Mammals
Flyin' Around
All Gone Now
Don't Bug Me!
Animal Puns
100
This animal is known as the world's largest living mammal.
What is a Blue Whale?
100
This character from Finding Nemo had a major role. What was the character's NAME?
Who was Nigel?
100
This extinct animal from Guam was a vegetarian and had a wingspan of seventy centimeters. The introduction of predatory tree snakes in its habitat were one of the factors that led to its extinction. What is this animal?
What is the Guam Flying Fox?
100
Their correct name is Lady Beetle and they are great garden helpers.
What is a Ladybug?
100
What do you call a bear without any teeth?
What is a 'Gummy Bear'?
200
It is a falsehood that this animal can 'shoot' it's quills.
What is a porcupine?
200
This species of bird is considered extinct in the wild and is referred to also as a Spix. What is the common name for this bird?
What is a Blue Macaw?
200
This marsupial animal had more in common with the kangaroo than the tiger, but it also had stripes, so people went with the visual cues when it came to naming it.
What was the Tasmanian tiger? (The last confirmed sighting of one was in Australia's Tasmania, in 1933. It was captured and kept at Hobart Zoo until its death in 1936.)
200
These amazing insects can lift 10-50 times their body weight and they use chemicals to communicate.
What are ants?
200
What do you call a sleeping cow?
What is a "bull dozer"?
300
This is the common name for the Saddleback or Greenland seal.
What is a Harp Seal?
300
DAILY DOUBLE:
600 POINTS
Known as the world's fastest bird, they can reach speeds of up to 389 kmh.
What is the Peregrine Falcon? (The Golden Eagle is a distant second in speed and can reach as fast as 240-320 kmh.)
300
Name this recently-extinct lizard which used to be common in the Caribbean.
What is the Jamaican Giant Galliwasp, or Sinking Galliwasp? It was native only to the island of Jamaica and was classified as extinct in 1996.
300
These are technically flying insects and known as pollinators. There are nearly 20,000 species of them.
What are bees?
300
Two birds in love are called?
What are "tweethearts"?
400
This is the second fastest mammal in the world. The Mexican version of this species if often referred to as the 'jet' of the species.
What is a Free-tailed bat?
400
This bird is considered the loudest bird, with two main song types and loudness measured at 125 decibels (louder than a rock band).
What is the Bellbird?
400
Used to be the most populous birds in North America and could fly as fast as 60 mph.
What is the Passenger Pigeon?
400
While these insects only emerge every 13-17 years, they are definitely loud.
What is the (periodical) Cicada?
400
DAILY DOUBLE:
800 POINTS
What is a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary?
What is a Thesaurus?
500
This animal is a good swimmer.
What is a sloth?
500
The world's largest bird can reach a weight of 345 pounds and have a wing span of 210 cm.
What is an ostrich?
500
This animal lived in Costa Rica.
What is the Golden Toad? It was only first discovered in the jungles of Costa Rica in 1964. Yet, by 1989, there were no more sightings. It's rapid decline was thought to be related to environmental constraints (restricted range of habitat), pollution, and global warming.
500
This insect can live for up to 7 years and has two sets of wings. They can reach up to 8 mph when flying.
What is a grasshopper?
500
These fish taste funny
What are clownfish?
600
Name the volume of digits on a panda's paw.
What are FIVE (fingers and an opposable pseudo-thumb (actually an enlarged wrist bone))?
600
Some birds are venomous. What is the world's most venomous bird?
What is the Hooded Pitohui? It's skin and feathers are highly toxic and helps serve as a defense against predation. Merely touching the bird will cause numbness in the fingers of a human.
600
This bird is extinct in the wild and was native to islands off the west coast of Mexico. It was last sighted in its natural habitat in 1972.
What is the Soccoro Dove? (There are between 100 - 200 purebred birds in captivity. A reintroduction program is in the early stages of preparation.)
600
While still considered an insect, this one comes in a huge array of colors, sizes, and types. They taste with their feed and live on an all-liquid diet.
What is a butterfly?
600
So there's a bear that built a picnic table....What did the bear say about it?
What is "I built this with my bear hands"
800
There are 13 species of this animal. What is the animal?
What are otters? Sea Otters are the type depicted in the picture. There are twelve other types.
800
This bird became most famous as the result of cartoons. Name this bird.
What is a Roadrunner?
800
This animal has technically gone extinct TWICE. Name the animal.
What is the Pyrenean Ibex?
It was declared extinct in 2000, after which time frozen DNA was found and used to establish a few new ones. However, due to a lung abnormality, they perished in 2009.
800
Contrary to its name, this insect prefers to eat grass and woods. It has a life span of up to 3 years and they do 'not' spread disease.
What is an earwig?
800
When asking who might remain, Jeff Probst might say this.
What is "Who will be the sole survivor?"
