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