Which gland helps penguins waterproof their feathers during preening?
Answer
Uropygial gland
96 Penguins Trivia Questions with Answers
96 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which penguin species is the only one that regularly breeds on the Antarctic mainland?
Answer
Adélie penguin
Which penguin species has a bright yellow eye patch and is also called hoiho?
Answer
Yellow-eyed penguin
Which ocean current is especially important to Galápagos penguins?
Answer
Cromwell Current
Which penguin species has the scientific name Pygoscelis adeliae?
Answer
Adélie penguin
What is the name of the penguin colony on the Falkland Islands famous for mixed species?
Answer
Volunteer Point
What is the only penguin species that breeds in South Africa and Namibia?
Answer
African penguin
What kind of bird is a penguin, despite its inability to fly?
Answer
Flightless bird
Which penguin species is named after Jules Dumont d’Urville’s wife, Adèle?
Answer
Adélie penguin
Which penguin species is also widely known as the African penguin?
Answer
Spheniscus demersus
What is the oldest known penguin fossil genus?
Answer
Waimanu
What transparent eyelid protects a penguin’s eye underwater?
Answer
Nictitating membrane
What is the main color pattern called when a penguin has a dark back and white belly?
Answer
Countershading
What structure lets a male emperor penguin keep an egg warm on his feet?
Answer
Brood pouch
Which penguin species is named after the explorer Ferdinand Magellan?
Answer
Magellanic penguin
Which penguin species nests in the temperate rainforests of New Zealand’s South Island?
Answer
Fiordland penguin
Which penguin species is the only one that regularly reaches the Northern Hemisphere?
Answer
Galápagos penguin
What is the name of the salt-excreting gland above a penguin’s eye?
Answer
Supraorbital gland
In the 2011 film Mr. Popper’s Penguins, which actor plays Mr. Popper?
Answer
Jim Carrey
Which Antarctic current helps deliver nutrient-rich water to penguin feeding grounds around the continent?
Answer
Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Which penguin species has a distinctive yellow crest and black throat?
Answer
Macaroni penguin
What is the name of the penguin’s annual fasting period while it replaces its feathers?
Answer
Catastrophic molt
Which penguin species is the fastest swimmer, reaching about 36 kilometres per hour?
Answer
Gentoo penguin
Which penguin species has the longest breeding cycle among living penguins?
Answer
King penguin
Which penguin species has a breeding cycle that begins during Antarctica’s winter?
Answer
Emperor penguin
Which penguin species has recorded dives deeper than 500 metres?
Answer
Emperor penguin
In which hemisphere do all living penguin species naturally occur?
Answer
Southern Hemisphere
Which 1940s comic-book villain is known as Batman’s penguin-themed enemy?
Answer
The Penguin
What is the name of the surfing penguin protagonist in the 2007 film Surf's Up?
Answer
Cody Maverick
What type of bones do penguins have that helps them stay underwater?
Answer
Solid bones
What is the name of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ mascot?
Answer
Iceburgh
What is the name of Batman’s penguin-themed villain?
Answer
The Penguin
What was the name of the first scientifically described fossil penguin genus?
Answer
Palaeeudyptes
Which penguin species breeds farthest south of all living penguins?
Answer
Emperor penguin
What is the biological family that contains every living penguin species?
Answer
Spheniscidae
How many living penguin species are generally recognized today?
Answer
18 species