Animals Flashcards
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| Avoid the sting as you tell us that un’ape is this insect
the bee
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| If you’re called un asino, you’re either a fool, or this animal
a donkey
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| That’s the scariest ragno, one of these, I’ve ever seen! Don’t tell Signorina Muffet
a spider
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| Un cane is this; ready for walkies?
a dog
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| It really gets me that una capra is one of these farm animals
a goat
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS ||| Pongo & Missis: This breed that lives with Mr. & Mrs. Dearly
Dalmatians
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS ||| Aslan: This majestic creature in Narnia
a lion
$1200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS ||| Stellaluna: The fruit type of this mammal
a bat
$1600 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS ||| Rikki-Tikki-Tavi: This creature that saves his family
a mongoose
$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN CHILDREN’S BOOKS ||| Mr. Jeremy Fisher: This critter, living at the edge of a pond in a Beatrix Potter tale
a frog
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MOVIES? ||| This 2002 movie starred Eminem as Rabbit
8 Mile
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MOVIES? ||| He played Gator McKlusky in “White Lightning” as well as in “Gator”
Burt Reynolds
$1200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MOVIES? ||| In this film Denzel Washington is a ’40s detective whose muscle is named Mouse
Devil in a Blue Dress
$1600 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MOVIES? ||| Jon Cryer’s aquatic name in “Pretty in Pink”
Duckie
$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MOVIES? ||| Tim Matheson’s aquatic name in “Animal House”
Otter
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| La cebra
the zebra
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| La vaca
a cow
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| El puerco
a pig
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| El escarabajo
a scarab beetle
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| El zorro
fox
$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Because of the requirements in pumping blood to its brain, it has the highest blood pressure of any living animal
the giraffe
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| Buggy’s partner: caballo
horse
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| A popular pet: gato
cat
$1200 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| Langosta (with butter, yum!)
lobster
$1600 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| An arctic dweller: oso blanco
a polar bear
$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| A provider of meat: venado
deer
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| Don’t be afraid–this animal is a pollo
a chicken
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| This animal, gatto, got your lingua?
a cat
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| Who scared the puzzola, this animal? Now we’ll never get rid of the smell
a skunk
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| If you want to win on “Jeopardy!”, don’t be as quiet as a topo, one of these
a mouse
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN ITALIAN ||| After all the gelato, I feel as big as a balena, one of these
a whale
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Facial feature mentioned in the longer version of the platypus’ name
duck bill
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A female bullfrog may lay 10,000 eggs that hatch into these, which may take 2 years to grow into bullfrogs
tadpoles
$1200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This “monster” is the largest lizard native to the U.S.
a Gila monster
$1600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Newborn raccoons lack the familiar tail rings & this famous facial feature
the mask
$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| One variety of the white-tailed species of this lives in the Florida Keys & weighs only 50 to 75 pounds
a deer
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ALOFT ||| Animals first went aloft in 1783, when the Montgolfier Bros. sent a sheep, a duck & a rooster up in one of these
a balloon
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ALOFT ||| Before airborne wireless equipment, these animals were hurled from planes with messages attached
pigeons
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ALOFT ||| In the 1940s this singing cowboy took his animal co-star Champion on airplane flights
Gene Autry
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ALOFT ||| This German WWI flying ace flew with his Great Dane puppy until it became too big
the Red Baron
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ALOFT ||| As part of a 1940s Arctic search & rescue unit, these team animals were parachuted in to help rescue downed pilots
huskies (or malamutes)
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| Found in water: cocodrilo
a crocodile
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| 8-legged: araña
a spider
$1200 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| Toro (‘nuff said)
a bull
$1600 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| A reptile: tortuga
a tortoise
$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS EN ESPAÑOL ||| A bird: paloma
a dove
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| One in every 6 known bird species makes its home in this rainforest
the Amazon
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Sputniks 5, 6, 9 & 10 also carried these animals into space, & most were recovered alive
dogs
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Got one of these odorous animals also known as a polecat as a pet? Call your humane society to make sure it’s legal
