“Once upon a ___, there dwelt a bear, also a boar”

Trivia: “Once upon a ___, there dwelt a bear, also a boar”

Midnight dreary
Barren moor
Time
River shore

The correct answer is Barren moor

So why is this answer correct? : This historic tongue twister is of unknown origin but describes a bear that is utterly fed up with his wild boar neighbor, who also lives on the moor. The full tongue twister goes: “Once upon a barren moor / There dwelt a bear, also a boar / The bear could not bear the boar / The boar thought the bear a bore / At last the bear could bear no more / Of that boar that bored him on the moor / And so one morn he bored the boar / That boar will bore the bear no more.”

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