Nature Trivia Quiz Questions with Answers
What was the last name of the Canadian farmer who cultivated a wild apple he
found on his property in 1796?
A: McIntosh.
How many of every 1,000 species that have ever lived on Earth are still alive?
A: One.
What was the most lethal infectious
disease of 1990?
A: Pneumonia.
What occurred in the Atacama Desert for the first time in 400 years, in 1971?
A: Rain.
What's the most concentrated source of energy in a diet--carbohydrates, fat or
protein?
A: Fat.
What jungle-dwelling primates are most likely to break bones falling out of
trees?
A: Orangutans.
What Hawaiian volcano first erupted in the 1970s and has done so regularly since
1983?
A: Kilauea.
What insect depends the most upon sight, rather than
sound, to locate mates?
A: The firefly.
What poisonous snake's black, red and yellow bands are mimicked in the harmless
milk snake?
A: The coral snake's.
What South American member of the raccoon family do
pet store owners often call a
"honey-bear"?
A: The kinkajou.
What do epiphytic and parasitic plants grow on?
A: Plants.
What cousin to the camel is used in pats of the U.S. to protect sheep from
coyotes and stray dogs?
A: The Llama.
What color hair naturally graces the heads of one in 16 Americans?
A: Red.
What bird, extinct by 1681, was named for the Portuguese word for "stupid"?
A: The dodo bird.
What taste are cats unable to detect?
A Sweet.
What dog was named for its skill at flushing out woodcock for
hunters?
A: The cocker spaniel.
What three fingers are raised to indicate the number "three" in American sign
language?
A: Thumb, index, middle.
What breed of dog did New York City's Board of
Health order owners to neuter, in
1989?
A: The pit bull.
How many days does a cat usually stay in heat?
A: Five.
What season boasts the greatest number of U.S. newborns?
A: Summer.
What beaked reptiles are almost identical to their Triassic ancestors"?
A: Turtles.
What was the only domesticated
animal in North America in 1475 B.C.?
A: The dog.
What's an ocean-going "bergy bit" too small to be?
A: An iceberg.
What type of mining operation causes what ecologists slam as a "lunar
landscape"?
A: Strip mining.
What explorer introduced pigs to North America?
A: Christopher Columbus.
How many square feet of Latin American rain forest can conservationists buy with
a single donated quarter--30, 60, or 90?
A: Ninety.
What living organism can be 30 times the size of a
blue whale?
A: A giant sequoia.
What sounds were mud puppies falsely though to make, accounting for their name?
A: Barks.
What U.S. spider's poison is 15 times as powerful as
rattlesnake venom?
A: The black widow's.
What creature proved to be much faster than a horse in a 1927 race in Sydney,
Australia?
A: The kangaroo.
What kind of fish provides the typical meal for killer whales cruising the
apuget Sound?
A: Salmon.
Who trapped frogs for a zoo before he hit upon the idea of frozen
foods?
A: Clarence Birdseye.
What eastward wind current above the lower troposphere was identified by Jacob Bjerknes?
A: The jet stream.
What body orifice are you able to talk through if you can "snoach"?
A: The nose.
What's a "ruderal" to a frustrated gardener?
A: A weed.
How many keepers, on average, do captive elephants in North America kill every
year?
A: Two.
What bean did Henry Ford use to form the body of an experimental car, in 1941?
A: The soybean.
What section of a choir has a vocal range of between 262 and 1,046 cycles per
second?
A: Sopranos.
What do you call the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion?
A: A tiglon.
What Asian animal's pelt can fetch $100,000 on the black market?
A: The giant panda's.