a skunk
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Critters of the Pleistocene epoch include the mammoth & this “breast tooth” relative
mastodon
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| “Dachs”, as in “Dachshund”, is German for this burrowing animal
the badger
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The laughing type of this doglike carnivore is a predator of big game but also scavanges for food
a hyena
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In classification, this type of bird seen <a>here</a> often overlaps with doves
a pigeon
$1200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This five-letter eel known for its sharp teeth lurks in the holes of a coral reef & will attack divers if disturbed
a moray
$1600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| What else is gnu, but that the gnu is also called this, from Dutch words
wildebeest
$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Its German name is Nilpferd, “nile horse”
a hippopotamus
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Muskrats & woodrats belong to this order of mammals
rodents
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Venus’s flower basket is one of the most attractive of these porous aquatic creatures
a sponge
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This feisty Thai fish blows sticky bubbles to make a nest, then puts the eggs in its mouth & blows them in the nest
fighting fish
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Australians call this animal a jumbuck or a monkey
sheep
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Fruit & lizards (yum!) are favorite foods of the coati, also known by this longer name
coatimundi
$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| For 2006, between Oct. 25 & Nov. 1, the Los Angeles SPCA, like many other shelters, banned adoption of these
black cats
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN JEOPARDY ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew visits with the bison at the Catalina Island Conservancy.</a>) Catalina can’t support large numbers of bison, so in 2004, about 100 of them were repatrioted to their ancestral home in this Mt. Rushmore state
South Dakota
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN JEOPARDY ||| Amsterdam Island in the Indian Ocean, 1,800 mi. from any cont., has a rare type of this wandering seabird
the albatross
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN JEOPARDY ||| We hope the endangered Carolina Northern “flying” species of this rodent keeps on flying
a squirrel
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN JEOPARDY ||| Steller’s sea cow was extinct by 1768; Stellar’s sea this animal is hanging tough
a sea lion
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN JEOPARDY ||| South America’s woolly spider type of this has a rudimentary or no thumb & a badly fragmented habitat
a monkey
$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The genus of this Asian animal is Ailuropoda, & its species name, appropriately, is melanoleuca
the giant panda
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| This knight errant’s steed in Rocinante, a draft horse originally belonging to his neighbor
Don Quixote
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| He lost his shoes & new jacket when Mr. McGregor chased him out of the vegetable garden
Peter Rabbit
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| Representing Leon Trotsky, Snowball, a pig in this novel, is exiled by the ruthless Napoleon
Animal Farm
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| In C.S. Lewis’ “The Last Battle”, this lion destroyed evil-ridden Narnia & guided the faithful to the next world
Aslan
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| This ursine character was discovered by Mr. & Mrs. Brown in London
Paddington Bear
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| It’s the only Asian great ape
the orangutan
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| It’s what an archerfish shoots to bring down insects
water
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This predator that comes in gray and red types is a bit camera-shy, but its tracks are seen <a>here</a>
the wolf
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A traditional sign of spring in England is a letter to the Times saying, I heard this “crazy” bird’s call
a cuckoo
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew appears from the USC Wrigley Institute on Catalina Island, CA.</a>) Though thriving now, Catalina Island foxes were threatened in the ’90s by the infectious disease marked by fever & catarrh known as canine this
distemper
$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The world’s largest invertebrate, it plays a prominent part in an 1870 French novel & a 1954 film
the giant squid
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This bird’s whooping call is said to carry 2 miles, & its courtship displays include a leaping dance
whooping crane
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew poses next to a cow at Old World, Wisconsin.</a>) This is the name of a cow that is less than 3 years old that hasn’t given birth; Zeus turned Io into a white one
a heifer
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| We’d like to see David Blaine vs. this flightless bird in a breath-holding contest (some can go 22 min. underwater)
penguin
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This “demonic” marsupial is extinct from the Aussie mainland but still lives close by
Tasmanian devil
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the monkey house.</a>) For extra resonance, howler monkeys have an enlarged structure at the top of this, also known as the trachea
windpipe
$1200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the shark tank.</a>) Unlike most other fish, <a>sharks</a> don’t have bones; their skeleton is made up of this tough, flexible tissue.
