Q 01/05

In which 2004 cult comedy does an awkward Idaho teenager sketch a liger and call it his favorite animal?

A) Mean Girls

B) A Cinderella Story

C) Napoleon Dynamite

D) Garden State

Answer · why

C) Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon Dynamite treats the liger as a fantasy beast, but zoos were already raising real ones in the 1800s.

Q 02/05

Which US president bred mules after the Revolutionary War and is often called the father of the American mule?

A) George Washington

B) Thomas Jefferson

C) John Quincy Adams

D) James Madison

Answer · why

A) George Washington

George Washington found that mules worked harder and longer than horses, and sent his donkeys to farms across the country to sire more.

Q 03/05

In which Mexican border city do tourists pose with 'zonkeys' that are really donkeys painted with stripes?

A) Nogales

B) Tijuana

C) Mexicali

D) Ciudad Juárez

Answer · why

B) Tijuana

Tijuana cart owners began adding the stripes in the 1940s, partly because pale donkeys showed up poorly in black-and-white souvenir photos.

Q 04/05

The 'killer bees' of the Americas descend from African queens that escaped a breeding experiment in which country?

A) Venezuela

B) Colombia

C) Argentina

D) Brazil

Answer · why

D) Brazil

Brazil lost 26 swarms in 1957 when a visiting beekeeper removed the screens holding the queens in, and their hybrid offspring reached North America by...

Q 05/05

The Labradoodle was created by breeder Wally Conron as a low-shedding guide dog in which country?

A) Canada

B) Australia

C) Ireland

D) New Zealand

Answer · why

B) Australia

Australia is where Conron coined the catchy name to help place his puppies, and he later said he regretted starting the designer-dog craze.