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98 free Bunny trivia questions with answers — nature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
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Q 01To which mammalian order do rabbits belong, sharing it with pikas and hares?
Lagomorpha
Rabbits, hares, and pikas are all classified under the order Lagomorpha. They were once grouped with rodents but were reclassified due to distinct anatomical differences, such as having two sets of upper incisors.
Q 02Which high-fibre food is essential to every rabbit's diet and a major component of commercial pellets?
Hay
Hay is the fibre staple: grass hay such as timothy should make up most of a rabbit's diet and is the main ingredient of commercial pellets; rabbits short of it risk fatal gastrointestinal stasis.
Q 03What feature of a rabbit's anatomy gives it a panoramic field of vision of nearly 360 degrees?
Eyes placed on the sides of the skull
Eyes placed on the sides of the skull, plus a large cornea, give the panorama, and a good deal of it is devoted to scanning overhead for birds of prey.
Q 04Which body part primarily assists a rabbit in regulating its body temperature?
Ears
Rabbits have few to no sweat glands, so they shed heat by changing blood flow through the ears, which are longer in warm climates.
Q 05All domestic rabbit breeds are believed to have descended from which wild species?
European Rabbit
The European Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is the ancestor of all domestic rabbit breeds seen today. Its domestication began in the Iberian Peninsula and southern France.
Q 06Which continent has suffered major ecological damage from introduced European rabbits?
Australia
Australia's plague traces to Thomas Austin's release of at least 13 rabbits at Barwon Park, Victoria, in October 1859; within ten years two million a year could be shot without denting the population.
Q 07Because rabbits cannot vomit, a low-fibre diet can lead to which dangerous condition?
Intestinal blockage
Intestinal blockage: a rabbit cannot vomit, so indigestible matter and a diet short of hay can bring the gut to a halt (gastrointestinal stasis), which is often fatal without treatment.
Q 08What is the approximate normal body temperature range for a healthy rabbit?
101.3–104.0°F (38.5–40.0°C)
Rabbits return to that range by adjusting blood flow through highly vascularised body parts.
Q 09Which tiny breed was created by crossing Polish rabbits with small wild rabbits?
Netherland Dwarf
The Netherland Dwarf breed was developed in the Netherlands by breeding small Polish rabbits with smaller wild rabbits, resulting in one of the smallest domestic rabbit breeds.
Q 10How do rabbits differ from most rodents in the way their teeth grow?
Every one keeps growing
Every one keeps growing: a rabbit's incisors and cheek teeth are all open-rooted and grow throughout life, worn down by chewing fibrous grass, whereas in most rodents only the incisors are ever-growing.
Q 11Rabbits have how many toes on each hind foot?
Four
Four: each hind foot carries four long toes, while the front paws have five including a dewclaw; rabbits run on their toes, with fur rather than bare pads underneath.
Q 12When a rabbit performs a sudden, joyful leap and twist in the air, what is this behavior commonly called?
Binkying
Binkying: a binky is the leap-and-twist a contented rabbit performs, often mid-run; thumping the hind legs is the opposite signal, showing alarm or annoyance.
Q 13What is it called when a rabbit rubs the scent gland under its jaw on objects or people to mark them?
Chinning
Chinning in wild European rabbits signals readiness to mate as well as marking territory, using an odoriferous secretion from a chin gland.
Q 21Myxoma virus was released against rabbits in the 1950s in Australia, Chile and which European country?
France
France: in June 1952 Dr Paul-Félix Armand-Delille released myxoma virus on his estate at Maillebois to clear rabbits; it escaped across France and reached Britain in 1953. Its natural hosts are American cottontails.
Q 22What is the largest breed of domestic rabbit?
Flemish Giant
Flemish Giant: records go back to about 1860 in Flanders, and bucks commonly weigh 7 kg (15 lb) or more; it is the ancestor of the Belgian Hare and several other giant breeds.
Q 23The Angora rabbit, bred for its long wool, is said to have originated in which country?
Turkey
Turkey: the Angora is said to have originated around Ankara, once called Angora, and reached France in 1723; the ARBA recognises four Angora breeds: English, French, Giant and Satin.
