1-What is the national animal of Canada?
2-What is the national animal of Albania?
3-Which dog used to be sacred in China?
4-Urticaria is a skin disease otherwise known as what?
5-What kind of animal is the largest living creature on Earth
6-Give another name for the study of fossils?
7-What do dragonflies prefer to eat?
8-What do you get when you crossbreed a donkey and a horse?
9-Which insects cannot fly, but can jump higher than 30 cm?
10-What is the name of the European Bison?
ANSWERS
1-North American beaver
2-Golden eagle
3-Pekingese
4- Hives
5-Whale
6-Paleontology
7-Mosquitoes
8-Hinny
9-Fleas
10-Wisent
1. Which is the commonest bird in Britain?
2. What is the study of birds eggs called?
3. What colour are the spot on a Plaice?
4. How many arms does a squid have?
5. Which wood is used for piano keys?
6. Which tree do we get turpentine from?
7. What colour is the rose silver jubilee?
8. Which two flowers would you find in an orchestra?
9. Which wild flower is also known as knapweed?
10. What is the world's largest fish?
11. Which boy?s name is also the name of the derived SI unit for inductance?
12. Copper is named after which island in the Mediterranean?
13. Which gas makes up over 90% of natural gas?
14. Which element has the lowest atomic number?
15. What name is given to the study and use of frequencies beyond the limits of human hearing?
16. In computer terminology, what does the acronym RAM stand for?
17. What is the chemical symbol for gold?
18. What name is given to the lowest layer of the atmosphere?
19. Which planet in the solar system is though to weigh two and half times that of all the other planets combined?
20. What type of machine was ENIAC built in 1946?
ANSWERS
1. Wren
2. Oology
3. Red /Orange
4. 10
5. Ebony
6. Pine
7. Pink
8. Viola, Bugle
9. Cornflower
10. Whale Shark
11. Henry
12. Cyprus
13. Methane
14. Hydrogen
15. Ultrasonics
16. Random Access Memory
17. Au
18. Troposphere
19. Jupiter
20. Computer
1. Roe, fallow and sika are all kinds of what animal?
2. Arboreal animals are those living in which type of habitat?
3. Where in Gloucestershire is the headquarters of the Wildfowl Trust?
4. Which creature produces gossamer?
5. Which creatures may collectively be described as a unkindness.
6. What type of creature is a lumpsucker.
7. Which animal produces mohair?
8. In terms of canine achiement why is Lyka chiefly remembered?
9. Britain's undomesticated cats are breed called the "wild cat" and which other?
10. Of the smaller species of dinosaur, approximately how tall did they grow?
11. Which is the longest living land mammal after man?
12. Which animal has the Latin name of Lupus?
13. What is the fastest land mammal?
14. What is the name given to a baby kangaroo?
15. Which mammal do the Germans call a flying mouse?
16. Who wrote books about animals and also owned a Zoo on the Island of Jersey?
17. What family groups do dolphins travel in?
18. How many tentacles does an octopus have?
19. From which Continent do Macaws come from?
20. What was the name of the British TV personality who presented Animal Magic?
ANSWERS
1. Deer
2. In or amongst trees
3. Slimbridge
4. Spider
5. Ravens
6. A fish
7. Angora goat
8. It was the first dog in space
9. Lynx
10. 12 inches:300mm (Allow 9-15)
