100 Animal Trivia Questions and Answers
Species, behaviour and the natural world's stranger facts.
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1.How is it possible to determine the sex of a parakeet?
Answer: By the COLOR of the waxlike swelling ON THE BEAK, called the cere
Read the full explanation2.What are two common names for jumping, tailless amphibia?
Answer: FROGS or toads
Read the full explanation3.These animals reach lengths of up to 7 feet, have about 100 teeth, emit sounds when moving to help them navigate, and reach travelling speeds of about 35 miles per hour. What kind of animals are they?
Answer: DOLPHINS
Read the full explanation4.The largest type of living bird can be 9 feet in height and weigh 350 lbs (160 kgs). What kind of bird is it?
Answer: OSTRICH
Read the full explanation5.What's the difference between a turtle and a tortoise?
Answer: TURTLES CAN LIVE IN WATER OR LAND / TORTOISES LIVE ONLY ON LAND
Read the full explanation6.According to the principle of German biologist Karl Bergmann, warm-blooded animals living in cold climates tend to be ... bigger? or smaller?... than animals of the same species living in warm climates.
Answer: LARGER
Read the full explanation7.By what name do we identify those certain kinds of weasels whose coats change color in the winter?
Answer: ERMINE
Read the full explanation8.Which animal has the longest gestation period, about 645 days almost 2 years
Answer: ELEPHANT
Read the full explanation9.According to the San Francisco Department of Animal Care and Control, what is the most commonly reported wild animal sighted by people in the streets of San Francisco?
Answer: RACCOONS
Read the full explanation10.In the same way that humans are identified by their fingerprints, dogs are identified by what kind of prints?
Answer: NOSE PRINTS
Read the full explanation11.What is the largest species of penguin?
Answer: Emperor penguin
Read the full explanation12.What animal can sleep for up to three years?
Answer: Snail
Read the full explanation13.What is the largest living reptile?
Answer: Saltwater crocodile
Read the full explanation14.This historical period was characterized by the existence of dinosaurs, and the appearance of the earliest mammals and birds. It was named after a Swiss mountain range. What's the name?
Answer: JURASSIC
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Dinosaurs15.From the French term chatepelose, meaning “hairy cat," comes the appropriate name of what insect?
Answer: CATERPILLAR
Read the full explanation16.Which animal is the largest member of the cat family?
Answer: TIGER
Read the full explanation17.What is a group of wolves called?
Answer: Pack
Read the full explanation18.Insects like bees, moths, and beetles go through a number of stages of growth. What are the names of the two intermediate stages between the egg stage and the adult stage?
Answer: LARVA / PUPA
Read the full explanation19.Animal names: If a male chicken is called a rooster and a female chicken is called a hen, …a. What do you call a male cat? B. What do you call a female, mature horse? C. What do you call a young swan?
Answer: a. TOM b. MARE c. CYGNET
Read the full explanation20.What animal is the larva of a butterfly or moth?
Answer: CATERPILLAR
Read the full explanation21.The largest one of these came from a giant clam in the Philippines and weighed about 14 pounds. What was it?
Answer: A PEARL
Read the full explanation22.What swimming stroke is named after an insect?
Answer: BUTTERFLY
Read the full explanation23.What insect produces honey?
Answer: Honeybee
Read the full explanation24.How many legs does a spider have?
Answer: Eight
Read the full explanation25.A "joey" is the baby of what animal?
Answer: KANGAROO
Read the full explanation26.How many legs do each of these animals have? a. Lobster? (claws considered legs) b. Spider? c. Grasshopper?
Answer: a. 10, b. 8, c. 6
Read the full explanation27.Generally speaking, who lives longer: cats or dogs?
Answer: CATS AVE 13-17 YRS dogs 8-15
Read the full explanation28.What country has a bill of rights for cows?
Answer: INDIA
Read the full explanation29.What venomous snake is the longest in the world?
Answer: King cobra
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: King cobra30.What bird can fly backwards?
Answer: Hummingbird
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Hummingbird31.What animal is known for its ability to change color to match its surroundings?
