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Hint	Answer	% Correct
What animal is known as "man's best friend"?	dog	100%
Malaria is borne by what animal?	mosquito	83%
How many of the signs of the Chinese Zodiac are real (not fantastical) animals?	11	76%
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	72%
Lyme disease is borne by what animal?	tick	67%
In Life of Pi, a boy is stranded in a boat with what animal?	tiger	67%
What animal supposedly sheds tears while consuming its prey, leading to a figure of speech about insincere emotion?	crocodile	61%
What was the first animal to orbit the earth?	dog	51%
What animal roamed North America in herds so vast they reportedly stretched from horizon to horizon?	bison	49%
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	44%
The oil used to lubricate machinery in the Industrial Revolution came primarily from what animal?	whale	34%
What animal is very common in European heraldry, despite not roaming Europe since the Stone Age?	lion	33%
In the Chinese classical novel Journey to the West, the powerful and mischievous Sun Wukong was what animal?	monkey	26%
China is said to be shaped like what animal?	chicken	24%
Princess Odette was transformed into what animal?	swan	24%
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was allegedly started by what animal?	cow	22%
In the Bible, Jesus cast demons out of a man and into what animal?	pigs	21%
Roman emperor Caligula allegedly planned to appoint what animal to the office of consul?	horse	20%
The Norse god of thunder, Thor, rode in a chariot drawn by what animal?	goats	17%
Tyrian purple dye, one of the most expensive substances in the ancient world, comes from what animal?	snail	10%
What domestic animal that originated in the New World gets its English name from a place on the Mediterranean?	turkey	8%
The elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha rode on what animal?	mouse or rat	7%
In South Asian and Southest Asian folklore, what animal stamps out fires?	rhinoceros	5%
King Alexander of Greece died in 1920 of an infected bite from what animal?	monkey	3%
What domestic animal that originated in the New World gets its English name from a place in Russia?	Muscovy duck	2%

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