100 Animal Trivia Questions That Will Test Your Smarts (2025)

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1. Question: What is a group of cats called?
Answer: A clowder

2. Question: Which has the thickest fur of any mammal?
Answer: Sea otter

3. Question: The age of a lion can be determined by its … ?
Answer: Nose

4. Question: What is the only mammal capable of true flight?
Answer: Bats

5. Question: A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a … ?
Answer: Grape

6. Question: What is the smallest mammal in the world?
Answer: Bumblebee bat

7. Question: What animal has the highest blood pressure?
Answer: Giraffe

8. Question: How far away can a wolf smell its prey?
Answer: Almost two miles

9. Question: What land animal has the most powerful bite?
Answer: Hippopotamus

10. Question: Where is the only place on their body dogs have sweat glands?
Answer: The pads of their paws

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11. Question: What is a female fox called?
Answer: Vixen

12. Question: How many teeth can alligator have over its lifetime?
Answer: Up to 3,000

13. Question: What creature has a tongue that is twice the length of its body?
Answer: Chameleon

14. Question:What is a group of parrots called?
Answer: A pandemonium

15. Question:What type of farm animal can sunburn?
Answer: Pig

16. Question:What is a male duck called?
Answer: Drake

17. Question:What is the closest living relative to the T-rex?
Answer: The chicken (and all birds, generally)

18. Question:What male sea creature gives birth to its young?
Answer: Seahorse

19. Question:Which sea creature can change its gender?
Answer: An oyster

20. Question:What is the deadliest creature in the world?
Answer: Mosquito

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21. Question:Where do sea otters store extra food on their bodies?
Answer: A pocket of skin in their armpits

22. Question:What four common species of animals die soon after giving birth?
Answer: Octopus, squid, Pacific salmon and common mayfly

23. Question:What type of fish mate for life?
Answer: Angelfish

24. Question: Where on the body are a crab’s taste buds?
Answer: Its toes

25. Question:Which animal baby can gain up to 250 pounds per day?
Answer: Blue whale

26. Question:What is a baby hedgehog called?
Answer: Hoglet

27. Question:What percentage of baby animals are raised by both parents?
Answer: 3%

28. Question:People from which country brought domestic cats to the United States?
Answer: England

29. Question:What are the only two mammals that lay eggs?
Answer: Spiny anteater and duck-billed platypus

30. Question:How many legs does a lobster have?
Answer: 10

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31. Question:What animal produces mohair?
Answer: Angora goat

32. Question:What is a male swan called?
Answer: Cob

33. Question: Which large mammal has a tail so strong it can stand on it and lift its hind legs off the ground?
Answer: Kangaroo

34. Question:What do you call a group of crows?
Answer: A murder

35. Question:What is the fastest sea animal?
Answer: A black marlin

36. Question: What is a polar bear’s skin color?
Answer: Black

37. Question:What are the only two mammals that lay eggs?
Answer: Duck-billed platypus and spiny anteater

38. Question:What are 12 or more cows called?
Answer: A flink

39. Question:What is a female donkey called?
Answer: Jenny

40. Question:What is the only big cat that doesn’t roar?
Answer: Cheetah

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41. Question:What is a group of badgers called?
Answer: A cete

42. Question:What animal has the thickest fur of any mammal?
Answer: Sea otter

43. Question:What type of animal is a Portuguese man-o-war?
Answer: Siphonophore (a close relative of a jellyfish)

44. Question:Belted Galloway and Belgian Blue are breeds of which animal?
Answer: Cow

45. Question:Which bird’s eye is bigger than its brain?
Answer: Ostrich

46. Question:How many species of sea urchin are there?
Answer: 950

47. Question: What is a group of camels called?
Answer: A caravan

48. Question:Which aquatic mammal has the most extended lifespan?
Answer: Bowhead whale

49. Question:Which bird is considered the fastest?
Answer: Peregrine falcon

50. Question:How many heart chambers does a cockroach have?
Answer: 13

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51. Question:What animal lays the largest egg?
Answer: An ostrich

