Geography
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What's in a Name?
100

Along with Antarctica and Australia, this continent has no native bear species. 

What is Africa? 

100

According to urban legend, this type of animal caused the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 by knocking over a lantern. 

What is a cow? 

100

This deep-sea cephalopod has three hearts that pump copper-rich blue blood to its eight limbs. 

What is the Octopus? 

100

The only two mammals that lay eggs.

What are the duck-billed platypus and the spiny anteater? 

100

A group of owls is called a...

Parliament

200

People from this country brought domestic cats to the U.S. 

What is England? 

200
The first animal to orbit earth. (Double points if you know her name) 
Who is Laika, the stray mutt? 
200

With an average lifespan of 72.6 years, this animal has the longest lifespan of all primates. 

What are humans?

200

The only bird that can fly backwards. 

What is the hummingbird? 

200

A female donkey is called a...

Jenny

300

New Zealand is the country with the highest ratio of this farmyard animal to humans. 

What is sheep? 

300

This mythical creature is the national animal of Scotland. 

What is the unicorn? 

300

Rudolf Jaenisch inserted foreign DNA into this mammal in order to use them to study cancer and neurological diseases. 

What is the mouse? 

300

This sea creature can be broken into five pieces and still survive. 

What is the starfish? 

300

A group of butterflies is called a...

kaleidoscope

400

The last widely-accepted sighting of this bird species was in 1662 on the island nation of Mauritius. Due to their remote home, the creature was considered mythological for a period of time. 

What is the Dodo? 

400

When it first opened in 1874, this facility - the first of its kind in America - charged visitors 25 cents to see almost 1,000 animals. 

What is the Philadelphia Zoo? 

400

Animals and humans alike can suffer from this bulge in a blood vessel, caused by weakening of its walls. 

What is an aneurysm?

400

A research paper in 2007 showed that the T-Rex's closest known relative today is this type of bird. 

What is the chicken? 

400

This insect gets its name from the Spanish word for "little fly."

What is the mosquito? 

500

In Japan, only qualified chefs who have trained for at least 3 years are allowed to prepare the dish fugu. This is because fugu is made from this poisonous animal, and can thus be fatal if incorrectly prepared. 

What is the pufferfish? 
500
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge kept this animal, commonly referred to as bandits, as a pet in the White House. 

Who is Rebecca the Raccoon?

500

This animal's eggs are often used to produce the flu shot. 

What are chickens/hens?

500

This animal is the one creature known to change the color of its eyeballs from yellow to blue to help them see better in the low light of winter. 

What is a reindeer? 

500

Long-nosed, screaming hairy, and pink fairy are species of this animal whose name comes from the Spanish for "little armored one."

What is the armadillo? 

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