| Clue | Year of Rediscovery | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ancient lobe-finned fish | 1938 | Coelacanth | 100%
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| Flightless New Zealand rail | 1948 | Takahe | 100%
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| Asian rodent found as meat in a market | 2005 | Laotian rock rat | 67%
|
| Ball's Pyramid insect | 2001 | Lord Howe Island stick insect | 67%
|
| Dingo-like canine caught on camera at 4,200m | 2016 | New Guinea highland wild dog | 67%
|
| Primate found in inaccessible Andes cloud forests | 1926 | Yellow-tailed woolly monkey | 67%
|
| European rodent thought extinct after the construction of a hospital | 2000 | Bavarian pine vole | 33%
|
| Mollusc rediscovered by an aquarium intern | 2002 | Bermuda land snail | 33%
|
| An entire class of molluscs 'bearing one plate' | 1952 | Class Monoplacophora | 33%
|
| Lake Constance salmonid | 2016 | Deepwater char | 33%
|
| 1m-long burrowing annelid from Idaho | 2010 | Giant palouse earthworm | 33%
|
| Pouched amphibian rediscovered in the Ecuadorian canopy | 2019 | Horned marsupial frog | 33%
|
| Canadian fruit rediscovered in a seed-bank | 1996 | Montreal melon | 33%
|
| Tiny insectivorous alpine marsupial | 1966 | Mountain pygmy possum | 33%
|
| Small burrowing seabird from New Zealand | 2003 | New Zealand storm petrel | 33%
|
| Nocturnal Australian desert bird | 1979 | Night parrot | 33%
|
| Small perennial New Zealand herb | 2015 | Pygmy goosefoot | 33%
|
| 200 million year old trees kept closely guarded | 1994 | Wollemi pine | 33%
|
| Ornamentally-popular Cretaceous conifer | 1944 | Dawn redwood | 0%
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