Animal Quiz: 18 Questions About the Animal Kingdom

Animal questions are the great leveller at a quiz night: children often beat adults, because the facts arrive early and stay. These eighteen run from the obvious to the genuinely obscure.

Easy animal questions

1. What is the largest land animal? — The African elephant
2. How many legs does a spider have? — Eight
3. Which bird is a symbol of peace? — The dove
4. What is a baby kangaroo called? — A joey
5. Which animal is known as the king of the jungle? — The lion
6. What do bees collect from flowers? — Nectar

Medium animal questions

1. What is the fastest land animal? — The cheetah
2. Which mammal can truly fly? — The bat
3. How many hearts does an octopus have? — Three
4. What is the largest animal that has ever lived? — The blue whale
5. Which bird cannot fly but can swim fastest? — The penguin
6. What is a group of lions called? — A pride

Hard animal questions

1. Which animal has the longest gestation period? — The elephant, around 22 months
2. What is the only mammal that lays eggs, besides the echidna? — The platypus
3. How many chambers does a cow’s stomach have? — Four
4. Which creature has the most teeth? — The snail, with thousands of tiny radula teeth
5. What colour is an octopus’s blood? — Blue
6. Which animal never sleeps in the way we understand it? — The bullfrog is the usual quiz answer

Watch the wording on questions like the last one — quiz answers about sleep and animals are often disputed, so agree the source before the round starts.