Q 01/05

Which Star Wars film shot its forest moon of Endor scenes among the giant redwoods of northern California?

A) The Empire Strikes Back

B) Attack of the Clones

C) Return of the Jedi

D) The Phantom Menace

Answer · why

C) Return of the Jedi

Return of the Jedi used the redwoods as the home of the Ewoks. Backgrounds for the speeder chase were filmed by walking a camera through the trees at ...

Q 02/05

Which vampire saga is set in Forks, a rainy logging town surrounded by the temperate rainforest of Washington state?

A) Twilight

B) True Blood

C) Vampire Academy

D) The Originals

Answer · why

A) Twilight

Twilight turned Forks, where more than 100 inches of rainfall soak the woods each year, from a timber town into a destination for fans.

Q 03/05

Which burrowing marsupial of the forests of south-eastern Australia is famous for leaving cube-shaped droppings?

A) Quokka

B) Wombat

C) Bandicoot

D) Numbat

Answer · why

B) Wombat

Wombat droppings are stacked to mark territory, and the flat sides are thought to stop them rolling away. Research into how the cubes form won an Ig N...

Q 04/05

Which mollusc of the redwood forests is the mascot of the University of California, Santa Cruz?

A) Leopard slug

B) Garden snail

C) Sea hare

D) Banana slug

Answer · why

D) Banana slug

Banana slug became the mascot after a student vote, and Reader's Digest named it the best college mascot in 2004. The largest of these slugs can reach...

Q 05/05

Which mammal of Himalayan temperate forests gave the Firefox web browser its name?

A) Red panda

B) Tibetan fox

C) Raccoon dog

D) Palm civet

Answer · why

A) Red panda

Red panda is the animal behind the name, since firefox is one of its nicknames, although the browser's logo shows a fox. It is not closely related to ...