Nature & Animals quiz
Animal quiz from deep-sea fish to peregrine falcons: habitats, records and surprising habits.
Which is the fastest land animal in the world?
More Nature & Animals questions
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Which animal group is most strongly affected worldwide by insect decline?
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- Wild bees
- House cats
- Pigeons
- Sharks
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Which animal has a coat of spines?
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- Hedgehog
- Mouse
- Hamster
- Squirrel
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Which bird reaches the highest speed in a dive?
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- Peregrine falcon
- Golden eagle
- Goshawk
- Common buzzard
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Which big cat is native to the high mountain ranges of Central Asia?
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- Snow leopard
- Cheetah
- Eurasian lynx
- Jaguar
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What does a kangaroo mainly eat?
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- Grasses and other plants
- Insects and small lizards
- Fish from waterholes
- Other small mammals
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A lion's roar can be heard from roughly how far away?
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- 5 miles
- Half a mile
- 1 mile
- 15 miles
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Which vegetable grows underground and can make your eyes water when you cut it?
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- Carrot
- Potato
- Onion
- Cabbage
True or false?
Same material, different game — in a duel this one runs without a clock, but with an explanation after every reveal.
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An elephant is the largest living land animal on Earth.
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True.
At up to 7 tonnes, the African elephant is the largest and heaviest land mammal.
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The elder blooms red and bears white berries in summer.
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False.
The black elder blooms white in June and bears dark, almost black berries in late summer.
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The okapi is the closest living relative of the giraffe.
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True.
The okapi belongs to the giraffe family. It lives in the rainforest of the Congo and, like the giraffe, has short fur with stripes on its legs.
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Termites are a type of ant that build the tall mounds seen on the African savanna.
Reveal Reveal
False.
Termites are not ants but their own insect group, and they are in fact more closely related to cockroaches than to ants.
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