RPOatHome: Is it a bird, a kangaroo or a cello? This quiz is all about animals and their association with orchestral music. Go on, test your knowledge in this 5 minute quiz.

Which animal is not in Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals?

Kangaroo

Lion

Cat

Elephant

In Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, which instrument mimics the duck?

Oboe

French Horn

Clarinet

Violin

The opera 'Noye's Fludde', based on the story from the Old Testament, was written by which British composer?

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Benjamin Britten

Gustav Holst

William Walton

Who wrote the opera 'The Thieving Magpie'?

Richard Wagner

Giacomo Puccini

Gioachino Rossini

Richard Strauss

Which fish has given the popular name to Schubert's 'Piano Quintet in A Major'?

Salmon

Trout

Perch

Carp

Which part of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera 'Czar Saltone' is named after the flight of which insect?

Ladybird

Bumblebee

Dragonfly

Moth

According to its title, what was Janáček's little vixen...?

Sly

Calculating

Cunning

Sleepy

Gershwin wrote a piece about which pet-orientated pastime?

Washing the rabbit

Feeding the bird

Walking the dog

Petting the cat

Which feathered friend is ascending in Vaughan Williams' famous violin piece?

Cuckoo

Lark

Bluetit

Robin

Arguably, the most famous of Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals is the Swan, which solo instrument plays this beautiful melody?

Xylophone

Piano

Cello

Bassoon