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Wild Mix: The No-Boring-Facts Quiz 10

A playful mixed-animal quiz for children aged 8-14. This set features Gray wolf, Snow leopard, Ostrich, Plains zebra, North American river otter, Dromedary camel, Veiled chameleon, Cheetah, Raccoon, Reindeer.

10 questions 10 mins Children 8-14

Question 1 · multiple choice

Which location would make a Gray wolf say, “Finally—this feels like home”?

forests, bamboo thickets, wetlands, and farmland edges forests, tundra, grasslands, deserts, and mountains dry scrub and desert-edge plains with diggable soil forests and wetlands, increasingly also towns and cities

Question 2 · multiple choice

A Snow leopard wins a free buffet—but only one table matches its usual diet. Which table?

crabs, clams, fish, and other marine animals mostly bamboo stems, leaves, and shoots wild sheep, goats, marmots, pikas, and birds mainly leaves, with some fruit and flowers

Question 3 · multiple choice

Which timetable would an Ostrich be most likely to approve?

feeds in cooler hours and rests near or in water during heat active by day active by day close to its anemone active by day and often travels in cooler periods

Question 4 · multiple choice

Which movement clue identifies a Plains zebra without showing its face?

runs on a single hoof per foot with efficient elastic tendons dives in a high-speed stoop and strikes or grabs prey swims steadily by sweeping the rear body and broad tail moves through trees by deliberate climbing and flexible arm reaching

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which adaptation gives a North American river otter a genuine advantage rather than an imaginary superpower?

dark eye patches reduce glare while sharp claws excavate prey and tunnels closeable ears and nostrils keep water out during dives touch receptors in the front paws become especially responsive when wet fat stored in one hump supplies energy while variable body temperature saves water

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which parent-and-young clue correctly points to a Dromedary camel?

cubs are born in a secluded den and learn to hunt from their mother eggs hatch at intervals so chicks in one nest differ in size a single calf can stand and walk soon after birth the male carries fertilised eggs in a brood pouch and gives birth

Question 7 · multiple choice

Which group-behaviour clue is a realistic match for a Veiled chameleon?

mostly solitary outside courtship and mothers with young colonies huddle and rotate positions during severe winter weather mostly solitary and strongly territorial mostly solitary and communicates with colour and posture

Question 8 · multiple choice

Which behind-the-scenes nature job is performed by a Cheetah?

selects vulnerable prey and becomes food for scavengers when kills are stolen acts as a top predator that influences prey numbers and movement pollinates flowers while moving between nectar sources controls crustaceans and recycles shells around dens

Question 9 · multiple choice

Which “Stay Safe” instruction was written by nature for a Raccoon?

camouflages, releases ink, jets away, or sacrifices an arm climbs, hides, growls, and uses sharp teeth when cornered climbs trees when young and uses strong jaws if cornered freezes, blends with foliage, and uses claws if seized

Question 10 · true false

True or False: This “strange but true” clue belongs to the reindeer: swallows stones that help grind food inside the gizzard.

True False