100 Animal Trivia Questions (with Answers!) For Kids & Adults - Parade Magazine

Are you a huge animal-lover? Then you're going to love this fun animal trivia quiz! It's a great way to test your animal trivia IQ, learn some exciting new facts, and have tons fun while you're at it. Plus, it's something you can do with people of all ages, so you can play with your family and friends at your house or in the car with kids while you're on a road trip.

How do you play? Well, we rounded up 100 animal trivia answers below. To keep you on your toes, these animal questions about mammals, reptiles, amphibians and insects run the gamut, from easy animal trivia to hard animal trivia and everything in between. By the time you are through, you'll know so many more cool animal trivia facts than when you started.

So check out these animal trivia questions below and see how many of these tricky animal Q&As you get right! You may be surprised how good you are at this game.

Animal Trivia (Mammals)

Trivia Question: Which mammal is known to have the most powerful bite in the world?
Answer: Hippopotamus

Trivia Question: What object does a male penguin often gift to a female penguin to win her over?
Answer: A pebble

Trivia Question: How long is an elephant pregnant before it gives birth?
Answer: 22 Months

Trivia Question: What are the only two mammals are the only ones known to lay eggs?
Answer: The anteater and the duck-billed platypus

Trivia Question: Why are flamingos pink?
Answer: Because of their diet of algae, shrimps and crustaceans

Trivia Question: A dog sweats through which part of its body?
Answer: Its paws

Trivia Question: What is the size of a newborn kangaroo?
Answer: 1 inch

Trivia Question: How far away can a wolf smell its prey?
Answer: Almost 2 miles

Trivia Question: Which animal is known to spend 90% of its day, sleeping?
Answer: Koalas

Trivia Question: What color is the tongue of a giraffe?
Answer:  Purple

Trivia Question: Which animal's stripes are on their skin as well as their fur?
Answer: Tiger

Trivia Question:  Which animal's poop is known to take the shape of cubes?
Answer: Wombat

Trivia Question: Under their white fur, what color is a polar bear's skin?
Answer: Black

Trivia Question: How many compartments are in a cow's stomach?
Answer: Four

Trivia Question: How long does it take a sloth to digest a meal?
Answer: Two weeks

Trivia Question: What is the name of the fastest land animal?
Answer: Cheetah

Trivia Question: A baby goat is called what?
Answer: Kid
 
Trivia Question: What's the only mammal that's able to fly?
Answer: Bat

Trivia Question: What's a group of kittens called?
Answer: Kindle

Trivia Question: What are the horns of a rhinoceros made of?
Answer: Hair

Trivia Question: How many humps does a Bactrian camel have?
Answer: Two

Trivia Question: What name is given to a female deer?
Answer: Doe

Trivia Question: How do sea otters keep from drifting apart while they sleep?
Answer: They hold hands

Trivia Question: What animal is known by the nickname "sea cow?"
Answer: Manatees

Trivia Question: What animal is said to have 9 lives?
Answer: Cat

Trivia Question: What is the only mammals that can't jump?
Answer: Elephant

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Trivia Question: What animal is the largest mammal in the world?
Answer: Blue Whale

Trivia Question: What animal eats mainly bamboo?
Answer: Panda

Trivia Question: What animal is known to be 'man's best friend'?
Answer: Dog

Trivia Question: Which animal can stand on its tail?
Answer: Kangaroo

Trivia Question: Which animal is the tallest in the world?
Answer: Giraffe

Trivia Question: How far can a skunk spray?
Answer: 10 feet

Trivia Question: What animal is covered in quills?
Answer: Porcupine

Trivia Question: A Pomsky is a mixture of what two dog breeds?
Answer: Pomeranian and Siberian Husky

Animal Trivia (Reptiles)

Trivia Question: What kind of turtle can't retract into its shell?
Answer: Sea turtle

Trivia Question: What kind of animal is a Komodo dragon?
Answer: A Lizard

Trivia Question: What does a snake shed a few times a year?
Answer: Its skin

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Trivia Question: Which animal can move its eyes independently?
Answer:  A chameleon

Trivia Question: What animal breathes out of its butt?
Answer: Turtles

Trivia Question: How many layers of skin does a chameleon have?
Answer: Four

Trivia Question: What do snakes use to smell?
Answer: Their tongue

Trivia Question: The king cobra is also called what?
Answer: The hamadryad

Trivia Question: Where do a tortoise lay its eggs?
Answer: In a hole in the ground

Trivia Question: What feature is visibly different between alligators and crocodiles?
Answer: Their snout

Trivia Question: Are most reptiles cold-blooded or warm-blooded?
Answer: Cold-blooded

Trivia Question: What's the name of the largest snake in the world?
Answer: Anaconda

