1. Is a cross between a grizzly bear and a polar bear called a grolar bear, pizzly bear or grizzlar?

2. Do carnivorous plants grow wild in the British countryside?

3. Is the Orca or killer whale really a whale?

4. What is or was the biggest animal that ever lived on Earth?

5. What is the most dangerous animal in the world, excluding humans?

6. Which member of the royal family has a criminal record? 

7. Does the NHS still use maggots to clean serious wounds?

8. Indian elephants have larger ears than African: true or false?

9. Beavers were once common native animals in Britain: true or false?

10. Rabbits have always lived in England: true or false?

11. A leveret is a young what?

12. An elver is a young what?

13. A gosling is a young what?

14. A joey is a young what?

15. A cria is a young what?

16. A shoat is a young what?

17. What colour is a polar bear hair?

18. What has Christmas got to with red kites?

19. Red and green Pakistanis are now common in London — what are they?

20. White clawed versus red signal — who are battling it out?

21. How many legs does Britain’s largest lizard have?

22. Thousands of tons of this British caught fish are eaten in Spain. But British budgies get the best bit. What is it?

23. What is a silverfish?

24. Are all worker honey bees male or female?

25. Do bird-eating spiders really eat birds?

26. What kind of reptile lived for 175 years?

27. How many mammals lay eggs?

28. Why could an octopus claim to be royal?

29. What fish will make a Christmas Eve feast in many Polish households?

30. Can humans catch avian flu?

31. What did Wilbur Scoville invent?

32. Can a drunken elephant occur in the wild? How?

33. How many offspring can a single pair of rats produce in a year?

34. What is the native home of the very rare but increasing black swan population?

35. What colour is a field of linseed?

36. What colour is a field of flax? 

37. How much water can a full size adult camel store in its hump?

38. What is the British population of hedgehogs? 100,000-150,000? 200,000-250,000? 250,000-500,000?

39. What is Britain’s commonest snake?

40. What bird of prey gave its name to a table football game?

41. What is a bonxie? 

42. Can any mammals fly?

43. What animals do a waggle dance? 

44. What rarest of marine mammals visited Wales last year? 

45. What animal was ceremoniously released from country fairs to welcome summer?

46. What bird is found only in Scotland?

47. Snails can decide if they want to be male or female when mating: true or false?

48. Do sharks live in freshwater rivers, yes or no?

49. What birds assembles in a parliament?

50. What do mistletoe, fleas and Tory ministers have in common? 

ANSWERS
1. All three
2. Yes
3. No, it is a large dolphin
4. Blue whale
5. The malaria spreading female Anopheles mosquito
6. Princess Anne, procecuted under the Dangerous Dogs Act
7. Yes
8. False. Africans have bigger ears
9. True, but they were absent for many years
10. False, the Romans introduced them for food
11. Hare
12. Eel
13. Goose
14. Kangaroo, wallaby or koala
15. Alpaca or llama
16. A wild boar
17. No colour, each hair is transparent
18. Early introductions took place at Christmas Common reserve
19. Ring-necked parakeets
20. Crayfish — native and invasive
21. None, it is the legless slowworm
22. Cuttlefish
23. A small harmless pest insect often found in home bedrooms
24. All female
25. Hardly ever, it was misnamed by a photographic accident
26. A giant Galapagos tortoise
27. Five, the platypus and four species of spiky echidna
28. It has blue blood
29. Carp
30. Yes and in very few cases it can be fatal
31. A scale to measure the pungency or spicy heat of chilli peppers
32. They eat fallen and fermented fruit
33. 12,500
34. Australia and Tasmania 
35. A field of linseed is beautiful pale blue
36. See above, flaxseed and linseed are virtually identical
37. None. Camels store fat in the hump
38. 200,000-250.000
39. The adder or viper. Very common but hard to spot
40. The hobby has the Latin name Falco subbuteo
41. In Shetland the great skua (Stercorarius skua) is a bonxie, a type of bird
42. Bats are mammals and they are wonderful flyers
43. Honeybees dance to point other bees to nectar
44. An Arctic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)
45. Cuckoo
46. The Scottish crossbill. The only bird species endemic to the UK 
47. True — snails are hermaphrodites
48. Yes, including the Amazon
49. Owls
50. They are all parasites