Animals 1
1. What animals does a mahout work with?
Elephants
2. Out of the animals in Chinese astrology, which comes last alphabetically?
Tiger
3. Zebra. Panda, pelican and puffin are all types of uk what?
Pedestrian crossings
4. What breed of dog is Snoopy, from the Peanuts cartoon strip?
Beagle
5. What is the name given to the fleshy part hanging from the neck of a Turkey?
Wattle
6. What type of animal is a Miller’s thumb?
Fish
7. What is the only marsupial found in the wild in North America?
The Opossum
8. In 1996, Dolly the sheep was successfully cloned in which European country?
Scotland
9. Which animal is also known as the ‘Earth Pig’ or ‘ant bear’?
Aardvark
10. A zeal is the collective noun for which animals?
Zebras
"Animal" pub quiz rounds in this category are not strictly zoological but also include animals from entertainment and literature.
Animals 2
1. What animal appears on the front of a box of cornflakes?
Cockerel
2. What is the name given to a young hare?
Leveret
3. Ermine is the winter coat of what animal?
Stoat
4. Chi-Chi was the star exhibit in London zoo from the late ‘50’s to the early ‘70’s, but what kind of animal was Chi-Chi?
A Giant Panda
5. A Horned toad is what kind of animal?
A lizard
6. In the wild, what animal pollinates banana plants?
Bats
7. In the stock exchange, what large animal is used as a nickname for someone who sells shares thinking that the price will fall?
Bear
8. What is a young penguin called?
Chick
9. A Pizzley is a hybrid of what two animals?
A Polar bear and a grizzly bear
10. The emblem of the Rainforest Alliance, which promotes and certifies sustainable rainforest business globally, is a green what?
Frog
Animals 3
1. Out of all the ‘Great-Apes’, which is the only one not to live in Africa?
The Orang-utan
2. A chinstrap is a type of what animal?
Penguin
3. A sphinx has the body of which animal?
Lion
4. Dogs have puppies and cats have kittens but what is name for the young of a Gorilla?
Infant
5. What kind of creature is Cecily Parsley in the Beatrix Potter world?
A Rabbit
6. What is the sacred animal of Thailand?
White elephant
7. According to Greek mythology, what creature was bestowed with the 100 eyes of Argus?
The Peacock
8. Used in the beauty industry, what is the most abundant protein in mammals, mainly found in flesh and connective tissues of vertebrates?
Collagen
9. The Kodiak bear is native to which US state?
Alaska
10. Which animal became extinct in Scotland in 1743 and in Ireland in 1766?
Wolf
Animals 4
1. What is the largest living fish species?
Whale shark
2. Which creature is said to have inspired Robert the Bruce when hiding on an Irish island, to try again?
Spider
3. Which animal accounts for the most human deaths globally every year?
Mosquito
4. What animal gives up Mohair?
The Angora goat
5. In popular songs, which bird is generally regarded as a symbol of happiness?
The Bluebird
6. What is the plural of Mongoose?
Mongooses
7. What is a chemically castrated cock called?
A Capon
8. Which is the odd one out; Herdwick, Tamworth, Friesland or Cheviot?
Tamworth. The others are sheep
9. Which continent do Sloths come from?
South America
10. The extinct Dodo was native to which island?
Mauritius
Animals 5
1. What was the first bird released by Noah according to the bible?
A raven
2. What kind of animal is a sidewinder?
A snake
3. What animal featured in the book and film "Ring of Bright Water"?
Otters
4. What was the first animal deliberately sent into space?
Fruit Flies
5. What is a baby rabbit called?
Kitten or kit
6. Which fruit trees form the natural diet of the silkworm?
Mulberry
7. The aardvark and the warthog are native to which continent?
Africa
8. A group of which animals is known as a Tower?
Giraffes
9. What animal when translated from the Spanish means “little armoured one”?
Armadillo
10. Growing to a length of up to 5.7m, what is the world's longest venomous snake?
King Cobra
Animals 6
1. Bald-Faced Hornet is another name for which insect?
Wasp
2. In the ‘Rime of the ancient mariner’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which bird did the ancient mariner shoot with his crossbow?
An albatross
3. The goat represents which sign of the Zodiac?
Capricorn
4. What is Britain’s largest carnivorous land animal?
Badger
5. In 2014 the British government reversed laws to report and eradicate which naturalized North American species, due to the aims being hopeless?