11. Elephant
12. Wolf
13. Cheetah
14. Joey
15. Bat
16. Gerald Durrell
17. Pods
18. Eight
19. South America
20. Johnny Morris
1. What is the collective name for a group of frogs?
2. What is the fastest animal on two legs?
3. What does a kangaroo; an anteater and a seahorse have in common?
4. What is the national bird of New Zealand?
5. In the TV show, what kind of animal was ?Gentle Ben??
6. The body of the Egyptian Sphinx was based on which animal?
7. What is a female donkey called?
8. What is the distinguishing feature of a Manx cat?
9. What colour are the spots on a common ladybird?
10. What is the most intelligent subhuman primate?
11. What type of creature is a mandrill?
12. What is a young penguin called?
13. Which country has the most Asian elephants in their natural habitat?
14. Which has the most teeth? Reptiles, fish, or mammals?
15. What can be minke, grey, or bowhead?
16. Which is the fastest? Hare, horse, greyhound?
17. Is the Tasmanian Devil a marsupial?
18. Which of the senses is the weakest in almost all primates?
19. Which extinct flightless bird has the Latin name Didus Ineptus?
20. Which fish are members of the class Asteroidea?
ANSWERS
1. Army
2. Ostrich
3. Pouch To Carry Their Young
4. Kiwi
5. Bear
6. Lion
7. Jenny
8. It Has No Tail
9. Black
10. Chimpanzee
11. Monkey
12. Chick
13. India
14. Reptiles
15. Whale
16. Hare
17. Yes
18. Smell
19. Dodo
20. Starfish
1. Which famous bear was created by Michael Bond?
2. What was the name of Tarzan's chimpanzee?
3. What was the name of Walt Disney's famous deer?
4. What was the name of the canine member of Enid Blyton's 'Famous Five'?
5. What was the name of the golden eagle which escaped from London Zoo in 1965?
6. What type of animal was the baby in the film 'Bringing Up Baby'?
7. Who rode a horse named Black Bess?
8. What was the name of the cross-eyed lion in 'Daktari'?
9. What was the name of Long John Silver's parrot?
10. What type of animal was 'Ben' in the film of the same name?
ANSWERS
1. Paddington Bear
2. Cheta
3. Bambi
4. Timmy
5. Goldie
6. A leopard
7. Dick Turpin
8. Clarence
9. Captain Flint
10. A Rat
1. What is the alternative name for a castle in chess?
2. In Disney?s ?Aladdin? who provided the voice of the Genie?
3. What was the name of the organisation that was fought by the Men from UNCLE?
4. What was the title of the trilogy of novels written by Flora Thompson?
5. Which former England goalkeeper died in the Munich air crash whilst working as a newspaper reporter?
6. What was the alternative name of Sir Francis Drake?s flagship ?The Golden Hind??
7. What was the name of the character played by Jodie Foster in ?The Silence Of The Lamb??
8. Who had hit records with Splish Splash?, and ?My Boomerang Won?t Come Back??
9. Which novel by Ken Kesey was set in a mental institution?
10. In ?Star Wars? what was the name of Han Solo?s spaceship?
ANSWERS
1. ROOK
2. ROBIN Williams
3. THRUSH
4. LARKrise To Candleford
5. Frank SWIFT
6. The PELICAN
7. Clarice STARLING
8. Charlie DRAKE
9. One Flew Over The CUCKOO?S Nest
10. The Millennium FALCON
1. Which word can mean to accept an insult, to repress an emotion or to take?
2. Which champion held the WBA and WBC welterweight titles in 1987 and 1989?
3. Which bird, famous as a "collector", has the Latin name Pica Pica?
4. What steam locomotive broke the speed record at 126 mph in 1938?
5. Members of which native Indian tribe now reside at specific reservations in Montana?
6. Which southern U.S. state is nicknamed "The Pelican State"?
7. Which town near Luton, lies on the River Ouzel and has the town of Linsdale on the opposite bank?
8. An ouzel is an old name for which bird?
9. Which former British ambassador married the daughter of James Callaghan?
10. Which bird has varieties called rock, tawny, water and tree?
11. What is the alternative name of the Shakespearean character, Robin Goodfellow?
12. What type of bird appeared in the title of a book by Jack Higgins later made into a film starring Donald Sutherland and Michael Caine?
