Animals
20 animal quiz questions
Twenty animal questions in four rounds: mammals, birds, sea life, and reptiles and creepy-crawlies. This one is for grown-ups and older children; there’s an easier animal quiz for kids.
A shortened quiz, to play solo
20 questions to play on your own, online. Type your answers and get your score at the end. No PDFs and no group play.
Playing with other people? Get the full quiz
- 50 questions, none of them on this page
- Question and answer PDFs, with answer sheets and tie-breakers
- Host it live: a private game room, everyone answers on their phones
- Questions
- 20
- Rounds
- 4
- Difficulty
- Easy to hard
Round 01
Mammals
- Difficulty: hard
Which is the only mammal covered in scales?
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The pangolin
Also accept: Pangolin, Pangolins
- Difficulty: medium
Which is the largest living primate?
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The gorilla
Also accept: Gorilla, Eastern gorilla
- Difficulty: medium
What is a female elephant called?
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A cow
Also accept: Cow
- Difficulty: hard
Which whale, thought to live for more than 200 years, is the longest-lived mammal?
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The bowhead whale
Also accept: Bowhead, Bowhead whale
- Difficulty: hard
What is a baby hare called?
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A leveret
Also accept: Leveret
Round 02
Birds
- Difficulty: medium
Which bird has the largest wingspan?
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The wandering albatross
Also accept: Albatross, Wandering albatross, An albatross
- Difficulty: hard
Which is the smallest bird in Britain?
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The goldcrest
Also accept: Goldcrest
- Difficulty: easy
Which bird lays its eggs in other birds' nests?
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The cuckoo
Also accept: Cuckoo
- Difficulty: easy
Which bird of prey is the national bird of the United States?
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The bald eagle
Also accept: Bald eagle
- Difficulty: medium
What is a group of geese on the ground called?
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A gaggle
Also accept: Gaggle
In flight they are a skein.
Round 03
Sea life
- Difficulty: medium
Which whale has a long spiral tusk?
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The narwhal
Also accept: Narwhal
- Difficulty: hard
Which is thought to be the fastest fish in the sea?
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The sailfish
Also accept: Sailfish
- Difficulty: hard
What are young eels called?
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Elvers
Also accept: Elver, Glass eels
- Difficulty: easy
What is a group of dolphins called?
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A pod
Also accept: Pod
- Difficulty: easy
What is the largest coral reef system in the world?
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The Great Barrier Reef
Also accept: Great Barrier Reef
Round 04
Reptiles and creepy-crawlies
- Difficulty: medium
How many legs does a lobster have, counting its claws?
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Ten
Also accept: 10
- Difficulty: medium
Which is the only venomous snake native to Britain?
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The adder
Also accept: Adder, Viper, The common viper
- Difficulty: hard
Which is the heaviest snake in the world?
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The green anaconda
Also accept: Anaconda, Green anaconda
- Difficulty: hard
Leatherjackets are the young of which long-legged insect?
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The crane fly
Also accept: Crane fly, Daddy-long-legs, Daddy long legs, Cranefly
- Difficulty: easy
What word describes an animal that is active at night?
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Nocturnal
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That was the free solo version. The Animal Quiz has 50 brand-new questions in 5 rounds, with question and answer PDFs to print, or host it live with everyone on their phones. Instant download.
Solo is free. Playing with a group? That’s the full quiz.
Free version · this page
A shortened quiz, solo only
20 questions to play on your own, online
- 20 questions, marked for you
- Your score, answers and explanations at the end
- No PDFs: nothing to print or hand round
- No group hosting or live game room
- No team answer sheets or tie-breakers
- Anyone can look these questions up
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Everything you need to host a group
The Animal Quiz
- A longer quiz: 50 questions (this page has 20), none of them on this site
- Host pack with questions and answers (PDF)
- Mammals, birds, sea life, reptiles and minibeasts, and record breakers
- Team answer sheets and scoresheet
- Two tie-breakers
- Host it live for 30 days: a private game room with a join code, everyone answers on their phones, live leaderboard, up to 100 players
- For family and friends · instant download, and it never expires
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How to run it
- Collective nouns make a good bonus round: a murder of crows, a parliament of owls.
- Playing with children? Use the animal quiz for kids, which is easier.
- Let teams act out an animal for a clue, at the cost of half a point.