Trivia questions and answers, drawn fresh from the well

• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Freshwater Fish

Which fish is the official state fish of Minnesota?

Answer

Walleye

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Freshwater Fish

Which freshwater fish is commonly called the oscar?

Answer

Astronotus ocellatus

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Freshwater Fish

Which freshwater fish is famous for producing a slime-coated skin layer that its young eat?

Answer

Discus fish

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Freshwater Fish

Which freshwater fish is the smallest known vertebrate species by standard body length?

Answer

Paedocypris progenetica

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Freshwater Fish

Which freshwater fish is known for spitting jets of water to knock insects from vegetation?

Answer

Archerfish

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Freshwater Fish

Which freshwater fish is famous for having eyes divided into upper and lower halves?

Answer

Four-eyed fish

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Migratory Birds

Which small songbird migrates from Alaska to sub-Saharan Africa, making one of the longest journeys relative to body size?

Answer

Northern wheatear

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Migratory Birds

At which bay do migrating red knots gather to feed on horseshoe crab eggs?

Answer

Delaware Bay

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Migratory Birds

Which North American crane migrates between Canada’s Wood Buffalo National Park and Texas’s Aransas National Wildlife Refuge?

Answer

Whooping crane

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Migratory Birds

What German term describes the restless nighttime activity that often appears in migratory birds before departure?

Answer

Zugunruhe

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• Migratory Birds

Which hummingbird can cross the Gulf of Mexico nonstop during its autumn migration?

Answer

Ruby-throated hummingbird

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Migratory Birds

Which bird holds the record for the longest nonstop flight, flying from Alaska to Tasmania?

Answer

Bar-tailed godwit

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