Facts about whales quiz
In this quiz you have a number of questions about whales taken mostly from the WWF website. How many answers do you know or can you guess. Without using reference material or the internet, of course.
REMEMBER - NO POSTS instead you PM me with your guesses any time up to 8pm tonight. If possible, please wait until you've completed all the guesses you want to make to avoid too many PMs and to make my job easier. So no hurry and it doesn't matter when you submit the answers because I'll be judging them solely on who has the most correct - and in the event of two or more being level it will be a tie. I hope this is clear and good luck. Tomorrow I’ll post the names of the top entries.
1. Largest type of whale
2. Primary food of the above
3. Type of whale that lives in the Arctic – also known as the White whale
4. Type of whale most common for whale-watching
5. Most common type of whale
6. Another name for killer whales
7. Largest type of toothed whale, once hunted for "whale oil"
8. Primary food of the above
9. Movie about a boy who helped a killer whale to escape
10. Bible character swallowed by a whale
11. Fictional whale hated by Captain Ahab
12. To which animals are killer whales most closely related?
13. Filter-feeding body part also called whalebone
14. Animal with Whale in its name but which is not a whale
15. Which whale’s name means "corpse whale" in Nordic as their skin colour resembles that of a drowned sailor?
16. Name given to a young whale
17. Name given to an adult male whale
18. Name given to an adult female whale
Bonus question: 19.What is unusual about the feeding habits of Humpback whales
REMEMBER - NO POSTS instead you PM me with your guesses any time up to 8pm tonight. If possible, please wait until you've completed all the guesses you want to make to avoid too many PMs and to make my job easier. So no hurry and it doesn't matter when you submit the answers because I'll be judging them solely on who has the most correct - and in the event of two or more being level it will be a tie. I hope this is clear and good luck. Tomorrow I’ll post the names of the top entries.
1. Largest type of whale
2. Primary food of the above
3. Type of whale that lives in the Arctic – also known as the White whale
4. Type of whale most common for whale-watching
5. Most common type of whale
6. Another name for killer whales
7. Largest type of toothed whale, once hunted for "whale oil"
8. Primary food of the above
9. Movie about a boy who helped a killer whale to escape
10. Bible character swallowed by a whale
11. Fictional whale hated by Captain Ahab
12. To which animals are killer whales most closely related?
13. Filter-feeding body part also called whalebone
14. Animal with Whale in its name but which is not a whale
15. Which whale’s name means "corpse whale" in Nordic as their skin colour resembles that of a drowned sailor?
16. Name given to a young whale
17. Name given to an adult male whale
18. Name given to an adult female whale
Bonus question: 19.What is unusual about the feeding habits of Humpback whales