13. In Golf, how many strokes under par is a birdie?
14. What type of bird did William Wordsworth address with the words ?Shall I call thee bird, or but a wandering voice??
15. Which instrument was played by the jazz musician Charlie ?Bird? Parker?
16. Who wrote the story on which the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film ?The Birds? was based?
17. Which bird was the title of a 1968 UK number 1 hit for Fleetwood Mac?
18. In the famous Monty Python parrot sketch, what breed of parrot had John Cleese supposedly been sold?
19. Which English football league club are nicknamed ?The Eagles??
ANSWERS
1. Swallow
2. Marlon Starling
3. Magpie
4. Mallard
5. Crow
6. Louisiana
7. Leighton Buzzard
8. Blackbird
9. Peter Jay
10. Pipit
11. Puck
12. Eagle (The Eagle Has Landed)
13. One
14. Cuckoo
15. Saxophone
16. Daphne Du Maurier
17. Albatross
18. Norweigian Blue
19. Crystal Palace
1. Budgerigars of all sorts of colours have been developed by breeders. What colour are they in the wild?
2. What is the other name for a cavy?
3. Which cat has no tail?
4. What dog was once sacred in China?
5. Which breed of dog is the favourite of the queen?
6. What would live in a apiary?
7. What is the family name of doves and pigeons?
8. From which country does the Korat cat come?
9. For what does the bloodhound have a special reputation?
10. How many sets of teeth does a dog have in its lifetime?
11. What was the name of Tarzan's chimpanzee?
12. What was the name of the canine member of Enid Blyton's 'Famous Five'?
13. What type of animal was the baby in the film 'Bringing Up Baby'?
14. Celeste was the wife of which fictional animal?
15. What was the name of the cross-eyed lion in 'Daktari'?
16. What was the name of Long John Silver's parrot?
17. K9 was a robot dog in which TV series?
18. Which 2 bears lived in Jellystone park?
19. What is the name of the otter that features in the story ?Ring of Bright Water??
ANSWERS
1. Green
2. Guinea Pig
3. Manx
4. Pekinese
5. Corgis
6. Bees
7. Columidae
8. Thailand
9. Tracking
10. 2
11. Cheta
12. Timmy
13. A Leopard
14. Babar the Elephant
15. Clarence
16. Captain Flint
17. Dr Who
18. Yogi and Boo Boo
19. Tarka
1. Border, Leicester and Corrie dale are all breeds of what?
2. Name the most intelligent family of birds with respect to reasoning power?
3. What is the name of the dog in the famous five series?
4. Which bird is the international symbol of happiness?
5. Rock hopper, jackass and emperor are all type of what?
6. Which bird is often described as being a thief and is thought by some people to bring bad luck?
7. This animal was mentioned in 'Alice in wonderland' and was last sighted in Mauritius. Name the animal.?
8. Which living bird has the longest wingspan?
9. Which animal is the emblem of the USA.'s Republican Party?
10. To which bird family does the jay belong?
ANSWERS
1. Sheep
2. Crow
3. Timothy
4. Bluebird
5. Penguins
6. Magpie
7. Dodo
8. The Albatross
9. The Elephant.
10. Crow
1. Which famous novel is set in the land of Narnia?
2. What was the name of Darwin?s famous research ship?
3. In the 1970s TV series Tarzan what name was given to his chimpanzee?
4. Which female pop group had hits with Automatic, Slowhand and I?m so excited?
5. What is the nickname of Hull FC?
6. Who is the patron saint of mountaineers?
7. What would an Iranian have been called before 1936?
8. Which American pop group had hits with Africa and Roseanna?
9. Two Oriental men named Chang and Eng were the first recorded cases of what?
10. The Cabot straits separates Nova Scotia from where?
11. Who played Inspector Clouseau in 5 Pink Panther movies?
12. Which breed of dog was kept by monks to find lost travellers in the Alps?
13. Who wrote the novel ?The dogs of war??
14. In which continent do Jaguars live?
15. Which English King was called Lion-Heart?
16. Which general of World War II was nick-named ?The Desert Fox??
17. In astrology, which 2 months are the star sign Leo?
18. What is unusual about a Manx cat?
19. Which dogs used to walk beside carriages to fend off highwaymen?
20. Which is the largest of the great cats?
ANSWERS
1. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
2. Hms Beagle
3. Cheetah
4. The Pointer Sisters
5. The Tigers
6. Saint Bernard
7. Persian
8. Toto
9. Siamese Twins
10. Newfoundland
11. Peter Sellers
12. St Bernard
13. Frederick Forsythe
14. South America
15. Richard I
16. Erwin Rommel
17. July and August
18. No tail
19. Dalmatians
20. Tiger
1. Frodo Baggins was the first to enter Britain using what?
2. In Ancient Rome what creature was the symbol of liberty?
3. In the Dr Dolittle stories what type of creature was Dab-Dab?
4. What is the sacred animal of Thailand?
5. In the Chinese horoscope what animal comes
a: first alphabetically
b: last alphabetically?
6. Collective nouns - a streak of which creatures?
7. Goodfellow's Lumholtz's and Bennett's are both which type of animal?
8. What creature is the symbol of medicine?
9. Middle Ages: having what creatures in ones house was meant to bring good luck?
10. The aardvark is first animal in the dictionary what's second?
11. The lutra-lutra is which semi aquatic animal?
12. The dog breed borzoi gets it name from the Russian for what?
13. The dybbuk is a creature in which people's mythology?
14. Which animals make a sound called nuzzing?
15. In Korea which animal is the symbol of long life?
16. On what would you use a Curry Comb?
17. To what family of animals does the Llama belong?
18. To what family of bird does the Shag belong?
19. What animal do Eskimoes call a nanook?
20. What animal has the longest lifespan in captivity?
ANSWERS
1. Pet Passport - he was a dog
2. Cat
3. A Duck
4. The White Elephant
5. Two Answers
a: Boar
b: Tiger
6. Tigers
7. Tree Kangaroo
8. Snake
9. Ants
10. Aardwolf
11. An Otter
12. Fleet or swift
13. Jewish - migrating soul enters the body
14. Camels
15. The deer
16. Horse
17. Camel
18. Cormorant
19. Polar Bear
20. Giant Tortoise
1. Is the ?Corncake? a bird, a mammal or a reptile?
2. Which insects communicate to each other by dancing?
3. Ermine is the fur from which animal?
4. What is the most popular theory explaining why the dinosaurs became extinct?
5. What is the largest animal ever to inhabit the planet?
6. What is a razorshell?
7. What is vivipary?
8. Which insect sometimes eats its (male) mate during copulation?
9. What kind of a relationship does coral have with algae?
10. What name is given to animals which do not hunt or eat meat?
11. What kind of animal is a sea horse?
12. Which is the largest land animal?
13. What is the term given to the process by which butterflies change from a caterpillar to a flying adult?
14. What is a booby?
15. What is the name given to the study of animals?
16. Which mammals fly by echolocation?
17. How many types of panda are there?
18. How long is the longest beetle in the world?
19. What is the name given to animals without backbones?
20. In the Simpsons, what sort of dog is Santa?s little helper?
ANSWERS
1. Bird
2. Bees
3. Stoat
4. The Earth was hit by a giant meteorite
5. The blue whale
6. A kind of mollusc
7. A type of reproduction where the embryo develops inside the mother
8. Preying Mantis
9. A symbiotic relationship
10. Herbivore
11. Fish
12. Elephant
13. Metamorphis
14. A tropical sea bird
15. Zoology
16. Bats
17. 2 (The giant and the lesser)
18. 6 inches
19. Invertebrates
20. greyhound
1. Which breed of dog was named after the monks of a Swiss hospice, who kept them for finding lost travellers in the Alps?
