Hunting Trivia
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96 free Hunting trivia questions with answers — nature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
41 free Hunting trivia questions with answers. Hunting trivia questions for deer camp, the duck blind or a hunter-education class. The quiz covers the game itself - whitetail antlers and the rut, jakes and gobblers, feral hogs and de Soto's pigs - and the gear: how a shotgun gauge is defined, why a compound bow has let-off, what a muzzleloader is, why hunter orange works. It also covers the laws and people who built American conservation on hunters' money: the Lacey Act, the Duck Stamp, Pittman-Robertson, Ducks Unlimited, Boone and Crockett, Aldo Leopold and Fred Bear, plus falconry, England's fox-hunting ban, Jim Corbett's tiger and the goddess Artemis. Easy questions any weekend hunter will get come first; the later ones will separate the people who read the regulations from the people who guess. Neutral in tone, no gore. Every answer has been checked against a reference page and carries its source.
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Q 01The Pittman-Robertson Act of 1937 funds state wildlife programmes through a tax on what?
Guns, ammunition and archery gear
The act taxes guns, ammunition and archery gear (11% excise, 10% on handguns); signed by FDR, it has funded much of America's wildlife recovery.
Q 02To receive Pittman-Robertson money, a state must promise never to divert what to other uses?
Hunters' licence fees
Hunters' licence fees must stay with the state wildlife agency under the 1937 act, which then repays up to three-quarters of the cost of each approved project.
Q 03The first Federal Duck Stamp, drawn in 1934 by cartoonist 'Ding' Darling, showed a pair of which ducks landing?
Mallards
Mallards, a pair about to land on a marsh pond, were drawn by a Pulitzer-winning newspaper cartoonist who that same year became head of the federal Biological Survey.
Q 04Money from Federal Duck Stamp sales goes where?
The Migratory Bird Conservation Fund
Proceeds go into the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund, which buys and leases wetland for the National Wildlife Refuge System; the stamps have raised more than $1 billion since 1934.
Q 05Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell founded which hunting-conservation group in 1887?
Boone and Crockett
The Boone and Crockett Club, founded by Roosevelt and Grinnell in 1887, codified the 'fair chase' ethic and keeps the North American big-game records book.
Q 06In hunting regulations, what does a 'bag limit' restrict?
Animals taken per hunter
Animals taken per hunter, per day or per season: a bag limit keeps the harvest within what the population can sustain, and exceeding it counts as poaching.
Q 07Which bird, once North America's most abundant at up to five billion, was extinct by 1914?
The passenger pigeon
The passenger pigeon, shot and netted by market hunters and shipped by the barrel, was gone by 1914; Martha, the last, died at Cincinnati Zoo on September 1, 1914.
Q 08The Lacey Act of 1900 made it a federal crime to do what?
Ship poached game across state lines
It became a federal offence to ship poached game across state lines when William McKinley signed Iowa congressman John Lacey's bill; a 2008 amendment stretched the same law to cover timber.
Q 09Which forester and hunter, author of A Sand County Almanac, is called the founder of wildlife management?
Aldo Leopold
Aldo Leopold held the first professorship in game management, at Wisconsin; he died of a heart attack in 1948 while helping neighbours fight a grass fire, a year before A Sand County Almanac appeared.
Q 10In the essay 'Thinking Like a Mountain', a young hunter shoots which predator and comes to regret it?
A wolf
A wolf: the author watched a 'fierce green fire' die in the old she-wolf's eyes, and later argued that a mountain stripped of its wolves is soon stripped bare by deer.
Q 11Holless Wilbur Allen invented the compound bow in 1966 by fitting what to a recurve?
Pulleys
Pulleys: chasing a faster arrow, Allen cut the curved tips off a bow and mounted pulleys and extra cables in their place, applying for a patent in 1966 and receiving it in 1969.
Q 12What does a compound bow's 'let-off' describe?
The drop in holding force at full draw
Let-off is the drop in holding force at full draw: a 70-pound bow with 80% let-off holds at about 14 pounds, so bowhunters can wait for a shot.
Q 13Which bowhunting pioneer moved his archery company from Detroit to Grayling, Michigan, in 1947?
