Cryptic Birds

This pub quiz handout round features 15 cryptic clues for teams to try to decipher and come up with the names of birds. For example, the correct answer to "Duo has ability to" is Toucan "two can").

A few of these clues are fairly straightforward to ensure that teams in your quiz can get up and running on this round without too much trouble, however there are also some tricky clues that are likely to take a fair bit of puzzling over before teams arrive at the correct answer.

It is recommended that these cryptic clues are used in a quiz as a handout round. For more information on handout rounds and our recommended use for them in quizzes click here

Please note that this handout round also appears in Weekly Quiz 271. If you would prefer to purchase our pre-compiled full weekly quizzes, then click here, where you can find quizzes with a handout round, 2 rounds on general subjects, a specialist subject round, a connections round, an initial letter link round, and a stick or twist round, as well as professionally designed answer sheets and full instructions on how to run your quiz. If, however, you prefer to use your own format for your quizzes, then this handout round should help towards creating an entertaining and challenging quiz.