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ani-402 | Despite sharksâ bad reputation thanks to movies out of 300 species of sharks only this much are known to have attacked and killed a man. | [
"4",
"10",
"2",
"11"
] | 4 |
ani-403 | Although jellyfish may seem to you calm and harmless, an encounter with some species may leave you in excruciating pain and even kill you in minutes. Which of the following species of jellyfish is venomous enough to kill a man? | [
"Sea nettle",
"Mastigias",
"Box jellyfish",
"Medusa Jellyfish"
] | Box jellyfish |
ani-404 | Weâve seen these animals as friendly and approachable but the truth is that theyâre unpredictable. What is the average number of fatalities a year elephants cause? | [
"150-200",
"20-40",
"300-500",
"1000-1500"
] | 300-500 |
ani-405 | Hippopotamuses may seem slow, lazy and bulky but in fact are one of the most dangerous African animals. Which of the following should you avoid in order to prevent a hippopotamus attack? | [
"Standing between the hippopotamus and its calf",
"All of these",
"Surprising the hippopotamus",
"Blocking the hippopotamusâ way"
] | All of these |
ani-406 | Crocodiles like to stay motionless in water and wait for the perfect time to strike. These powerful prehistoric creatures annually give what estimated number of fatalities? | [
"1000-1500",
"50-100",
"100-200",
"600-800"
] | 600-800 |
ani-407 | If you happen to be near a big cat (e.g. lion, tiger, lynx) that seems to be about to attack you, which of the following shouldnât you do in any case? | [
"Scream and shout",
"Try to look larger than you really are",
"Turn back and run",
"Stare at its eyes"
] | Turn back and run |
ani-408 | Although only a small percent of scorpions are venomous to people, 800 to 2000 human deaths each year are caused by scorpions. During which part of the day are these creatures most active? | [
"Morning",
"All day",
"Noon",
"Night"
] | Night |
ani-409 | Which of the following statements about snakes is not true? | [
"Snakes can strike upto half their length.",
"A fully grown king cobra can rear up so it looks a human in the eyes.",
"Not all venomous snakes are capable of killing a man.",
"Snakes will attack almost always they sense the presence of a human."
] | Snakes will attack almost always they sense the presence of a human. |
ani-410 | Surprisingly, the number one killer among animals with about 2-3 million human fatalities a year is a tiny insect. Which is it? | [
"Bee",
"Mosquito",
"Tsetse fly",
"Wasp"
] | Mosquito |
ani-411 | How many species of rhinoceros survive in the wild? | [
"2",
"5",
"4",
"3"
] | 5 |
ani-412 | Which of these is NOT a species of rhinoceros? | [
"African Rhino",
"Indian Rhino",
"Javan Rhino",
"Sumatran Rhino"
] | African Rhino |
ani-413 | The deaths caused by rhinos in India and Nepal exceed the total number of deaths caused by leopards and tigers. | [
"True",
"False"
] | True |
ani-414 | Throughout the period from the 1970s to the end of the 20th century, the rhinoceros numbers declined by approximately what percentage? | [
"50%",
"90%",
"60%",
"75%"
] | 90% |
ani-415 | In Asian folklore the rhinoceros would stomp out fires in the jungle. | [
"True",
"False"
] | True |
ani-416 | What is the life span of a rhino? | [
"15 years",
"40 years",
"20 years",
"30 years"
] | 40 years |
ani-417 | The species name White Rhinoceros is the result of mis-translation of the word white. | [
"True",
"False"
] | True |
ani-418 | What is the gestation period of a rhino? | [
"12 months",
"16 months",
"20 months",
"24 months"
] | 16 months |
ani-419 | What is the #1 reason for the rhinos decline worldwide? | [
"Disease",
"Farming",
"Predators",
"Poaching"
] | Poaching |
ani-420 | Hyenas are only found in Africa. | [
"True",
"False"
] | False |
ani-421 | Hyenas are most closely related to what creatures? | [
"Badger",
"Bears",
"Cats",
"Mongoose"
] | Mongoose |
ani-422 | Hyenas were domesticated and eaten in ancient Egypt. | [
"False",
"True"
] | True |
ani-423 | In which of these African environments are hyenas NOT found? | [
"Desert",
"Forests",
"Mountains",
"Grasslands"
] | Desert |
ani-424 | Are male hyenas the dominant members of their groups? | [
"Yes",
"No"
] | No |
ani-425 | Which of these is not a species of hyena? | [
"Brown",
"Striped",
"Golden",
"Spotted"
] | Golden |
ani-426 | Are spotted hyenas considered an endangered species? | [
"Yes",
"No"
] | No |
ani-427 | What is a group of hyenas called? | [
"Pack",
"Posse",
"Giggle",
"Clan"
] | Clan |
ani-428 | According to the Medieval Bestiary hyenas have the ability to change their sex. | [
"False",
"True"
] | True |
ani-429 | What country was home to the Moa? | [
"New Zealand",
"Puerto Rico",
"Indonesia",
"Madagascar"
] | New Zealand |
ani-430 | How many species of Moa are known to have existed? | [
"3-5",
"5-7",
"10-13",
"11-15"
] | 11-15 |
ani-431 | The Moa was unique because even though it was a bird it had no wings. | [
"True",
"False"
] | True |
ani-432 | What was the main reason for the extinction of the Moa? | [
"It was hunted by man for food.",
"There was not enough room on the island for so many large birds",
"It could easily be caught by predators.",
"It got to large to support itself."
