Animal quiz & nature questions
Animal quiz from deep-sea fish to peregrine falcons: habitats, records and surprising habits.
Which is the fastest land animal in the world?
More Nature & Animals questions
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Which flower grows toward the sun and is yellow?
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- Sunflower
- Tulip
- Rose
- Violet
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Which sheep breed produces the finest and softest wool in the world?
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- Merino
- Suffolk
- Texel
- Hampshire
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What do walruses mainly use their hundreds of whiskers for?
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- Finding food on the seafloor by touch
- Breathing underwater
- Signaling to other walruses
- Keeping warm in icy water
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What title do blue whales hold among all animals, living or extinct?
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- Largest animal ever known
- Fastest swimmer in the ocean
- Longest-lived mammal
- Loudest land animal
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Which jawless, blood-sucking fish invaded the Great Lakes and devastated lake trout?
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- Zebra mussel
- Sea lamprey
- Round goby
- Alewife
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Why do you float the bag of a new fish in the aquarium before releasing it?
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- To bring the temperature of the two waters gradually together
- To get the fish used to the tank's light
- To raise the oxygen level in the bag
- To neutralise the chlorine in the bag's water
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Which signalling chemical triggers the change from a solitary to a swarming phase in migratory locusts?
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- Adrenaline
- Insulin
- Dopamine
- Serotonin
True or false?
Same material, different game — in a duel this one runs without a clock, but with an explanation after every reveal.
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Dogs see the world completely in black and white.
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False.
Dogs do see colors, but only to a limited degree - mainly blues and yellows, similar to red-green color-blind humans.
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A jellyfish of the species Turritopsis dohrnii is considered practically immortal.
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True.
This jellyfish can transform back into an earlier life stage and thus escape death.
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The octopus order, Octopoda, consists of around 240 known species.
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False.
It consists of around 300 known species.
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In sea spiders, the female carries the fertilised eggs until they hatch, holding them on a pair of specially adapted legs.
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False.
It is the male sea spider that carries the eggs, gripping them with a pair of egg-carrying legs called ovigers.
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