2. Apart from greyhounds, what other breed of dog occasionally race at racetracks?
3. What is the name of Dick Dastardley's canine sidekick?
4. Who was the creator of Droopy the dog, Bugs Bunny and many others?
5. By what name is the German shepherd dog commonly known?
6. In Greek mythology, what is the distinguishing factor on the guard dog Cerberus?
7. What sort of dog is a joke?
8. Which BBC television program shows sheepdog trials?
9. What is a mud puppy?
10. What name is given to a breed or variety of dog (e.g. poodle) that is very much smaller than the standard?
ANSWERS
1. St. Bernard
2. Afghan Hound
3. Muttley
4. Tex Avery
5. Alsatian
6. He had three heads
7. Shaggy dog
8. One man and his dog
9. A fish (North American salamander)
10. Toy dog
The following quiz round was submitted by Pete Mathias of Folkestone, Kent, UK. Another great round Pete, many thanks.
The answer is simple, is it a breed of fish or a breed of fowl?
1. Plymouth Rock
2. Buck Eye
3. Californian Sheephead.
4. Cubalaya
5. Golden Dorado
6. Walleye
7. Snook
8. Jersey Giant
9. Capelin
10. Ancona
ANSWERS
1. Fowl
2. Fowl
3. Fish
4. Fowl
5. Fish
6. Fish
7. Fish
8. Fowl
9. Fish
10. Fowl
1. In which continent to Jaguars live?
2. In astrology which two months are in the star sign leo?
3. Who wrote the musical cats?
4. Which cartoon cat was the first to make the crossing from screen to cartoon strip?
5. Who was the female star of the film cat Ballou in 1965?
6. Which animal can run at 70mph?
7. What is a fox?s den called?
8. Which variety of dog originating in the us cannot be imported, bred or sold in the uk from laws passed in 1989 and 1991?
9. Which is the smallest breed of dog?
10. What kind of dog was Pluto?
ANSWERS
1. South America
2. July and August
3. Andrew Lloyd Webber
4. Felix
5. Jane Fonda
6. Cheetah
7. Earth
8. Pit bull terrier
9. Chiawawah
10. Blood hound
1. What sort of creature is a fluke?
2. What sort of bird is a merlin?
3. What part of the body might suffer from labyrinthitis?
4. What colour are the spots on a plaice?
5. What is a Puffball?
6. How many pairs of ribs do humans have?
7. What is the popular name for mouth to mouth recussitation?
8. A BCG is a vaccination against which disease?
9. Which tendon pins the calf muscle to the heel bone?
10. What colour head does a male mallard usually have?
11. What class of creatures makes up more than two-thirds of known species?
12. What colour is angelica?
13. Which part of the anatomy shares its name with a punctuation mark?
14. What is the name of the famous meat market in London?
15. The Chihuahua dog gets its name from a town in which country?
16. Where is Britain?s oldest Cathedral?
17. What type of dogs do Eskimos commonly keep?
18. How many bones are there in the human body?
19. What gender is a worker honeybee?
20. What is the otter?s home called?
ANSWERS
1. Worm
2. Falcon
3. Ear
4. Orange
5. Fungus
6. 14
7. The kiss of life
8. Tuberculosis
9. Achilles Tendon
10. Green
11. Insects
12. Green
13. Colon
14. Smithfield
15. Mexico
16. Canterbury
17. Huskies
18. 206
19. Female
20. Holt
1. What is the gestation period of an elephant?
2. What did Samuel Morse invent?
3. Who invented the thermometer?
4. Who invented the lightening conductor & bifocal glasses?
5. Who took the first step on the moon?
6. What busy animals live in apiaries?
7. On a fish, what can be anal, pectoral or pelvic?
8. Approxoimate pi as a fraction
9. What is the common name for ascorbic acid?
10. What do vertebrates have that invertebrates do not?
11. ?Love Apple? is an old name for which fruit?
