Statistics for Pleistocene Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Intelligent, (ancestrally) dark-skinned, hairless primate that first evolved in Africa	Humans	100%
Close relatives of humans who inhabited Eurasia; had broader faces and a more robust build for coping with colder temperatures	Neanderthals	80%
Among the oldest known human remains; discovered in southern Ethiopia	Omo remains	80%
Hairy relative of Asian elephants with curled tusks; among the last of the Pleistocene megafauna	Woolly mammoth	80%
Very large North/South American birds of prey, who survived the Quaternary extinction only by feeding off of deceased marine animals	Condors	60%
Land bridge that connected Alaska and Russia	Beringia	50%
Group of big cats with enlarged upper canines; includes famous examples like Smilodon and Homotherium	Machairodonts, or saber-toothed cats	50%
Large African mammals that somehow rafted to Madagascar and "shrank''	Malagasy hippopotamus	50%
Expanse of grassland that covered nearly all of northern Eurasia; named for its most famous woolly inhabitant	Mammoth Steppe	50%
Faunal interchange that coincided with the beginning of the Pleistocene; South American fauna migrated into North America, and vice versa	Great American Interchange	40%
Tallest land mammal ever; lived alongside Asian elephants in India, China, etc.; today's African forest elephant is related to it	Asian straight-tusked elephant	30%
Unique, mid-ranged dart-propelling weapon; first used during the late Pleistocene	Atlatl	30%
Large ice sheets that fluctuated heavily during the Pleistocene	Glaciers	30%
Cave in France; contains over 600 paintings which depict various Pleistocene fauna such as mammoths, aurochs and lions	Lascaux	30%
Huge glacier that smothered much of upper North America	Laurentide Ice Sheet	30%
Rapid cooling event that occurred around 12,900 years ago; named after an alpine-tundra wildflower	Younger Dryas	30%
Catastrophic supervolcano eruption which occurred in Sumatra, Indonesia during the late Pleistocene	Toba eruption	20%
Currently-dormant supervolcano which erupted multiple times during the Pleistocene	Yellowstone Caldera	20%
Second subdivision of the Pleistocene	Calabrian	10%
Inlet of the North Atlantic that covered some of Eastern Canada	Champlain Sea	10%
Last "official'' subdivision of the Pleistocene	Chibanian	10%
First subdivision of the Pleistocene	Gelasian	10%