Statistics for Tasmanian Animals

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Which Tasmanian animal was famously caricatured by the Looney Tunes character Taz?	Tasmanian devil	100%
Name one of the three types of snakes found in Tasmania	Tiger \| Lowland copperhead \| White-lipped	81%
What animal did farmers fear the above was killing?	Sheep	77%
Which animal was hunted to extinction in the early 20th century?	Tasmanian tiger	77%
Which famously aggressive Australian bird's Tasmanian counterpart is much friendlier?	Magpie	62%
There is a population of wallabies on Bruny Island, off the southeast of Tasmania, with which mutation?	Albinism	54%
Which Tasmanian bird is also commonly known as a turbo chook, due to its impressive running speed of up to 50 kph (31 mph)?	Tasmanian native hen	38%
Which animals were introduced to Macquarie Island, about 1500km (930mi) southeast of mainland Tasmania, to control pest animal populations, only to become a pest themselves?	Cats	35%
The town of Latrobe in the state's northwest is sometimes given which title?	{Platypus} capital of the world	27%
Wineglass Bay on the state's East Coast got its name from the colour produced by hunting which animal?	Whales	27%
What is the meaning of the above animal's genus, Sarcophilus?	Meatlover	15%
Which critically endangered bird flies south to Tasmania to breed during the summer?	Swift parrot	12%