Q.1
This is the biggest land mammal: it has helped humans with heavy work in Africa and India. If it goes wild it can be spectacularly dangerous, but usually it is a slow and peaceful animal, with a strong family instinct. Apart from its huge size, you would recognise its head at once by the two tusks, long trunk and enormous ears. What animal is this?
  • An elephant
  • A rhinoceros
  • A hippopotamus
  • A moose
Q.2
Pick the answer which best completes the gap/s in clear, accurate English. Let's start at the back of the alphabet : a Zebra is, basically, quite similar to a horse, but the most obvious difference is that its coat is ... ...
  • ... spotted.
  • ... striped.
  • ... brown.
  • ... golden.
Q.3
'I am the national animal of China. I am a type of bear, with a white coat and black patches over my eyes, ears, shoulders and legs. I am very 'choosy' about the bamboo that I eat, and about when (or whether) I have any children. What am I?'
  • A bear
  • A polar bear
  • A panda
  • A lemur
Q.4
Each of the creatures listed below lives in the sea ~ and judging by its shape and its behaviour, many of us would think of them all as being 'fish'. In fact, only one of them is a fish: which one?
  • The whale
  • The shark
  • The dolphin
  • The porpoise
Q.5
Pick the answer which best completes the gap/s in clear, accurate English. You will not have any problem recognising the giraffes, because they have such ... ...
  • ... big feet.
  • ... long necks.
  • ... tough horns.
  • ... long teeth.
Q.6
Each of the following creatures is a Carnivore (that is, it survives by eating the meat of other creatures 'beneath it on the food chain') ... apart from one. Which of these is the Herbivore ( = a creature that only eats vegetable matter ) ?
  • An eagle
  • A tiger
  • A yak
  • A python
Q.7
Pick the answer which best completes the gap/s in clear, accurate English. On 'the far side of the world' from the UK, the ... ... is the national animal of Australia, and the ... ... is the national bird of New Zealand.
  • ... kiwi ... / ... kangaroo ...
  • ... kangaroo ... / ... kiwi ...
  • ... possum ... / ... tui ...
  • ... kookaburra ... / ... koala ...
Q.8
In terms of DNA analysis, which of these creatures is the closest 'relative' to human beings?
  • The dolphin
  • The pig
  • The chimpanzee
  • The gorilla
Q.9
English, famously, has a whole list of special names for 'groups' (collectives) of certain kinds of bird. But there is one general word for a group of birds, particularly if the birds are actually flying; and we use the same collective term for a group of sheep. What is this word?
  • A bunch
  • A herd
  • A flock
  • A troop
Q.10
Pick the answer which best completes the gap/s in clear, accurate English. Nobody knows exactly how many species of living things there are on our planet: estimates suggest, somewhere between 5 and 30 million. But apparently, almost exactly half of the ones that we do know are ... ...
  • ... plants.
  • ... insects.
  • ... birds.
  • ... fish.
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