General Knowledge: Answers are Animals #1 - Statistics

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Hint Answer % Correct
What animal is known as "man's best friend"? dog
100%
Malaria is borne by what animal? mosquito
81%
How many of the signs of the Chinese Zodiac are real (not fantastical) animals? 11
75%
How many of the signs of the Western Zodiac are real (not fantastical) animals? (Hint: Capricorn is a "sea goat"—half goat and half fish.) 6
70%
Lyme disease is borne by what animal? tick
65%
In Life of Pi, a boy is stranded in a boat with what animal? tiger
64%
What animal supposedly sheds tears while consuming its prey, leading to a figure of speech about insincere emotion? crocodile
62%
What was the first animal to orbit the earth? dog
49%
What animal roamed North America in herds so vast they reportedly stretched from horizon to horizon? bison
47%
The rulers of Thailand and Myanmar own rare white individuals of what animal? (If you receive one as a gift, you'll have to feed it, but you can't put it to work because it's considered sacred. It may become an unwanted burden.) elephant
43%
The oil used to lubricate machinery in the Industrial Revolution came primarily from what animal? whale
31%
What animal is very common in European heraldry, despite not roaming Europe since the Stone Age? lion
29%
In the Chinese classical novel Journey to the West, the powerful and mischievous Sun Wukong was what animal? monkey
26%
In the Bible, Jesus cast demons out of a man and into what animal? pigs
25%
China is said to be shaped like what animal? chicken
24%
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was allegedly started by what animal? cow
21%
Princess Odette was transformed into what animal? swan
21%
Roman emperor Caligula allegedly planned to appoint what animal to the office of consul? horse
20%
The Norse god of thunder, Thor, rode in a chariot drawn by what animal? goats
18%
Tyrian purple dye, one of the most expensive substances in the ancient world, comes from what animal? snail
10%
What domestic animal that originated in the New World gets its English name from a place on the Mediterranean? turkey
8%
The elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha rode on what animal? mouse or rat
7%
In South Asian and Southeast Asian folklore, what animal stamps out fires? rhinoceros
4%
King Alexander of Greece died in 1920 of an infected bite from what animal? monkey
3%
What domestic animal that originated in the New World gets its English name from a place in Russia? Muscovy duck
1%
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