] | It was hunted by man for food. |
ani-433 | What animal was the number one predator of the Moa? | [
"They had no predator they were too large",
"An extinct species of eagle",
"An extinct species of lion",
"An extinct species of wolf"
] | An extinct species of eagle |
ani-434 | Was the male Moa larger than the female? | [
"No",
"Yes"
] | No |
ani-435 | Is the Moa related to the kiwi, a living species of flightless bird from New Zealand? | [
"No",
"Yes"
] | No |
ani-436 | In what year were the first Moa remains discovered by Europeans? | [
"1765",
"1857",
"1839",
"1724"
] | 1839 |
ani-437 | Which of these European countries is not home to any wild native reindeer? | [
"Finland",
"Switzerland",
"Russia",
"Scotland"
] | Switzerland |
ani-438 | Both male and female reindeer grow antlers. | [
"False",
"True"
] | True |
ani-439 | Approximately how many miles per year can the North American caribou travel? | [
"11,000",
"1,000",
"3,000",
"7,000"
] | 3,000 |
ani-440 | Reindeer are strict herbivores (vegetarians). | [
"False",
"True"
] | False |
ani-441 | Approximately how many reindeer live in Eurasia? | [
"10 million",
"5 million",
"15 million",
"1 million"
] | 5 million |
ani-442 | Siberians use reindeer to ride on. | [
"False",
"True"
] | True |
ani-443 | Which of these is not a species of reindeer? | [
"Woodland carribou",
"Northern caribou",
"Arctic reindeer",
"Mountain reindeer"
] | Northern caribou |
ani-444 | Are reindeer antlers used as a food by humans? | [
"Yes",
"No"
] | Yes |
ani-445 | How many species of pigeons and doves exist? | [
"200",
"375",
"300",
"250"
] | 300 |
ani-446 | Pigeon and dove fossils are regularly found giving us a lot of information on pigeon evolution? | [
"False",
"True"
] | False |
ani-447 | Pigeons are master nest builders. | [
"False",
"True"
] | False |
ani-448 | Why are pigeon nests or eggs rarely seen? | [
"Pigeons are cliff dwellers and build their nests in high places.",
"Pigeons do their best to conceal nests.",
"Pigeons are picky and only build nests high up in certain types of trees.",
"Pigeons dont build nests."
