |
| This insect saw Cock Robin die, "With my little eye, I saw him die" |
The Fly |
500 |
April 14, 1997 |
| He had to show the pieman his money before he could take a taste test |
Simple Simon |
100 |
March 28, 1996 |
| He didn't kiss & tell, he kissed & ran |
Georgie Porgie |
200 |
March 28, 1996 |
| He's been quoted as saying, "What a good boy am I" |
Little Jack Horner |
300 |
March 28, 1996 |
| The rhyme says he's responsible for the sheep; you can only infer he's in charge of the cows, too |
Little Boy Blue |
400 |
March 28, 1996 |
| A cat killed the rat that ate the malt in his house |
"The House That Jack Built" |
500 |
March 28, 1996 |
| Gardener Mary, Mary was described as "quite" this |
contrary |
100 |
September 6, 1995 |
| In one version, "Threescore men, and threescore more, cannot place" him "as he was before" |
Humpty Dumpty |
200 |
September 6, 1995 |
| One rhyme claims he had a pig that was not very lean & not very fat |
Jack Sprat |
300 |
September 6, 1995 |
| Barnyard cry that precedes "My dame has lost her shoe" |
cock-a-doodle-doo |
400 |
September 6, 1995 |
| "Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat, please to put a penny in" here |
old man\'s hat |
500 |
September 6, 1995 |
| Color of the wool held for the little boy who lives down the lane |
black |
100 |
November 29, 1994 |
| The animal musician in "Hey, Diddle, Diddle" |
the cat |
200 |
November 29, 1994 |
| Dapple Gray is this type of animal |
a horse |
300 |
November 29, 1994 |
| Weather request couplet that precedes "Little Johnny wants to play" |
Rain, rain, go away/Come again another day (Rain, rain, go away/Come again some other day accepted) |
400 |
November 29, 1994 |
| Jack Lemmon comedy title included in the "Pease Porridge" rhyme |
<i>Some Like It Hot</i> |
500 |
November 29, 1994 |
| It's the question asked of "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" |
Have you any wool? |
100 |
July 5, 1993 |
| He said to the pieman, "Let me taste your ware" |
Simple Simon |
200 |
July 5, 1993 |
| "Hickey, pickety, my black hen," she does this "for gentlemen" |
lays eggs |
300 |
July 5, 1993 |
| "See-saw", this girl "sold her bed and lay on the straw" |
Marjorie Daw |
400 |
July 5, 1993 |
| The 2 items little Tom Tucker eats for his supper |
bread & butter |
500 |
July 5, 1993 |
| "There was a farmer had a dog and" this "was its name" |
B-I-N-G-O |
100 |
February 20, 1991 |
| "Cock-a-doodle-doo, my dame has lost" one of these |
Her Shoe |
200 |
February 20, 1991 |
| "A-tisket-a-tasket", they're the colors of "my basket" |
Green & Yellow |
300 |
February 20, 1991 |
| "A Child's Garden of Verses" grew out of the fertile imagination of this "Treasure Island" author |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
500 |
February 20, 1991 |
| The only one of the "Three Men in a Tub" who didn't work with food |
Candlestick Maker |
|
February 20, 1991 |
| A man by this name wears whiskers on his chinnegan |
Michael Finnegan |
100 |
February 2, 1990 |
| Higgledy piggledy; it's the color of the hen that lays eggs for gentlemen |
Black |
200 |
February 2, 1990 |
| We'll have tea if she puts the kettle on |
Polly |
300 |
February 2, 1990 |
| Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to....uh--oh |
Chop off your head |
400 |
February 2, 1990 |
| "Betwixt", a word you don't often run into, is in line 3 of the rhyme about this man & his eating habits |
Jack Sprat ("could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean") |
500 |
February 2, 1990 |
| Since she had a bare cupboard, hers certainly wasn't a lucky dog, lucky dog |
Old Mother Hubbard |
100 |
September 26, 1989 |
| Precarious position of the bough-borne cradle |
up in the treetop |
200 |
September 26, 1989 |
| "See-saw, Margery Daw," he "shall have a new master" |
Jackie |
300 |
September 26, 1989 |
| A 2nd verse to this rhyme begins "Every fiddler he had a fiddle, and a very fine fiddle had he" |
"Old King Cole" |
400 |
September 26, 1989 |
| In this rhyme, a parent bemoans the fact her child has gone to bed with stockings & 1 shoe on |
"Diddle Diddle Dumpling" |
500 |
September 26, 1989 |
| Another version has him asleep under a haycock |
Little Boy Blue |
100 |
April 7, 1987 |
| While the rhyme doesn't mention summer, winter, or spring, it does say he "had a great fall" |
Humpty Dumpty |
200 |
April 7, 1987 |
| With "rings on her fingers & bells on her toes, she shall have" this "wherever she goes" |
music |
100 |
January 15, 1987 |
| He "kissed the girls & made them cry," but "when the boys came out to play," he ran away |
Georgie Porgie |
200 |
January 15, 1987 |
| After "Jack fell down & broke his crown", he "went to bed to mend his head" using brown paper & this liquid |
vinegar |
300 |
January 15, 1987 |
| "With silver bells, & cockle shells, & pretty maids all in a row" |
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary how does you garden grow? |
400 |
January 15, 1987 |
| One theory says "Ring-A-Ring-A-Roses" refers to this medieval disaster |
plague (black death) |
500 |
January 15, 1987 |
| What little Tommy Tucker did for his supper |
sing |
100 |
February 4, 1986 |
| In "The Queen of Hearts", he stole the tarts |
the Knave (of Hearts) |
200 |
February 4, 1986 |
| What Little Bo Peep's sheep will do if left alone |
come home |
300 |
February 4, 1986 |
| The 3 things growing in "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary's" garden |
cockleshells and silver bells and pretty maids all in a row |
400 |
February 4, 1986 |
| In "This little pig went to market", it's what the only pig that ate pigged out on |
roast beef |
500 |
February 4, 1986 |
| Where you are when you "open the door & see all the people" |
the church |
100 |
November 21, 1985 |
| In England, "the merriest month in all the year" |
May |
200 |
November 21, 1985 |
| Colchester, England was named for this legendary Celtic king immortalized in rhyme |
Old King Cole |
300 |
November 21, 1985 |
| "Rub a dub dub", these 3 went to sea in a tub |
the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker |
400 |
November 21, 1985 |
| After turning around, what "Teddy bear, teddy bear" does |
touches the ground |
500 |
November 21, 1985 |
| Hurdler who was nimble & quick |
Jack |
100 |
October 2, 1985 |
| What Little Tommy Tucker vocalizes for |
his supper |
200 |
October 2, 1985 |
| Her dog dies in the 2nd verse, probably from malnutrition |
Old Mother Hubbard |
300 |
October 2, 1985 |
| They cost "one-a-penny, two-a-penny" |
hot cross buns |
400 |
October 2, 1985 |
| Product reserved in bags for the master, the dame, & the little boy |
wool |
500 |
October 2, 1985 |
| Where the crooked man, the crooked cat, & the crooked mouse all lived |
in a little crooked house |
100 |
December 6, 1984 |
| He killed Cock Robin |
the sparrow |
200 |
December 6, 1984 |
| His kisses drove girls to tears |
Georgie Porgie |
300 |
December 6, 1984 |
| At the count of 7, all good children go there |
heaven |
400 |
December 6, 1984 |
| Mother Goose's mode of transportation |
a goose (or gander) |
500 |
December 6, 1984 |