Round 1
About the size of a billiard ball, the eye of this bird is the largest of any land animal.
Ostrich
This marsupial sleeps up to 20 hours a day and mainly eats eucalyptus leaves.
Koala Bear
In the 1990s, what illness previously thought to be confined to cattle was found to have expanded to impact livestock, other animals, and even humans.
Mad Cow Disease
Estivation is the summer equivalent of which state of minimal activity and metabolic depression traditionally associated with rodents.
Hibernation
What ocean animal has the scientific name monodon monoceros which is Greek for "one-tooth, one-horn?"
Narwhal
A large, hornless ruminant quadruped, distinguished by its humps, long neck and cushioned feet.
Camel
This land animal is the fastest, reaching speeds of up to 70 mph in short bursts.
Cheetah
A recent animal discovery in the Canadian Arctic is the Prizzly, a combination of what two animals.
Polar and Grizzly
The flightless cormorant, the only known member of this bird species that has lost the ability to fly, fishes in the waters off what isolated islands known for unusual animals?
Galapagos Islands
What nine-letter word which comes from an older meaning of a word now used to mean a male spouse, means the care, cultivation and breeding of animals or crops?
Husbandry
Cows eat grass, but cannot digest it until it's been softened into cud, making cows this type of animal.
Ruminant
This ocean giant has a heart that can weigh 400 pounds.
Blue Whale
Uga is the name of a popularly known animal in the state of Georgia. What is the animal?
Bulldog
When it opened in 1874, which facility-the first of its kind in America-charged visitors 25 cents to see almost 1000 animals.
The Philadelphia Zoo
Aside from Antarctica and Australia, what is the continent with no native bear species?
Africa
Dian Fossey and Jane Goodall's expertise, respectfully.
Fossey-Gorillas
Goodall-Chimpanzees
This amphibian can regrow limbs.
Axolotl
The phrase "sacred cow" to describe a person or thing immune from criticism comes from what religion that does in fact revere cows as holy.
Hindu
The Tasmanian masked owl's scientific name is Tyto novaehollandiae castanops. The castanops comes from its factual resemblance to what roasted holiday nut?
Chestnut
Due to the genes they inherit around 80% of cats with pure white fur and what color eyes are born deaf?
Blue
This flightless bird ranges in size from blue (smallest) to emperor (largest).
Penguins
From the book of Genesis in the Bible, what was the name of the man who took two of each animal onto the Ark.
Noah
What annoying insect gets its name from the Spanish word for "little fly?"
Mosquito
What dozy treetop mammal can hold its breath underwater for a whopping 40 minutes, even longer than dolphins?
Sloth
The pattern of wrinkles on the noses of which large primate act like a fingerprint, as they are unique to each individual animal?
Gorilla