Siberian Tiger
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50 free Siberian Tiger trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Siberian tiger is the cat of the far north: a striped hunter that patrols snowbound forest in the Russian Far East and the neighbouring corner of China. It is built on a scale few predators match, it wears the heaviest coat of any tiger, and it came close to disappearing in the twentieth century before a slow, hard-won recovery. This quiz gathers the fun facts people look for most. How heavy does a big male get, and how much can it eat in a night? What does it hunt, which animals rob it, and which does it drive away? How does a tigress raise her cubs? You will also meet the places, peoples, films and books that have grown up around the animal. It suits animal lovers, students working on a big cat project and anyone who has stood at a zoo window wondering how a tiger copes with deep cold. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will leave with a few facts worth repeating.
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Q 01The Siberian tiger is also named after which river that forms part of the Russia–China border?
Amur
Amur is the river, and the name 'Amur tiger' was used in 1933 for cats shot beside it for an exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History.
Q 02The Siberian tiger is often called the biggest cat, but which lion–tigress hybrid grows even larger?
Liger
Liger is the name for the cub of a male lion and a tigress, and it typically grows larger than either parent, unlike the reverse cross.
Q 03Hodori, a friendly cartoon Siberian tiger, was the mascot of the 1988 Summer Olympics in which city?
Seoul
Seoul's mascot drew on the tiger's place as a national symbol of the Korean people, and the name Hodori was picked from 2,295 public suggestions.
Q 04In 2015 a Siberian tiger in a Russian safari park befriended which animal put in his pen as food?
A goat
A goat named Timur stood his ground with horns forward and ended up sleeping in the tiger's own shelter, until the pair fell out in 2016.
Q 05To the colour-blind deer it hunts, a Siberian tiger's orange coat probably looks like which colour?
Green
Green is how the tiger's prey may perceive its orange fur, so the cat blends into the vegetation instead of standing out.
Q 06The mark on a Siberian tiger's forehead is said to resemble the Chinese character for which word?
King
King is the meaning of the character the forehead mark resembles, one reason the Udege and Chinese people revere the animal.
Q 07Which tiger population now outweighs the wild Siberian tiger on average, according to a 2005 study?
Bengal
Bengal males now average more, because today's wild Siberian tigers are lighter than those weighed before 1970, perhaps through scarcer prey.
Q 08Which animals steal about a third of Siberian tiger kills in Russia's Sikhote-Alin reserve?
Bears
Bears often follow tiger tracks to reach a carcass, and the tiger tends to walk away or leave part of its kill behind rather than fight.
Q 09Which sense do newborn Siberian tiger cubs lack during their first days in the den?
Sight
Sight comes later: cubs are born blind in a sheltered den, and their eyes open between three and 14 days after birth.
Q 10Which pack hunters grow scarce where Siberian tigers thrive, a fact used to win over local hunters?
Wolves
Wolves, locals recalled, were absent from Sikhote-Alin until tiger numbers fell in the 1930s, and tigers take fewer deer than the packs would.
Q 11How does the coat of a Siberian tiger, which lives among snow, compare with other tigers' coats?
Paler
Paler orange fur with fewer stripes helps the Siberian tiger blend into snowy forest, and it grows longer and thicker than any other tiger's.
Q 12How do adult Siberian tigers usually live, scent-marking large territories to keep rivals away?
Alone
Alone is the rule for adult tigers, and a mother raises her cubs with little or no help from the male.
Q 13Which feature of the toes helps Siberian tigers, like all tigers, swim powerfully across rivers?
Partial webbing
Partial webbing between the toes makes tigers excellent swimmers, and they will cross a river if there is prey on the far bank.
Q 21Siberian tigers vanished from the Korean Peninsula between 1910 and 1945 under which country's rule?
Japan
Japan ruled the peninsula in those years; today an unknown number of tigers may survive near Baekdu on the Chinese border, judging by tracks found there.
Q 22In 2010 Russia and the 12 other tiger range countries pledged to do what to wild tiger numbers?
Double them
Double them was the goal, known as TX2, with a 2022 deadline chosen because it was the next Year of the Tiger.
Q 23About how much meat can a hungry Siberian tiger eat in a single night after a successful hunt?
60 pounds
60 pounds in one night is possible for a hungry tiger, though it usually eats less and returns to a carcass over several days.
Q 14Tigers such as the Siberian have the longest teeth of which type in the whole cat family?
Canines
Canines in a tiger are gently curved and sit in a set of 30 robust teeth.
Q 15What marks the back of each Siberian tiger ear and is flashed during aggressive encounters?
A white spot
A white spot ringed with black sits on the back of each ear, and tigers swivel their ears to show it between mothers and cubs too.
Q 16A bite to which body part lets a Siberian tiger kill large prey while staying clear of antlers?
Throat
Throat bites are held until the prey suffocates, which keeps the tiger out of reach of antlers, tusks and hooves.
Q 17Scat from the Russia–China border showed Siberian tigers ate mostly deer and which other animal?
Wild boar
Wild boar remains topped the list with sika and roe deer in 115 samples left by nine tigers over the winter of 2014–15.
Q 18Siberian tigers mostly hunt deer but sometimes take hares, pikas and even which fish?
Salmon
Salmon is among the smaller prey, but big animals matter most: tigers in one study made a kill roughly once a week.
Q 19Which IUCN Red List status does the Siberian tiger hold, even as its numbers in Russia have risen?
Endangered
Endangered is the listing, yet Russia's count grew from about 331–393 adults and subadults in 2005 to roughly 756 tigers in 2022.
Q 20Which country banned tiger hunting in 1947, helping Siberian tiger numbers recover by the 1960s?
USSR
USSR law banned the hunt in 1947 and tightened protection in the 1950s, while China prohibited hunting the cats in 1962.
Q 24What weight does National Geographic's fact file list for the Siberian tiger?
660 pounds
660 pounds is the listed weight, beside a length of 10.75 feet; wild males in the 1980s typically ranged from about 400 to 675 pounds.
Q 25Museum-specimen DNA revealed which other tiger to be the Siberian tiger's closest relative?
Caspian
Caspian tigers, extinct since the 1970s, shared an ancestor with the Siberian that reached Central Asia less than 10,000 years ago.
Q 26Which naturalist named the Siberian tiger's species Felis tigris in his 1758 work Systema Naturae?
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus placed every cat in the genus Felis, so the tiger began as Felis tigris before it was moved to its present genus in 1929.
Q 27The Siberian tiger shares which genus with the lion, leopard, jaguar and snow leopard?
Panthera
Panthera holds all five big cats, and genetic analyses point to the snow leopard as the tiger's sister species.
Q 28Tungusic peoples of the Russian Far East respectfully called the Siberian tiger 'Old man' or what?
Grandfather
Grandfather was the other title, because the Tungusic peoples regarded the tiger as a near-deity.
Q 29What is the soft, snorting greeting called that Siberian tigers and other tigers make when friendly?
Chuffing
Chuffing, also known as prusten, is made with the mouth closed by blowing air through the nostrils, often with a bob of the head.
Q 30In northeastern China, the activity of wild Siberian tigers peaks at which times of day?
Dawn and dusk
Dawn and dusk are the peaks because the tigers keep much the same hours as their prey, and they stay active through the night.