Grey squirrel
6. What name is given to a horse that has a gold coat and a white mane and tale?
Palomino
7. What kind of creature is a Water Moccasin?
A snake
8. The Peruvian word guano is the name given to what that is used as fertilizer?
Bird poo
9. Flittermouse is an old term for which type of creature?
Bat
10. What is the fastest breed of dog?
Greyhound
Animals 7
1. King, porcelain and horseshoe are all types of what animal?
Crab
2. Nanook is Inuit for which animal?
Polar bear
3. What kind of animal is a Plymouth rock?
Chicken
4. The greater adjutant is what type of animal?
A bird
5. What type of animal was Boris in the song by The Who?
A Spider
6. Which mammal has the largest brain?
Sperm whale
7. From which song does the line ‘feed animals in the zoo, then later a movie too’ come?
Perfect Day
8. What type of owl is also known as the screech owl because of its piercing cry?
Barn Owl
9. What is the other name for a cavy?
Guinea pig
10. A pollywog is an old English word for what creature?
Tadpole
Animals 8
1. What is a female Hippo called?
A cow
2. Which animal is known as the “Old man of the forest”?
Orang-utan
3. What do insects do through their spiracles?
Breathe
4. A crash is the collective noun for which animals?
Rhinos
5. A gourami is what type of creature?
A fish
6. The Peacock is the national bird of which country?
India
7. Where do arboreal creatures live?
In trees
8. Which fictional cat was born in the kitchen of Mama Leoni’s Italian restaurant?
Garfield
9. The Turkish Van is a domestic breed of what?
Cat
10. The animal Struthio Camelus can be taught to herd sheep and can grow to 9 feet tall. How do we better know it?
Ostrich
Animals 9
1. What type of creature is a Sand Mason?
A Worm
2. In what form does keratin, the substance that human fingernails and hair are made from, sell for more than gold, and endanger a species?
Rhino horn
3. What animal is on the album cover of the Beach Boys ‘Pet Sounds’ album?
Goats
4. From what animal is Catgut made?
Sheep
5. What colour is a giraffe's tongue?
Blue
6. What is the only species of deer where the females also have antlers?
Reindeer
7. The falabella is the smallest breed of which animal?
Horse
8. It’s said that Britain will fall if which birds leave the grounds of the Tower of London?
Ravens
9. Strangles is a bacterial infection of the respiratory tract of which animal?
Horse
10. Crème Puff who died at 38 years and 3 days old was the longest living what kind of animal in the world?
Cat
Animals 10
1. Found in central Africa, an okapi is a mixture of what two animals?
Giraffe and Zebra
2. What type of animal is herpetology the study of?
Amphibians
3. In which deserts do you find Meerkats?
Kalahari
4. Native to the North of the Northern hemisphere, what is the biggest member of the deer family?
Moose (or Elk)
