Animals for Kids · Mixed

Creature Mix: Guess Before the Twist 34

A playful mixed-animal quiz for children aged 8-14. This set features Emperor penguin, Saltwater crocodile, Western gorilla, Platypus, Great white pelican, Common clownfish, Bornean orangutan, Giant anteater, Great spotted woodpecker, Whale shark.

10 questions 10 mins Children 8-14

Question 1 · multiple choice

An Emperor penguin is the mystery guest on a nature show. Which background set gives away its identity?

forests, tundra, grasslands, deserts, and mountains Antarctic sea ice and surrounding ocean marshes, riverbanks, flooded grasslands, and lakesides woodland, parks, orchards, and mature gardens

Question 2 · multiple choice

The snack labels fell off at the zoo. Which food description belongs to a Saltwater crocodile?

fruit, nuts, insects, crayfish, eggs, and human food waste thorny shrubs, dry grasses, salty plants, and browse fish, birds, mammals, reptiles, and carrion plants, seeds, fruit, insects, and small animals

Question 3 · multiple choice

A Western gorilla writes “Do not disturb” on its resting place. When is that sign most useful?

active mainly at night usually rests by day and becomes more active from dusk onward most active from dusk to dawn, especially around people travels and feeds by day, building a fresh sleeping nest each evening

Question 4 · multiple choice

A slow-motion camera follows a Platypus. Which action should the replay show?

paddles with webbed front feet and steers with hind feet and tail runs with great endurance rather than relying on one short sprint swims with webbed hind feet and steers using a flat tail stalks silently, bursts forward, swims well, and can climb

Question 5 · multiple choice

A Great white pelican has no backpack of tools. Which built-in feature solves a survival problem?

eyes, ears, and nostrils sit high on the head for watching while mostly submerged an expandable throat pouch scoops fish but does not store them long term shock-absorbing skull structures and a long barbed tongue support drilling and feeding a specialised mucus coating prevents the host anemone from stinging it

Question 6 · multiple choice

The “How I Began” cards are shuffled. Which card was written for a young Common clownfish?

females bury eggs in nests and can sometimes reproduce without a male cubs remain with their mother while learning to hunt eggs are laid on rock and guarded and fanned by the male pups are born in a sheltered den and taught to swim later

Question 7 · multiple choice

A Bornean orangutan is planning its weekend. Which social plan feels most natural?

mostly solitary and strongly territorial around rich flower patches mostly solitary and den-based adults are largely solitary and communicate with scent marks adult females are mostly solitary but maintain overlapping ranges

Question 8 · multiple choice

If a Giant anteater stopped doing its normal work, which ecological effect could follow?

limits social-insect colonies without usually destroying an entire nest helps regulate populations of other snakes turns soil while searching for prey and influences insect numbers disperses seeds and consumes many aquatic and land invertebrates

Question 9 · multiple choice

A Great spotted woodpecker cannot press a superhero button. What can it really do when threatened?

climbs, hides, growls, and uses sharp teeth when cornered retreats around the trunk and uses loud calls and drumming kicks, bites, spits stomach contents, and uses size sprints, changes direction rapidly, and kicks forward

Question 10 · true false

True or False: This “strange but true” clue belongs to the whale shark: gorillas make separate day nests for rest and night nests for sleeping.

True False