Cactus & Wildlife Trivia 2: Can You Pass?
Test your knowledge of cactus and wildlife of Arizona with this short quiz, originally published in Marshall Trimble’s Official Arizona Trivia. Don’t scroll down too quickly. The answers are posted shortly below the questions. When you’re finished, leave a comment with your score. Did any answers surprise you?
- What are Abert, Kaibab, and Red?
What are Yucca, Agave and Ocotillo?
- What is Arizona’s state bird?
- What desert plant has long arms and a scarlet-orange blossom and is sometimes referred to as a “Monkey’s Tail”?
- What cactus is also known as “Pitahaya”?
- What red shape appears on female black widow spiders?
- In Arizona, when speaking of “pronghorn” to what is one referring?
- What is the wapiti more commonly called?
- What popular bird can fly backwards and straight up?
- What is Arizona’s only native game fish?
- What is the only poisonous lizard in the United States?
- What desert plant blooms only once in its lifetime?
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- Types of squirrels found in Arizona
- Desert plants (not cacti)
- Cactus Wren
- Ocotillo
- Organ Pipe
- An hourglass
- Antelope
- Elk
- Hummingbird
- Arizona trout
- Gila monster
- Agave or Century plant. (Blooms once in 10 to 75 years.)
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Actually for number 10 there are two native game fish to AZ, the Gila Trout and the Apache/Arizona Trout. My son and I knew the Apache Trout, but didn’t know it by Arizona Trout. I looked it up and found that there’s one more. Thanks for the fun quiz.
http://www.azgfd.gov/w_c/apache_recovery.shtml
and to be technical, a Gila Monster is not poisonous it is venomous. I know a lot of people say there is no difference but there really is. Venom is normally injected/delivered by the use of fangs or stingers. Poison is usually delivered as a substance on or a part of the body/plant and is dangerous only if ingested or touched. Didn’t mean to get on a soap box but I’m a major reptile fan. 🙂