5. Which Continent do Macaws come from?
South America
6. What type of animal is a Titmouse?
A bird
7. What animal is seen holding a sword on the flag of Sri Lanka?
Lion
8. What word does the raven in Edgar Allen Poe’s classic poem The Raven repeat?
Nevermore
9. What animal is the national emblem of Canada?
Beaver
10. What was the name of Michael Jackson’s monkey?
Bubbles
Animals 11
1. An Australian Parakeet is more commonly known as what?
Budgerigar
2. An unkindness is the collective name for what birds?
Ravens
3. Which two creatures appear on the UK coat of arms?
Lion and unicorn
4. A barrow is the castrated male of which animal?
Pig
5. What is the name of the small white dog associated with Asterix the Gaul?
Dogmatix
6. Which sign of the Western zodiac is represented by a ram?
Aries
7. A woodlouse has how many legs?
14
8. Rhodesian ridgeback is a breed of what animal?
Dog
9. Which UK country does the Clydesdale breed of horse originate from?
Scotland
10. What type of mammal is a tamarin?
Monkey
Animals 12
1. Taurine relates to which animal?
Bull
2. Which types of insect belong to the order of Lepidoptera?
Butterflies and/or moths
3. The Chamois (Shammy) leather comes from which animal?
Mountain goat
4. What kind of animal is a mud puppy?
A fish
5. An abalone is what kind of creature?
Snail
6. In which film does the lead character befriend a dog called ‘Two-Socks’?
Dances with Wolves
7. According to Wikipedia there are four collective nouns for whales. Herd is one of them, name one of the other three?
Gam, mob or pod
8. What is a female pony called?
Mare
9. A mouflon is a Coriscan wild species of what domesticated creature?
Sheep
10. Frodo Baggins was the first animal to enter Britain using what?
A pet passport
Animals 13
1. What type of goats give us mohair?
Angora
2. What is the collective name for a group of beavers?
Colony
3. Which primate has a distinctive red and blue nose?
Mandrill
4. How many tentacles does a squid have?
10
5. True or false – the collective noun for sea cucumbers is a pickle?
TRUE
6. Which animal has a breed named American Bobtail?
Cat
7. Which kind of horse is also the name for a kind of bean?
Pinto
8. Shamu was a famous what type of animal?
Orca/killer whale
9. Hooded and Carrion are varieties of which bird?
Crow
10. The word raptor technically refers to what sort of creature?
A bird
Animals 14
1. How many stages are there in a butterfly’s life cycle?
4
2. Berkshire, Chester white and Hampshire are all types of which domesticated animals?
Pigs
3. What seed-eating bird, is named after cereal crop waste from which it forages?
Chaffinch (after chaff, cereal husks/waste)
4. How many legs does a ladybird have?
6
5. What is the only venomous mammal in the world?
Platypus
6. Owing to how the first one was developed, the word Vaccine comes from the Latin for which animal?
Cow
7. What word means giving human characteristics to animals and non-living things?
Anthropomorphism
8. What type of animal adopts the piglet in ‘Babe’?
A sheepdog
9. What animal can be found on the flag of Bermuda?
Lion
10. Grey, Red, Rat and Tree are all types of which creature?
Kangaroo
Animals 15
1. What bear is the national animal of Greenland?
Polar Bear
2. A hieroglyph of what bird represented the sound M in ancient Egypt?
Owl
3. Hippophobia is the fear of what animal?
Horses
4. What type of creature is a Storm-petrel?
Bird
5. What type of animal is an Amberjack?
Fish
6. What informal term for a cat comes from the name Margaret?
Moggie
7. An ungulate animal has what?
Hooves
8. How many wings does a bee have?
4
9. What type of animal is a thorny devil?
A lizard
10. How many toes does a cat have on each front paw?
5
Animals 16
1. Where on a horse’s body is the frog?
Hoof
2. By what common name beginning with O is the fish hawk generally known?
Osprey
3. What type of animal is a brumby in Australia?
A wild horse
4. How many compartments does the stomach of a cow have?
4 (technically 1 stomach but 4 compartments)
5. How many legs does a starfish have?
5
6. Sumatran, Javan and Indian are types of what large animal?
Rhinos
7. What type of animals are Pinto, Haflinger and Waler?
Horses
8. To what family of animals (beginning with M) do Meerkats belong?
Mongoose
9. Water dogs, mud puppies and Axolotls are types of what amphibians?
Salamanders
10. What kind of animal is a yellow shafted Flicker?
Bird
Animals 17
1. How many claws does a house-cat have?
18
2. Stags, Bulls and bears can all be found in which institution?
The Stock Exchange
3. In Animal terms, Americans call this a night crawler, what do we call it?
Worm or earthworm
4. How many toes does an ostrich have?
4 (two on each foot)
5. What mythical slave character removed a thorn from a lion's paw?
Androcles
6. A skulk is the collective name for which British animal?
Foxes
7. Hircine refers to being like or related to what creature?
Goat
8. What type of animal is a skink?
A type of lizard
9. In Egyptian mythology, what type of animal was the God Sobek?
Crocodile
10. We have 7 bones in our necks. How many bones are in the neck of a giraffe?
7
Animals 18
1. Which animal lives in a lodge?
Beaver
2. British Saddleback, Lincolnshire Curly coated and Oxford sandy and black are all breeds of what animal?
Pigs
3. Gophers can only be found on which continent?
North America
4. Which South American water animal has the scientific name of Electrophorus Electricus?
Electric Eel
5. What type of animal is a booby?
A bird
6. What sea mammal is the biggest animal that has ever lived?
Blue Whale
7. What body part can butterflies use to taste their food?
Feet
8. The Bandicoot is native to which country?
Australia
9. What is the first animal listed in the Oxford English dictionary?
Aardvark
10. Which large marine mammals are sometimes known as sea cows?
Manatees
Animals 19
1. What animal was the subject of the first ever picture on Instagram?
A dog
2. What breed of animal is a Chester White?
Pig
3. Their diet of what food makes flamingos turn pink?
Algae
4. Although there are about 60 types of Eagle, only 2 are found in the USA, one is the Bald Eagle but what is the other?
Golden Eagle
5. What is the main diet of a mole?
Earthworms
6. Which dog is a cross between a Welsh Terrier and an Otter Hound and takes its name from a valley in West Riding of Yorkshire?
