Which songbird makes a nonstop autumn flight of about 3,000 km across the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer
Blackpoll warbler
89712 Intermediate Trivia Questions
89712 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which seabird makes a transoceanic migration from the Falkland Islands to the North Atlantic?
Answer
Sooty shearwater
Which shrike breeds in Europe and Asia before migrating to eastern and southern Africa?
Answer
Red-backed shrike
What is the longest recorded length of a male narwhal, in metres?
Answer
6.2 metres
Which Arctic whale is the largest animal with baleen plates?
Answer
Blue whale
How long can a Greenland shark live, according to scientific age estimates?
Answer
At least 272 years
Which plant family includes the Venus flytrap and sundews?
Answer
Droseraceae
Which plant is the botanical source of dragon's blood resin from Socotra?
Answer
Dracaena cinnabari
Which plant is famous for having just two permanent leaves throughout its life?
Answer
Welwitschia mirabilis
Which flowering plant has the world’s largest unbranched inflorescence?
Answer
Amorphophallus titanum
Which plant species is the principal natural source of the blue dye historically called woad?
Answer
Isatis tinctoria
In laboratory rats, what ultrasonic vocalizations are strongly associated with positive social interactions?
Answer
50-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations
In honeybee communication, which chemical is a major alarm pheromone released by worker bees?
Answer
Isopentyl acetate
What acoustic behavior lets singing mice produce rapid, high-pitched calls during social interactions?
Answer
Ultrasonic vocalization
Which Nintendo handheld was the first in the family to include built-in cameras?
Answer
Nintendo DSi
Which tree species is often called the sausage tree because of its long, sausage-shaped fruits?
Answer
Kigelia africana
Which forest in Sri Lanka is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a major tropical biodiversity hotspot?
Answer
Sinharaja Forest Reserve
Which forest is home to Costa Rica’s famous Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve?
Answer
Monteverde cloud forest
Which tree species is the national tree of Madagascar and has a trunk shaped like a bottle?
Answer
Grandidier’s baobab
Which parrot is the world’s heaviest and cannot fly?
Answer
Kākāpō
What is the largest penguin species in the world?
Answer
Emperor penguin
Which bird is famous for having a bill shaped like a large shoe?
Answer
Shoebill
Which bird lays the largest egg of any living bird?
Answer
Ostrich
Which living reptile is the largest by total length and body mass?
Answer
Saltwater crocodile
What is the main natural habitat of the endangered axolotl?
Answer
Lake Xochimilco
Which bird has the largest eyes of any living land animal?
Answer
Ostrich
Which animal has a false sixth finger that helps it grasp bamboo?
Answer
Giant panda
The peppered moth belongs to which genus?
Answer
Biston
Which moth did scientists use to identify the first insect pheromone?
Answer
Silkworm moth