50 Animals GK Quiz Questions – Learn More about Animals
Animals GK Quiz Questions with Answers (Questions 1-25)
1) On what continent did horses evolve?
Answer: North America.
2) Why do guinea pigs eat some of their feces?
Answer: To obtain vitamins.
3) Are capybaras herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores?
Answer: herbivores.
4) How many basic groups of amphibians are there?
Answer: 3.
5) What kind of animal is a gribble?
Answer: Crustacean.
6) A group of crows is called a:
Answer: Murder.
7) Ants cannot live in wet climates. True or false?
Answer: False.
8) Why do baby elephants eat their mothers’ droppings?
Answer: To ingest essential gut flora.
9) What is the largest number of eggs a bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) can lay?
Answer: 28.
10) The Lone Ranger’s Potawatomi sidekick, Tonto, had a horse named what?
Answer: Scout.
11) What class of creature has the most species?
Answer: beetle.
12) What is the name for a venomous snake that lives in Japan?
Answer: mamushi.
13) What kind of animal is a kite?
Answer: Bird.
14) What do bats use to control their wings?
Answer: arms and fingers.
15) What is the largest monkey?
Answer: mandrill.
16) An assembly of owls is referred to as a:
Answer: Parliament.
17) All worker ants are male. True or false?
Answer: False.
18) Which group of arthropods does not have members that are camouflaged by their resemblance to bird droppings?
Answer: Dragonflies.
19) What is the largest number of eggs that a burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia) will typically lay?
Answer: 12.
20) Which of the following famous racehorses does not have a biopic?
Answer: War Admiral.
21) What kind of animal is a silverside?
Answer: Fish.
22) Dogs can hear up to what frequency (in cycles per second)?
Answer: 50000.
23) What are newborn crickets called?
Answer: nymphs.
24) What do adult frogs and toads lack?
Answer: tail.
25) Caterpillars have no exoskeleton. True or false?
Answer: False.
Online General Knowledge Animals Quiz
26) What are fossilized feces called?
Answer: Coprolites.
27) What is the largest number of eggs a green iguana (Iguana iguana) may lay?
Answer: 30.
28) A mustang known as Comanche was the mount of which well-known commander?
Answer: George Custer.
29) How many kilograms can an adult giant panda weigh?
Answer: 113.
30) What organ do snakes use to help them taste and smell?
Answer: Jacobson’s organ.
31) What is the name for a larval fly?
Answer: maggot.
32) A cluster of jellyfish is called a:
Answer: Smack.
33) What kind of animal is a yak?
Answer: ox.
34) Fewer than 10 species of ants are found in India. True or false?
Answer: False.
35) The young of some species of which animal produce feces contained inside a sac of mucus, allowing the parents to easily remove the feces from the nest?
Answer: Bird.
36) How many kits do least weasels (Mustela nivalis) usually give birth to?
Answer: 1–7.
37) How much food does an adult giraffe eat, in kilograms, each day?
Answer: 65.
38) What is a newborn bat called?
Answer: pup.
39) How many toes does a dog have?
Answer: 5.
40) How many body parts does an insect have?
Answer: 3.
41) What kind of animal is a grunt?
Answer: Fish.
42) What characteristic do all frogs have?
Answer: they are poisonous.
43) A flutter is a group of:
Answer: Butterflies.
44) What is the name for the family of small birds that can hover?
Answer: hummingbirds.
45) How many mice would it take to produce the amount of milk a cow can?
Answer: 6,000.
46) How many times is the largest fish larger than the smallest fish?
Answer: 1,800 times.
47) To which continent are rattlesnakes native?
Answer: North America.
48) What is the name for a two-humped camel?
Answer: Bactrian.
49) The most common terrestrial animal is the ant. True or false?
Answer: True.
50) Why is whale excrement important to oceanic ecosystems?
Answer: It brings nutrients to surface waters.