Trivia Question: What type of reptiles are leatherbacks and ridleys?
Answer: Turtles

Trivia Question: What reptile is known for the ability to change its body color?
Answer: Chameleon

Trivia Question: What type of reptile can detach their tails when they are in danger and then regrow it?
Answer: Lizards

Trivia Question: The top of the turtle's shell is called what?
Answer: Carapace

Animal Trivia (Amphibians)

Trivia Question: Why do poison dart frogs often have very brightly colored skin?
Answer: To warn predators that they are dangerous

Trivia Question: Nearly all amphibians undergo a significant change from infancy to adulthood called what?
Answer: Metamorphosis

Trivia Question: Why do frogs croak?
Answer: To attract a mate

Trivia Question: What covers tree frogs' toes to help them climb and hang upside down?
Answer: Sticky mucus

Trivia Question: What's the maximum amount of time Alaskan wood frogs can survive being frozen?
Answer: Seven months

Trivia Question: The larvae stage of a frog is called what?
Answer: Tadpole

Trivia Question: What's the largest type of frog?
Answer: Goliath frog

Trivia Question: Do frogs lay eggs?
Answer: Yes

Trivia Question: Do axolotls live in the water or on land?
Answer: In the water

Trivia Question: Which amphibian has a tail?
Answer: Salamanders

Trivia Question: How many groups of amphibians are there?
Answer: Three

Trivia Question: A wart-covered amphibian with leathery skin is a what?
Answer: Toad

Trivia Question: What's the name of the frog that has translucent skin, so you can see its internal organs, bones and muscles through its skin?
Answer: A glass frog

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Trivia Question: The dusky gopher frog is also referred to as?
Answer: The Mississippi gopher frog

Trivia Question: If you see a dancing frog, it's likely to be:
Answer: Trying to impress a mate

Trivia Question: If you see a dancing frog, it's likely to be:
Answer: Trying to attract its mate

Trivia Question: What's a group of frogs called?
Answer: An army, colony or a knot

Trivia Question: Are frogs more active during the day or at night?
Answer: At night

Trivia Question: How far can frogs jump?
Answer: They can jump over 20 times their own body length

Trivia Question: What's the most poisonous frog on Earth?
Answer: The golden dart frog

Trivia Question: What do you call a frog's ears?
Answer: Tympanums

Animal Trivia (Insects)

Trivia Question: Where are a cricket's ears located?
Answer: On their legs

Trivia Question: Which butterfly migrates?
Answer: Monarchs

Trivia Question: How much weight can ants lift?
Answer: 5,000 times their own body weight.

Trivia Question: What color are elephant hawk-moths?
Answer: Pink

Trivia Question: How are an insect's eyes different from human eyes?
Answer: They are made up of thousands of tiny lenses

Trivia Question: How many eyes do caterpillars have?
Answer: Twelve

Trivia Question: What's the largest group of insects?
Answer: Beetles

Trivia Question: What's a newly hatched butterfly called?
Answer: Caterpillar

Trivia Question: How many legs do cockroaches have?
Answer: Six

Trivia Question: Fireflies are also known by what name?
Answer: Lightning bug

Trivia Question: How long does the average housefly live for?
Answer: 28 days

Trivia Question: What is the only insect that can turn its head?
Answer: Praying mantis

Trivia Question: Which type of insect produces a special kind of fabric?
Answer: Silkworm moth

Trivia Question: How fast do a bee's wings beat a second?
Answer: 190 times a second

Trivia Question: How long have dragonflies been on Earth?
Answer: 300 million years

Trivia Question: What is the loudest insect in the world?
Answer: Cicada

Trivia Question: What insect was the first living creature to be sent into space?
Answer: Fruit flies

Trivia Question: How much weight can a horned dung beetle pull?
Answer: 1141 times its own body weight

Trivia Question: How many different species of ladybugs are there?
Answer: 5,000

Trivia Question: How fast can Dracula ants move?
Answer: 90 meters per second

Trivia Question: How many babies can a German cockroach produce in one year?
Answer: 30,000

Trivia Question: What is the smallest known insect?
Answer: Fairyflies

Trivia Question: What are the three body parts of an insect called?
Answer: The head, thorax and abdomen

Trivia Question: Which ant has the most painful sting?
Answer: Bullet ant

Trivia Question: How many stages of metamorphosis do most insects go through?
Answer: Four

Trivia Question: How do some female dragonflies avoid mating with undesirable males?
Answer: They play dead

Trivia Question: What part of its body does a butterfly taste with?
Answer: Their feet

Trivia Question: How many flowers do honey bees have to visit in order to make one pound of honey?
Answer: 2 million

Trivia Question: Why do crickets rub their wings together?
Answer: To attract a mate

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