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The Man-Eaters

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Specific Topic Animal Trivia : The Man-Eaters

Introduction:
"Humans eat a lot of different animals, but only a few animals eat humans. (Note that there are myriad animals that occasionally kill humans. This quiz is only about the ones that actually EAT us.)"


1. Which word means "eating human flesh?"
    anthropophagous
    anthropophilic
    anthropomorphism
    anthropophobia


2. According to Desmond Morris, author of "The Naked Ape" and many other books about human biology, there are only three species that regularly prey on humans. Which of the following does he NOT mention?
    wolves
    crocodiles
    tigers
    sharks


3. Okay, let's turn our attention first to the sharks. Which of the following are NOT generally accepted as being man-eaters?
    mako shark
    oceanic whitetip shark
    great white shark
    bull shark


4. Which of these activities puts you at the highest risk of being eaten by a shark?
    fishing
    deep-sea diving
    swimming
    surfing


5. Just to put things in perspective, about 20 people are eaten by sharks every year. People, on the other hand, eat how many sharks?
    more than 200 thousand
    more than 200 million
    more than 2 million
    more than 20 million


6. Enough about sharks, already! Let's turn our attention to the crocodiles. Which of the following crocodilians has NEVER been known to eat a human?
    American alligator
    black caiman
    Mindoro crocodile
    mugger crocodile


7. Which of the great man-eaters hunts humans in the lands where we originally evolved?
    saltwater crocodile
    Nile crocodile
    Bengal tiger
    great white shark


8. Of single individual crocodiles, the most famous man-eater of modern times was one believed to have eaten 200 people during his 60 year career. What was his name?
    Eomund
    Horace
    Gustave
    Franklin


9. Well, that fellow wins the prize for solo man-eating, but what about team effort? Where did the incident allegedly occur in 1945, involving the most humans eaten by multiple crocodiles?
    Poro Island, Phillipines
    Penang Island, Malaya
    Ramree Island, Burma
    Labuan Island, Brunei


10. What can we say about the story of the man who was ambushed and devoured by an American alligator, on a golf course in South Carolina, so fast that his friends didn't even see?
    It is a complete fabrication, with not even a grain of truth.
    It has been embellished, but is based on a true story.
    It is true.
    It is not only true, but a fairly common occurence.


11. We move on to the tigers. The most frequent occurances of tigers preying on humans is in an area called the Sundurbans. This area is on the border between which countries?
    Bangladesh and Myanmar (Burma)
    India and Bangladesh
    India and Nepal
    Thailand and Myanmar (Burma)


12. What unusual technique has been used by people in the Sundurbans to avoid tiger attacks?
    feeding cattle to the tigers so they are too full to hunt
    wearing a mask on the back of their heads to avoid attacks from behind
    building high security fences around villages and along trails
    using specially-trained dogs to detect and flush out tigers


13. Besides the Bengal tiger, what other tiger subspecies has been known to hunt humans in recent times?
    Malayan tiger
    Siberian tiger
    Bali tiger
    Sumatran tiger


14. Besides the big three, there are a variety of beasts that have eaten humans on rare occasions: bears, feral dogs, cougars, and many others. How would you describe the anthropophagous behaviour of the reticulated python?
    a major problem in some areas
    about equivalent to that of the bull shark
    non-existant
    a dismal failure


15. This (infrequent) man-eater made the news in 2001, when Phil Bronstein, editor of the Los Angeles Chronicle and then-husband of actress Sharon Stone, was attacked at the Los Angeles Zoo.
    Komodo dragon
    killer whale
    Galapagos tortoise
    wolverine


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