Q 14How do newborn rabbits differ from newborn hares?
They are born blind and helpless
They are born blind and helpless: rabbit kits are altricial, naked and blind in a fur-lined burrow nest, whereas leverets arrive furred, open-eyed and able to move within hours.
Q 15The Easter Bunny tradition, in which a hare judged whether children had been good, originated among which religious group?
German Lutherans
German Lutherans: their 'Easter Hare' (Osterhase) judged whether children had been good before bringing eggs, a custom first recorded in Georg Franck von Franckenau's De ovis paschalibus (1682).
Q 16Bugs Bunny's definitive characterisation debuted in which 1940 Tex Avery short?
A Wild Hare
A Wild Hare (1940), directed by Tex Avery, gave Bugs his familiar voice and 'What's up, Doc?'; a prototype had appeared in Ben Hardaway's Porky's Hare Hunt (1938).
Q 17Bugs Bunny speaks with an accent from which New York borough?
Brooklyn
Brooklyn: Mel Blanc gave Bugs a Flatbush accent blending Brooklyn and Bronx speech; the character starred in more than 160 shorts between 1940 and 1964.
Q 18Richard Adams's rabbit epic Watership Down, his debut novel, is set in which county of southern England?
Hampshire
Hampshire is the setting of Adams's debut, which several publishers rejected before it won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize.
Q 19In 1903 Peter Rabbit became the first fictional character to be made into what?
A patented stuffed toy
A patented stuffed toy: Beatrix Potter patented a Peter Rabbit doll in 1903, making him the oldest licensed character; the six Peter Rabbit books have sold over 150 million copies.
Q 20Which settler is blamed for the spread of European rabbits across Australia?
Thomas Austin
Thomas Austin released wild rabbits for hunting at Barwon Park, Victoria, in 1859 and they overran the continent; a rabbit-proof fence built in Western Australia from 1901 to 1907 failed to hold them back.
Q 24In Chinese folklore the Moon rabbit Yutu is the companion of which Moon goddess?
Chang'e
Chang'e: the Moon goddess lives on the Moon with the Jade Rabbit (Yutu), who pounds the elixir of life with mortar and pestle; in Japan and Korea the rabbit pounds rice cakes instead.
Q 25Until the 18th century an adult rabbit was a 'coney'; the word 'rabbit' originally meant only what?
The young animals
The young animals: until the 18th century 'coney' (from Latin cuniculus) named the adult and 'rabbit' only the young, much as 'cat' and 'kitten' are used today.
Q 26"Bunny" is a diminutive of "bun", a Scottish word for rabbits and which other animal?
Squirrels
Squirrels: 'bun' was a Scots dialect word for a squirrel and later a rabbit, and 'bunny' is its diminutive; 'rabbit' itself derives from the Middle English rabet, borrowed from the Walloon robète.
Q 27What are the soft pellets rabbits produce in the cecum and then re-eat called?
Cecotropes
Cecotropes: these soft, nutrient-rich pellets form in the cecum and are re-ingested directly, usually while the rabbit rests underground, so their vitamins and protein can be absorbed in the small intestine.
Q 28How many rabbit gods made up the Aztec Centzon Totochtin, deities of fertility and drunkenness?
Four hundred
Four hundred: Centzon Totochtin means '400 rabbits', a number the Aztecs used for 'countless'; they were led by Ometochtli, 'Two Rabbit', and Aztecs also linked rabbits with the moon.
Q 29In Anishinaabe belief, which 'Great Rabbit' is an important deity linked to the creation of the world?
Nanabozho
Nanabozho, the Anishinaabe culture hero also called the Great Rabbit (Mishaabooz), helped shape the world after the flood; rabbits are tricksters in many cultures, from Central Africa's Kalulu to Br'er Rabbit.
Q 30In the Vietnamese zodiac, which animal takes the place of the rabbit found in the Chinese zodiac?
The cat
The cat: Vietnam's zodiac keeps the other eleven animals but swaps the rabbit for the cat, possibly because the Chinese branch name for the rabbit year (mǎo) sounded like the Vietnamese word for cat (mèo).