cartilage
$1600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| (<a>Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the penguin habitat.</a>) The smallest of all penguins, the little blue is the only one native to this continent where it is sometimes called the fairy penguin
Australia
$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| (<a>Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports.</a>) Inside zoos, the aim is to increase the population; outside the zoos, the declining number of orangutans are found only on these two Indonesian islands
Borneo and Sumatra
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE CHINESE CALENDAR ||| 1900: It’s slang for an informer
a rat
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE CHINESE CALENDAR ||| 1965: A wirepuller, or a treacherous person, as in “a low-down, dirty…”
a snake
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE CHINESE CALENDAR ||| 1940: A Tom Clancy novel in 2000 was called “The Bear and” this beast
the Dragon
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE CHINESE CALENDAR ||| 1980: Proverbially, you can have one of these on your back, or make one of these out of someone
a monkey
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| On the squirrel monkey of South America, this may be 16 inches long
the tail
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Animal that was the main staple of the Plains Indians economy
buffalo
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The bulls of this tusked aquatic mammal also known as the morse may weigh over 3,000 pounds
the walrus
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| While on safari in Africa, your guide may point out a dik-dik, a small one of these animals
an antelope
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Type of squirrel that has a thin, extending membrane called a patagium
a flying squirrel
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A type of cricket that mainly lives underground is named for this tiny-eyed mammal
a mole
$1200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The male redback type of this creature, 1/3 the size of the female, dies happy if you know what I mean
a spider
$1600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Newborn gazelles are a favorite prey of the black-backed species of this canine
the jackal
$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| One of Gerald Durell’s nature books is called “Catch Me” this type of monkey, seen <a>here</a>
a colobus
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Its legs are 6 feet long & its neck can be even longer
a giraffe
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Bactrian & dromedary are the 2 main types of this desert creature
a camel
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The percheron & the palomino are types of this
a horse
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The rabbit seen <a>here</a> has this name after one of its features
cottontail
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Pythons are oviparous, meaning they do this
lay eggs
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In a children’s tale, Jack traded one of these barnyard animals for some magic beans
cow
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Yipes Stripes! The Grevy species of this was named for a president of France
zebra
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In an aardvark these are diiferent from yours; they have no enamel
teeth
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| “The Encyclopedia of Mammals” calls it the most heavily armored mammal alive today
armadillo
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Alaska) The name of this raptor comes from a word meaning “to grasp”
hawk
$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Camelus, the genus name of camels, is also the species name of these birds
ostriches
$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Odobenus, the genus name of this animal, comes from the Greek for “one who walks with his teeth”
walrus
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| Squealer, this type of “Animal Farm” animal, gets so fat he can barely see
pig
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| Karait is a little one of these killed by Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
snake
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| Dinah, the name of a real cat that belonged to the Liddell children, is the cat of this fictional girl
Alice (of “Alice in Wonderland”)
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| An underpaid teacher, this Washington Irving character rides the half-blind, broken-down horse Gunpowder
Ichabod Crane
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| Blake asks, “And was” this holy animal “of God on England’s pleasant pastures seen?”
lamb
$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| What the Germans call a Bambusbar, we generally call this
a panda bear
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The fact that this lizard’s name is from the Greek for “ground lion” never changes
chameleon
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the San Diego Zoo.</a>) A giraffe’s tail, which is about 3 feet long, is used to swat this bloodsucking fly that causes sleeping sickness
tsetse fly
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The suni, a small one of these graceful African mammals, is barely 15 inches high
antelope
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The common type of this marsupial has coarse, thick fur while that of the hairy-nosed is short & silky
wombat
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| (<a>Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the L.A. County Natural History Museum.</a>) This sea mammal, whose skull is seen <a>here</a>, has a spiral tusk that keeps <a>growing</a> & <a>growing</a> & <a>growing</a>… & <a>growing</a> & <a>growing</a>
the narwhal
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ROCK ||| The first name of this “Hit the Road Jack” singer is also a broad, flat fish
Ray (Charles)
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ROCK ||| Pinnipeds who barked out “Summer Breeze” with Crofts
(Jim) Seals
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ROCK ||| Feline singer followed by a “Moon Shadow”
Cat Stevens
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ROCK ||| Vixen who found “Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)”
Samantha Fox
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ROCK ||| Leader of The Starliters who did the “Peppermint Twist” in his mother’s pouch
Joey Dee
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| It’s the common term for the young of a whale as well as a cow
Calf
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Of a wild dog, a rabbit or a bird, what a jackdaw is
Bird
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This civet relative not only kills cobras but mice, rats & poultry as well
Mongoose
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These mollusks, not oysters, are the most common source for freshwater pearls
Mussels
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| “Euell” be glad to know these small apes are the only ones to habitually walk erect
Gibbons
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS OF BASEBALL ||| You wouldn’t let the Phillies’ Greg Luzinski, nicknamed this, into your China shop
“Bull”
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS OF BASEBALL ||| Large deer that was the nickname of first baseman William Skowron
moose
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS OF BASEBALL ||| Dodger Ron Cey’s waddling gait earned him this handle
“The Penguin”
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS OF BASEBALL ||| This ’70s Tigers pitcher known for talking to the ball was nicknamed “The Bird”
Mark Fidrych
$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The German name for this animal is nilpferd, or “Nile horse”
hippopotamus
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| All but one of the domesticated breeds of this animal are derived from the mallard
Duck
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The screech type of this creature may make its nest in a Saguaro cactus
Owl
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Weddell species of this animal can stay underwater for over an hour
Seal
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Similar to a wattle, it’s the throat flap of Zebu cattle or the mole anole lizard
