EDU/ENH291: The Hidden Meaning of Nursery Rhymes Answers
___C__ Lady Bug, Lady Bug
___Q__ Pop Goes the Weasel
___A__ As I Was Going by Charing Cross
___Y__ See a Pin and Pick It Up
__ E___ Rain, Rain, Go Away
___H__ Blow Wind, Blow
__T___ Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
__K___ Christmas Is Coming
__O_
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
__B___ Needles and Pins
_ W___ Multiplication Is Vexation
__G___ Jack and Jill
__I____ Georgie Porgie
__ P___ Baa Baa Black Sheep
__BB__ There Was a Crooked Man
___R__ Hark, Hark, the Dogs Do Bark
___Z__ I Had a Little Hobby Horse
__L__
Humpty Dumpty
__D___ Little Jack Horner
__M___ There Was a Little Girl
__J___ As I Was Going to St. Ives
__N__
Little Bo Peep
__S__ For Want of a Nail
__V__ Goosey Goosey Gander
__X__ Jack Be Nimble
__F__ Three Blind Mice
__U__ Jack Spratt
__AA_ Old Mother Hubbard
A. the public execution of King Charles I
B. custom of husbands providing money to purchase
pins
C. Act of Uniformity, when everyone was ordered to
worship in the Protestant church; farmers burning
crops to eliminate bugs
D. deeds to 12 English estates hidden in a pie
E. the defeat of the Spanish Armada by England
F. nobleman who adhered to the Protestant faith and
were burnt at the stake
G. French King Louis XVI and his Queen, Mary
Antoinette, being beheaded
H. making of bread through the use of windmills
I. a torrid gay sex scandal involving King Charles I
J. logic problem designed to improve the deductive
skills of children
K. the festive period where each should give to charity,
according to their means, even if all they could give
was their blessing
L. a large cannon used in the English Civil War
M. not a rhyme, but a poem by Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
N. one must take responsibility of falling asleep or face
the consequences
O. Queen Mary I’s tactics of torture and execution of
Protestants in Britain during her reign
P. King Edward I imposed huge taxation on wool
exports from Britain
Q. Cockney persons were poor and would sometimes
pawn their Sunday coats so they could go to the pub
R. strangers were looked upon with horror during the
Bubonic Plague; beggars pleading for money in the
streets
S. logical progression to the consequences of one’s
actions
T. the witch hunts and witch finders of a notorious era
U. King Charles I and his Queen impose an illegal war
tax to finance war on Spain
V. Catholic priests hide in “Priest Holes” to avoid
persecution
W. written by a Scottish genius who invented logarithms
X. English pirate who escaped from authorities; the
sport of candle leaping
Y. problem in England when King Henry closed all the
monasteries
Z. King Henry VIII’s stables of racing horses bred for
gambling purposes
AA.Cardinal Thomas Wolsey failed to faciliatate King
Henry VIII’s divorce from Queen Katherine
BB.Scottish General signed a Covenant securing
religious and political freedom for Scotland