Airedale Terrier
7. The Bichon Frise is a breed of what?
Dog
8. What is the main diet of a mole?
Earthworms
9. Which bird on the neck of a bottle of Chianti denotes it to be a Classico?
Cockerel or rooster
10. What type of animal is an Ibis?
A bird
Animals 20
1. A mastodon is an extinct ancestor of which modern mammal?
Elephant
2. What colour is the blood of an octopus?
Blue
3. Newfoundlands and dachshunds share which unusual features allow them to swim better than other dogs?
Webbed feet
4. What type of snake is the largest (by weight)?
Anaconda
5. What does the majority of the giant panda’s diet consist of?
Bamboo
6. What’s the only mammal that’s able to fly?
Bat
7. What type of animal is a Flemish giant?
Rabbit
8. In the song “There was an old lady who swallowed a fly”, what is the last animal that she eats before she dies?!
Horse
9. Which part of the body do dogs mainly sweat from?
Their paws
10. The name of which African animal means "river horse"?
Hippopotamus
Animals 21
1. The name of which Asian toy dog breed translates as Lion in CHinese?
Shih tzu
2. How many legs does a lobster have?
10
3. What kind of animal is a yellow jacket?
Wasp
4. The logo for luxury car maker Porsche features which animal?
Horse
5. A Jackapoo is a cross between a poodle and what other breed of dog?
Jack Russell
6. What is the real name for a daddy longlegs?
Crane fly
7. Which animals have 3 hearts, 9 brains, and blue blood
Octopus
8. What is a female elephant called?
Cow
9. What type of reptiles are leatherbacks and ridleys?
Turtle
10. What animal is the largest intercity bus carrier in the US named after?
Greyhound
Animals 22
1. Delphinus delphis is the Latin name for which creature?
Dolphin
2. What breed of dog used to be sacred in China, and could only be owned by members of the Chinese Imperial Palace?
Pekingese
3. What word, that means being bright, colourful and noticeable is the collective noun for flamingos?
Flamboyance
4. What is the fastest land animal?
Cheetah
5. What type of creature is a Pacific Sea Wasp?
Jellyfish
6. According to the Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, which animal has great folds in his skin and a very bad temper?
