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While often confused with llamas, what breed of camelid is used for fleece production, while it's cousin the llama is not?
Alpacas
Where did all of the following famous animals live? Bo & Sunny, Barney, and Socks.
The White House
What is the three-letter name of the second-tallest (standing) bird on the planet? This animal is found only in Australia and is related to the ostrich.
Emus
Group names for animals are a common trivia fact since they can be so. . . peculiar. There's a cackle of hyenas, a pandemonium of parrots, and a conspiracy of lemurs. What is the legislative name for a group of owls?
Owls
What creature with an equine name has no teeth or stomach, mates for life, and is the only species on Earth where the male carries the unborn offspring?
Seahorses
Formally adopted by the state government in 1911, what animal is prominently featured on the state flag of California?
Bear
What huge, endangered vulture is the national bird of Bolivia, Chile, Columbia, and Ecuador?
Condor
Name the species of bird that has a tongue so long it wraps around the back of their skull when not in use?
Woodpeckers
Killing what type of bird, some species of which have wingspans over 10 feet wide, is very bad luck in maritime tradition, as they are said to carry the souls of dead sailors?
Albatross
Turtles, toads, and tarantulas are all "ectothermic" animals, which is typically referred to by what more common term?
Cold-blooded
You’ll find them in zoos around the world, but there’s only one place on Earth where hippopotamus roam naturally. Which continent would you have to travel to if you want to see a hippo in the wild?
Africa
Australia built a 3,000-mile-long fence during the 1880s just to block the movement of what baby-snatching species?
Dingo
If they were allowed to compete at the Olympics they would win the 100m in under 7 seconds – what bird is the fastest running animal on two legs?
Ostriches
In the early 1900s, there was a campaign to bring which animals to America from Africa and let them live in the Louisiana bayous to be raised for meat? (Hint: The NYT was into the idea, referring to the creatures as “lake cow bacon”)
Hippos
The largest living lizard can't breathe fire but it does have a venomous bite that inhibits blood clotting. What creature is this?
Komodo Dragons
Aside from marine mammals, what is the only kind of mammal native to New Zealand?
Bats
Which breed of dog with distinctive coat markings and which originated as a hunting dog and carriage dog is named after a historic region of Croatia?
Dalmatian
What is the name for any of the three bird species in the genus Fratercula? These birds all feature black and white plumage, hunt most of their food by diving into the water, and have beaks that turn a colorful bright orange in preparation for breeding season.
Puffin
An emblem of the island nation to which it is endemic, which non-flying bird is unique in having external nostrils at the tip of its beak?
Kiwi
Found in spiders, as well as some species of butterfly and moth, a spinneret is an organ that is responsible for the production of which substance?
Silk
What frequently-misnomered mammal has fingerprints so indistinguishable from humans that they have occasionally been wrongfully collected as evidence at crime scenes?
Koalas
There are more than 3,400 distinct species of a certain type of insect. Most of them are considered "annual" but some of the species that gobble up more news headlines are "periodical" broods that are nearly exclusive to the United States. These emerge from underground as rarely as once every 17 years. What is this insect?
Cicadas
They outnumber us by three to one, but there's no need to be scared. With an estimated 24 billion individuals, what is the most common bird on the planet?
Chicken
An apex predator due to its size, the Komodo dragon gets its name from an island in which country?
Indonesia
Neovison and Mustela are the two genuses of what territorial mammal lives near water and is rarely found more than 200 meters from a riverbank, lake, or marsh? The animal's fur is considered especially durable and valuable with its short, thick, soft hairs.
Mink