Q 01/05

Which Atlantic island group's Latin name means 'Islands of the Dogs'?

A) Canary Islands

B) Faroe Islands

C) Azores

D) Cape Verde

Answer · why

A) Canary Islands

Canary Islands: the Roman writer Pliny described an island called Canaria, home to huge dogs, and the songbird takes its name from the islands, not th...

Q 02/05

Which teeth does a dog use like scissors to shear meat?

A) Carnassials

B) Canines

C) Incisors

D) Milk teeth

Answer · why

A) Carnassials

Carnassials: on each side the last upper premolar and the first lower molar slide past each other as the jaw closes, so a dog slices meat with the sid...

Q 03/05

Which dog is famous for waiting at a Tokyo train station for nearly 10 years after its owner's death?

A) Balto

B) Lassie

C) Hachiko

D) Rin Tin Tin

Answer · why

C) Hachiko

Hachiko met the evening train at Shibuya Station for more than nine years after his owner, Professor Hidesaburo Ueno, died in 1925; a bronze statue ou...

Q 04/05

What breed was Lassie, the famous TV and movie dog?

A) Rough Collie

B) Shetland Sheepdog

C) Border Collie

D) Australian Shepherd

Answer · why

A) Rough Collie

Lassie is a Rough Collie: Eric Knight's 1938 story made the character famous, and Pal, the Rough Collie who played her in the 1943 film, founded the l...

Q 05/05

Dogs have around 1,700 taste buds; roughly how many do humans have?

A) 900

B) 9,000

C) 90,000

D) 900,000

Answer · why

B) 9,000

Humans have roughly 9,000 taste buds, about five times a dog's 1,700, which is one reason dogs judge food far more by smell than by taste.