Q 01/05

In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which child do Willy Wonka's nut-sorting squirrels throw down the rubbish chute?

A) Violet Beauregarde

B) Veruca Salt

C) Augustus Gloop

D) Mike Teavee

Answer · why

B) Veruca Salt

Veruca Salt. She marches in to grab a squirrel for a pet, but the animals pin her down, judge her a 'bad nut' and send her down the chute.

Q 02/05

The word 'squirrel' comes from the Greek 'skiouros', usually explained as meaning what?

A) Nut thief

B) Shadow tail

C) Tree runner

D) Little jumper

Answer · why

B) Shadow tail

Shadow tail. The Greek name joins skia, shadow, and oura, tail, perhaps because a squirrel sitting up to eat seems to shade itself with its own bushy ...

Q 03/05

Squirrels live wild on most continents, but which one had none until people brought them?

A) Africa

B) Australia

C) South America

D) Europe

Answer · why

B) Australia

Australia. Its look-alike possums only resemble flying squirrels: they are marsupials, more closely related to kangaroos than to any squirrel.

Q 04/05

Which squirrel is the world's smallest, only about 13 centimetres from nose to tail tip?

A) The least chipmunk

B) The western gray

C) The southern flying

D) The African pygmy

Answer · why

D) The African pygmy

The African pygmy. Unlike most squirrels it never stores food: it forages non-stop, running along rainforest branches upside down as easily as the rig...

Q 05/05

A gray squirrel that thinks it is being watched may do what with a nut?

A) Throw it at the watcher

B) Crack it open loudly

C) Pretend to bury it

D) Drop it and freeze

Answer · why

C) Pretend to bury it

Pretend to bury it. The squirrel digs a hole, mimes dropping the nut in and covers the empty spot, with the nut still tucked in its mouth to hide some...