Rhinoceros
7. What are frog Larvae called?
Tadpoles
8. What kind of pet does Esmerelda have in the Hunchback of Notre Dame?
Goat
9. What kind of animal is Sid in the film Ice Age?
Sloth
10. What is the name for a young beaver?
Kit
Animals 23
1. Snow, mud and fiddler are all types of what animal?
Crab
2. Under their white fur, what colour is a polar bear’s skin?
Black
3. What is a male duck called?
Drake
4. What is a baby hedgehog called?
Hoglet
5. What is a female elephant called?
Cow
6. The red-brown pigment sepia comes from what sort of sea creature?
Cuttlefish
7. A caravan is a group of what animals?
Camels
8. What is a male turkey called?
Gobbler
9. The Bahamas island of Big Major Cay is famous for what swimming animals?
Pigs
10. What are the largest land predators in the world?
Polar bears
Birds 1
1. Pygmy, Elf and Ghost are all types of what bird?
Owls
2. Black breasted, spot winged and yellow bellied are all types of what bird?
Tits
3. A Paddling is the collective noun for which birds?
Ducks
4. What is the only bird that can fly backwards for any length of time?
Hummingbird
5. In 2002 who won a grammy for the song ‘I’m Like A Bird’?
Nelly Furtado
6. From which country does the Budgie originate?
Australia
7. A Yaffle is another name for which bird?
Woodpecker
8. Which bird topped a poll in 2014 to become Britain’s national bird?
The European Robin
9. A squab is the young of which bird?
Pigeon
10. Which Greek Goddess has an owl as her emblem?
Athena
Birds 2
1. The feathers of which bird are said to bring bad luck if they are brought into the house?
Peacock
2. Which bird has the largest eyes of any animal on earth and has eyes bigger than its brain?
Ostrich
3. A group of which birds is known as a ‘Tidings’?
Magpies
4. What is the name of Snoopy`s little bird friend?
Woodstock
5. Which bird is trained by the Chinese to catch fish?
Cormorant
6. What name is given to a male swan?
Cob
7. Corvine refers to what bird?
Raven (or crow)
8. Which bird is the largest of the Kingfisher family and lives solely in Australia and New Guinea?
Kookaburra
9. What is Australia's national bird?
Emu
10. Common, Arctic, & Sooty are all varieties of which type of bird?
Tern
Creepy Crawlies
1. What type of insect is a Spanish fly?
Beetle
2. A bird eating spider, a fish and a frog all take their name from which Biblical character?
Goliath
3. An intrusion is the collective noun for which unpleasant insects?
Cockroaches
4. What are baby spiders called?
Spiderlings
5. What insect is also known as The Devil's Darning Needle?
Dragonfly
6. The summer of 1976 is the hottest summer on record and that led to a plague of what colourful insects?
Ladybirds
7. Heteropoda David Bowie was the name given to what type of rare yellow creature in 2009?
A spider
8. Comma, Peacock and Swallowtail are all types of which insect?
Butterfly
9. The Isle of Wight disease affects which essential insects?
Honey bees
10. Which fictional character's name is the Olde English for any insect that flies with a loud humming noise?
Dumbledore
Sea Creatures
1. Which sea creature is used as the logo for Waterford Crystal?
Sea horse
2. To which family of fish does the Sprat belong?
Herring
3. The males of which Arctic whales bear a single large tusk made up of an upper canine tooth?
Narwhal
4. Where in a lobster's body are its teeth?
Its stomach
5. Which is the largest of all the seal species?
Elephant seal
6. What kind of sea creature killed naturalist Steve Irwin in 2006?
Stingray
7. What species of whale was Moby Dick?
Sperm
8. On a fish, what can be anal, pectoral or pelvic?
Fins
9. Ambergris is a waxy substance produced in the digestive system of what creatures that is used in making perfumes?
Whales
10. Which county do Whitstable oysters come from?
Kent
Cats
1. On which continent do jaguars live in the wild?
South America
2. What hybrid is produced by a male Lion and a female Tiger?
Liger
3. What is the largest breed of domestic cat?
Maine Coon
4. Which sporting goods company has the logo of a Panther?
Slazenger
5. What is the largest of the big cats?
Tiger
6. Which US heavy metal band is named after the Spanish for a big cat?
Pantera
7. Which cat can be Siberian or Caspian?
Tiger
8. What animal is the symbol of the Rastafarian movement?
The Lion
9. On Halloween, if a black cat crosses your path, what will you receive?
Bad luck
10. What is the name of the Lioness in the film “Born free”?
Elsa
Dogs
1. What breed of dog is scooby doo?
Great Dane
2. What breed of dog is named after their original breeder, a parson and fan of fox hunting?
Jack Russell
3. What is the proper breed name of a sausage dog?
Dachshund
4. Dalmatians trace their roots back to Dalmatia which is in which modern day country?
Croatia
5. What name was given to the three-headed hound of Hades?
Cerberus
6. What name is generally given to the wild feral dogs native to Australia?
Dingo
7. What is the name of the dog in Peter Pan?
Nana
8. Weighing in at a maximum of six pounds, what is the world's smallest dog breed?
Chihuahua
9. In which country did the corgi breed originate?
Wales
10. Which country was the blood hound first bred in?
France
Dogs and cats
1. What dogs are known as “firehouse dogs” in the US as they used to be used to escort horse drawn fire carriages?
Dalmatians
2. In which part of the British Isles do dog owners have to have a licence?
NI
3. What is the only 'big cat' found wild in the Americas which roars?
Jaguar
4. During which month of the year is Crufts held?
March
5. What is the collective noun for a group of leopards?
Leap
6. Snowy was the name of the dog belonging to which fictional character?
Tin Tin
7. Who had a 1983 Platinum album with “seven and the ragged Tiger?”
Duran Duran
8. What Top Gun character is Captain America’s cat named after?
Goose
9. In Punch and Judy, what is the name of their dog?
Toby
10. What was the breed of US detective Columbo`s dog?
Basset hound