Q 01/05

The green sea turtle is named for the color of which part of the animal, long prized by soup makers?

A) Its shell

B) Its fat

C) Its flippers

D) Its skin

Answer · why

B) Its fat

Its fat gives the green sea turtle its name: a greenish layer lies between its organs and its shell. The shell itself is usually olive or brown.

Q 02/05

Which laid-back green sea turtle rides the East Australian Current with his son Squirt in Finding Nemo?

A) Crush

B) Bruce

C) Gill

D) Nigel

Answer · why

A) Crush

Crush is voiced by the film's own director, Andrew Stanton. The character teaches Marlin, the anxious clownfish father, to relax about his missing son...

Q 03/05

Green sea turtles are the only sea turtles that commonly do what on land, as on some Hawaiian beaches?

A) Graze on plants

B) Dig sleeping burrows

C) Bask in the sun

D) Guard their nests

Answer · why

C) Bask in the sun

Bask in the sun is the answer: males and females alike haul out to warm up. They sometimes flick sand over their backs so the surface of the body does...

Q 04/05

When green sea turtle soup grew scarce and costly, cooks made a mock version from which farm animal?

A) Lamb

B) Goose

C) Piglet

D) Calf

Answer · why

D) Calf

Calf meat, chiefly from the head, copied the texture of the real thing. That is why the Mock Turtle in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is drawn with ...

Q 05/05

Which food, grazed in warm shallow lagoons, makes adult green sea turtles the only plant-eating sea turtles?

A) Seagrass

B) Giant kelp

C) Water hyacinth

D) Plankton

Answer · why

A) Seagrass

Seagrass is the adult staple, eaten along with algae. Hatchlings start out eating small animals and switch to plants as they mature.