Q 01/05

Brown bears can kill a moose, yet they get up to 90 percent of their food energy from what?

A) Fish

B) Insects

C) Plants

D) Carrion

Answer · why

C) Plants

Plants supply most of a brown bear's calories, from berries and grasses to acorns and pine cones. No other bear has been recorded eating such a variet...

Q 02/05

Which country, home to more than half of the world's brown bears, has by far the largest population of the species?

A) Russia

B) Canada

C) Turkey

D) Sweden

Answer · why

A) Russia

Russia has well over 100,000 brown bears, several times the number in the United States or Canada. Fittingly, a bear is the common personification of ...

Q 03/05

The extinct Atlas bear, a brown bear named after a mountain range, was the only modern bear native to which continent?

A) Europe

B) Asia

C) Oceania

D) Africa

Answer · why

D) Africa

Africa's only native bear of modern times roamed the Atlas Mountains from Morocco to Libya. Hunters finished it off soon after modern firearms were de...

Q 04/05

A 2017 DNA test on a mummified relic said to come from which legendary creature showed it was really a brown bear?

A) Yeti

B) Bigfoot

C) Wendigo

D) Werewolf

Answer · why

A) Yeti

Yeti stories of the high Himalayas overlap with a local brown bear that Nepalis call Dzu-Teh. The mummified relic tested in 2017 turned out to be one ...

Q 05/05

Which creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar illustrated the 1967 book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

A) Maurice Sendak

B) Dr. Seuss

C) Eric Carle

D) Leo Lionni

Answer · why

C) Eric Carle

Eric Carle was hired after author Bill Martin Jr. saw a lobster he had collaged from tissue paper for a magazine advert. The pair went on to make thre...