12. In the world of metals, what does the abbreviation EPNS stand for?
13. Spider, hermit, and masked are all varieties of which creature?
14. From what raw material is aluminium obtained?
15. What food flavouring is obtained from the crocus plant?
16. Which acid is also known as Aqua Fortis?
17. Which mathematical term means ?without end or limits??
18. What animal is known to Australians as the ?jumbuck??
19. What nationality was Galileo?
20. If you were a hippologist, what animals would be your speciality?
ANSWERS
1. 22 months
2. Morse code
3. Galileo
4. Benjamin Franklin
5. Neil Armstrong
6. Honey bees
7. Fins
8. 22/7
9. Vitamin C
10. A spine
11. Tomato
12. Electro-Plated Nickel Silver
13. Crabs
14. Bauxite
15. Saffron
16. Nitric Acid
17. Infinity
18. The Sheep
19. Italian
20. Horses
1. Budgerigars of all sorts of colours have been developed by breeders. What colour are they in the wild?
2. What is the other name for a cavy?
3. Which cat has no tail?
4. What dog was once sacred in China?
5. Which breed of dog is the favourite of the queen?
6. What would live in a apiary?
7. What is the family name of doves and pigeons?
8. From which country does the Korat cat come?
9. For what does the bloodhound have a special reputation?
10. How many sets of teeth does a dog have in its lifetime?
11. What was the name of Tarzan's chimpanzee?
12. What was the name of the canine member of Enid Blyton's 'Famous Five'?
13. What type of animal was the baby in the film 'Bringing Up Baby'?
14. Celeste was the wife of which fictional animal?
15. What was the name of the cross-eyed lion in 'Daktari'?
16. What was the name of Long John Silver's parrot?
17. K9 was a robot dog in which TV series?
18. Which 2 bears lived in Jellystone park?
19. What is the name of the otter that features in the story ?Ring of Bright Water??
ANSWERS
1. Green
2. Guinea Pig
3. Manx
4. Pekinese
5. Corgis
6. Bees
7. Columidae
8. Thailand
9. Tracking
10. 2
11. Cheta
12. Timmy
13. A Leopard
14. Babar the Elephant
15. Clarence
16. Captain Flint
17. Dr Who
18. Yogi and Boo Boo
19. Tarka
1. Budgerigars of all sorts of colours have been developed by breeders. What colour are they in the wild?
2. What is the other name for a cavy?
3. Which cat has no tail?
4. What dog was once sacred in China?
5. Which breed of dog is the favourite of the queen?
6. What would live in a apiary?
7. What is the family name of doves and pigeons?
8. From which country does the Korat cat come?
9. For what does the bloodhound have a special reputation?
10. How many sets of teeth does a dog have in its lifetime?
11. What was the name of Tarzan's chimpanzee?
12. What was the name of the canine member of Enid Blyton's 'Famous Five'?
13. What type of animal was the baby in the film 'Bringing Up Baby'?
14. Celeste was the wife of which fictional animal?
15. What was the name of the cross-eyed lion in 'Daktari'?
16. What was the name of Long John Silver's parrot?
17. K9 was a robot dog in which TV series?
18. Which 2 bears lived in Jellystone park?
19. What is the name of the otter that features in the story ?Ring of Bright Water??
ANSWERS
1. Green
2. Guinea Pig
3. Manx
4. Pekinese
5. Corgis
6. Bees
7. Columidae
8. Thailand
9. Tracking
10. 2
11. Cheta
12. Timmy
13. A Leopard
14. Babar the Elephant
15. Clarence
16. Captain Flint
17. Dr Who
18. Yogi and Boo Boo
19. Tarka
1. Frodo Baggins was the first to enter Britain using what?
2. In Ancient Rome what creature was the symbol of liberty?
3. In the Dr Dolittle stories what type of creature was Dab-Dab?
4. What is the sacred animal of Thailand?
5. In the Chinese horoscope what animal comes
a: first alphabetically
b: last alphabetically?