Dewlap
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Dingoes go after these burrowing marsupials that come in a common & a hairy-nosed type
Wombats
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The beak of this flightless bird of Antarctica can be black, red, orange or bright purple
penguin
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Buckskin was originally made from the mule & white-tailed species of this ungulate
deer
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A species of this insect, Apidae bumbus, ranges from above the Arctic Circle to as far south as Tierra del Fuego
bumblebee
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In a boon to lab research, in 1956 it was found that this “golden” rodent could be infected with the common cold
hamster
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This flightless South American bird often associates with guanacos, forming mixed herds
rhea
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| Ratatosk, a messenger of Norse myth, was one of these animals & ran up & down Yggdrasil, a giant tree
Squirrel
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| If Romulus did a “Got Milk?” ad, he’d talk about this animal who suckled him & Remus
Wolf
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| In Incan myth, it was this South American camel relative that warned man about the impending flood
Llama
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| The Zuni believe that when the kachina Paiyatemu played the flute, these insects fluttered into existence
Butterflies
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| Island on which Theseus slew the Minotaur
Crete
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN SHOWBIZ ||| Wilbur was the only human this horse would talk to in person
Mr. Ed
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN SHOWBIZ ||| Perhaps the world’s only spokesfish, he swims in Starkist ads
Charlie the Tuna
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN SHOWBIZ ||| Clint Eastwood appeared in the sixth film about this big screen equine in 1955
Francis the Talking Mule
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN SHOWBIZ ||| A cockatoo named Fred was this TV cop’s companion
Baretta
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN SHOWBIZ ||| He was the Little Rascals’ dog
Pete the Pup
$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| There are only 3 of these animals in U.S. zoos: a 28-year-old in D.C.’s National Zoo & 2 younger ones in San Diego
pandas
$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Coronado’s men found them bearded like a goat, woolly like a sheep & with a hump larger than a camel’s
Bison (of North America)
$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This animal’s name is from Bantu for “mock man”
Chimpanzee
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The monkey-eating species of this bird lives in the Philippines; the bald species lives in the U.S.
the eagle
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These birds range in size from the 1-foot blue to the 4-foot emperor
the penguin
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Group of mammals seen <a>here</a>: [like Timon in <i>The Lion King</i>]
meerkats
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| It has webbed, padded toes & can drink over 20 gallons of water in a single drink
the camel
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This land animal can weigh more than 8,000 pounds & can open its immense jaws 150 degrees
the hippopotamus
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This Arctic bear may travel 40 miles a day on ice floes
Polar bear
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In the mountain “mist” of central & w. Africa you can still find a few of these endangered mammals
Gorillas
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In 1961 a federal law banned the importation of this South American fish into the U.S.
Piranha
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Western Hemisphere’s largest snake, it’s also called a water boa
Anaconda
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| It’s New York State’s “City of Good Neighbors”, not its “City of Good Bison”
Buffalo
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| This North Carolina beach village with a 4-letter name really is all it’s “quacked” up to be
Duck
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| A 4,083-foot-high Vermont mountain is named for this camel feature
a hump
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| In other words, this vacation area in California’s San Bernardino Mountains would be “Large Grizzly”
Big Bear
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| This river winds its way through Hells Canyon
Snake River
$None ||| Category: ANIMALS OF THE NEW WORLD ||| Explorer Cabeza de Vaca wrote about this “Animal with a pocket on its belly, in which it carries its young”
Opossum/possum
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Among bears, this is the best swimmer
Polar bear
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The jackrabbit isn’t really a rabbit but one of these relatives
Hare
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Like this similarly named mammal, the aardwolf eats mainly termites
Aardvark
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Viceroy type of this insect is protected by its resemblance to the bad-tasting Monarch
Butterfly
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| There are 3 species of bluebird but over 20 of these birds, including grackles
Blackbirds
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| On a turtle, it’s made up of a carapace & plastron
Shell
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Only gorillas & these other primates walk on their knuckles
Chimpanzees
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Sapsuckers are a type of these birds that extract insects from trees by strokes of their bills
Woodpeckers
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Biologist Johannes Schmidt located the Sargasso Sea breeding area of this “elongated” freshwater fish
Eel
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These small, slender mammals often kept as pets were domesticated from the European polecat
Ferrets
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In a matter of minutes, a school of these South American fish can reduce a large mammal to a skeleton
Piranha
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A popular performer at aquariums, this dolphin is named for the shape of its snout
Bottlenose dolphin
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These swift felines of Africa & Asia are also known as “hunting leopards”
Cheetahs
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The name of this graceful antelope may remind you of a classic Chevy
Impala
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These Arctic rodents famous for their mass migrations are a favorite food of the snowy owl
Lemmings
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| When threatened, the crested one of these erects & rattles its quills
Porcupine
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Some Arabs believe the eggshells of these tallest birds are magical & use them to repel lightning
Ostriches
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The honey possum, a tiny marsupial, feeds on this sweet liquid, a favorite of hummingbirds
Nectar
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The pocket gopher uses this almost hairless appendage as a sense organ to feel its way in the dark
Tail
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| As its name implies, the geochelone elephantopus of the Galapagos is a really big one of these
Tortoise
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This lizard of the Southwest is the USA’s largest poisonous lizard
Gila Monster
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| It’s the only living mammal in the order Proboseidea
Elephant
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This mollusk, also called a devilfish, may inject a poison to paralyze prey
Octopus
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The fur of this aquatic rodent has been sold as “Hudson Seal”
Muskrat
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A toad named for this small South American country carries its eggs on the skin of its back
Suriname
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Most of the quills on the thin-spined species of this rodent are on its head
