try your luck at our nature QUIZ

[THE FUGITIVE]

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

[THE FUGITIVE]

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

[THE FUGITIVE]

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

[THE FUGITIVE]

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

[THE FUGITIVE]

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

[THE FUGITIVE]

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

[THE FUGITIVE]

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

[THE FUGITIVE]

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

[THE FUGITIVE]

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

[THE FUGITIVE]

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

[THE FUGITIVE]

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

[THE FUGITIVE]

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

[THE FUGITIVE]

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

[THE FUGITIVE]

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

[THE FUGITIVE]

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