Did you see University Challenge last night? I enjoy shouting out the answers at the TV.
The RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch got a mention - and the songs of some common birds made up one of the questions.
A few years ago I was part of an RSPB team which took part in University Challenge - the Professionals. It was good fun, although we lost in the first round - out-gunned by the Imperial War Museum!
As you might expect, it's a lot more difficult dragging those answers out of your brain under the lights of a TV studio than sitting in your own home. We got off to a very slow start (and that increases the pressure!) but came with a rush at the end to just about reach respectability!
Jeremy Paxman had been on a trip to Scotland a while before we met him and was very enthusiastic about seeing sea-eagles. As a fisherman he was rather less keen on cormorants!
A love of the natural world demonstrates that a person is a cultured inhabitant of planet Earth.