Which bird makes the longest annual migration?
Answer
Arctic tern
98686 Intermediate Trivia Questions
98686 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which bird has the longest beak relative to body size?
Answer
Sword-billed hummingbird
Which bird is the national bird of India?
Answer
Indian peafowl
What species is the oldest known wild bird, named Wisdom?
Answer
Laysan albatross
What is the only bird that hibernates?
Answer
Common poorwill
Which bird species is known for its sophisticated tool use in the wild?
Answer
New Caledonian crow
What is the scientific name for the common house sparrow?
Answer
Passer domesticus
Which bird has the largest wingspan of any living bird?
Answer
Wandering albatross
What mammal is known as the 'sea cow'?
Answer
manatee
What mammal undertakes the longest annual migration?
Answer
gray whale
What mammal has a star-shaped nose?
Answer
star-nosed mole
What mammal survives solely on eucalyptus leaves?
Answer
Koala
What mammal has the largest ears relative to body size?
Answer
fennec fox
What mammal has the strongest bite force per unit body weight?
Answer
Tasmanian devil
What mammal has the highest blood pressure of any animal?
Answer
giraffe
What mammal can detect infrared radiation?
Answer
Vampire bat
Which mammal has a false thumb to grip bamboo?
Answer
Giant panda
What mammal can rotate its head 180 degrees?
Answer
Tarsier
What mammal has the longest gestation period?
Answer
African elephant
What male mammal has a venomous spur on its hind leg?
Answer
Platypus
What mammal can hold its breath for over two hours?
Answer
Cuvier's beaked whale
Which mammal has up to 260 teeth?
Answer
Spinner dolphin
In 'Rumpelstiltskin', what does the queen promise in exchange for spinning straw into gold?
Answer
her firstborn child
In 'The Twelve Dancing Princesses', what magical item helps the soldier spy on the princesses?
Answer
a cloak of invisibility
In 'The Fisherman and His Wife', what is the wife's final wish?
Answer
to be like God
In 'The Golden Goose', what happens to anyone who touches the goose?
Answer
they stick to it
In Hansel and Gretel, what is the witch's house built of?
Answer
Bread and cakes
Which Grimm fairy tale involves a miller's daughter who must spin straw into gold?
Answer
Rumpelstiltskin
What is the name of the princess in the Brothers Grimm version of Sleeping Beauty?
Answer
Little Briar Rose
What is the German title of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale collection?
Answer
Kinder- und Hausmärchen
Which Lewis Carroll poem is subtitled 'An Agony in Eight Fits'?
Answer
The Hunting of the Snark
What question does the Caterpillar repeatedly ask Alice in Wonderland?
Answer
Who are you?
Who illustrated the first edition of 'The Hunting of the Snark'?
Answer
Henry Holiday
From which two Latin names did Lewis Carroll derive his pen name?
Answer
Carolus Ludovicus
What is the title of Lewis Carroll's 1879 book critiquing non-Euclidean geometry?
Answer
Euclid and His Modern Rivals
What word game did Lewis Carroll invent in 1879?
Answer
Doublets
Which poet did Lewis Carroll parody in 'You Are Old, Father William'?
Answer
Robert Southey
What Carroll novel features the characters Tweedledum and Tweedledee?
Answer
Through the Looking-Glass