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135+ Best Animal Trivia Questions [Updated]

Posted on the 01 June 2022 by Smithonepa

The animal is one of the best creatures of God. I love animals and i also have too many pets at my home. This post is especially for those who love animals and want to improve their knowledge about animals. In this post, you’ll find too many trivia questions about animals. in this post we have questions about different kind of fishes, snakes, we also have questions about Elephants, crocodiles, birds and some other animals.

trivia questions about animals

1. What type of blood fish have? And which type of animals they are?

Show AnswerFishes are cold blooded and they are aquatic animals

2. What was the old name of fish?

Show AnswerOstracoderms

3. What is the most populated vertebrate group animal?

Show AnswerFish

4. How many years ago a jawless fish appeared in the Cambrian period?

Show Answer510 million years ago

5. What are the most common types of fish?

Show AnswerSharks, Skates, Rays, Chimera, Paddlefish, Herrings, Lanternfish, Sea dragon, Cavefish, Spoonfish, Pipefish, and sea horses are some common fishes.

6. What is the name of shortest-lived vertebrate fish? And how many days they can live?

Show AnswerPygmy Goby, Can live 59 days

7. How many total eggs pygmy can lay in their lifespan?

Show Answer400 eggs

8. Gastrotrich is a freshwater microorganism do you know their lifespan?

Show Answer3 days

9. What is the name of longest lifespan fish, which can live about 205 years

Show AnswerRougheye Rockfish

10. Till now how many species of fish found on the earth?

Show Answer28,000

11. How many types of fish species exist on the earth that is not identified yet?

Show Answer15,000

12. If we combine all species of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals the number of fish species will remain greater. This statement is true or not?

Show AnswerTrue

13. How much percentage of all fish species live in fresh water?

Show Answer40%

14. Which type of fish has more powerful jaws than a crocodile, which can generate a bite force up to 8000 lbs. per square inch

Show AnswerDunkleosteus

15. Which is the largest fish? And what are the reported length and weight?

Show AnswerThe whale shark is the largest fish, total length reported is 15 meters and weight is 47300 pounds

16. Which animal lay the largest egg and what is the size?

Show AnswerThe whale shark, 14 inches long

17. How many teeth whale shark have?

Show Answer3000

18. What is the name of the smallest fish in the world?

Show AnswerPaedocypris Progenetica
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19. In which area of the world transparent fish found?

Show AnswerIndonesian Island of Sumatra and Malaysian part of Borneo

20. What is the total size of Paedocypris Progenetica?

Show Answer7.9 millimeters.

21. What is the second smallest fish name? what is the total length of it? And where it found?

Show AnswerDwarf Pygmy Goby, total length is 8 millimeters and found in Philippine Islands.

22. Do you know the name of the most poisonous fish in the world?

Show AnswerStonefish

23. Which is the only animal in the world who can turn their stomach inside-out?

Show AnswerStarfish

24. Which animal doesn’t have a brain and doesn’t have blood?

Show AnswerStarfish

25. How many total species of snakes are exist in the world?

Show Answer3000

26. Snakes have existed everywhere in the world except which areas?

Show AnswerAntarctica, Iceland, Ireland, Greenland, and New Zealand

27. From 3000 species how many species are poisonous, and can harm human?

Show Answer600 species

28. Which type of blood snakes have?

Show AnswerCold blooded

29. How snakes swallow things greater than their head?

Show AnswerTheir skulls have more joints than their lizard ancestors

30. What is the name of the smallest snake according to national geographic?

Show AnswerThread snake

31. What will be the average size of thread snake?

Show Answer3.9 inches (10 centimeters)

32. What is the name of the largest snake, and what is the maximum recorded size?

Show AnswerThe reticulated python, size 30 feet (9 meters).

33. The largest fossil of snake discovered 60 million years ago and the size was 50 feet (15 meters) do you remember the name of that fossil?

Show AnswerTitanoboa

34. Only one species of snake build nest to lay eggs. Do you know the name of that snake?

Show AnswerKing Cobra

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Animal quiz questions and answers for adults

35. Now many percentages of snake species lay eggs? And what is the name of that type?

Show Answer70 percentage of snake species lay eggs, these types are called oviparous.

36. Why remaining 30 percent of snakes not lay eggs? What is the reason?

Show AnswerDue to cold weather it impossible the eggs to develop and hatch, so they directly give birth to live young.

37. Snakes are carnivores. What does it mean?

Show AnswerIt means that they only eat meat

38. Snakes can swallow other animals 75,100% greater than their own size, according to national geographic they can eat very large animals such as crocodile and cow. Is it true or not?

