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