Can you name the missing words in these Mother Goose nursery rhymes?

Nursery Rhyme	Missing Word
There was an ___ woman
The Lion and the _______
Little Jack ______
The ________ Bush
Diddle, Diddle, ________
Rock-a-bye ____
_________ is Coming
Old ____ Cole
Peter Peter _______ eater
One, Two, ______ my Shoe

Nursery Rhyme	Missing Word
_______ Grundy
Little Boy ____
Sing a Song of ________
Baa Baa _____ Sheep
Hot _____ Buns
Old Mother _______
Little Miss ______
____ and Jill
_______ Dickory Dock
Wee ______ Winkie
Little Jack ______
The Lion and the _______
The Lion and the _______
Old Mother _______
_________ is Coming
Hot _____ Buns

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Missing Word: Mother Goose Quiz

by Hejman

Created Jan 10, 2011 in Just For Fun
Featured Feb 23, 2011
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	HER:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 06:08 GMT	17 points
	All I could think of for "___ is coming" was "The redcoats". And that doesn't even make sense.

	KansasJayhawk:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 06:15 GMT	11 points
	I would have probably done better at 5 years old than now.

	TessSGS:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 10:20 GMT	9 points
	I've never heard of The Lion and the ..... or Diddle, Diddle......

	ctoan:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 10:38 GMT	16 points
	Diddle diddle dumpling my son John Went to bed with his trousers on One shoe off, one shoe on Diddle diddle dumpling my son John

	kymuni:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 13:39 GMT	2 points
	Who knew that the answer for Sing a song of... was one word? It sure makes more sense now. Oh well.

	slamb:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 13:41 GMT	5 points
	Read your "Alice through the Looking Glass". She meets the Lion and the Unicorn. It's the only reference Americans ever see.

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	Hejman:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 14:10 GMT	11 points
	The Lion and the Mouse is a Aesop fable, these are Mother Goose nursery rhymes. The Lion and the Unicorn comes from the union of England and Scotland (the lion and unicorn being their respective animal symbols). The nursery rhyme has been around for about 400 years and, as @slamb mentions, was prominently mentioned in works by Carroll and George Orwell. Considering that there are five answers above 90%, I thought there needed to be one genuinely hard one.

	benmud:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 14:52 GMT	10 points
	despite being on the "wrong" side of the pond, I knew "The Lion and the Unicorn." However, I could not get my mind past 'dumpkin' as the answer for "Diddle, diddle,..." I do NOT want to know what a dumpkin might be, but I blame that accursed Peter Peter pumpkin eater.

	hegemon359:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 15:58 GMT	-1 points
	wow...all I could think of for some of these would more likely be pornos than nursery rhymes...

	klaatu:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 16:56 GMT	5 points
	Could not spell Muffet to save my soul. This took me back to my mother's lap. Loved this quiz.

	Lyn_Marie:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 17:33 GMT	4 points
	Thanks for the bonus when I typed in "mouse". Still didn't get the answer, but at least I knew not to waste my time trying a thousand different rodent-like creatures.

	BonnieH:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 18:36 GMT	2 points
	Never heard of the Lion and the Unicorn. This quiz is not American-centric enough. ;-)

	Lprdgecko:	Feb 23rd, 2011 at 19:18 GMT	1 point
	I haven't heard of a lot of these. I've taken a similar quiz before, which is how I knew some of the more "obscure" answers. I have a huge book of Mother Goose nursery rhymes at home... I need to find that and study for these quizzes :)

	_NoName_:	Feb 24th, 2011 at 02:28 GMT	2 points
	Almost typed in Wille for 'Wee ______ Winkie'. Then I was like "no, thats dumb". Darn!!!

	mustango:	Feb 24th, 2011 at 03:08 GMT	2 points
	Too "narnish"? Is that a word?

	mb625:	Feb 24th, 2011 at 03:49 GMT	3 points
	I kept trying tuffet for muffet... it didn't even occur to me that i was thinking of the wrong part.

	TAR2:	Feb 24th, 2011 at 12:18 GMT	2 points
	Thanks for adding the hint for typing "mouse". That definitely helps. The first time I took this quiz, I kept thinking I was somehow misspelling the word "mouse".

	EmYanks2001:	Feb 27th, 2011 at 04:45 GMT	2 points
	why did i guess wardrobe, when the witch part was missing?? wowww, my brains messed up, but apparently im not the only one if you made a bonus for it... I'm with some of the others about not knowing a lot of the more obscure ones, but fun nontheless and it definitely took me back in years

	FritztheSpritz:	May 4th, 2011 at 10:58 GMT	2 points
	It's 'Hey Diddle Dumpling, My son John' where I hail from in the North of England. Lovely quiz, takes me back.

	Max_Power:	Aug 11th, 2011 at 16:42 GMT	1 point
	For "_____ is coming" i typed in Jack but got credit for "_____ and Jill".

	saneiac:	Sep 4th, 2011 at 02:10 GMT	1 point
	Anyone else try Santa Claus is coming?