Q 01/05

Springer spaniels got their name because they were used to do what to game birds?

A) Flush them into the air

B) Herd them into nets

C) Point at them silently

D) Retrieve them from water

Answer · why

A) Flush them into the air

Flush them into the air. Before sporting guns existed, a springer's job was to startle game out of cover so that waiting hawks, nets or coursing hound...

Q 02/05

Until the early 20th century, springers shared litters with which breed?

A) Clumber Spaniel

B) Cocker Spaniel

C) Welsh Springer

D) Field Spaniel

Answer · why

B) Cocker Spaniel

Cocker Spaniel. Size alone sorted a litter: the smaller pups were sent after woodcock and called cockers, while their bigger brothers and sisters were...

Q 03/05

The English Springer descends from which mid-19th-century spaniels?

A) Sussex or Clumber

B) Devon or Cornish

C) Kent or Surrey

D) Norfolk or Shropshire

Answer · why

D) Norfolk or Shropshire

Norfolk or Shropshire. Dog writers of the day called the Norfolk label a misnomer, with no real tie to the county, and it was dropped once the Kennel ...

Q 04/05

At Crufts, the English Springer Spaniel competes in which breed group?

A) Hound

B) Working

C) Gundog

D) Pastoral

Answer · why

C) Gundog

Gundog. The Kennel Club's own standard calls the springer the oldest of the sporting gundogs, a type that was already hunting beside falconers long be...

Q 05/05

The word 'spaniel' comes from an Old French phrase with what literal meaning?

A) Springing dog

B) Spanish dog

C) Water dog

D) Bird dog

Answer · why

B) Spanish dog

Spanish dog. Old French 'espagneul' records where medieval hunters believed these bird dogs came from, though whether the first spaniels really were f...