Mother Nature Trivia Questions with Answers
What fresh-water mollusks produce red or pink-colored pearls?
A: Mussels.
What insect's larvae did New Hampshire hope to reduce by importing mummichogs,
swallows and bats?
A: The mosquito's.
How many out of every four known
animal species are insects?
A: Three.
What arachnid attacks its prey with the stinger at the end of its tail?
A :The Scorpion.
What kind of baths do experts recommend be two-and-a-half-inches deep?
A: Birdbaths.
What butterfly-shaped gland is located just in front of the windpipe?
A: The thyroid.
What 1989 environmental disaster killed an estimated 144
bald eagles?
A: The Exxon Valdez oil spill.
Which of the five senses is sharpened by a radial keratotomy?
A: Sight.
What's the more common term for herpes zoster?
A: Shingles.
What insect's pulvilli allow it to walk upside down on ceilings?
A: The fly's.
What breed was responsible for two-thirds of U.S.
dog bite deaths in the
1980s?
A: The pit bull.
What three planets in our solar system show signs of oxygen in their
atmospheres?
A: Venus, Earth,
Mars.
What waterfowl has 24 neck vertebrae, more than any other warm-blooded animal?
A: The swan.
What body part does bulbar polio attack?
A: The lung.
What's the most popular animal eaten before it's born and after it's dead?
A: The Chicken.
How many poisonous birds are there in the world--1, 10, or 100?
A: One.
What have diameters of about one ten-thousand-millionth of a meter?
A: Atoms.
What family of tentacled horrors includes the world's most venomous animal?
A: Jellyfish.
How many karats is pure, unalloyed
gold?
A: Twenty-four.
What country's breeding lab did 26 African killer queen bees escape from, in
1956?
A: Brazil's.
What's the largest whale with
teeth?
A: The sperm whale.
What male body part did Mademoiselle magazine find to be the favorite of the
most women?
A: Eyes.
What's the longest poisonous snake?
A: The cobra.
What's a water moccasin often called, due to the white inside its mouth?
A: A cottonmouth.
What barnyard animal can get sunburned?
A :The pig.
What's the most common limbless vertebrate?
A: A snake.
What would Zamfir fear, if he suffered from aulophobia?
A: The flute.
What's molten magma called when it is forced onto the Earth's surface?
A: Lava.
How many toes grace each of a guinea pig's hand feet?
A: Three.
What body part becomes infected if you contract cholera?
A The intestine.
What's the small flap in the back of your throat called?
A: The uvula.
What five-foot-tall birds are the tallest in North
America?
A: Whooping cranes.
What kind of Plymouth Rock is alive?
A: A Chicken.
What childhood disease did 312 Americans have in 1993, a record low?
A :Measles.
What blood type is the Universal Donor?
A: Type O.
What's the common term for epinephrine?
A: Adrenaline.
What bean provides the colored inks used in most U.S. daily newspapers?
A: The soybean.
