If I remember my Classics Juniors correctly, the simpleton is carrying the goose and anyone who touches it, gets stuck to it, as if magnetized. But I don't know why.
Simpleton did something nice to an old man, where his brothers didn't. He received the gold goose afterwards. Various people wanted a feather, but got stuck. The strange parade made a princess, who never smiled, laugh uncontrollably. King had the princess wed the simpleton.
Yes, but most people have seen him portrayed as an egg, and that is how he is typically portrayed, even though it doesn't really specify. So most people typically think of Humpty Dumpty as an egg.
The rhyme itself doesn't specify, no, but it's generally agreed by folklorists that the rhyme started its life as a riddle to which "an egg" was the answer, and that's the meaning that's been assigned to it for most of the rhyme's recorded history.
The question specifically says, and I quote, "Amphibian who transforms when kissed" not, "What is the name of the story when a girl kisses a frog and he becomes a prince" where the answer would be The Princess and the Frog, but it specifies it being the "amphibian who transforms when kissed" so it has to be frog prince. Sorry to be nit picky but I just can't help it.
I put "princess" for "Stock character who is the object of female fantasies" since the stereotype is little girls wanting to be a princess. Just read the clue wrong I guess.
It developed into a riddle and so it wouldn't give the answer in the rhyme. My old Mother Goose book includes Humpty Dumpty as a riddle and answers "egg" after the rhyme.
I got stuck on Rip Van Winkle but got it at the last second when I remembered the Flintstones episode where Fred fell asleep for 40 years (he was dreaming)! Great Quiz!!
I remembered an episode of Family Matters where Carl sleeps through his house being burglarized, and one of the other officers nicknames him Rip Van Winslow.
Hi - nice quiz, but why specifically Prince Charming? I tried Handsome Prince, Prince, etc., and none would work. A lot of these fairy tales don't use Prince Charming", just a prince or handsome prince.
I don't think it should be "Stock character who is the object of female fantasies", because who is going to get that? Maybe you should say something like "Prince who is the hero in stories such as Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" I know that's kind of long, but who would get "stock character who is the object of female fantasies
Which to behonest, is weirdly low, because Im pretty sure most recognize the answer. Not saying that it needs to be changed though. Sometimes having to figure stuff out a bit is not a bad thing (though not my favorite clue. Never ever has been my fantasy... ugh, I never wanted to be a princess or get a a prince charming, I'd rescue myself thank you very much, not gonna wait and sit pretty because of being to scared to brake a nail or whatever. I'd slay the dragon myself, well actually I wont I like dragons. That would be a fantasy which resonate more with me, taming the dragon and then flying away with it (Pre all the tv hype show about dragons) )
Disney doesn't own these characters. They use them because they're in the public domain as folktales. The Grimm brothers collected a lot of them; Hans Christian Anderson is responsible for many others; and a lot of the others are English nursery rhymes.
Nearly all of these are from European fairy tales, even if they are now well known... you can't complain that there is one American one among the bunch.
Simpleton did something nice to an old man, where his brothers didn't. He received the gold goose afterwards. Various people wanted a feather, but got stuck. The strange parade made a princess, who never smiled, laugh uncontrollably. King had the princess wed the simpleton.
I'd say about 53% of people.