October 15th is National Cheese Curd Day, I Love Lucy Day, White Cane Safety Day, Clean your Virtual Desk Day, and Grouch Day, but dog lovers know that the really important occasion today is National Pug Day!
We’ve put together a quiz to test your “Pug knowledge,” and we made it tougher this year because our readers are too savvy! The answers follow below.
- True or false: Fawn-colored Pugs are the result of two recessive genes;
- What is believed to have been the first European country to see Pugs?
- Historically, the Pug has been known by many other names, but one of these is incorrect. Which one? Mops, Doguillo, Mopsi, Carlin, Carlini, Doguillo, Chinese Pug Dog, Dutch Bulldog, Pug Terrier, Dutch Mastiff, the Miniature Mastiff, Lo-Chiang-Sze, and Lo-sze;
- The only Pug to win Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club show since 1877, the year when the show first started, was Dhandy’s Favorite Woodchuck. In what year did this happen?
- Multiple choice: The collective noun for a group of Pugs is: 1) A snorting; 2) A rumple; 3) A grumbling; 4) a spunk;
- There are several explanations for the Pug’s name, and this is one of them: Some people found a similarity between the Pug’s facial expression to that of an popular pet in 1700s. What was the animal?
- Royals, historical figures, and celebrities have owned Pugs, including Queen Victoria and Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. One of the following people did NOT have a Pug, which one? Actor Hugh Laurie; Heavy metal singer, Rob Zombie; Italian designer, Valentino; Singer, Billie Eilish; actor Mickey Rourke, Statesman, Winston Churchill; ‘N Sync band member, Chris Kirkpatrick; Financial guru, Dave Ramsey, or Olympic medalist dutch cyclist, Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel;
- Which famous traveler do cynologists believe was the first European to see Pugs in the Orient?
- The movie, Men in Black film, featured a talking Pug portrayed by the animal actor, “Mushu.”What was the talking Pug’s name?
- In the world of online role-playing, World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer game and it includes the term, “pug.” What does “pug” stand for: a) Partially Underground; b) A Pickup Group; c) Protective Under Garment; d) a Popup Generator;
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Answers:
- True. Black is the dominant color in Pugs. One black and one fawn parent will produce a black Pug, and this means that fawn-colored Pugs are the result of two recessive genes;
- Holland was likely the first European country to see Pugs through the Dutch East India Company which thrived on commercial business in the Orient. It’s highly probable that company sailors brought the dogs back to Holland;
- Historically, the Pug has been known by many other names, but Pug Terrier was not one of them;
- Dhandy’s Favorite Woodchuck won Best in Show at Westminster in 1981;
- The collective noun for a group of Pugs is a grumbling;
- The name “Pug” came about when some people found a similarity between the Pug’s facial expression to that of a marmoset monkey called Pug, a most popular pet in 1700s;
- Singer, Billie Eilish does not own a Pug, though she is a big animal lover. Eilish first introduced her new blue nosed Pit Bull Terrier, Shark, to followers on Instagram;
- Many believe that Marco Polo was the first European to see Pugs during his travels in the Orient;
- The Men in Black film series included a talking Pug named “Frank;”
- In online gaming, a “pug” is a pickup group, a group of random players that are grouped together via the matchmaking system, usually to do an instance or quest.
If you enjoyed that, try out the quiz we ran in 2020: