50 Animals & Nature Quiz Questions and Answers
This page lists 50 real questions from the Quizlino Animals & Nature category, each with four options, the correct answer and, where available, a short explanation. They are arranged from easy to hard, so you can start at the level that suits you. The full category contains 260 questions spread across its levels, so what you see here is a sample to study from, not the whole quiz.
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Animals & Nature: Easy Questions
Warm-up questions that most players can answer.
Q1. Which is the largest land animal?
Answer: A. African Elephant
Explanation: The African bush elephant is the largest land animal.
Q2. Which is the tallest land animal?
Answer: B. Giraffe
Explanation: Giraffes are the tallest mammals.
Q3. Which is the largest animal in the world?
Answer: B. Blue Whale
Explanation: The Blue Whale is the largest animal ever.
Q4. Which bird cannot fly but can run very fast?
Answer: B. Ostrich
Explanation: Ostriches are flightless fast runners.
Q5. Which mammal is capable of sustained flight?
Answer: B. Bat
Explanation: Bats are flying mammals.
Q6. Which animal is known as the Ship of the Desert?
Answer: B. Camel
Explanation: Camels are adapted for desert travel.
Q7. What do you call animals that eat only plants?
Answer: C. Herbivores
Explanation: Herbivores eat plants.
Q8. What do you call animals that eat only meat?
Answer: A. Carnivores
Explanation: Carnivores eat meat.
Q9. What do you call animals that eat both plants and meat?
Answer: B. Omnivores
Explanation: Omnivores eat both.
Q10. Which animal is famous for its black and white stripes?
Answer: C. Zebras
Explanation: Zebras have black and white stripes.
Q11. Which is the only mammal native to Antarctica?
Answer: B. Weddell Seal
Explanation: Seals are mammals, while penguins are birds. Polar bears live in the Arctic.
Q12. Which scale-covered mammal is known for rolling into a ball and is heavily trafficked?
Answer: A. Pangolin
Explanation: Pangolins are scaled mammals.
Q13. Which snake is the longest venomous snake in the world?
Answer: C. King Cobra
Explanation: King Cobra can grow up to 5.8 meters.
Q14. Which snake is the largest/heaviest in the world (non-venomous)?
Answer: B. Anaconda
Explanation: Green Anaconda is the heaviest snake.
Q15. Which organ allows insects to breathe?
Answer: C. Tracheae / Spiracles
Explanation: Insects breathe through air tubes called tracheae.
Q16. What type of animal is a salamander?
Answer: B. Amphibian
Explanation: Salamanders are tailed amphibians.
Q17. Which is the largest species of shark?
Answer: B. Whale Shark
Explanation: Whale shark is the largest fish.
Q18. What do you call animals that are active during the night?
Answer: B. Nocturnal
Explanation: Nocturnal animals are active at night.
Q19. What do you call animals that are active during the day?
Answer: A. Diurnal
Explanation: Diurnal animals are active during daylight.
Animals & Nature: Medium Questions
A step up in difficulty, for players who know the basics.
Q20. Which animal is the largest rodent in the world?
Answer: D. Capybara
Explanation: The correct answer is Capybara.
Q21. Which type of bird is famous for its black and white tuxedo-like coloring and waddling walk?
Answer: B. Penguin
Explanation: The correct answer is Penguin.
Q22. What is the natural habitat of Polar Bears?
Answer: B. Arctic Tundra
Explanation: The correct answer is Arctic Tundra.
Q23. Which land animal has the largest ears?
Answer: C. African Elephant
Explanation: The correct answer is African Elephant.
Q24. What is the collective name for a group of crows?
Answer: B. Murder
Explanation: The correct answer is Murder.
Q25. What is the collective name for a group of geese on the ground?
Answer: D. Gaggle
Explanation: The correct answer is Gaggle.
Q26. What is the baby of an eagle called?
Answer: D. Eaglet
Explanation: The correct answer is Eaglet.
Q27. Which animal is known for its slow movement and spending its life in trees?
Answer: C. Sloth
Explanation: The correct answer is Sloth.
Q28. Which reptile has a hard protective shell covering its body?
Answer: C. Turtle
Explanation: The correct answer is Turtle.
Q29. Which animal is the tallest living bird?
Answer: A. Ostrich
Explanation: The correct answer is Ostrich.
Q30. Which insect lives in organized colonies called hives and produces wax?
Answer: D. Honeybee
Explanation: The correct answer is Honeybee.
Q31. What is the name of the chemical substance that gives leaves their green color?
Answer: A. Chlorophyll
Explanation: The correct answer is Chlorophyll.
Q32. What is the largest species of bear in the world?
Answer: A. Polar Bear
Explanation: The correct answer is Polar Bear.
Q33. Which marine animal is known for having a horse-like head and a prehensile tail?
Answer: A. Seahorse
Explanation: The correct answer is Seahorse.
Q34. Which animal is a close relative of the domestic dog and lives in wild packs?
Answer: D. Wolf
Explanation: The correct answer is Wolf.
Q35. What is the main source of food for wild vultures?
Answer: B. Carrion
Explanation: The correct answer is Carrion.
Q36. Which bird is a universal symbol of peace?
Answer: D. Dove
Explanation: The correct answer is Dove.
Q37. Which animal is famous for having a black and white striped coat?
Answer: B. Zebra
Explanation: The correct answer is Zebra.
Animals & Nature: Hard Questions
Challenging questions for confident players.
Q38. Which black-and-white animal lives in a burrow called a sett?
Answer: B. Badger
Explanation: A badger's underground home is called a sett. It is a network of tunnels that can be used by many generations.
Q39. What is the largest cat native to the Americas?
Answer: C. Jaguar
Explanation: The jaguar is the largest cat in the Americas and the third largest in the world, after the tiger and the lion.
Q40. What is the largest carnivorous marsupial in the world?
Answer: C. Tasmanian Devil
Explanation: The Tasmanian devil, found only on the island of Tasmania, has been the largest meat-eating marsupial since the thylacine died out.
Q41. Which animal spits as a warning to other members of its species?
Answer: C. Llama
Explanation: Llamas spit mainly at each other to settle disputes over food or rank, and occasionally at people who annoy them.
Q42. Which animal has soft toe pads that help it silently stalk prey?
Answer: B. Bengal Tiger
Explanation: Like other cats, tigers walk on soft, padded toes, which lets them approach prey almost without a sound.
Q43. Which animal has the second-largest brain in the world?
Answer: B. Elephant
Explanation: An elephant's brain weighs around five kilograms, the largest of any land animal.
Q44. Which bushy-tailed animal has teeth that never stop growing?
Answer: C. Squirrel
Explanation: Squirrels are rodents, and the front teeth of all rodents grow throughout life and are worn down by gnawing.
Q45. Which of the following is also known as the "Asian Unicorn"?
Answer: B. Saola
Explanation: The saola, a forest animal of Vietnam and Laos, was only discovered by scientists in 1992 and is so rarely seen that it is called the Asian Unicorn.
Q46. Which African mammal is famous for its distinctive laugh?
Answer: B. Hyena
Explanation: The spotted hyena makes a giggling call that sounds like laughter, usually when it is excited or nervous.
Q47. What nocturnal primate is also known as a Galago?
Answer: C. Bush Baby
Explanation: Bush babies, or galagos, are small African primates with huge eyes that are active at night.
Q48. Which dog breed is famous for having a blue tongue?
Answer: C. Chow Chow
Explanation: The Chow Chow, a breed from China, is known for its blue-black tongue and thick, lion-like coat.
Q49. Which animal can cover about 30 feet in a single jump?
Answer: B. Kangaroo
Explanation: A large kangaroo can leap about nine metres, or thirty feet, in a single bound when moving at speed.
Q50. Which animal is believed to have domesticated itself over 10,000 years ago?
Answer: C. Cat
Explanation: Cats are thought to have moved in alongside early farmers to hunt the rodents attracted by stored grain, gradually taming themselves.
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