Quiz question

[Susan Humphreys]

We do the Liverpool Echo quiz at work.
Today one of the questions was
Which animal's tongue is twice the length of its body?
One of my colleagues answered - "anteater" - can you imagine? lol!

 

[Writhedhornbill]

Isn't it a chameleon?

 

[Susan Humphreys]

Yep! Everyone got the first question right - what type of animal is an okapi - mammal, insect or amphibian? And most got dead leaf, paper kite, blue striped crow and great egg fly are all types of what?

 

[Writhedhornbill]

butterfly?

 

[Susan Humphreys]

Yes, I'd be surprised if there was an animal question you couldn't get right! ha. Have you ever considered junior mastermind?

 

[Writhedhornbill]

Haha Jonathan Beilby, specialist subject, Penelopides hornbills!!

Any more questions?

How about we make a zoobeat questionnaire, sending our questions, and answers to sim! Then he could compile them all into a big questionnaire, and then we have to send it back to him. The winner wins the glory of being the smartest on zoobeat!

 

[Susan Humphreys]

An animal questionnaire sounds fun!
the only other animal themed question I can find from the Echo is 'How many eyes does a tarantula have?'

 

[Writhedhornbill]

Eight! They have EIGHT EYES!

 

[Susan Humphreys]

Yes again! I love the ten character rule for posting.

 

[gentle lemur]

I think I may have an alternative (and possibly better) answer - the sword-billed hummingbird.
I did a little research (a one page Google search) and found this scan of a skeleton http://www.ups.edu/Images/SlaterMuseum/swordbillskelFull.jpg: I think that its tongue will be almost as long as its bill.

Can anyone confirm or deny this?

Alan

 

[Chlidonias]

what about the giant hawk moth of Madagascar? Its proboscis must be well over twice its body length.

 

[patrick]

there used to be a quiz thread. we played by the rules that whoever answered correctly got the right to ask the next question. it worked on an honesty basis, that nobody was using google!

 

[MARK]

We could start another quiz thread again if theres enought interest

 

[PAT]

I'm in.....

 

[Writhedhornbill]

Me too!

Should we start a new thread, or carry on with this one?

 

[kiang]

bring it on!

 

[Writhedhornbill]

I'll start a new thread!