Answer: Chameleon
Read the full explanation32.Which 2 types of rather small creatures are primarily responsible for having spread the bubonic plague that killed millions of people in Europe and Asia in the 14th century?
Answer: RATS AND FLEAS
Read the full explanation33.This aquatic animal, found mostly in Australia, has a bill like a duck, dense fur, webbed feet, and a broad flattened tail. What kind of animal is this?
Answer: DUCK BILLED PLATYPUS
Read the full explanation34.Where do flies go in the winter? Do they die, fly to warmer climates, or hibernate?
Answer: HIBERNATE - in dry and warm spaces such as home attics
Read the full explanation35.Why do hummingbirds hum?
Answer: FROM THE VIBRATION OF THE RAPID FLAPPING WINGS
Read the full explanation36.What ocean creature has the largest brain of any invertebrate?
Answer: Giant squid
Read the full explanation37.What is the collective noun for a group of crows?
Answer: Murder
Read the full explanation38.What is the only mammal capable of true flight?
Answer: Bat
Read the full explanation39.The symbol of the Anheuser-Busch brewing company is the image of draft horses pulling the beer wagons. These horses originated in Scotland. What kind of horses are they?
Answer: CLYDESDALES
Read the full explanation40.The largest mammal that ever lived weighs more than 100 tons. What kind of animal is this?
Answer: BLUE WHALE
Read the full explanation41.What two breeds of dog are most commonly used as seeing-eye dogs or guide dogs for the blind?
Answer: GERMAN SHEPHERDS / LABRADOR RETRIEVERS, GOLDEN RETRIEVERS
Read the full explanation42.What is the tallest animal in the world?
Answer: Giraffe
Read the full explanation43.What is the largest species of shark?
Answer: Whale shark
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Whale shark44.The heaviest crustacean ever captured was 3 foot 6 inches long and weighed 44 pounds. What kind of animal was it?
Answer: LOBSTER
Read the full explanation45.What marine mammal is known as the 'sea cow'?
Answer: Manatee
Read the full explanation46.To search for land, Noah sent what two kinds of birds out from the ark?
Answer: RAVEN / DOVE
Read the full explanation47.This kind of bird has a distinctive call and lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. What is it?
Answer: CUCKOO
Read the full explanation48.What is the world's most venomous spider?
Answer: Brazilian wandering spider
Read the full explanation49.How many hearts does an octopus have?
Answer: Three
Read the full explanation50.What is the fastest land animal?
Answer: Cheetah
Read the full explanation51.The heaviest freshwater fish ever caught weighed 468 pound when caught in Benicia, California in 1963. What kind of fish was it?
Answer: White STURGEON
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: Freshwater Fish52.In the insect world, certain male bees have the enviable task of performing no work. Their primary function is to mate with the queen bee. What are they called?
Answer: DRONES
Read the full explanation53.Which animal has the longest gestation period? Human, Whale, or Elephant?
Answer: ELEPHANT
Read the full explanation54.Most penguins live in the southernmost lands on earth, such as Antarctica, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa, and mostly in cold climates, but some penguins can also be found on which islands in the Pacific Ocean near the equator?
Answer: GALAPAGOS
Read the full explanation55.What are the names of the wild dogs, nocturnal hunters, native to Australia?
Answer: DINGOS
Read the full explanation56.What is the only mammal that can fly?
Answer: Not the flying squirrel which glides but does not fly: THE BAT
Read the full explanation57.What is the only kind of deer whose females have antlers?
Answer: REINDEER
Read the full explanation58.What is the only bird which provides us with leather?
Answer: OSTRICH
Read the full explanation59.How many legs does an octopus have?
Answer: Eight
Read the full explanation60.What is a baby kangaroo called?
Answer: Joey
Read the full explanation61.What animal produces cashmere wool?
Answer: Goat
Read the full explanation62.This animal, a variety of wild goat, lives in high mountain areas of Europe, Asia, and Africa, and has large backward- curving horns. What is the name of this animal?
