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Animal Trivia Questions and Quizzes

Hairy, feathery or scaly, animals tend to bring out the gentleness or bravado in people. People like knowing about them whether they are cute and cuddly or vast and scary. To many children, animals are characters from their favorite stories. To many adults, animals are precious parts of this fragile world we live in and worthy of preservation. There is a tremendous amount of little-known facts about animals great and small, and knowing these details will be a fun way to spend time with people you like while helping each other learn something new every time. Test your trivia knowledge or become a quiz master with these challenging animal trivia questions with answers.

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Can dogs smell cancer in humans?

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Can dogs smell cancer in humans?
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Dogs can sniff out certain diseases, including cancer.
According to researchers, dogs can detect many types of cancers in humans. Like many other diseases, cancers leave specific traces, or odor signatures, in body fluids. Cancer cells, or healthy cells affected by cancer, produce and release these odor signatures.
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Who was “Unsinkable Sam”?

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Who was “unsinkable sam”?
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It is the name of a cat that survived 3 shipwrecks during World War II.
The original name of the ship’s cat was Oskar and is reported to serve during World War II with both the Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy and survived the sinking of three ships. “Oscar” was derived from the International Code of Signals for the letter ‘O,’ which is code for “Man Overboard”(the German spelling, “Oskar,” was sometimes used since he was a German cat).
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What is a tercel?

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A male hawk
Tercel is used to refer primarily to the male peregrine or gyrfalcon, which are different hawk species.
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Which animal has human-like fingerprints?

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Which animal has human-like fingerprints?
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The Koala.
Koala fingerprints were discovered in 1996. Although there are other animals with fingerprints similar to human, the remarkable thing is that the fingerprints of koalas have been evolved independently and recently during their evolutionary history.
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What is the fastest dog breed?

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What is the fastest dog breed?
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Greyhound.
Greyhounds make up the fastest dog in the world. According to the Minnesota chapter of Greyhound Pets of America, these canines can run up to 45 miles per hour (72 km/h)! The only land animal that is faster than the Greyhound is the cheetah.
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