the porcupine
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| 1 of only 2 species of eagle to breed in the U.S. & Canada
the golden eagle (or the bald eagle)
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The ornate chorus species of these tailless amphibians are less than 2” in length
frogs
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The siamang of Sumatra & Malaysia is the largest type of this smallest ape
a gibbon
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This largest toothed whale is also called a cachalot
the sperm whale
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In 1956 it was discovered that hamsters could be infected with this “common” human malady
the common cold
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Many American breeds of this animal, like the rambouillet, are raised more for their fleece than for meat
sheep
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This crab’s habit of waving its big claw gave it a musical name
the fiddler crab
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In 1996 158 of these endangered marine mammals died in a red tide of toxic algae in Florida
manatees
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Canadian government has blamed the decline of this Atlantic food fish partly on the harp seal
the cod
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A female sheep is called a ewe; this term refers to a male sheep
Ram
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Receptors on the bill of this duckbilled mammal can detect electric fields which guide it to its prey
Platypus
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The name of this large rodent is from the middle French for “pig with spines”
Porcupine
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Quagga is a South African name for the Burchell’s species of this horse relative
Zebra
$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Weighing around a ton, the eland is the largest species of this animal in Africa
Antelope
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This extremely venomous snake, the largest of the mambas, is green when young
black mamba
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Beluga type of this fish may weigh over 2,800 pounds
Sturgeon
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Tiny crustaceans are a favorite food of this wading bird with an eating utensil in its name
spoonbill
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This lapdog associated with a Mediterranean island was highly prized by ladies of the Elizabethan court
Maltese
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Native to Asia Minor, the “golden” type of this chubby-cheeked rodent is a popular pet
hamster
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Unlike other species of this polar bird, the emperor breeds in the winter months of May & June
Penguin
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The “rainbow” on this fish is a band of red on each of its sides
Trout
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This pigeon relative is named for its sad cooing sound
Mourning dove
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The “black” species of this large horned mammal can grasp twigs with its upper lip
Rhinoceros
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This colorful eagle is unpopular with U.S. sheep ranchers because it preys on rams
Golden eagle
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Sadly, this “giant” bearlike mammal of China is on the endangered list
Giant panda
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Among the largest flying birds are the California & Andean species of these
Condor
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This domesticated pack animal & its relative the alpaca were referred to as Peruvian sheep by the Spanish
Llama
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The AKC classifies the miniature schnauzer as a breed within this dog group
Terrier
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Related to corals, this sea creature has been described as “the best known of the so-called flower animals”
Sea anemone
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The largemouth species of this fish has a dark band along its side; the smallmouth species does not
Bass
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The giraffe is the world’s tallest mammal; this is the second tallest
Elephant
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Unlike wolves, this “prairie wolf” has expanded its range in this century
Coyote
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Phoenicians used a liquid from several species of this gastropod to make Tyrian purple dye
Snail
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This large South American rodent is also called a water pig
Capybara
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Tiger Swallowtail & Zebra Swallowtail are species of this insect
Butterfly
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These medicinal worms were once used to treat headaches & mental illnesses
Leeches
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This rodent in the genus Neotoma is named for its habit of hoarding small objects
Pack rat
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Also called a warrigal, this wild dog is one of the few nonmarsupial mammals of Australia
Dingo
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This catlike carnivore of Africa is valued for its musk
Civet
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This Arctic bear’s feet are webbed & have hairy soles
Polar bear
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Large feral populations of the “mute” species of this long-necked bird inhabit the Mid-Atlantic coast
Swans
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The silver dollar fish resembles this feared fish of the Amazon basin but is strictly herbivorous
Piranha
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A pocket gopher’s pockets are fur-lined & located in these
Cheeks
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Scientists divide these toothless whales into 3 groups: right whales, gray whales & rorquals
Baleen whales
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The African rain forests are the natural habitat of these largest apes
Gorillas
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The red kangaroo is among the largest of these pouched mammals
Marsupials
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| One of these mammals that inhabits the East Indies has a wingspan of over 5 1/2 feet
Bat
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This spiny relative of the starfish is sometimes referred to as a sea hedgehog
Sea Urchin
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This largest wild cat of the Americas looks similar to a leopard
Jaguar
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| World Book says this type of bear has been seen on ice chunks as far south as the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Polar Bear
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The largest freshwater species of this reptile in the U.S. is the alligator snapper
Turtle
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The largest species of this American marsupial is the common or Virginia species
Possum
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This ground squirrel is distinguished from others by its striped face
Chipmunk
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The largest & heaviest New World monkey, its characteristic roar can be heard for about 2 miles
Howler Monkey
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| If a weasel pops by for lunch in the cold winter, you’ll notice its coat is this color
White
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Dabbling types of these include the pintail & teal
Ducks
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The word mouse is from a Sanskrit word for this, because they stole people’s food
Thief
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| If you spot several servals slinking south of the Sahara, you’ll see slender types of these animals
Cats
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Found in all oceans, they have the widest distribution of any whale & use echolocation to hunt
Orcas/Killer Whales
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| With hind legs reaching up to 10 inches, it’s the largest frog in the U.S.
