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Wild Mix: The No-Boring-Facts Quiz 40

A playful mixed-animal quiz for children aged 8-14. This set features Nine-banded armadillo, Barn owl, Giant Pacific octopus, Brown bear, Jaguar, Ruby-throated hummingbird, Giraffe, Red fox, Tiger, Green sea turtle.

10 questions 10 mins Children 8-14

Question 1 · multiple choice

Which location would make a Nine-banded armadillo say, “Finally—this feels like home”?

savannas, grasslands, and open woodland streams, ponds, wetlands, and forested waterways forests, grasslands, mangroves, and reed beds warm forests, scrub, grasslands, and stream edges

Question 2 · multiple choice

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

mostly small mammals located by sound mainly fruit, with leaves, bark, insects, and other foods aquatic insect larvae, worms, and small crustaceans fish, squid, and krill caught underwater

Question 3 · multiple choice

Which timetable would a Giant Pacific octopus be most likely to approve?

hunts mostly by day from a waterside perch often hunts at night and shelters by day usually active by day forages mainly by day after warming in the morning sun

Question 4 · multiple choice

Which movement clue identifies a Brown bear without showing its face?

swims upright with a rapidly fluttering dorsal fin climbs, knuckle-walks, and can travel efficiently on the ground walks plantigrade, runs surprisingly fast, swims, and digs climbs with strong limbs, curved claws, and opposing digits

Question 5 · multiple choice

Which adaptation gives a Jaguar a genuine advantage rather than an imaginary superpower?

ever-growing orange incisors contain iron-rich enamel for cutting wood vertical stripes break up its outline among vegetation and shadow a long tongue rapidly laps nectar while wing joints permit unusual strokes exceptionally strong jaws can pierce tough shells and skull bones

Question 6 · multiple choice

Which parent-and-young clue correctly points to a Ruby-throated hummingbird?

two pea-sized eggs are raised by the female in a tiny flexible nest chicks grow inside a tree cavity excavated by adults eggs are laid on rock and guarded and fanned by the male an infant rides on its mother and develops slowly over several years

Question 7 · multiple choice

Which group-behaviour clue is a realistic match for a Giraffe?

forms herds that may combine into enormous seasonal migrations forms loose groups whose membership can change frequently mostly solitary and communicates with colour and posture stable family units often travel within larger temporary herds

Question 8 · multiple choice

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

regulates populations of flying birds in natural and urban habitats concentrates plankton into a food source for scavengers through waste controls rodents and disperses seeds from fruit disperses seeds of many large forest fruits

Question 9 · multiple choice

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

avoids danger in the canopy and may shake branches or vocalise adult males carry venomous ankle spurs used mainly in rivalry groups together and dives away rather than fighting large predators uses concealment first and powerful claws and jaws if forced to fight

Question 10 · true false

True or False: This “strange but true” clue belongs to the green sea turtle: has three hearts and blue blood based on copper-containing hemocyanin.

True False