Q 01/05

The name 'cocker' is generally traced to which game bird?

A) Woodcock

B) Partridge

C) Blackcock

D) Moorcock

Answer · why

A) Woodcock

Woodcock: an 1803 sporting guide said the smaller spaniel was called the cocker, or cocking spaniel, as being more adapted to covert and woodcock shoo...

Q 02/05

The English Cocker's ever-wagging tail has earned it which nickname, as in 'the ____ cocker'?

A) Happy

B) Cheerful

C) Jolly

D) Merry

Answer · why

D) Merry

Merry: the wagging had its uses too, for an 1803 sporting guide said a sportsman could tell from its quickening that his spaniel was nearing game.

Q 03/05

In which monarch's reign did breeders begin splitting spaniels into the separate breeds we know today?

A) Elizabeth I

B) Charles II

C) George III

D) Victoria

Answer · why

D) Victoria

Victoria was on the throne when breeders began recording pedigrees around 1850, though for decades after, pups from a single litter could still be reg...

Q 04/05

The word 'spaniel' comes from an Old French term for a dog from which country?

A) France

B) Spain

C) Italy

D) Portugal

Answer · why

B) Spain

Spain: Old French espaignol meant 'Spanish dog', though the dictionaries that give the derivation add that whether the dogs really came from there is ...

Q 05/05

In which novel does a cocker spaniel called Jasper lead the new bride to a dead woman's beach cottage?

A) Jane Eyre

B) Rebecca

C) Jamaica Inn

D) Wuthering Heights

Answer · why

B) Rebecca

Rebecca: chasing Jasper into a cove, the narrator finds the cottage the first Mrs de Winter once used, and a man on the beach tells her 'she's gone in...