Statistics for Elephant Trivia

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Disney animated flying elephant with big ears	Dumbo	100%
Common names for the two surviving genera in the Elephantidae family	African	88%
	Asian	88%
Extinct relative of the elephant, one species of which had a woolly coat	Mammoth	81%
What an elephant never does, thanks to its remarkable power of recall	Forget	75%
Material that forms the structure of an elephant's tusk	Ivory	75%
Common name for an elephant's proboscis	Trunk	69%
Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with elephants	Hannibal	63%
Elephant character created by Dr. Seuss who "Hears a Who"	Horton	63%
2011 movie starring Robert Pattinson, based on a novel by Sara Gruen	{Water} for Elephants	50%
Country that has the largest population of wild elephants	Botswana	44%
Either of the two aquatic mammals that are the elephant's closest extant relatives	Dugong or Manatee	44%
Common term meaning 'thick-skinned', applied to elephants, rhinos, hippos and tapirs	Pachyderm	38%
Hindu deity with the head of an elephant	Ganesh	31%
Giant elephant that was once exhibited as part of P.T. Barnum's circus	Jumbo	31%
Orphan elephant who befriends an old lady and becomes King of Celesteville	Babar	19%
Elephant-like character encountered in the dreams of Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet	Heffalump	19%
Actor who played the part of John Merrick in the 1980 movie, The Elephant Man	John Hurt	19%
Head of the elephant troop in Disney's adaptation of The Jungle Book	Colonel Hathi	6%
Chair or carriage that is used to carry people on the back of an elephant	Howdah	0%