Animal Facts
What is an omnivore?
An animal that eats both plants and meat.
What is the fastest land animal?
The cheetah.
What does “raining cats and dogs” mean?
It means it’s raining very heavily.
In Kung Fu Panda, what animal is Po?
A panda.
Complete the song title by Ylvis: The Fox (What Does the ___ Say?)
Fox
What is a food chain?
A sequence that shows who eats whom in an ecosystem.
What’s the heaviest animal?
The blue whale.
Finish the phrase: “Let the cat out of the ___.”
bag
In The Lion King, what kind of animal is Timon?
A meerkat.
Complete the lyrics: “I’ve got the eye of the ___, a fighter…” – Katy Perry
tiger
What do you call animals that are active at night?
Nocturnal animals.
Which bird has the largest wingspan?
The wandering albatross.
A big problem that everyone is aware of but avoids talking about.
Which animal in Madagascar loves to move it? (name + type of animal)
King Julien the lemur.
Which band is this song by?
Welcome to the jungle…
Guns N’ Roses
What is a marsupial, and name one example.
An animal that carries its baby in a pouch, like a kangaroo.
Which animal has the strongest bite?
The saltwater crocodile.
What does a “wild goose chase” refer to?
A search that is pointless or hopeless because the person or thing being searched for is nonexistent or unobtainable.
(e.g. Her scheme of being a movie star is a wild-goose chase.)
In Bee Movie, what happens to the environment when bees stop working, and what does this teach us?
Plants and flowers start dying, showing the critical role bees play in pollination and ecosystems.
Which band is this lyric by and what is the song title?
“Blackbird singing in the dead of night”
The Beatles - Blackbird
What is poaching and why is it a threat to animals?
Illegal hunting of animals, often for profit, which threatens their survival.
What’s the loudest animal on Earth?
The sperm whale.
What kind of person is a “dark horse”?
A candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.
(e.g. Anna's such a dark horse - I had no idea she'd published a novel.)
In Zootopia, what real-world social issues are symbolized through the predator-prey dynamics?
Racism, prejudice, stereotypes, and social profiling.
Miley Cyrus sings the song Butterfly fly away with ____
her father (Billy Ray Cyrus).