Q 01/05

What is a female fox called?

A) A doe

B) A vixen

C) A jill

D) A sow

Answer · why

B) A vixen

A vixen: she gives birth in a den, and the father stays to help raise the cubs until they leave home in the autumn.

Q 02/05

Which of these is a real collective noun for a group of foxes?

A) A business

B) A murder

C) A parliament

D) A skulk

Answer · why

D) A skulk

A skulk: red foxes live in small family groups, yet each usually forages alone.

Q 03/05

Which German field marshal of World War II was nicknamed 'the Desert Fox'?

A) Erich von Manstein

B) Erwin Rommel

C) Walter Model

D) Gerd von Rundstedt

Answer · why

B) Erwin Rommel

Erwin Rommel: linked to the plotters behind the failed July 1944 attempt on Hitler's life, he was forced to take poison to protect his family.

Q 04/05

Which English idiom comes from one of Aesop's fables about a fox?

A) Cold feet

B) Sour grapes

C) Slow and steady

D) Pie in the sky

Answer · why

B) Sour grapes

Sour grapes: in the fable, a fox that can't reach some grapes walks away saying they must have been sour anyway.

Q 05/05

Flying foxes are actually which kind of animal?

A) Flying squirrels

B) Fruit bats

C) Sugar gliders

D) Colugos

Answer · why

B) Fruit bats

Fruit bats: unlike most bats, flying foxes can't echolocate, so they find their way in the dark by sight.