Guess the Animal

Twenty Rounds of Description

This quiz runs 20 questions. Most hand you an animal described by its traits — how it moves, what it eats, where it lives — and offer four names, only one of which fits the description. Mixed in are rounds on baby-animal names, the particular words English reserves for the young of particular species. The clues do the work; your job is to read them.

Two Authors, One Answer Key

Every answer in this quiz was written down twice before it was trusted once. Two authors filled in the same fixed set of keys independently — a question catalog plus structured tables covering animal classes, baby-animal names, and more — and the two versions were then compared value by value. Of 196 keys, 194 matched exactly. The two facts the authors could not agree on were not argued over; they were thrown out. A contested fact makes a rotten quiz question, so on this site it never becomes one.

Playing the Quiz

The quiz runs in this page. Each question shows four options; pick one and you learn immediately whether you were right, with the correct answer shown either way. At the end you get a full review of all 20 questions, and your best score is saved in your browser for next time. No signup, nothing to download — just the descriptions, the names, and however many you can pin down.