Quiz: How much do you know about the 12 days of Christmas?

Who among us hasn’t put eleven pipers piping on their Christmas wishlist.

ON THE TWELFTH day of Christmas, my true love sent to me…

Look, a gift a day for 12 days is a TERRIBLE precedent to set, especially if half of the gifts in question are birds.

But we all still love the festive carol.

Our question is – How well do you know the gifts from the 12 days of Christmas?

As you’re aware, the festive gift giving begins with a partridge in a pear tree. In earlier versions of the song the bird presided in a different place… but where?

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An oak tree

A juniper tree

A fig tree

A cherry tree

Two turtle doves... The turtle dove is not some horrible hybrid experiment gone wrong, but a type of pigeon. But what does the "turtle" part refer to?

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Their colouring

Their beak shape

Their birdcall

Their habitat

The gift on the third day is three French hens - which is not a specific breed of chicken, but France does love poultry. How much poultry meat does the average French person eat in a year?

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22.5kgs

27.8kgs

29.6kgs

31.6kgs

The four calling birds were originally four 'colly' birds. But what does the old dialectal word 'colly' mean?

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Black

Small

Caged

Calling

Five gold rings next - scholars have claimed that this originally did not refer to the jewllery, but rather the the ringed markings on the neck of which bird?

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Duck

Pheasant

Pigeon

Turkey

Next up is six geese a-laying - what's the term for a group of geese in flight?

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A skein

A squadron

A unit

A gabagool

Seven swans a-swimming next. The UK takes swan ownership very seriously - reigning monarch King Charles legally owns all swans in open UK waters. What is his official 'king of the swans' title?

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Warden of the swans

Swan viscount

Seigneur of the Swans

Trumpter Swan

Eight maids a-milking... milkmaids, undoubtedly more than eight, were vital in the discovery and eradication of a devastating disease - but which one?

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Tuberculosis

Polio

Leprosy

Smallpox

The gift on the ninth day is nine ladies dancing - how much did the 2010 film Black Swan gross in the global box office?

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$230 million

$330 million

$430 million

$530 million

Ten lords-a-leaping next - no doubt a reference to Michael FLatley, the Lord of the Dance. What year did Flatley hang up his dancing (leaping?) shoes?