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Animals quiz
How well do you really know Animals? These 8 questions start easy and end with a Boss round. There are no multiple choice options: you type what you know, and every answer is checked against the key facts.
60 seconds a question, one 2x boost, and a leaderboard. Playing with friends writes a fresh set of Animals questions for your group.
The questions
- Warm-up
Bees turn flower nectar into what tasty food, and what do they carry between flowers to help plants?
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- Honey
- Pollen
- Bees transfer pollen between flowers, helping plants reproduce
- Warm-up
Which mammal is Earth’s biggest animal, and what opening does it use to breathe at the water’s surface?
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- Blue whale
- Blowhole
- Breathes air at the water’s surface
- Easy
When a bat zips through a pitch-dark cave, what navigation system does it use, and how do returning sounds help it find its way?
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- Bats use echolocation
- They send out sounds, often high-pitched calls
- The sounds bounce back as echoes
- The echoes help bats locate objects and judge their position or distance
- Easy
Among mammals, which animal can truly fly under its own power, and what movement makes its flight different from gliding?
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- Bats are the only mammals capable of true, sustained flight
- Bats fly by powering their wingbeats
- Gliding animals coast through the air without powered wingbeats
- Easy
What tiny fish shelters among sea anemone tentacles, and what protection does the anemone’s sting offer it?
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- Clownfish
- Clownfish shelter among sea anemone tentacles
- The tentacles’ stings help protect them from predators
- Medium
How does an octopus squeeze through a tiny gap, and what part of its body sets the tightest limit?
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- Its soft body has no bones
- It can squeeze through gaps much narrower than its body
- Its hard beak is the part that must fit
- Medium
Which animal has fingerprints that can fool a human examiner, and what feature of its prints makes them look familiar?
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- Koala
- Koala fingerprints have ridge patterns similar to human fingerprints
- The patterns include loops or whorls
- Boss
Which two chemicals does a bombardier beetle mix, and what does the reaction do to its defensive spray?
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- Hydrogen peroxide
- Hydroquinone
- The reaction heats the spray and helps blast it out
How scoring works
- Each question has 2 or 3 key facts. Each one earns full, half or no credit, so a wrong answer scores zero.
- Later questions are worth more, fast answers earn a bonus, and great answers in a row build a streak.
- A famous myth or a clear factual error halves the points.
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