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Pleistocene Quiz - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 27 times
- The average score is 8 of 22
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligent, (ancestrally) dark-skinned, hairless primate that first evolved in Africa | Humans | 91%
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| Among the oldest known human remains; discovered in southern Ethiopia | Omo remains | 82%
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| Hairy relative of Asian elephants with curled tusks; among the last of the Pleistocene megafauna | Woolly mammoth | 77%
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| Close relatives of humans who inhabited Eurasia; had broader faces and a more robust build for coping with colder temperatures | Neanderthals | 73%
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| Very large North/South American birds of prey, who survived the Quaternary extinction only by feeding off of deceased marine animals | Condors | 50%
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| Land bridge that connected Alaska and Russia | Beringia | 45%
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| Group of big cats with enlarged upper canines; includes famous examples like Smilodon and Homotherium | Machairodonts, or saber-toothed cats | 41%
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| Large ice sheets that fluctuated heavily during the Pleistocene | Glaciers | 36%
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| Huge glacier that smothered much of upper North America | Laurentide Ice Sheet | 32%
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| Large African mammals that somehow rafted to Madagascar and "shrank'' | Malagasy hippopotamus | 32%
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| Expanse of grassland that covered nearly all of northern Eurasia; named for its most famous woolly inhabitant | Mammoth Steppe | 32%
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| Rapid cooling event that occurred around 12,900 years ago; named after an alpine-tundra wildflower | Younger Dryas | 32%
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| Tallest land mammal ever; lived alongside Asian elephants in India, China, etc.; today's African forest elephant is related to it | Asian straight-tusked elephant | 27%
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| Unique, mid-ranged dart-propelling weapon; first used during the late Pleistocene | Atlatl | 27%
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| Faunal interchange that coincided with the beginning of the Pleistocene; South American fauna migrated into North America, and vice versa | Great American Interchange | 27%
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| Catastrophic supervolcano eruption which occurred in Sumatra, Indonesia during the late Pleistocene | Toba eruption | 27%
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| Currently-dormant supervolcano which erupted multiple times during the Pleistocene | Yellowstone Caldera | 27%
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| Cave in France; contains over 600 paintings which depict various Pleistocene fauna such as mammoths, aurochs and lions | Lascaux | 23%
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| First subdivision of the Pleistocene | Gelasian | 14%
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| Second subdivision of the Pleistocene | Calabrian | 9%
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| Inlet of the North Atlantic that covered some of Eastern Canada | Champlain Sea | 5%
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| Last "official'' subdivision of the Pleistocene | Chibanian | 5%
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