] | Pigeons are cliff dwellers and build their nests in high places. |
ani-449 | Pigeons were so valuable in wartime that some won medals for their service. | [
"True",
"False"
] | True |
ani-450 | Pigeons are only one of seven species to pass the mirror test, which tests if animals recognize their own reflected image. | [
"False",
"True"
] | True |
ani-451 | What is the common name for the pigeon that we see in the city streets and in our backyards? | [
"Mourning Dove",
"Rock Dove",
"Common Dove",
"Fancy Dove"
] | Rock Dove |
ani-452 | Dinosaurs lived during which geologic era? | [
"Cretazoic",
"Protozoic",
"Holozoic",
"Mesozoic"
] | Mesozoic |
ani-453 | The word dinosaur is a combination of two Greek words. One word means lizard. What does the other word mean? | [
"Terrifying",
"Herbivorous",
"Godlike",
"Beautiful"
] | Terrifying |
ani-454 | Dinosaurs once roamed Colorado and Wyoming. | [
"True",
"False"
] | True |
ani-455 | Name the theropod dinosaur with a long head, flat snout, and large sickle-shaped claw on the second toe of each foot. | [
"Stegosaurus",
"Velociraptor",
"Tyrannosaur",
"Raptor"
] | Velociraptor |
ani-456 | Name the prehistoric reptile of the late Jurassic and Cretaceous period with featherless wing membrane. It is believed this reptile flew. | [
"Bronchialsaurus",
"Accipitridae Raptor",
"dactylic raptor",
"Pterodactyl"
] | Pterodactyl |
ani-457 | The name brontosaurus is derived from the Greek words sauros, which means lizard, combined with another word. What does the word bronte mean? | [
"Large",
"Long neck",
"Poetic",
"Thunder or roar"
] | Thunder or roar |
ani-458 | The species Tyrannosaurus Rex was herbivorous. | [
"False",
"True"
] | False |
ani-459 | Which of these dinosaurs had dorsal plates and spikes? | [
"Heloderma suspectum",
"H. horridum",
"Hydrodamalis gigans",
"Stegosaurus"
] | Stegosaurus |
ani-460 | According to history/science/geology, dinosaurs became extinct approximately how many years ago? | [
"10 million",
"25 million",
"80 million",
"65 million"
] | 65 million |
ani-461 | This reptile, endemic to new Zealand, is the only surviving rhynchocephalian. | [
"Perisssodactyl",
"None of these",
"Kephalosaurus",
"Tuatara"
] | Tuatara |
ani-462 | Which one of these movies tells the story of Littlefoot, an Apatosaurus in search of the Great Valley where dinosaurs can live in peace? | [
"Walking With Dinosaurs",
"Jurassic Park",
"King Kong",
"The Land Before Time"
] | The Land Before Time |
ani-463 | Which of these books about prehistoric animals and dinosaurs was written by Arthur Conan Doyle? | [
"Dinosaur Planet",
"Jurassic Park",
"Dinotopia",
"The Lost World"
] | The Lost World |
ani-464 | In the 1980s, who voiced the character of Dino, the pet dinosaur in the animated series The Flintstones? | [
"Frank Welker",
"Mel Blanc",
"Jean Vander Pyl",
"Alan Reed"
] | Mel Blanc |
ani-465 | In the book Jurassic Park, the fictional island Isla Nublar, where recreated dinosaur species live, is situated in which part of the world? | [
"Near Costa Rica",
"Near Japan",
"Near Chile",
"Near Spain"
] | Near Costa Rica |
ani-466 | The BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs, which won three Emmy Awards, consisted of how many parts? | [
"12",
"3",
"6",
"2"
] | 6 |
ani-467 | The design of the Japanese fictional monster Godzilla was based on the characteristics of which dinosaur? | [
"Stegosaurus",
"All of these",
"Tyrannosaurus",
"Iguanodon"
] | All of these |
ani-468 | In the cartoon Dinosaucers, Bronto Thunder is what kind of dinosaur? | [
"An evolved Apatosaurus",
"An evolved Stegosaurus",
"An evolved Archaeopteryx",
"An evolved Triceratops"
] | An evolved Apatosaurus |
ani-469 | What is Dinotopia, the fictional place where humans and dinosaurs live together in James Gurneys books and Hallmarks mini series? | [
"A planet",
"A hidden island",
"A mountain",
"A large volcano"
] | A hidden island |
ani-472 | What kind of celestial body is the 9949 Brontosaurus? | [
"Asteroid",
"Planet",
"Star",
"Black hole"
] | Asteroid |
ani-473 | What is the meaning of the term Triceratops, referring to a dinosaur genus discovered in 1888 in North America? | [
"Three heads",
"Beast with three tails",
"Three-tongued beast",
"Three horns on the face"
] | Three horns on the face |
ani-474 | Which one of these dinosaurs was bigger than a dog? | [
"Saltopus",
"Parvicursor",
"Microraptor",
"Triceratops"
] | Triceratops |
ani-475 | In the scientific classification of animals, what does the term Dinosauria signify? | [
"A family",
"A superorder",
"A genus",
"A kingdom"
] | A superorder |
ani-476 | Fossils of a Velociraptor attacking a Protoceratops, proving that dinosaurs attacked and ate each other, were discovered in which part of the world in 1971? | [
"Death Valley",
"The Gobi Desert",
"The Balkans",
"Bernissart, Belgium"
] | The Gobi Desert |
ani-477 | Which one of these dinosaurs was carnivorous? | [
"Eoraptor",
"Diplodocus",
"Maiasaura",
"Triceratops"
] | Eoraptor |
ani-478 | Which one of these dinosaurs was herbivorous? | [
"Velociraptor",
"Protoceratops",
"Tyrannosaurus",
"Allosaurus"
] | Protoceratops |
ani-479 | No dinosaur fossils have been found on which one of these continents? | [
"Antarctica",
"Europe",
"Africa",
"None of these"
] | None of these |
ani-480 | How many fingers did the Tyrannosaurus rex have on its forelimbs? | [
"4",
"3",
"5",
"2"
] | 2 |
ani-481 | The first evidence of herding behaviour among dinosaurs was discovered in 1878 in which part of the world? | [
"USA",
"Argentina",
"Belgium",
"China"
] | Belgium |
ani-482 | Which one of these statements about the Seismosaurus, the Earth-shaking lizard, is wrong? | [
"It could reach 33 meters in length.",
"It was recognized as a species in 1991.",
"Its hind legs were shorter than its front legs.",
"It was herbivorous."
