Statistics for Animals in American History

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
National bird of the United States	Bald eagle	100%
Hunting this animal was an important way of life for the Plains Indians	Bison	83%
State animal of California, even though the last one was shot in 1922	California grizzly	83%
Davy Crockett is often depicted wearing a cap made from this animal	Raccoon	74%
Prehistoric big cat, also known as a Smilodon, which was preserved in the La Brea tar pits	Sabre-toothed cat	70%
Animal that said "nevermore" in the famous poem	Raven	68%
Early French traders sought pelts from this animal	Beaver	66%
Type of whale which sank the whaleship Essex in 1820, the inspiration for "Moby-Dick"	{Sperm} whale	66%
Animal depicted on the Gadsden Flag which said "don't tread on me"	Rattlesnake	65%
Animal wrongly blamed for starting the Great Chicago Fire	Cow	64%
Animal that NASA sent into space in 1961	Chimpanzee	60%
Today it's a treat, but in colonial days this "cockroach of the sea" was fed to indentured servants and prisoners	Lobster	60%
Bird that Benjamin Franklin thought should have been chosen instead	Turkey	56%
Fish that formed a large part of the diet of the Coast Salish people of the Puget Sound	Salmon	54%
Just 27 of these huge birds remained in 1987, but now there are more than 500	California condor	50%
Nickname of Theodore Roosevelt's political party in 1912: Bull _____	Moose	50%
"Sea-Monkeys", popularized in the 1960s, are actually this type of creature	Brine shrimp	42%
Animal that was electrocuted in 1903, which people wrongly blame on Thomas Edison	Elephant	38%
Mark Twain story: "The Celebrated Jumping ___ of Calaveras County"	Frog	34%
Once numbering in the billions, this bird went extinct in 1914	Passenger pigeon	26%