Q 01/05

Researchers found that mallards on the edge of a resting flock keep half the brain awake by doing what?

A) Standing on one leg

B) Sleeping with one eye open

C) Floating in slow circles

D) Tucking the bill under a wing

Answer · why

B) Sleeping with one eye open

Sleeping with one eye open lets a mallard at the edge of a group keep watch: the eye facing outward stays open while the other half of the brain sleep...

Q 02/05

The locomotive Mallard set a 126 mph record in 1938 that still stands for which type of railway engine?

A) Diesel

B) Electric

C) Steam

D) Gas turbine

Answer · why

C) Steam

Steam has never gone faster on rails: the streamlined blue engine, one of a batch named after birds, is now kept at the National Railway Museum in Yor...

Q 03/05

The Peabody Duck March, in which mallards waddle to a lobby fountain, began at a hotel in which US city?

A) Memphis

B) Nashville

C) New Orleans

D) Savannah

Answer · why

A) Memphis

Memphis guests still gather daily at 11 a.m., when five mallards ride the elevator down from their rooftop home and cross a red carpet to a Sousa marc...

Q 04/05

In the picture book Make Way for Ducklings, a mallard family settles in the Public Garden of which city?

A) Philadelphia

B) Chicago

C) New York

D) Boston

Answer · why

D) Boston

Boston now has a bronze statue of the mother and her eight ducklings in the same garden, and in the story a policeman stops traffic so the family can ...

Q 05/05

Drake Mallard is the ordinary suburban alter ego of which cartoon superhero, first seen on television in 1991?

A) Count Duckula

B) Duck Dodgers

C) Darkwing Duck

D) Gizmoduck

Answer · why

C) Darkwing Duck

Darkwing Duck shares a quiet suburban house with his adopted daughter Gosalyn, and his civilian name parodies Kent Allard, alter ego of the pulp hero ...