Bullfrog
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This cobra killer was introduced into the Western Hemisphere to kill rats but has done more harm to birds
Mongoose
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Species of this mammal living in South America include 6-banded, 3-banded & giant
Armadillo
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The name of this primate confined to Madagascar & the Comoros is from the Latin for “nocturnal spirits”
Lemur
$2000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The macabou type of this bird may have a wingspan greater than 9 feet
Stork
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Asia’s only lions live in Gir Forest, about 200 miles northwest of Bombay in this country
India
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The sting family of this fish has sharp poisonous dorsal spines near the tail
Ray
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Australia has over 300 species of these animals, including skinks, geckos & giant goannas
Lizards
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This dark fluid is secreted by cuttlefish & other cephalopods
Ink
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Named for the texture of its shells, it’s the largest living turtle
Leatherback
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The silky & Yorkshire are toy breeds of this dog
Terrier
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Perhaps referring to its erratic behavior, the gnu is also called this
Wildebeest
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The 2 popular breeds of dairy cattle named for Britain’s 2 largest Channel Islands
Jersey & Guernsey
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Up to 50 feet in length, the whale species of this fish is the largest in the sea
Shark
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In summer, when its coat is brown, the ermine is referred to by this name
Stoat/Weasel
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The largest of the seals is named for this largest land animal
Elephant Seal
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| 1 of 2 egg-laying mammals of Australia
Duck-billed Platypus & Echidna
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The hide of this wild Tibetan ox is used for leather, & it’s flesh is used for food
Yak
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| With its single-twisted horn, it’s known as “the unicorn of the whale family”
Narwhal
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This fish, named for its ability to breathe out of water, can drown if held underwater
Lungfish
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Lizards & these creatures, like pythons & cobras, make up the largest group of reptiles
Snakes
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Acacia leaves are the favorite food of this tallest mammal
Giraffe
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Found chiefly in Australia, the wallaby is a smaller type of this marsupial
Kangaroo
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A white whale & a large white sturgeon prized for its caviar share this name
Beluga
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These performing horses trained at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna are bred elsewhere for farmwork
Lipizzaner Stallions
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Like the falcon or hawk, the shrike is classified as a bird of this
Prey
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Almost 99% of a jellyfish’s body is made of this substance
Water
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The marine types of these have flattish carapaces & their limbs have evolved into flippers
Turtles
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A bee is said to do this at the hive to show the other bees the direction & distance to a food source
Dance
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| It’s the proper name for the Australian animal some call the spiny anteater
Echidna
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This continent is home to both pacas & alpacas
South America
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| One of these chilopoda arthropods has as many as 177 pairs of legs; most have 15 to 23 pairs
Centipede
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A female one of the gypsy species of this insect can lay over 1,000 eggs at one time
Moth
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| To count a pair of these carnivorous sea snails, say “A-one-an-a-two”
Whelks
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The domestic one of these evolved from the mouflon & urial
Sheep
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| In 1620 the Pilgrims first landed in the New World on this peninsula & that’s no fish story
Cape Cod
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| It’s the Canadian partner of the American falls
Horseshoe Falls
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| This island group in the north Atlantic makes up 2 Spanish provinces
Canary Islands
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| Painters in the Hudson River School featured this mountain range in many of their works
Catskills
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ON THE MAP ||| Named for the largest deer, this Saskatchewan city has the largest Canadian forces jet-pilot training base
Moose Jaw
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Rattlesnakes belong to the pit group of this snake family
vipers
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The silvery blue, the spring azure & the common oakblue are blue-winged types of this beautiful insect
butterfly
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This tall bird whose scientific name is Struthio camelus is nicknamed the camel bird
ostrich
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Patagonian cavy, which resembles a hare, belongs to this order of mammals
rodents
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Found in Africa, the colobus type of this mammal often has distinctive black & white fur
monkey
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| LIke other male bovines, adult male yaks are called these
Bulls
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A hinny has an ass for a mother & one of these animals for a father
Horse
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| To escape predators, many lizards break off this body part; it later regenerates
Tail
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These stinging arachnids give birth to live young which cling to their mother’s backs for several days
Scorpions
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| This bear-like carnivore, a large member of the weasel family, is also known as the glutton
Wolverine
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| Zeus became Leda’s lover while disguised as one of these birds
swan
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| The nymph Callisto was turned into one of these animals, then placed in the sky as Ursa Major
bear
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| Odin gallops across the sky on one of these called Sleipnir, whose teeth are inscribed with runes
horse
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| Echidna, who was half woman & half serpent, had many beastly children, including this Nemean beast
