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General Knowledge: Answers are Animals #1

This isn't a quiz about animals in nature. It's about animals in human life, history, and folklore.
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China is said to be shaped like what animal?
chicken
What animal is known as "man's best friend"?
dog
What animal supposedly sheds tears while consuming its prey, leading to a figure of speech about insincere emotion?
crocodile
The rulers of Thailand and Myanmar own rare white individuals of what animal? (If you receive one as a gift, you'll have to feed it, but you can't put it to work because it's considered sacred. It may become an unwanted burden.)
elephant
How many of the signs of the Chinese Zodiac are real (not fantastical) animals?
11
How many of the signs of the Western Zodiac are real (not fantastical) animals? (Hint: Capricorn is a "sea goat"—half goat and half fish.)
6
Malaria is borne by what animal?
mosquito
Lyme disease is borne by what animal?
tick
The elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha rode on what animal?
mouse or rat
The Norse god of thunder, Thor, rode in a chariot drawn by what animal?
goats
In the Bible, Jesus cast demons out of a man and into what animal?
pigs
In South Asian and Southest Asian folklore, what animal stamps out fires?
rhinoceros
In the Chinese classical novel Journey to the West, the powerful and mischievous Sun Wukong was what animal?
monkey
Princess Odette was transformed into what animal?
swan
In Life of Pi, a boy is stranded in a boat with what animal?
tiger
Tyrian purple dye, one of the most expensive substances in the ancient world, comes from what animal?
snail
Roman emperor Caligula allegedly planned to appoint what animal to the office of consul?
horse
What animal is very common in European heraldry, despite not roaming Europe since the Stone Age?
lion
What animal roamed North America in herds so vast they reportedly stretched from horizon to horizon?
bison
What domestic animal that originated in the New World gets its English name from a place on the Mediterranean?
turkey
What domestic animal that originated in the New World gets its English name from a place in Russia?
Muscovy duck
The oil used to lubricate machinery in the Industrial Revolution came primarily from what animal?
whale
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was allegedly started by what animal?
cow
King Alexander of Greece died in 1920 of an infected bite from what animal?
monkey
What was the first animal to orbit the earth?
dog
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