6. Collective nouns - a streak of which creatures?
7. Goodfellow's Lumholtz's and Bennett's are both which type of animal?
8. What creature is the symbol of medicine?
9. Middle Ages: having what creatures in ones house was meant to bring good luck?
10. The aardvark is first animal in the dictionary what's second?
11. The lutra-lutra is which semi aquatic animal?
12. The dog breed borzoi gets it name from the Russian for what?
13. The dybbuk is a creature in which people's mythology?
14. Which animals make a sound called nuzzing?
15. In Korea which animal is the symbol of long life?
16. On what would you use a Curry Comb?
17. To what family of animals does the Llama belong?
18. To what family of bird does the Shag belong?
19. What animal do Eskimoes call a nanook?
20. What animal has the longest lifespan in captivity?
ANSWERS
1. Pet Passport - he was a dog
2. Cat
3. A Duck
4. The White Elephant
5. Two Answers
a: Boar
b: Tiger
6. Tigers
7. Tree Kangaroo
8. Snake
9. Ants
10. Aardwolf
11. An Otter
12. Fleet or swift
13. Jewish - migrating soul enters the body
14. Camels
15. The deer
16. Horse
17. Camel
18. Cormorant
19. Polar Bear
20. Giant Tortoise
1. Which famous novel is set in the land of Narnia?
2. What was the name of Darwin?s famous research ship?
3. In the 1970s TV series Tarzan what name was given to his chimpanzee?
4. Which female pop group had hits with Automatic, Slowhand and I?m so excited?
5. What is the nickname of Hull FC?
6. Who is the patron saint of mountaineers?
7. What would an Iranian have been called before 1936?
8. Which American pop group had hits with Africa and Roseanna?
9. Two Oriental men named Chang and Eng were the first recorded cases of what?
10. The Cabot straits separates Nova Scotia from where?
11. Who played Inspector Clouseau in 5 Pink Panther movies?
12. Which breed of dog was kept by monks to find lost travellers in the Alps?
13. Who wrote the novel ?The dogs of war??
14. In which continent do Jaguars live?
15. Which English King was called Lion-Heart?
16. Which general of World War II was nick-named ?The Desert Fox??
17. In astrology, which 2 months are the star sign Leo?
18. What is unusual about a Manx cat?
19. Which dogs used to walk beside carriages to fend off highwaymen?
20. Which is the largest of the great cats?
ANSWERS
1. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
2. Hms Beagle
3. Cheetah
4. The Pointer Sisters
5. The Tigers
6. Saint Bernard
7. Persian
8. Toto
9. Siamese Twins
10. Newfoundland
11. Peter Sellers
12. St Bernard
13. Frederick Forsythe
14. South America
15. Richard I
16. Erwin Rommel
17. July and August
18. No tail
19. Dalmatians
20. Tiger
1. The bummalo fish, salted and dried, is eaten as a relish called what?
2. What do we call Rossini?s opera La Gazza Ladra?
3. Which architect rebuilt 51 London churches after the great fire?
4. Which is the narrowest part of the English Channel?
5. What is the nickname of Sheffield Wednesday AFC?
6. What was Manfred Mann?s no 1 hit of April 1966?
7. Which islands in the Atlantic ocean were named after dogs?
8. Who was the famous wizard who assisted Arthur in the Arthurian legends?
9. What word describes completing a hole in golf three strokes below par?
10. In a famous song, who was the deadly rival of Ivan Skavinsky Skavar?
11. What was the title of Arthur Ransome?s famous Children?s book published in 1931?
12. Which fruits alternative name is the Chinese Gooseberry?
13. Who replaced Lord Richard as leader of the house of lords from 1998 a position they held until June 2001?
14. After completing a topless modelling assignment in Antartica, how did Samantha fox describe a part of her anatomy?
ANSWERS
1. Bombay Duck
2. The Thieving Magpie.
3. Christopher Wren.
4. Straits Of Dover.
5. Owls.
6. Pretty Flamingo.
7. Canary Islands.
8. Merlin.
9. Albatross.
10. Abdul Abulbul Amir
11. Swallows And Amazons
12. Kiwi Fruit
13. Baroness Jay
14. Blue Tits
1. Roe, fallow and sika are all kinds of what animal?
2. Arboreal animals are those living in which type of habitat?
3. Where in Gloucestershire is the headquarters of the Wildfowl Trust?
4. Which creature produces gossamer?
5. Which creatures may collectively be described as a unkindness.
6. What type of creature is a lumpsucker.
7. Which animal produces mohair?
8. In terms of canine achiement why is Lyka chiefly remembered?
9. Britain's undomesticated cats are breed called the "wild cat" and which other?
10. Of the smaller species of dinosaur, approximately how tall did they grow?
11. Which is the longest living land mammal after man?
12. Which animal has the Latin name of Lupus?
13. What is the fastest land mammal?
14. What is the name given to a baby kangaroo?
15. Which mammal do the Germans call a flying mouse?
16. Who wrote books about animals and also owned a Zoo on the Island of Jersey?
17. What family groups do dolphins travel in?
18. How many tentacles does an octopus have?
19. From which Continent do Macaws come from?
20. What was the name of the British TV personality who presented Animal Magic?
ANSWERS
1. Deer
2. In or amongst trees
3. Slimbridge
4. Spider
5. Ravens
6. A fish
7. Angora goat
8. It was the first dog in space
9. Lynx
10. 12 inches:300mm (Allow 9-15)
