Nature Trivia Quiz with Answers
How many bacteria can be found in a typical cubic inch of
garden soil--30
thousand, 30 million or 30 billion?
A: Thirty Billion.
What pets are a major cause of salmonella
poisoning if handled by humans?
A: Turtles.
What USA age group more than doubled in size between 1960 and 1990--under 25,
over 645 or over 85?
A: Over 85.
What biblical figure was
California's 4,700-year-old bristlecone pine tree named
after?
A: Methuselah.
What insect does an isoopterpophobic homeowner fear?
A: The termite.
What deficiency disease did 19th-century scientists find could be avoided by
avoiding polished rice?
A: Beriberi.
What animal travels at 25 mph under water but finds it easier to toboggan on its
belly on land?
A: The penguin.
What color are emu eggs?
A: Green.
What will fall off of the Great
Sphinx in 200 years due to pollution and
erosion, according to scholar Chikaosa Tanimoto?
A: Its head.
What single-seeded drupe was the first fruit munched on the moon?
A: The peach.
What disorder's name is derived from the Greek for "without appetite"?
A: Anorexia's.
What creature's name was derived from French words meaning "spiny
pig"?
A: The porcupine's.
What type of leaves were botanists shocked to find in the stuffing inside the
mummified remains of Pharaoh Ramses II?
A: Tobacco leaves.
What distant planet circles the sun every 84 years?
A: Uranus.
What creature's fossilized leg bone did John Horner discover red
blood cells in,
in 1993?
A: A Tyrannosaurus rex's.
What are there 88 of in the night sky, according to the international
Astronomical Union?
A: Constellations.
What nationally-observed day in the U.S. marks winter's midpoint?
A: Groundhog Day.
What tree family includes the largest and fastest-growing living thing on Earth?
A: The Sequoia.
What is the common name for the class Aves, which consists of over 8,500 living
species?
A: Birds.
What can clear mucus from sinus passages faster than any other hot beverage,
according to a 1978 Mount Sinai Medical Center study?
A: Chicken soup.
What's the most intelligent mammal after man?
A: The Chimpanzee.
What flatulent New Zealand creatures did geophysicist David Lowe say were
contributing to the gradual warming of Earth's atmosphere?
A: Sheep.
How many parents are required in order to reproduce by parthenogenesis?
A: One.
What long-beaked bird needs 1,600 blossoms to get its daily diet of nectar?
A The hummingbird.
What nation is prowled by 60 percent of the world's tigers?
A: India.
What sea mammal's upper lip moves much like the
trunk of an elephant?
A: The manatee's.
What type of glands are missing in pigs, who must wallow in mud to beat the
heat?
A: Sweat glands.
What's the top apple-producing state in the U.S.?
A: Washington.
What bulb has been dubbed "the stinking rose"?
A: Garlic.
What now extinct fowl was originally named "disgusting bird" by its Dutch
discoverers?
A: Dodo.
What creature has 98.4 percent of its DNA n common with humans?
A: The Chimpanzee.
What constellation must you aim a telescope at to view the Crab nebula?
A: Taurus.
