Q 01/05

What is the maximum weight for a Yorkshire Terrier?

A) 1.5 kg

B) 3.2 kg

C) 6.5 kg

D) 13 kg

Answer · why

B) 3.2 kg

The Kennel Club caps the breed at 3.2 kg (7 lb), yet the 4 lb Yorkie war dog Smoky flew a dozen combat missions in World War II.

Q 02/05

The Yorkshire Terrier's coat is tan on the head and what colour on the body?

A) Dark steel-grey

B) Pure white

C) Rich red

D) Chocolate brown

Answer · why

A) Dark steel-grey

Dark steel-grey covers the body, yet Hugh Dalziel's 1878 breed chapter asked for a clear, soft, silvery shade that today's standards reject.

Q 03/05

Workers from which country brought terriers to Yorkshire in the mid-19th century, seeding the breed?

A) Ireland

B) Germany

C) Wales

D) Scotland

Answer · why

D) Scotland

Workers from Scotland brought the terriers, and the dogs that seeded the breed worked as ratters.

Q 04/05

The Yorkshire Terrier was chiefly developed by workers in which industry?

A) Potteries and brickworks

B) Cotton and woollen mills

C) Shipyards and docks

D) Steelworks and foundries

Answer · why

B) Cotton and woollen mills

Cotton and woollen mills of Yorkshire and Lancashire were where the breed took shape, but the mill workers wrote almost nothing down, so its exact blo...

Q 05/05

Which long-coated terrier, now extinct, was crossed into the early Yorkshire Terrier?

A) The English White Terrier

B) The Paisley Terrier

C) The Toy Bull Terrier

D) The Bull and Terrier

Answer · why

B) The Paisley Terrier

The Paisley Terrier was a soft-coated offshoot of the Skye Terrier, and some Skye breeders objected to it being shown as a Skye, calling it cross-bred...