11. Elephant
12. Wolf
13. Cheetah
14. Joey
15. Bat
16. Gerald Durrell
17. Pods
18. Eight
19. South America
20. Johnny Morris
1. Which is the most common gas in the atmosphere?
2. What is the Earth?s core made of?
3. Which Indian state is at the eastern end of the Himalayas?
4. Which fuel is formed by the fossilisation of plants?
5. What is the world?s deepest ocean?
6. What type of rock is granite?
7. What is the approximate circumference of the earth, to the nearest 10,000km?
8. What is the name given to the study of earthquakes?
9. Which mineral forms quartz?
10. What is the scientific scale used for measuring the hardness of rocks?
11. What is the name of the liquid rock which pours from a volcano?
12. To the nearest 10% Oxygen forms approximately what proportion of the atmosphere?
13. What is the term applied to the process of gathering together weather forecasts from various recording stations?
14. What kind of tide occurs at full Moon?
15. What kind of natural phenomenon 'meanders'?
ANSWERS
1. Nitrogen
2. Molten Iron and Nickel
3. Assam
4. Coal
5. Pacific
6. Igneous
7. 40,000km
8. Seismology
9. Silica
10. Moh?s scale
11. Lava
12. 20%
13. Synoptic Forecasting
14. Spring Tide
15. A River
1. How many canine teeth does a human have?
2. What is another name for the mountain lion?
3. Who was the female star of the 1965 film Cat Ballou?
4. What is the smallest breed of dog?
5. Who made a voyage of discovery to the Galapagos islands aboard HMS Beagle?
6. Who directed the 1963 film The Leopard?
7. Who wrote the 1974 thriller ?The Dogs of War??
8. Which cartoon cat was the first to make the crossing from screen to comic strip?
9. Which group of British campaigners were affected by the Cat and Mouse Act?
10. Who collaborated with Christopher Isherwood on the Verse drama The Dog Beneath The Skin?
ANSWERS
1. 4
2. Puma, cougar or panther
3. Jane Fonda
4. Chihuahua
5. Charles Darwin
6. Visconti
7. Frederick Forsyth
8. Felix The Cat
9. Suffragettes
10. W H Auden
1. Which word can mean to accept an insult, to repress an emotion or to take?
2. Which champion held the WBA and WBC welterweight titles in 1987 and 1989?
3. Which bird, famous as a "collector", has the Latin name Pica Pica?
4. What steam locomotive broke the speed record at 126 mph in 1938?
5. Members of which native Indian tribe now reside at specific reservations in Montana?
6. Which southern U.S. state is nicknamed "The Pelican State"?
7. Which town near Luton, lies on the River Ouzel and has the town of Linsdale on the opposite bank?
8. An ouzel is an old name for which bird?
9. Which former British ambassador married the daughter of James Callaghan?
10. Which bird has varieties called rock, tawny, water and tree?
11. What is the alternative name of the Shakespearean character, Robin Goodfellow?
12. What type of bird appeared in the title of a book by Jack Higgins later made into a film starring Donald Sutherland and Michael Caine?
13. In Golf, how many strokes under par is a birdie?
14. What type of bird did William Wordsworth address with the words ?Shall I call thee bird, or but a wandering voice??
15. Which instrument was played by the jazz musician Charlie ?Bird? Parker?
16. Who wrote the story on which the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock film ?The Birds? was based?
17. Which bird was the title of a 1968 UK number 1 hit for Fleetwood Mac?
18. In the famous Monty Python parrot sketch, what breed of parrot had John Cleese supposedly been sold?
19. Which English football league club are nicknamed ?The Eagles??
ANSWERS
1. Swallow
2. Marlon Starling
3. Magpie
4. Mallard
5. Crow
6. Louisiana
7. Leighton Buzzard
8. Blackbird
9. Peter Jay
10. Pipit
11. Puck
12. Eagle (The Eagle Has Landed)
13. One
14. Cuckoo
15. Saxophone
16. Daphne Du Maurier
17. Albatross
18. Norweigian Blue
19. Crystal Palace
1. What sort of creature is a fluke?
2. What sort of bird is a merlin?
3. What part of the body might suffer from labyrinthitis?
4. What colour are the spots on a plaice?
5. What is a Puffball?
6. How many pairs of ribs do humans have?
7. What is the popular name for mouth to mouth recussitation?
8. A BCG is a vaccination against which disease?
9. Which tendon pins the calf muscle to the heel bone?
10. What colour head does a male mallard usually have?
11. What class of creatures makes up more than two-thirds of known species?
12. What colour is angelica?
13. Which part of the anatomy shares its name with a punctuation mark?
14. What is the name of the famous meat market in London?
15. The Chihuahua dog gets its name from a town in which country?
16. Where is Britain?s oldest Cathedral?
17. What type of dogs do Eskimos commonly keep?
18. How many bones are there in the human body?
19. What gender is a worker honeybee?
20. What is the otter?s home called?
ANSWERS
1. Worm
2. Falcon
3. Ear
4. Orange
5. Fungus
6. 14
7. The kiss of life
8. Tuberculosis
9. Achilles Tendon
10. Green
11. Insects
12. Green
13. Colon
14. Smithfield
15. Mexico
16. Canterbury
17. Huskies
18. 206
19. Female
20. Holt
1. Frodo Baggins was the first to enter Britain using what?
2. In Ancient Rome what creature was the symbol of liberty?
3. In the Dr Dolittle stories what type of creature was Dab-Dab?
4. What is the sacred animal of Thailand?
5. In the Chinese horoscope what animal comes
a: first alphabetically
b: last alphabetically?