the Lion
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN MYTHOLOGY ||| He’s the 3-headed hound of Hades
Cerberus
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In the marsupial mole, hearing & this sense are poorly developed
Sight
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In the mistaken belief that it washes its food, it was given the scientific name lotor, meaning “washer”
Raccoon
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Indian species of this cobra killer can be tamed when young
Mongoose
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In this type of crab, the male has a large claw & waves it like a violinist’s bow
Fiddler crab
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Extinct for hundreds of years, the elephant bird weighed 1,000 pounds & lived on this east African island
Madagascar
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A young kangaroo rides around in this until it’s big enough to take care of itself
pouch
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Silky & Yorkshire breeds of this dog are classified as toys
Terriers
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These small ponies named for Scottish islands formerly pulled carts in coal mines
Shetland
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Quinnat is another name for the Chinook species of this fish
salmon
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The red-spotted type of this salamander is one of the most common in the U.S.
newt
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| Russell, a fox, appears in “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” of this Chaucer work
The Canterbury Tales
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| In “The Jungle Book” Raksha, this type of animal, suckles the infant Mowgli
a wolf
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| In “The Sign of Four” this sleuth employs Toby the dog to track 2 fugitives
Sherlock Holmes
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| He wrote of a cross-country trek with a poodle in “Travels with Charley”
John Steinbeck
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| Kiche is the mother of this title character of a Jack London tale
White Fang
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Like its giant relative, the lesser variety of this is also a bamboo eater
Panda
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The macropis rufus; it can lean back on its tail to free its hind feet for use as weapons
Kangaroo
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A few of these large bovines still exist in the wild in Tibet at elevations over 14,000 feet
Yak
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| An elephant has 5 toes on a front foot & a camel has this many
2
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| They’re the tallest North American birds
Whooping Cranes
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The crab-eating one of these masked animals eats fish, fruit & frogs, too
raccoons
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Found in this state’s Keys, the Key Deer is only about 2 1/2 feet tall
Florida
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Mason, miner & killer are 3 types of these insects
bees
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The adjective feliform describes anything that resembles one of these animals
cat
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Koalas & kangaroos belong to this order of mammals known for poorly developed young
marsupials
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The robber crab is known for climbing palms to feed on these
Coconuts
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The part of the male lyrebird that’s shaped like a lyre
Tail
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The flying fox isn’t a type of fox, but a type of this
Bat
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In 1921 Banting & Best controlled diabetes in these animals with insulin; man came later
Dogs
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| After losing her own baby, Kala the ape adopted & raised this human infant
Tarzan
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| This first sister of Peter Rabbit married Benjamin Bunny
Flopsy
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| Reynard, the hero of a popular Medieval epic, was this type of animal
a fox
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| In Goethe’s version of the story, this character first appears to Faust as a dog
the Devil (Mephistopheles)
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS IN LITERATURE ||| In “Out of Africa”, she wrote of raising a gazelle named lulu
Isak Dinesen
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Called the “King of the Terriers”, its original home was the valley of the river Aire
Airedale
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Like a lot of birds, the monarch butterfly does this in the winter
Migrate
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A camel’s hump doesn’t contain water, as once was thought, but this, for energy when food is scarce
Fat
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The only female deer with antlers, it uses them to dig in the snow for food
Reindeer
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Marine creature whose zoological name is Hippocampus
Seahorse
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In the Middle Ages this insect was dedicated to the Virgin & called “The Beetle Of Our Lady”
Ladybug/Ladybird Beetle
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Smaller forms of these birds are usually called doves
Pigeons
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The largest members of this phylum are the giant squids & the smallest are snails
Mollusks
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These arachnids differ from true spiders by the extreme length & thinness of their legs
Daddy Longlegs
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Surprisingly, the white, or beluga, species of this mammal can be found in the St. Lawrence River
Whale
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Although these huge animals are generally docile, when the bulls go into musth they can turn violent
elephants
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The largest member of the cat family
tiger
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Not everyone is excited when these birds come back to Capistrano: some residents think they’re too messy
swallows
$1500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The geographic ranges of most predators are shrinking, but the range of this, Canis latrans, has increased
the coyote
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These mammals are classed as Sirenia since they reminded sailors of mermaids – sirens of the sea
manatees
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The upper part of this turtle feature is called the carapace
Shell
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A drone bee’s only purpose in life is to do this with the queen & they do it in flight
Mate
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The bulldog is a symbol of this country where it was developed
England
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Of sight, hearing, or smell, the sense that is best developed in most seals
