Statistics for Elephant Knowledge

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Fictional elephant who could fly, thanks to his gigantic ears	Dumbo	96%
Country with the most Asian elephants	India	93%
Tiny animal that elephants are supposedly afraid of	Mice	92%
Valuable, and illegal, white material made from elephant tusks	Ivory	89%
Close relative of the elephant that lived in cold climates and went extinct around 1650 BC	Mammoth	88%
Period of time that lasts two years in elephants - longer than in any other animal	Gestation	86%
American political party symbolized by an elephant	The Republican Party	83%
Part of an elephant's body that is prehensile, and also known as a proboscis	The Trunk	83%
Country with the most elephants (hint: starts with B)	Botswana	82%
Substance that elephants use as sunscreen	Mud	82%
General from Carthage who employed elephants when he attacked the Roman Republic	Hannibal	67%
Term for a male elephant	Bull	64%
M word that refers to the old female elephant who leads a group	Matriarch	57%
Well-known Hindu god who has the head of an elephant=	Ganesh	44%
Type of elephants considered sacred in Thailand	{White} Elephants	44%
What elephants are unable to do - unlike almost all mammals	Jump	41%
Fictional elephant who is a beloved children's character in France	Babar	39%
More-distant elephant relative that went extinct around 10,000 BC	Mastodon	28%
Monster of Greek mythology who may have been invented by people who saw elephant skulls	Cyclops	22%