Q 01/05

In which US state do cold snaps stun wild green iguanas so badly that they tumble from their perches?

A) Louisiana

B) Florida

C) Georgia

D) South Carolina

Answer · why

B) Florida

Florida's feral iguanas slip into a torpor on unseasonably cold nights and lose their grip on the branches, as happened in January 2008, 2010 and 2018...

Q 02/05

What do marine iguanas regularly sneeze out through their nostrils?

A) Sand

B) Blood

C) Slime

D) Salt

Answer · why

D) Salt

Salt is filtered from a marine iguana's blood by glands at the nostrils and expelled in a sneeze, which can turn its head white and crusty.

Q 03/05

Green iguana meat is eaten in Central America under a nickname comparing it to which other meat?

A) Chicken

B) Rabbit

C) Pork

D) Pheasant

Answer · why

A) Chicken

Chicken is the comparison: the nickname gallina de palo means 'chicken of the tree', and people in the region have eaten iguanas for about 7,000 years...

Q 04/05

Which movie monster was reimagined in a 1998 Hollywood film as an iguana mutated by nuclear fallout?

A) King Kong

B) Gamera

C) Godzilla

D) Mothra

Answer · why

C) Godzilla

Godzilla hatches in the 1998 film from an iguana nest exposed to fallout from a nuclear test in French Polynesia, then heads for New York City.

Q 05/05

What can marine iguanas do to their own bodies to survive when El Niño wipes out their food?

A) Shrink in length

B) Switch sex

C) Hibernate for months

D) Store fat in humps

Answer · why

A) Shrink in length

Shrink in length is what they do: some marine iguanas become up to 20% shorter during El Niño famines, then grow back once food returns.