The Post Quiz: Autonomous Collectives

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In May, everything gets together: in gaggles, or is it congregations? You decide.

The Post Quiz: Autonomous Collectives

A liger.
ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.

WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

According to Graham Chapman in that film, the collective noun for the UK lot is 'Britons'. But is it 'a thin red line of Britons', a 'happy few' of Britons, or just 'a mad lot of Englishmen'? Match these collective nouns with what they describe.

CollectiveCreatures
  1. cry
  2. congress
  3. lounge
  4. mischief
  5. rabble
  6. kindle
  7. yoke
  8. ostentation
  9. warren
  10. rhumba
  • butterflies
  • rattlesnakes
  • peacocks
  • kittens
  • rabbits
  • baboons
  • mice
  • lizards
  • oxen
  • hounds

Easy, rights? Just to be sure, click on the picture below for the answers. All together now.

Pigeons in Regents Park.
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