Q 01/05

The Jack Russell Terrier is named after a clergyman who hunted foxes in which part of England?

A) North Yorkshire

B) East Kent

C) West Cumbria

D) North Devon

Answer · why

D) North Devon

North Devon. After university Russell took his first terrier home there and spent the rest of his life, more than 60 years, breeding terriers to work ...

Q 02/05

The word 'terrier', as in Jack Russell Terrier, comes from the Latin word for what?

A) Tooth

B) Earth

C) Hunter

D) Small

Answer · why

B) Earth

Earth. 'Terrier' is short for the Old French chien terrier, an 'earth dog', because these dogs chase their quarry down into its burrow.

Q 03/05

While a student at Oxford, John Russell bought the first Jack Russell terrier from whom?

A) A gamekeeper

B) A fellow student

C) A travelling showman

D) A local milkman

Answer · why

D) A local milkman

A local milkman. Russell met the man out with his terrier and, his biographer wrote, 'never budged from the spot' until he had talked him into selling...

Q 04/05

What was the name of the female terrier that founded John Russell's Jack Russell line?

A) Juno

B) Vixen

C) Tartar

D) Trump

Answer · why

D) Trump

Trump. Russell bought her the moment he saw her, and his biographer called her 'such an animal as Russell had only seen in his dreams'.

Q 05/05

What did John Russell reportedly pride himself on regarding his terriers?

A) They never barked

B) They never lost a fox

C) They never tired

D) They never tasted blood

Answer · why

D) They never tasted blood

They never tasted blood. An obituary in 1883 recorded the boast: a terrier's job was to bay at its quarry until it bolted, never to kill it.