Q 01/05

Which animal did Jane Goodall spend more than six decades studying in the wild?

A) Chimpanzees

B) Baboons

C) Orangutans

D) Mountain gorillas

Answer · why

A) Chimpanzees

She was described by many publications as the world's preeminent expert on the species.

Q 02/05

In which country is Gombe Stream National Park, the site of Goodall's research?

A) Tanzania

B) Kenya

C) Rwanda

D) Uganda

Answer · why

A) Tanzania

It was still Tanganyika when she first arrived, and its national parks were later run by her second husband.

Q 03/05

Which palaeontologist mentored Goodall and sent her to Gombe in 1960?

A) Richard Owen

B) Donald Johanson

C) Raymond Dart

D) Louis Leakey

Answer · why

D) Louis Leakey

He believed studying living great apes would hint at how early hominids behaved, and secretly wanted a chimpanzee researcher.

Q 04/05

What job did Leakey first offer Goodall when she telephoned him in Kenya in 1957?

A) Photographer

B) Secretary

C) Museum guide

D) Field cook

Answer · why

B) Secretary

He kept his real plan, finding a chimpanzee researcher, to himself and sent her to Olduvai Gorge instead.

Q 05/05

Which stuffed toy did Goodall's father give her as a child instead of a teddy bear?

A) A toy monkey named Bobo

B) A toy chimpanzee named Jubilee

C) A toy lion named Leo

D) A toy elephant named Jumbo

Answer · why

B) A toy chimpanzee named Jubilee

Her mother's friends thought it would give her nightmares; it was still on her dresser in 2000.