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Bing Animals Quiz: 15 Wildlife Questions With Answers
Wildlife photos are among the most popular images on the Bing homepage, and the quiz that goes with them usually asks about the animal's habits, habitat or records. This animals quiz has 15 questions on mammals, birds, sea creatures and insects, each with a short explanation.
Many of the answers are surprising, and that is often how the Bing Quiz catches players out.
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Pick A, B or C for each question. The right answer turns green and a short fact explains it.
All 15 questions and answers
Every question with its answer and explanation. Open “Show answer” after you guess.
1 What is the largest animal ever known to have lived?
- A Blue whale
- B Argentinosaurus
- C African elephant
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✓ Answer: A. Blue whale
Did you know? Blue whales can reach about 30 m in length and weigh around 150 tonnes or more.
2 Which is the only mammal capable of true powered flight?
- A The sugar glider
- B The bat
- C The flying squirrel
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✓ Answer: B. The bat
Did you know? Flying squirrels and sugar gliders glide, but bats flap their wings to fly.
3 What is a group of lions called?
- A A herd
- B A pride
- C A pack
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✓ Answer: B. A pride
Did you know? A pride is usually made up of related females, their cubs and a few adult males.
4 How many hearts does an octopus have?
- A One
- B Three
- C Two
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✓ Answer: B. Three
Did you know? Two hearts pump blood through the gills and one pumps it around the rest of the body.
5 Which bird lays the largest eggs?
- A Emu
- B Albatross
- C Ostrich
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✓ Answer: C. Ostrich
Did you know? An ostrich egg weighs about 1.4 kg, as much as roughly two dozen chicken eggs.
6 What do pandas mostly eat?
- A Bamboo
- B Fish
- C Fruit
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✓ Answer: A. Bamboo
Did you know? Giant pandas can spend 10 to 16 hours a day eating bamboo.
7 How do bees tell each other where to find flowers?
- A By humming
- B With the waggle dance
- C By leaving trails
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✓ Answer: B. With the waggle dance
Did you know? The angle and length of the dance give the direction and distance to the food.
8 Which animal has the longest pregnancy of any land mammal?
- A African elephant
- B Giraffe
- C Rhinoceros
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✓ Answer: A. African elephant
Did you know? An elephant pregnancy lasts about 22 months.
9 What is the fastest bird in a dive?
- A Peregrine falcon
- B Swift
- C Golden eagle
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✓ Answer: A. Peregrine falcon
Did you know? A diving peregrine falcon can exceed 300 km/h.
10 Which animal is known as the 'ship of the desert'?
- A The horse
- B The oryx
- C The camel
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✓ Answer: C. The camel
Did you know? Camels store fat, not water, in their humps and can go days without drinking.
11 What kind of animal is a Komodo dragon?
- A A snake
- B A lizard
- C A crocodile
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✓ Answer: B. A lizard
Did you know? It is the world's largest lizard and lives on a few Indonesian islands.
12 Which marine mammal uses rocks as tools to crack open shellfish?
- A The dolphin
- B The sea otter
- C The walrus
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✓ Answer: B. The sea otter
Did you know? Sea otters often float on their backs and use a rock on their chest like an anvil.
13 How many legs does a spider have?
- A Six
- B Eight
- C Ten
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✓ Answer: B. Eight
Did you know? Spiders are arachnids, not insects. Insects have six legs.
14 Which penguin species is the largest?
- A Emperor penguin
- B Adélie penguin
- C King penguin
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✓ Answer: A. Emperor penguin
Did you know? Emperor penguins can stand over 1.1 m tall and breed in the Antarctic winter.
15 What is a baby kangaroo called?
- A A joey
- B A cub
- C A kid
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✓ Answer: A. A joey
Did you know? A newborn joey is about the size of a jelly bean and crawls into its mother's pouch.
What animal questions usually ask
Animal trivia tends to fall into a few families: records (largest, fastest, longest-lived), group names (a pride of lions, a murder of crows), diets and hunting methods, and where a species lives in the wild. When the Bing homepage shows an animal, the quiz often asks about exactly these things.
For individual species we have longer quizzes: the Penguin Quiz, the Shark Quiz, the Sea Otter Quiz and the Bee Quiz.
Animals Quiz FAQ
Is this the official Bing Animals Quiz?
No. BingQuiz.net is independent and not affiliated with Microsoft. This is a free practice quiz on wildlife and animals, written by us. For the official daily quiz with Microsoft Rewards points, see today's Bing Homepage Quiz answers.
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