Fred Bear
Q 21A male wild turkey's 'beard' is what?
A tuft of hair-like filaments on its chest
A tuft of hair-like filaments on its chest, the beard keeps growing with age; about one hen in ten grows one too, and its length is a hunter's brag.
Q 22Which group was founded in 1937 to save drying prairie marshes?
Ducks Unlimited
Ducks Unlimited was started by publisher Joseph Knapp and fellow sportsmen when the Dust Bowl drought had cut waterfowl numbers to record lows; its first focus was the habitat the birds needed in Canada.
Q 23What kind of shot must US waterfowl hunters use?
Lead-free, such as steel
Fred Bear started the firm in Detroit in 1933, moved it to Grayling in 1947 and sold it in 1968 but stayed on to lead it; Ted Nugent's song 'Fred Bear' is a tribute to him.
Q 14How is a shotgun's gauge defined?
Bore-sized lead balls per pound
Bore-sized lead balls per pound: the gauge is the number of lead balls fitting the barrel that together weigh one pound, which is why a smaller gauge number means a bigger bore.
Q 15Which shotgun gauge has long been the most widely used?
12
The 12-gauge, with a bore of roughly 0.729 inches, is by far the most popular; the smaller the gauge number, the bigger the bore.
Q 16What is the most hunted native big-game species in the Americas?
White-tailed deer
The white-tailed deer is hunted more than any other big game in the Americas; the US herd rebounded from about 300,000 in 1930 to some 30 million by 2005.
Q 17When do white-tailed bucks shed their antlers each year?
In winter, after the rut
In winter, after the rut: once the does have been bred the bucks cast their antlers, then grow a new set through the following spring and summer.
Q 18A whitetail flares and raises its tail, showing the white underside, when it does what?
Flees from danger
Flees from danger: studies suggest the white flag is aimed less at other deer than at the predator, perhaps as a sign that this deer is too fast to be worth chasing.
Q 19How low did the US wild turkey population fall by the late 1930s?
About 30,000
About 30,000 wild turkeys remained in the late 1930s; trap-and-transfer restocking raised the population to 1.3 million by 1973 and past 6 million by the 2000s.
Q 20In turkey-hunting terms, what is a 'jake'?
A juvenile male
A juvenile male, or jake, gives himself away when he fans his tail: the central feathers stand longer than the rest, while a mature tom's fan forms an even half-circle.
Lead-free, such as steel, bismuth or tungsten: lead shot was banned for waterfowl nationwide in 1991 because ducks swallowed spent pellets from the bottom and were poisoned.
Q 24What is a hunting 'blind'?
A structure hiding the hunter
A structure hiding the hunter, a blind keeps game from detecting people at close range; in Britain the same shelter is called a hide, a word birdwatchers use too.
Q 25What name is given to the skin covering a deer's growing antlers?
Velvet
Velvet is the blood-rich skin that feeds growing antlers through summer; once they harden, bucks rub it off on saplings before the rut.
Q 26Which state has by far the most feral pigs?
Texas
Texas holds an estimated 2.6 million of the roughly 7 million feral pigs in the United States, and the state allows them to be shot from helicopters.
Q 27Which Spanish explorer introduced pigs to Florida in 1539, ancestors of today's wild hogs?
Hernando de Soto
Hernando de Soto landed at Tampa Bay in 1539 with a herd of pigs to feed his expedition; escapees became the ancestors of Florida's wild hogs.
Q 28Which deer-hunting method has people walk through woods to push animals toward waiting hunters?
Driving
Tree stands, ground blinds and stalking are the alternatives; the rut in late October and November is the prime time for all of them.
Q 29The Hunting Act 2004 banned hunting most wild mammals with dogs where?
England and Wales
The Hunting Act 2004 covers England and Wales only: Scotland had passed its own ban two years earlier, and hunting with hounds stayed legal in Northern Ireland.
Q 30The 2004 fox-hunting ban was forced into law over which body's objections?
The House of Lords
The House of Lords would not agree, so the Speaker of the Commons invoked the rarely used Parliament Acts to pass the ban without the peers; it took force on 18 February 2005.