Answer: IBEX
Read the full explanation63.Which river in New Mexico and Arizona hsa the same name as a venomous lizard?
Answer: GILA RIVER / GILA MONSTER
Read the full explanation64.What is the largest land animal?
Answer: African elephant
Read the full explanationLearn more on Codexery: African Elephant65.What type of annoying insect is named for a colorful article of clothing?
Answer: YELLOW JACKET
Read the full explanation66.What color is a polar bear's skin underneath its white fur?
Answer: Black
Read the full explanation67.When water passes through the gills of fish, the fish get what?
Answer: OXYGEN
Read the full explanation68.Which animals produce pearls?
Answer: OYSTERS
Read the full explanation69.What three animals appear in the nursery rhyme, “Hey Diddle Diddle”?
Answer: Cat, cow, dog
Read the full explanation70.What tropical lizard has the ability to change colors?
Answer: CHAMELEON
Read the full explanation71.One of the most expensive types of animal fur comes from the slowest swimming marine mammal. What animal is this?
Answer: SEA OTTER
Read the full explanation72.The Rhodesian Ridgeback was bred in southern Africa to help hunt which animal?
Answer: The lion
73.Which people of the Russian Far East first developed the Siberian Husky, for pulling sleds and for companionship?
Answer: The Chukchi
74.Which breed of large scent hound, with long ears and wrinkled skin, is famous for tracking people by smell?
Answer: Bloodhound
75.About how many teeth does a dog have?
Answer: 42
76.The Dobermann is named after Louis Dobermann, a German who did which job besides breeding dogs?
Answer: Tax collector
77.The Labrador Retriever was developed from dogs imported from which Canadian island colony?
Answer: Newfoundland
78.Crufts, the British dog show founded in 1891, is named after which man?
Answer: Charles Cruft
79.The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show was first held in 1877 in which city?
Answer: New York City
80.Which dog breed is famous as the preferred breed of Queen Elizabeth II, who owned more than thirty of them during her reign?
Answer: Pembroke Welsh Corgi
Learn more on Codexery: Pembroke Welsh Corgi81.Which dog breed has a tongue that is purple or blue-black?
Answer: Chow Chow
82.The dachshund was originally bred to hunt which burrowing animal?
Answer: The badger
83.Which hunting dog from central Africa is known as the "barkless dog"?
Answer: Basenji
84.Which large breed of working dog takes its name from a hospice at an Alpine pass between Switzerland and Italy?
Answer: St. Bernard
Learn more on Codexery: St. Bernard85.Which breed of sighthound has long been used in organised coursing and in a form of track racing that bears its name?
Answer: Greyhound
Learn more on Codexery: Greyhound86.Which dog breed is known for its white coat marked with dark spots?
Answer: Dalmatian
87.Which Mexican toy breed is the smallest recognized dog breed in the world?
Answer: Chihuahua
88.The domestic dog is descended from which wild animal?
Answer: The wolf (gray wolf)
89.What is an adult male turkey called?
Answer: A tom
90.What is the anatomical name for a bird's wishbone?
Answer: The furcula
Learn more on Codexery: Furcula91.The wild turkey is native to which continent?
Answer: North America
92.What is the name of the fleshy growth that hangs over the beak of a turkey?
Answer: The snood
93.Which large rodent is one of the national symbols of Canada?
Answer: The beaver
Learn more on Codexery: Beaver94.The moa, an extinct group of flightless birds, lived only in which country?
Answer: New Zealand
95.Penguins live almost entirely in which hemisphere?
Answer: The Southern Hemisphere
96.Owls belong to which order of birds?
Answer: Strigiformes
97.Which very large South American vulture is a national symbol of Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru?
Answer: Andean condor
Learn more on Codexery: Andean condor98.Which bird is the national bird of India?
Answer: Indian peafowl (peacock)
99.Which nocturnal, flightless parrot of New Zealand is the heaviest parrot in the world?
Answer: Kakapo
100.The laughing kookaburra, known for a call that sounds like human laughter, is native to which country?
Answer: Australia
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