] | Its hind legs were shorter than its front legs. |
ani-483 | How long is the average lifespan of an elephant? | [
"70 years",
"15 years",
"110 years",
"35 years"
] | 70 years |
ani-484 | Just like humans, apes and dolphins, elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror. | [
"False",
"True"
] | True |
ani-485 | Until what age can the female elephant (called a cow) produce offspring? | [
"50 years",
"15 years",
"75 years",
"7 years"
] | 50 years |
ani-486 | Elephants always give birth to twins. | [
"True",
"False"
] | False |
ani-487 | Elephants express joy by spinning in circles, trumpeting, roaring, screaming, urinating, and flapping their ears. In which of these cases will an elephant not act this way? | [
"when meeting a friend (elephant or human)",
"when playing games",
"after the death of an elderly elephant",
"after the birth of a new baby elephant"
] | after the death of an elderly elephant |
ani-488 | Elephants sometimes have stillborn births, but are not bothered by the loss since the baby was never alive. | [
"False",
"True"
] | False |
ani-489 | Mammoths are members of the elephant family. | [
"False",
"True"
] | True |
ani-490 | How many species of elephant exist today? | [
"1",
"6",
"5",
"3"
] | 3 |
ani-491 | How many individual muscles are in an elephants trunk? | [
"2,000",
"10,000",
"40,000",
"500"
] | 40,000 |
ani-492 | When swimming, an elephant will use its trunk as a snorkel. | [
"False",
"True"
] | True |
ani-493 | Elephants intertwine their trunks with the trunks of other elephants, much like a handshake. What does an elephant not do with its trunk? | [
"caress a baby elephant",
"drink through it like through a straw",
"place food in their mouth",
"grab enemies and fling them away"
] | drink through it like through a straw |
ani-494 | Elephants spend 16 hours a day collecting and eating food, an average of 400 lbs of food a day. But their bodies do not digest 100% of the food. How much of the food does the elephants body digest? | [
"40%",
"80%",
"60%",
"20%"
] | 40% |
ani-495 | It has been reported that in the period 1992-2008, Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey Circus had at least this many elephant deaths caused by abuse and neglect. | [
"24",
"0",
"1",
"7"
] | 24 |
ani-496 | An elephants brain is half the size of the human brain. | [
"False",
"True"
] | False |
ani-497 | Through what body part can an elephant NOT hear? | [
"feet",
"skin",
"trunk",
"ears"
] | skin |
ani-498 | Only female elephants were used in battle, because male elephants were too difficult to tame and train. | [
"False",
"True"
] | False |
ani-499 | In Islamic history, 570 A.D. was The Year of the Elephant. Which of these happened in that year? | [
"The Qurâan was written in book form",
"Muhammad received his first revelation",
"Muhammad was born",
"Muhammad became ill and died"
] | Muhammad was born |
ani-500 | An elephants tusks grow continuously, about 7 inches a year. | [
"True",
"False"
] | True |
ani-501 | Which is true about elephants? | [
"The elephant is a good jumper.",
"The elephant is not a protected species.",
"An elephants skin is 2.5 inches thick.",
"The elephant is a good swimmer."
] | The elephant is a good swimmer. |
ani-502 | What is the only marsupial in the world that has a backwards pouch? | [
"kangaroo",
"echidna",
"koala",
"wombat"
] | wombat |
ani-503 | Salt water crocodiles belong to the amphibian group. | [
"True",
"False"
] | False |