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Hard Animal Trivia Questions
The hard questions from our animal set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
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The hard round mixes proper terminology with genuine oddities: Coleoptera, haemocyanin, tardigrades, the difference between antlers and horns. Each answer is a fixed biological fact, not a ranking that shifts with the next survey.
14 hard animal trivia questions with answers
Ornithology is the study of what?
Answer: Birds From the Greek ornis, meaning bird.
A group of rhinoceroses is known as a what?
Answer: Crash Fitting for an animal that can charge at 50 km/h.
Which of these has blue blood, because it carries oxygen with copper rather than iron?
Answer: Horseshoe crab Its copper-based haemocyanin turns blue when oxygenated.
The axolotl is native to which country?
Answer: Mexico It survives in the wild only in the lake system around Mexico City.
Which of these mammals lays eggs?
Answer: Platypus It and the echidna are the only egg-laying mammals, called monotremes.
Which is the slowest-moving mammal?
Answer: Sloth Its low-energy leaf diet cannot support faster movement; tortoises are reptiles.Why?
Tardigrades are better known by which nickname?
Answer: Water bears The half-millimetre animals can survive boiling, freezing and even vacuum.
How many chambers does a bird's heart have?
Answer: Four Like mammals, birds fully separate oxygenated and deoxygenated blood.Why?
A baby rabbit is properly called a what?
Answer: Kit A leveret is a young hare, which is a different animal entirely.
Beetles belong to which insect order?
Answer: Coleoptera The name means sheath-wing, after their hardened forewings.
Which of these is shed and regrown every year?
Answer: Antlers Antlers are bone that drops off annually; horns are permanent.
The dodo lived on which island?
Answer: Mauritius It was extinct within about a century of sailors reaching the island.
The okapi is most closely related to which animal?
Answer: Giraffe The striped legs are camouflage; the long neck and tongue give the family away.
A group of crocodiles basking together is called a what?
Answer: Bask A group in the water is instead called a float.
Answer key
- Birds
- Crash
- Horseshoe crab
- Mexico
- Platypus
- Sloth
- Water bears
- Four
- Kit
- Coleoptera
- Antlers
- Mauritius
- Giraffe
- Bask
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