Q 01/05

Where do wild turkeys spend the night, since their vision is very poor after dark?

A) In burrows

B) In tall grass

C) In trees

D) In caves

Answer · why

C) In trees

Wild turkeys roost in trees, flying up at twilight to get well off the ground, and in snowy regions they sit out blizzards in conifers.

Q 02/05

Which Founding Father's letter to his daughter began the myth that he wanted a turkey as national bird?

A) Thomas Jefferson

B) Alexander Hamilton

C) George Washington

D) Benjamin Franklin

Answer · why

D) Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was really criticising the Society of the Cincinnati and the eagle on its crest. He never publicly proposed the turkey or opposed th...

Q 03/05

Which children's television show covers its eight-foot-tall star's costume in tail feathers taken from turkeys?

A) The Muppet Show

B) Barney & Friends

C) Fraggle Rock

D) Sesame Street

Answer · why

D) Sesame Street

Sesame Street dresses Big Bird in turkey tail feathers, and its makers are said to reject roughly 90 percent of the feathers picked for the costume.

Q 04/05

After a huge conservation comeback, wild turkeys now live in every US state except which one?

A) Hawaii

B) Alaska

C) Nevada

D) Maine

Answer · why

B) Alaska

Alaska is the lone holdout, while even Hawaii has wild turkeys, released there in the late 1950s.

Q 05/05

People in which present-day country first domesticated the turkey, centuries before Europeans ever saw one?

A) Mexico

B) Peru

C) Canada

D) Brazil

Answer · why

A) Mexico

Mexico is where turkeys were first tamed, prized for meat, eggs and feathers. The farmyard birds now eaten worldwide descend from that stock, carried ...