Q 01/05

Which Surrealist painter took his pet ocelot to restaurants and aboard the ocean liner SS France?

A) René Magritte

B) Salvador Dalí

C) Max Ernst

D) Joan Miró

Answer · why

B) Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí once calmed an alarmed New York diner by claiming the ocelot was an ordinary house cat he had painted over in an op art design.

Q 02/05

Wild ocelots occur in just two US states: Arizona and which other, where they are listed as endangered?

A) New Mexico

B) California

C) Texas

D) Nevada

Answer · why

C) Texas

Texas had only an estimated 50 to 80 ocelots left as of 2014, and inbreeding among so few cats has cut their genetic diversity.

Q 03/05

Which is the only spotted cat in South America that grows larger than the ocelot?

A) Jaguar

B) Cougar

C) Pampas cat

D) Geoffroy's cat

Answer · why

A) Jaguar

Jaguar is the only bigger spotted cat on the continent, and it is also one of the few predators known to kill adult ocelots.

Q 04/05

In Minecraft, which hostile mob keeps a full six blocks away from any ocelot?

A) Enderman

B) Creeper

C) Skeleton

D) Zombie

Answer · why

B) Creeper

A Creeper will not come near an ocelot, which lives in the game's jungles and warms to players who feed it raw fish.

Q 05/05

Besides climbing and leaping, ocelots are efficient at which activity that most pet cats avoid?

A) Burrowing

B) Sprinting

C) Swimming

D) Hibernating

Answer · why

C) Swimming

Swimming comes easily to ocelots, which prefer to live close to water and will catch fish and crustaceans as well as rodents.