Q 01/05

The Beagle was bred primarily to hunt which animals?

A) Deer and boar

B) Duck and pheasant

C) Rabbit and hare

D) Fox and badger

Answer · why

C) Rabbit and hare

The sport is called beagling, and packs of up to 40 hounds are followed on foot rather than horseback.

Q 02/05

The Beagle looks like a smaller version of which larger hound?

A) Foxhound

B) Bloodhound

C) Otterhound

D) Deerhound

Answer · why

A) Foxhound

The Beagle's head is broader, its muzzle shorter and its legs shorter in proportion, and its expression is quite different.

Q 03/05

Which monarch kept 'Pocket Beagles' that stood only 8 to 9 inches at the shoulder?

A) Henry VIII

B) Charles II

C) Queen Anne

D) Elizabeth I

Answer · why

D) Elizabeth I

She called them her 'singing Beagles' and let them cavort among the plates and cups at her table to amuse guests.

Q 04/05

Edward II and Henry VII both kept packs of what tiny beagle-type dogs?

A) Purse Beagles

B) Glove Beagles

C) Cuff Beagles

D) Saddle Beagles

Answer · why

B) Glove Beagles

The name came from their being small enough to fit on a glove; hunters carried them along and released them into the underbrush.

Q 05/05

Gervase Markham likened the 'musick' of a beagle small enough to sit on a man's hand to what?

A) Flutes

B) Bells

C) Reeds

D) Birdsong

Answer · why

C) Reeds

He called it the 'little small mitten-beagle', a companion for a lady's kirtle that could still run cunningly in the field.