Q 01/05

Which cattle painkiller, banned in India in 2006, all but wiped out the country's Gyps vultures?

A) Ketamine

B) Ivermectin

C) Diclofenac

D) Oxytocin

Answer · why

C) Diclofenac

Diclofenac given to cattle caused kidney failure in vultures that fed on the carcasses, and more than 95% of the birds died off. Parsi sky burials in ...

Q 02/05

Whose 1515 woodcut of an Indian rhinoceros sent from Gujarat to Lisbon was drawn without seeing it?

A) Albrecht Dürer

B) Hans Holbein

C) Leonardo da Vinci

D) Pieter Bruegel

Answer · why

A) Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer worked from a written description and a brief sketch, the first rhinoceros in Europe since Roman times having reached Lisbon in May 151...

Q 03/05

Which Madhya Pradesh park received eight cheetahs flown in from Namibia on 17 September 2022?

A) Madhav

B) Kuno

C) Panna

D) Satpura

Answer · why

B) Kuno

Kuno got five females and three males aged four to six, released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his birthday, and twelve more cheetahs arrived fro...

Q 04/05

Poaching which animal in 1998 earned Bollywood star Salman Khan a five-year sentence in 2018?

A) Chinkara

B) Chital

C) Sambar

D) Blackbuck

Answer · why

D) Blackbuck

Blackbuck are revered by Rajasthan's Bishnoi community, and it was Bishnoi villagers who filed the original poaching complaint that put the star on tr...

Q 05/05

Which northeastern park, built on floating phumdi mats, is the world's only floating national park?

A) Balphakram

B) Keibul Lamjao

C) Dibru-Saikhowa

D) Ntangki

Answer · why

B) Keibul Lamjao

Keibul Lamjao's phumdis are thick mats of decaying vegetation and soil, and the park was created to save the sangai, a brow-antlered deer once thought...