52. Question:What is thought to be the oldest breed of dog?
Answer: Greenland sled dog

53. Question: How many species of ants exist on Earth?
Answer: 12,000+

54. Question:What does a male penguin often gift its female counterpart to win her over?
Answer: A pebble

55. Question:Why are flamingos pink?
Answer: Their diet is rich in algae, shrimp and crustaceans

56. Question:What color is a giraffe’s tongue?
Answer: Purple, black or blue, with a pink base

57. Question:What animal has stripes on its skin as well as its fur?
Answer: Tiger

58. Question:How do sea otters keep from drifting apart while they sleep?
Answer: They hold hands

59. Question:What kind of turtle can’t retract into its shell?
Answer: Sea turtle

60. Question:What does a snake use to taste and smell?
Answer: The roof of its mouth

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61. Question:What is the main reason frogs croak?
Answer: To attract a mate

62. Question:Where are a cricket’s ears located?
Answer: On the tibia of its forelegs

63. Question:What is the only insect that can turn its head 180 degrees?
Answer: Praying mantis

64. Question:What’s the loudest insect in the world?
Answer: The African cicada

65. Question:How many flowers do honey bees have to visit to produce one pound of honey?
Answer: Two million

66. Question:What animals have teeth that never stop growing?
Answer: Rabbits and rodents (mice, voles, squirrels, chipmunks, hamsters, guinea pigs, gophers, muskrats, beavers and porcupines)

67. Question:What sea creatures have the ability to clone themselves?
Answer: Jellyfish

68. Question:What color is a hippo’s sweat?
Answer: Red-orange

69. Question:Which crustacean can growl when intimidating its enemies?
Answer: Ghost crab

70. Question:Which animal in a pride does the majority of the hunting?
Answer: The lioness

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71. Question:Which animal is known to plant thousands of trees across the world?
Answer: Squirrel

72. Question:Which animal is known for spending 80% of its day sleeping?
Answer: Koala bear

73. Question:What shape do the tails of mating dragonflies make?
Answer: A heart

74. Question:How many facial expressions can a horse make?
Answer: 17

75. Question:What animal squirts blood from its eyes as a defensive mechanism?
Answer: Horned lizard

76. Question:What color are flamingos when they’re born?
Answer: White-gray

77. Question:What animal is known for having 32 brains?
Answer: Leech

78. Question:Which animals have rectangular pupils?
Answer: Many hoofed animals, including goats, sheep, deer, antelope, horses and cattle

79. Question:What do you call the underside of a horse’s hoof?
Answer: The frog

80. Question:What percentage of their lives do cats spend sleeping?
Answer: 60% to 80%

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81. Question:What’s the primary food source for koalas?
Answer: Eucalyptus leaves

82. Question:What item do toucans toss back and forth using their beaks during their mating ritual?
Answer: A piece of fruit

83. Question:Which animal can distinguish the greatest variety of smells?
Answer: African elephant

84. Question: What possession do otters hold onto?
Answer: A rock

85. Question:Which sea creature can be broken into five pieces and still survive?
Answer: Sea star (aka starfish)

86. Question:What’s the main way cats show they trust someone?
Answer: By headbutting

87. Question:What animal can only eat when its head is upside down?
Answer: Flamingo

88. Question:How do honeybees communicate to one another that they’ve found the best pollen?
Answer: By dancing

89. Question:Where are the only two places in the world where lions live in the wild?
Answer: Africa and India

90. Question:Which aquatic animal is the most poisonous in the world?
Answer: Pufferfish

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91. Question:What is a group of hedgehogs called?
Answer: A prickle or an array

92. Question:Which animal evades predators by running in zigzag patterns?
Answer: Hartebeest

93. Question:What color is a polar bear’s hair?
Answer: Clear, though it appears white because it’s hollow and reflects light

94. Question:What do humpback whales use to attract prey?
Answer: Bubbles

95. Question:How many toes do sheep have on each foot?
Answer: Two

96. Question:Which bird is a symbol for peace?
Answer: The dove

97. Question:What is a group of pigs called?
Answer: A drift

98. Question:What is a male turkey called?
Answer: A gobbler

99. Question:How many teats does a cow have?
Answer: Four

100. Question:Which animal has a sense of hearing about four times as sensitive as humans?
Answer: Dog

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• WWF: “Top 10 Facts About Polar Bears”
• Scientific America: “The Evolution of House Cats”
• AMCA: “Vector-borne Diseases”
• Institute for Creation Research: “Chameleon Tongue Inspires Robotic Design”
• Science: “Catch a Lion by His Nose”
• Science: “Watch female dragonflies wrestle away unwanted males in mid-air”
• Ocean Conservancy: “5 Weird Facts about Sea Turtles”
• California Academy of Sciences: “Snake Sense Scents Game”
• National Wildlife Federation: “Mating in a Material World”
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