6. Collective nouns - a streak of which creatures?
7. Goodfellow's Lumholtz's and Bennett's are both which type of animal?
8. What creature is the symbol of medicine?
9. Middle Ages: having what creatures in ones house was meant to bring good luck?
10. The aardvark is first animal in the dictionary what's second?
11. The lutra-lutra is which semi aquatic animal?
12. The dog breed borzoi gets it name from the Russian for what?
13. The dybbuk is a creature in which people's mythology?
14. Which animals make a sound called nuzzing?
15. In Korea which animal is the symbol of long life?
16. On what would you use a Curry Comb?
17. To what family of animals does the Llama belong?
18. To what family of bird does the Shag belong?
19. What animal do Eskimoes call a nanook?
20. What animal has the longest lifespan in captivity?
ANSWERS
1. Pet Passport - he was a dog
2. Cat
3. A Duck
4. The White Elephant
5. Two Answers
a: Boar
b: Tiger
6. Tigers
7. Tree Kangaroo
8. Snake
9. Ants
10. Aardwolf
11. An Otter
12. Fleet or swift
13. Jewish - migrating soul enters the body
14. Camels
15. The deer
16. Horse
17. Camel
18. Cormorant
19. Polar Bear
20. Giant Tortoise
1. Is the ?Corncake? a bird, a mammal or a reptile?
2. Which insects communicate to each other by dancing?
3. Ermine is the fur from which animal?
4. What is the most popular theory explaining why the dinosaurs became extinct?
5. What is the largest animal ever to inhabit the planet?
6. What is a razorshell?
7. What is vivipary?
8. Which insect sometimes eats its (male) mate during copulation?
9. What kind of a relationship does coral have with algae?
10. What name is given to animals which do not hunt or eat meat?
11. What kind of animal is a sea horse?
12. Which is the largest land animal?
13. What is the term given to the process by which butterflies change from a caterpillar to a flying adult?
14. What is a booby?
15. What is the name given to the study of animals?
16. Which mammals fly by echolocation?
17. How many types of panda are there?
18. How long is the longest beetle in the world?
19. What is the name given to animals without backbones?
20. In the Simpsons, what sort of dog is Santa?s little helper?
ANSWERS
1. Bird
2. Bees
3. Stoat
4. The Earth was hit by a giant meteorite
5. The blue whale
6. A kind of mollusc
7. A type of reproduction where the embryo develops inside the mother
8. Preying Mantis
9. A symbiotic relationship
10. Herbivore
11. Fish
12. Elephant
13. Metamorphis
14. A tropical sea bird
15. Zoology
16. Bats
17. 2 (The giant and the lesser)
18. 6 inches
19. Invertebrates
20. greyhound
1. What animal provides 50% of all the protein eaten in Peru?
2. In the wild, which animal pollinates banana plants?
3. In which country did Turkeys originate?
4. What sort of animal is a fennec?
5. A paddling is a group of which animals?
6. What animal always gives birth to same sex twins?
7. What animals make up the Suidae family?
8. What type of animal is a markhor?
9. What animal could be Siberian or Caspian?
10. Which small animal is the only animal that has legs but cannot walk with them?
11. What is a chemically castrated cock called?
12. Which insect has the best eyesight?
13. What was pirate Captain Flint's ship called?
14. What is a smew?
15. Sobek was an Egyptian god - in what form is he seen?
16. How many compartments are there in a Cow's stomach?
17. How many humps on an African camel?
18. How many tentacles does a squid have?
19. If cats are feline, what are sheep?
20. In a beehive, who are the queen's closest servants?
ANSWERS
1. The Guinea Pig
2. Bats
3. The USA
4. A Desert Fox
5. Ducks
6. Armadillo
7. Pigs
8. A wild goat
9. Tiger
10. The Hummingbird
11. A Capon
12. The Dragonfly
13. Walrus
14. A wild duck
15. A crocodile
16. Four
17. One
18. Ten
19. Ovine
20. Drones
1. What is the collective name for a group of frogs?
2. What is the fastest animal on two legs?
3. What does a kangaroo; an anteater and a seahorse have in common?
4. What is the national bird of New Zealand?
5. In the TV show, what kind of animal was ?Gentle Ben??
6. The body of the Egyptian Sphinx was based on which animal?
7. What is a female donkey called?
8. What is the distinguishing feature of a Manx cat?
9. What colour are the spots on a common ladybird?
10. What is the most intelligent subhuman primate?
11. What type of creature is a mandrill?
12. What is a young penguin called?
13. Which country has the most Asian elephants in their natural habitat?
14. Which has the most teeth? Reptiles, fish, or mammals?
15. What can be minke, grey, or bowhead?
16. Which is the fastest? Hare, horse, greyhound?
17. Is the Tasmanian Devil a marsupial?
18. Which of the senses is the weakest in almost all primates?
19. Which extinct flightless bird has the Latin name Didus Ineptus?
20. Which fish are members of the class Asteroidea?
ANSWERS
1. Army
2. Ostrich
3. Pouch To Carry Their Young
4. Kiwi
5. Bear
6. Lion
7. Jenny
8. It Has No Tail
9. Black
10. Chimpanzee
11. Monkey
12. Chick
13. India
14. Reptiles
15. Whale
16. Hare
17. Yes
18. Smell
19. Dodo
20. Starfish
1. What is the scapula?
2. What is the scientific name for the kneecap?
3. Which part of the brain regulates physiological stability in the body?
4. Which is the most acidic part of the digestive system?
5. What is protected by the cranium?
6. What tube connects the Kidney to the Bladder?
7. Where in the human body do you find the Alveoli?
8. A bone is joined to a muscle by what structure?
9. Where are the red blood cells made?
10. What is the correct name for a red blood cell?
ANSWERS
1. Shoulder Blade
2. Patella
3. Hypothalamus
4. Stomach
5. Brain
6. Ureter
7. Lung
8. Tendon
9. Bone Marrow
10. Erythrocyte
1. Which group had popular hit in 1986 with ?happy hour??
2. In which film starring Humphrey Bogart did he say the very last line ?it was the stuff that dreams are made of??
3. What was the name the craft that landed in the sea of tranquillity? in July 1969?
4. What is the nickname for Torquay Utd football team?
5. In golf, by what name is two strokes on a par five hole generally known?
6. What musical bird is the only bird that can fly backwards?
7. I am the biggest bird in Australia and Africa. I have a long neck and spindly legs. What am I called in Australia?
8. The collective noun ?paddling? refers to a gaggle of which bird?
9. Which bird is said to have sung in a famous London square?
10. If a countryman said ?listen, there?s a yaffle? to what bird would he be referring?
ANSWERS
1. The housemartin?s.
2. The Maltese falcon.
3. Eagle - moon landing module
4. The gulls.
5. An albatross.
6. Humming-bird.
7. Emu. (ostrich is the name used in Africa)
8. Ducks
9. The nightingale.
10. The woodpecker.