Sight
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The 2 species of camel are the Arabian, also called the dromedary & this
Bactrian (2-Humped)
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A bat’s hands serve as these
Wings
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| On a true sole both of these are on the right side of the head
Eyes
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Lizard that’s noted for its ability to walk on ceilings
Gecko
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The South African rhebok is not an athletic shoe but a species of this
Antelope
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| With ancestors as big as elephants, these slow beasts now just hang upside down in trees
Sloths
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Probably the 1st birds tamed, they weren’t used as messengers but as meals
pigeons
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| If Michael Jackson can’t make a personal appearance, he may send Bubbles, one of these
a chimpanzee
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The albatross’ ritual for this includes preening & dancing; dinner & a movie wasn’t listed
a mating ritual
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Of the creatures on Earth that have legs, most of them have this many
6
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The Dandie Dinmont, a dog in this group, was named after a farmer who raised them in “Guy Mannering”
the terriers
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The World Wildlife Fund is working with the Chinese on a detailed survey of pandas & this, their only food
bamboo
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Some of these birds have bald heads and necks, which prevents feather damage when eating from carcasses
vultures
$800 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In Canada, the population of these tufted-eared wildcats depends on the population of snowshoe rabbits
lynxes
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Caimans are most closely related to these animals
alligators
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Part of its body where you’ll find a warthog’s warts
its face
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Owls are among the few birds to have these on the front of their heads
their eyes
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Most lampreys live by attaching themselves to these
other fish
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| When grasshoppers or other Orthoptera are stridulating, they’re producing this
a song (or a sound)
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Varieties of these insects include bee, soldier, flower, blow & fruit
flies
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| A mosquito’s hum is actually the sound made by these
its wings
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Though its name means “Flemish cowherd”, a bouvier des flandres is a breed of this
dog
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The only African bird of prey with terrestrial habits; it can’t type or take dictation
the secretary bird
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The number of toes on the foot of a hippopotamus; especially the ones in Disney’s “Fantasia”
four
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Types of this aquatic creature include chimney, sheep’s wool, and common bath
the sponge
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| An insect related to the housefly, but wingless, is the largest land animal native to this continent
Antarctica
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In buildings, Norway variety of this animal tends to live on lower floors while black kind lives upstairs
rats
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Used in medical research which established Rh factor, their export is now banned by India
rhesus monkeys
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The gavial looks very much like a crocodile except for this bodily feature
the nose or snout
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| With an estimated weight of over 2 tons, the largest nest on record was built by these birds
bald eagles
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Rarely seen to die of old age in the wild, it’s mistakenly thought they have a secret graveyard
elephants
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The biggest marsupials
kangaroos
$600 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Heaviest of all poisonous snakes is this North American rattlesnake
the diamondback rattler
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| In Argentina, rheas are rounded up in order to get these
tailfeathers
$1000 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Ironically, in 1907 the Bronx Zoo donated 15 of these to the people of Oklahoma
buffalo (or bison)
$None ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| With a young one valued at $1.4 million, Guinness calls them the most costly zoo animals
giant pandas
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Even in the wild, this largest of apes takes a midday nap
gorilla
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Name for both Chinese gooseberry & people of New Zealand comes from this bird
kiwi
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The only 2 venomous species of lizards, Gila monsters & beaded lizard, are native to this continent
North America
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Cat-like animal raised for the secretions it produces which are used to make perfumes
civet
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| According to New York’s Bronx Zoo, it’s “the most dangerous animal in the world”
man
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| “Sly” creature sought by sportsmen riding to hounds
a fox
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The “ship of the desert”
a camel
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| The children are poults, the mothers, hens & the fathers,toms
turkeys
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Name of the sport of hunting birds with other birds
falconry
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Floating sea creature named by sailors for the Iberian fighting ship it resembles
the Portuguese man-of-war
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Scooby-Doo, Goofy & Pluto are cartoon versions
dogs
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| “Eager” animal that symbolizes Canada
the beaver
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| They include killers, humpbacks & sperms
whales
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Tibetan ox used to carry travelers and mail
a yak
$100 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| These rodents first got to America by stowing away on ships
rats
$200 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| There are about 40,000 muscles & tendons in this part of an elephant’s body
the trunk
$300 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| When husbands “pop” for an ermine coat, they’re actually buying this fur
weasel
$400 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| Close relative of the pig, though its name means “river horse”
the hippopotamus
$500 ||| Category: ANIMALS ||| If this species of hybrid’s parents were reversed, you’d get a hinny
a mule