Show AnswerTrue

39. After swallow how snake break the food down into the usable energy?

Show AnswerThey release special enzymes

40. How many days king cobra live without food?

Show Answer1 month

41. Sometimes after eating live animals snake explode, what is the reason behind this?

Show AnswerNo one knows the reason

42. Mostly where snakes like to live?

Show AnswerForest, deserts, swamps & grasslands

43. Which weather the snakes like most?

Show AnswerCold weather

44. What is the rarest and dangerous type of snake?

Show AnswerSt. Lucia racer

General animal trivia

45. Snakes don’t have nose than through which part of the body they can smell?

Show AnswerThrough tongue

46. Snakes also don’t have ears, so how they hear the sound?

Show AnswerThey feel vibrations through the ground

47. Snakes shed their entire skin 3 times a year, what is the name of this process?

Show AnswerMolting

48. Through which part of the body snakes can climb on a tree?

Show AnswerThrough scales

49. There is a type of snakes which can fly. Do you know the name of that snake?

Show AnswerChrysopelea
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50. In which area of the world Chrysopelea normally found?

Show AnswerSoutheast Asia

51. If the shape of the pupil of the snake is like a diamond, what does it’s mean?

Show AnswerIt means snake is poisonous

52. If the shape of the pupil is round, then what does it means?

Show AnswerIt means the snake is non-poisonous.

53. Which marine animals have 3 hearts, but don’t have hearing organs, and very powerful vision?

Show AnswerOctopuses

54. By the help of which part of the body octopus can walk?

Show AnswerThrough arms

55. What is the name of the largest Octopus in the world?

Show AnswerPacific giant octopus

56. What is the name of fastest moving fish, and what is the maximum speed?

Show AnswerSailfish and Wahoo, the fastest moving speed is 90 kph

57. How many species of flying fish are exist in the world?

Show Answer40 species

58. What is the name of the largest fish that can fly?

Show AnswerAgujon needlefish

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59. Do you know the name of the largest sea turtle?

Show AnswerLeatherback

60. The leatherback is one of the deepest diving marine animal. do you know how deep can dive?

Show Answer1280 meters (4199 ft)

61. Which is the fastest moving reptiles on the earth, and what is the speed?

Show AnswerThe leatherback is the fastest moving reptile, can move 35kph

62 The heaviest a biggest animal on the earth is a blue whale, Do you know the highest recorded weight?

Show Answer200 tons

63. What is the weight of a newborn baby blue whale?

Show Answer50 tons

64. What is the name of the largest animal which doesn’t have the backbone

Show AnswerGiant squid

65. Which animal has the largest eyes in the world? And what is the diameter of their eyes?

Show AnswerGiant squid and the diameter of eyes are 18 inches.

Animal questions to ask

66. Annually how many estimated people died due to snakebite?

Show Answer30000 – 40000

67. What is the normal activity of snakes?

Show AnswerNormally they taking rest.

68. Which type of snakes kills more people per year?

Show AnswerSaw-scaled viper

69. Out of 3000 species, how many species of the snakes can kill the human with one bite?

Show Answer250 species

70. What is the name of fear which is due to a snake?

Show AnswerOphiophobia or herpetophobia

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71. In how many days snakes digest its food?

Show Answer3 – 5 days

72. Which type snakes are solely made up of females?

Show AnswerBrahminy blind snake

73. Which type of snakes are most widely spread in the world?

Show AnswerBrahminy blind snake

74. Which snake is supposed to be most advanced in the world, who can strike up to 12 times in a row.

Show AnswerBlack mamba

75. Which snake is the world more toxic in the world?

Show AnswerInland taipan

76. Which snake has the fastest strike in the world? Which required only 0.15 seconds to strike and go back to strike position.

Show AnswerDeath adder

77. Out of 3000 species of snakes, how many species can fly?

Show Answer5 species

78. From which material the scales of the snake’s made?

Show AnswerKeratin

79. What is the name of the most common snake found in North America

Show AnswerGardener snake

80. What are the well know types of seabirds?

Show AnswerPenguins, gulls, auks, pelicans

81. What are the common meal of sea birds?

Show AnswerFish, Squid, Crustaceans, Krill, Plankton

82. Which type of birth penguins are?

Show AnswerAquatic birds

83. Can penguins fly? Just like other sea birds

Show AnswerNo

84. Which sea bird spend half of life their life swimming around the ocean

Show AnswerPenguins

85. How many total species of penguins are exist in the world?

Show Answer20

86. While walking on land, penguin use which part of the body to maintain balance?

Show AnswerTail and flippers

Animal quiz questions and answers 2017

87. What is the name of the largest penguin?

Show AnswerThe emperor penguin

88. What is the name of the smallest penguin and what is the total weight?

Show AnswerThe little blue penguin, total weight is 3 lbs

89. How penguin maintain their body temperature, and keep their body parts from freezing?

Show AnswerThrough their thick insulated feathers

90. What is the second method penguin use to maintain their body temperature?

Show AnswerHuddling

91. What 3 methods penguin use while walking on land?

Show AnswerWaddling, Hopping and sliding on their bellies.

