Q 01/05

Reptiles and frogs live wild on six of the seven continents; which one has none of either?

A) Australia

B) North America

C) Antarctica

D) South America

Answer · why

C) Antarctica

Antarctica is the only continent where no reptiles or frogs live. On the other six they range from tropical forests to subarctic regions.

Q 02/05

Which reptile, a hunter able to bring down deer and water buffalo, is the largest living lizard?

A) Komodo dragon

B) Nile monitor

C) Green iguana

D) Frilled lizard

Answer · why

A) Komodo dragon

Komodo dragon males can reach 3 metres and 150 kg, making the species the largest living lizard. It survives on only a handful of Indonesian islands.

Q 03/05

What name is given to the change that turns a gilled, swimming tadpole into an air-breathing frog?

A) Regeneration

B) Metamorphosis

C) Hibernation

D) Fertilisation

Answer · why

B) Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis rebuilds a tadpole almost completely: legs sprout, a tongue forms and, a few days later, the tail is absorbed back into the body.

Q 04/05

Which lizards can swivel each eye separately and fire a sticky tongue farther than their own body length?

A) Monitor lizards

B) Green iguanas

C) Bearded dragons

D) Chameleons

Answer · why

D) Chameleons

Chameleons can watch two different objects at once, because each eye pivots and focuses on its own. Small species shoot their tongues more than twice ...

Q 05/05

Old folk belief wrongly blames touching a toad for which skin growths, really caused by a human virus?

A) Blisters

B) Moles

C) Warts

D) Freckles

Answer · why

C) Warts

Warts come from the human papillomavirus, which toads do not carry. The myth probably grew from the bumpy glands on a toad's back, which look much the...