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95 free Rabbits trivia questions with answers — nature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
20 free rabbit trivia questions with answers. Hop into our exciting rabbit trivia quiz and test your knowledge about these adorable and fascinating creatures! From their unique biology to their cultural significance, this 95-question challenge covers everything rabbit-related. Whether you're a bunny enthusiast or just curious, see how well you know these beloved animals.
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Q 01What is a baby rabbit commonly called?
Kit
A baby rabbit is a kit, or kitten; kits arrive naked, blind and helpless, yet they grow so fast that most are weaned within about a month.
Q 02Often mistaken for rodents, rabbits belong to which order of mammals?
Lagomorpha
Lagomorpha is the order of rabbits, hares and pikas; all three were filed under the rodents until 1912, when zoologists gave them an order of their own.
Q 03Roughly how long is a rabbit's pregnancy?
1 month
1 month: gestation lasts about 30 days, and a female can conceive again straight after giving birth, so a new litter can follow almost at once.
Q 04What do owners call the twisting leap into the air that a happy pet rabbit makes?
Binky
A binky is the name: the rabbit jumps and twists its head and body in opposite directions, so abruptly that a new owner can mistake pure joy for a convulsion.
Q 05Which breed, nicknamed the 'gentle giant', is the largest domestic rabbit?
Flemish Giant
The Flemish Giant can weigh 9 kg; it was bred around Ghent for meat and fur, perhaps as early as the 16th century, but is now better known as a docile pet.
Q 06What forms the primary component of a rabbit's diet?
Hay and grass
Hay and grass should make up most of a rabbit's diet; without that fibre the gut can slow to a halt, a potentially lethal condition called gastrointestinal stasis.
Q 07How do rabbits primarily regulate their body temperature, especially in warm conditions?
Through their ears
Through their ears: rabbits barely sweat, so when they overheat the large blood vessels in the ears widen and passing air cools the blood before it flows back to the body.
Q 08What are the soft, nutrient-rich pellets that rabbits re-ingest called?
Cecotropes
Cecotropes form in the caecum, where bacteria ferment tough plant fibre; eating them gives the rabbit a second pass at its food, and they hold up to five times the vitamins of ordinary droppings.
Q 09A rabbit's field of vision covers roughly what angle?
Nearly 360 degrees
Nearly 360 degrees: the eyes sit high on the sides of the head, so a rabbit sees behind and far above itself, handy for spotting a hawk; the price is a small blind spot in front of its nose.
Q 10What is a male rabbit called?
Buck
Buck is the breeder's word for a male rabbit; bucks take no part in raising the young, and even the mother visits the nest to nurse only about once a day.
Q 11North America's pygmy rabbit, the world's smallest, depends on which Great Basin shrub for food and shelter?
Sagebrush
Sagebrush makes up nearly all of the pygmy rabbit's winter diet and hides the burrows it digs for itself, a rare habit among North American rabbits.
Q 12How do rabbits communicate danger or annoyance to others?
Thumping a hind foot
Thumping a hind foot is the alarm signal: the rabbit slams a hind leg against the ground, a thud that carries through the warren and sends the others bolting for cover.
Q 13Rabbits are 'induced ovulators', which means what for their reproductive cycle?
Mating itself triggers ovulation
Q 21Why did Thomas Austin release wild rabbits in Australia in 1859?
To hunt for sport
To hunt for sport, as he had in England; from Barwon Park in Victoria the rabbits overran most of the continent within 50 years, the fastest spread of any introduced mammal on record.
Q 22Which pathogen was released in Australia in 1950 to cut a rabbit population of some 600 million?
Myxoma
Myxoma virus cut Australia's rabbits from about 600 million to 100 million within two years, but the survivors bred resistance and numbers climbed again, so a second virus followed in the 1990s.
Q 23Western Australia's No. 1 rabbit-proof barrier, finished in 1907, held which record?