92. What penguin loves to eat?

Show AnswerFish, squid, and krill

93. Penguin rely on which part of the body while searching food underwater

Show AnswerEyes

94. Majority of penguin species dive normally how many feet’s?

Show Answer60 feet

95. During the breeding period’s penguin stop eating, what is the reason behind this?

Show AnswerTo take care of their eggs, keep them warm, and prevent them from predators

96. In which area of the world penguin found?

Show AnswerAntarctica, Argentina, Australia, South Africa, and Chile.

97. Penguin normally found which regions of the world?

Show AnswerColder regions

98. What are the living style of penguins, they love to live in groups or live life individually?

Show AnswerThey live in pairs or colonies, 1 colony is a combination of 100 – 100000 penguins

99. are penguin marine mammals?

Show AnswerNo

100. Atlantic puffin is a small bird, do you know the average weight of puffin?

Show Answer0.5kg

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101. At which speed puffin can move? And how many time they flap their wings in a minute?

Show AnswerMaximum speed will be 88km/h, and flapping their wings up to 400 times in a minute

102. Puffins are the greatest swimmers, do you know how much meters they can dive down under the water?

Show Answer60 meters (197ft)

103. 60% of puffins located near which country?

Show AnswerIceland

104. Puffins can hold multiple small fishes in their bills, do you know exactly how much fish they can hold in one tripe?

Show Answer10 – 12 small fishes

105. What is the total lifespan of puffins?

Show Answer20 years

106. What is the total approximate population of puffins in the world?

Show Answer6 million

107. Mallard is a type of duck, normally found in America, Eurasia, and North Africa. Do you know the total life span of mallard?

Show Answer5-10 years

108. What are the favorite foods of Mallard?

Show AnswerInsects, worms, and vegetables

109. What is the average weight of male Steller sea lion?

Show Answer2500 pounds

110. Normally in which area the Steller sea lions are found?

Show AnswerNorth Pacific Ocean from Japan to Central California

111. What is the famous weapon Octopus use to defend the enemy?

Show AnswerThrough the inky liquid which darkens the water.

112. What is the scientific name of Octopus?

Show AnswerOctopoda

113. What is the family name of Octopus?

Show AnswerOctopodidae

Farm animal trivia questions and answers

114. What is the normal heartbeat of a cow?

Show Answer60 – 70 beats per minute

115. The hearing power of cows is better than human. Is it true?

Show AnswerYes

116. What is the normal temperature of a cow?

Show Answer101.5 degree Fahrenheit

117. What is the average jaw moments of a cow per day?

Show Answer40000 approximately

118. In 1930 which was the first cow that fly in an airplane?

Show AnswerElm Farm Ollie

119. How many portions are there in cow stomach?

Show Answer4 portions

120. What is the pregnancy duration of a cow?

Show Answer9 months

121. Which animal can walk upstairs but not walk downstairs?

Show AnswerCow

122. What is the pregnancy time of goats?

Show Answer5 months

123. After birth baby goat require how much time to walk?

Show Answer1 minute

124. How many stomach goats have?

Show Answer4 stomach

Baby animal trivia questions and answers

125. What is the initial weight of baby panda?

Show Answer3.5 ounce (100 grams only)

126. What we can call a newborn goat?

Show AnswerKid

127. What we can call the mother goat?

Show AnswerDoe or nanny

128. What we can call the father goat?

Show AnswerBilly Or a buck

129. What is the nickname of the Atlantic puffins

Show AnswerSea-parrots and sometimes called clown of the sea puffin

130. What is the name of the longest live freshwater fish? And what is the recorded age?

Show AnswerKoi, lived 226 years

131. Which is the loudest animal of earth?

Show AnswerBlue Whale

132. Which mammal has the thickest fur?

Show AnswerSea Otter

133. Which animal has the most powerful bite?

Show AnswerHippopotamus

134. What is the national animal of Scotland?

Show AnswerUnicorn

135. What does a group of parrots called?

Show AnswerPandemonium

136. Which sea creature can change its gender?

Show AnswerOyster

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