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Animal Trivia Quiz

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1. A bee could travel ________ miles on the energy it would obtain from 1 gallon of nectar.

		4 hundred
		4 thousand
		4 million
		4 billion

2. A bee has _______ eyes

		1
		2
		4
		5

3. A bumble bee flaps its wings _______ times each second.

		16
		160
		500
		1000

4. A dragonfly can fly _______ mph.

		25
		50
		60
		100

5. A flea is capable of jumping ________ in a single leap.

		10 feet
		3 feet
		13 inches
		6 inches

6. A queen bee may lay over ________ eggs in a single day.

		30
		300
		1000
		3000

7. An ant can lift over _____ times its own weight.

		50
		25
		10
		2

8. An ant can survive for _________ underwater.

		1 hour
		2 weeks
		12 hours
		12 weeks

9. An average bee hive has about ________ bees in it.

		5,000
		10,000
		20,000
		50,000

10. Assuming that all offspring survived, ___________ flies could be produced in four months by the offspring of a single pair of flies.

		190,000,000,000,000,000,000
		1,000,000
		5,000
		100

11. The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the _______.

		squid
		mouse
		ant
		human

12. Butterflies taste with their __________.

		hind feet
		tongues
		antennae
		bodies

13. Cockroaches have lived on Earth for _______ years without changing in any way whatsoever.

		100,000
		250,000,000
		10,000
		2,000,000,000

14. The average housefly lives for about __________.

		2 weeks
		2 days
		2 months
		2 years

15. A caterpillar has more approximately _______ muscles.

		20
		200
		2,000
		20,000

16. _________ of the worlds food crops are fertilized by insects.

		80
		50
		20
		10

17. There are about _________ species of insects known to man to date.

		10,000
		100,000
		1,000,000
		100,000,000

18. Insects are attracted to the color ______ twice as much as to any other color.

		red
		blue
		green
		yellow

19. Earthworms may reach a length of _______ or more.

		12 inches
		2 feet
		11feet
		20 feet

20. A capon is a ___________.

		small insect eating mammal
		type of monkey
		large parrot-like bird
		castrated rooster

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