Longest unbroken fence on Earth
Mating itself triggers ovulation in an induced ovulator, so there is no fixed cycle to wait for; ferrets and camels work the same way, and it helps explain the rabbit's famous fertility.
Q 14What is the proper name for a rabbit's short, upturned tail?
Scut
Scut is the word for the short, erect tail of a rabbit, hare or deer; Shakespeare's Falstaff uses it in The Merry Wives of Windsor, greeting 'my doe with the black scut'.
Q 15Unlike a rat's, a rabbit's cheek teeth share which trait with its front incisors?
They never stop growing
They never stop growing: all of a rabbit's teeth grow for life, not just the incisors as in most rodents, so it must chew fibrous food constantly to wear them down.
Q 16Until the 18th century 'rabbit' meant a young animal only; what was the word for an adult?
Coney
Coney was the adult's name, with 'rabbit' meaning only the young; 'rabbit' took over after coney, which then rhymed with 'honey', turned into a rude pun and had to be given a new pronunciation.
Q 17Which part of its feet does a sprinting rabbit run on?
Toes
Toes: a rabbit's long feet are built to rest flat on the ground, but when it moves the weight shifts to the tips of the digits, a gait that zoologists call digitigrade.
Q 18What is a group of rabbits often called?
Colony
Colony is the usual term; 'warren' properly means the burrow system, which in European rabbits can house up to 20 animals, though at times the real social unit is a single breeding pair.
Q 19Which breed's velvety coat comes from a gene that shortens its guard hairs?
Rex
The Rex began in 1919, when a few oddly plush rabbits turned up in a litter in a French village and were bred on; fanciers now call the velvet-coated breed the 'King of Rabbits'.
Q 20A well-kept pet rabbit typically lives for roughly how long?
About 10 years
About 10 years: safe from predators, weather and disease, a well-kept rabbit typically lives 8 to 12, and a Tasmanian rabbit called Flopsy holds the record at 18 years and 10 months.
The No. 1 Fence, 1,833 km long, was the longest unbroken fence on Earth when finished in 1907, yet rabbits had crossed the line as early as 1902, so two more fences went up behind it.
Q 24The volcano rabbit, one of the world's smallest rabbits, lives on volcanic slopes in which country?
Mexico
Mexico is its only home: the volcano rabbit, or teporingo, lives on a few volcanoes near Mexico City, and unlike other rabbits it warns of danger with high-pitched calls, as pikas do.
Q 25The dark-furred Amami rabbit, a 'living fossil', is found only on two small islands of which country?
Japan
Japan's Amami rabbit found a new enemy in 1979, when mongooses were released on Amami Oshima to kill venomous habu snakes and preyed on the rabbits instead.
Q 26The Angora rabbit, bred for its long wool, is said to have originated in which present-day country?
Turkey
Turkey's capital Ankara was long known as Angora, and the name stuck to three long-haired animals linked with it: the rabbit, a goat whose fleece is mohair, and a cat.
Q 27Which novel about rabbits fleeing their doomed warren was rejected seven times before publisher Rex Collings took it on?
Watership Down
Watership Down began as stories Richard Adams told his daughters on car journeys; his debut went on to win the 1972 Carnegie Medal.
Q 28Okunoshima, 'Rabbit Island', once housed a secret factory making what?
Poison gas
The army's poison gas plant, built on Okunoshima between 1927 and 1929, produced mustard gas and other agents; the island was even removed from some maps to keep it secret.
Q 29In the Vietnamese zodiac, which animal takes the place occupied by the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac?
Cat
The Cat takes the Rabbit's fourth place in Vietnam's zodiac; a common explanation is that the old calendar sign for that year, mao, sounds like mèo, the Vietnamese word for cat.
Q 30After losing the rights to his cartoon star Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1928, Walt Disney created which character?
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse was the replacement after Disney's distributor claimed Oswald; Disney first called the mouse Mortimer, until his wife Lillian talked him into a new name.