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All About the Jungle Trivia Quiz


The jungle is a place of mystery, romance, danger and great beauty. How many of these people, places and things pertaining to the jungle can you sort?

A multiple-choice quiz by FatherSteve. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
FatherSteve
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
391,717
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
11 / 15
Plays
438
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
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Question 1 of 15
1. "The Jungle Book" (as well as its sequel "The Second Jungle Book") was written by which author?
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Question 2 of 15
2. What is a Jungle Gym? Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. The 1955 movie "Blackboard Jungle" was set in which environment?
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Question 4 of 15
4. According to his theme song, for what does George of the Jungle need to look out?
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Question 5 of 15
5. Jungle Rot is a tropical disease which causes what?
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Question 6 of 15
6. Inspired by the success of "Jungle Jim" in the comic strips, movies and television, the TV series "Ramar of the Jungle" (1952-1954) was set in which location(s)?
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Question 7 of 15
7. The perfume Jungle Gardenia was created in 1932 but discontinued forever in the 1990s.


Question 8 of 15
8. The 2017 Australian movie "Jungle" was based on the true story of Yossi Ghinsberg who was lost in what jungle?
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Question 9 of 15
9. In an interesting American primary-election voting scheme, who wins a "jungle primary"?
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Question 10 of 15
10. Appearing in comic strips, radio, motion pictures, comic books and television, who was the white safari-suited hunter played by Johnny Weissmuller after he gave up wearing the loincloth? Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. Upton Sinclair caused a public uproar with his 1906 muckraking novel "The Jungle." What is his novel about? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. What is the law of the jungle? Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. To whom does the appellation "King of the Jungle" refer?
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Question 14 of 15
14. Bomba was popular in children's literature, motion pictures and television. Who or what was Bomba?
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Question 15 of 15
15. The "Rumble in the Jungle" occurred on 30 October 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaire, between which two world heavyweight champion boxers? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. "The Jungle Book" (as well as its sequel "The Second Jungle Book") was written by which author?

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling collected his stories about a feral human child (Mowgli) raised in the jungle by anthropomorphic animals in "The Jungle Book" (1894) and "The Second Jungle Book" (1895). Kipling proved himself an expert fabulist in writing stories where various animals represent archetypes of human behaviour.

These stories may have been originally written for his daughter's entertainment but quickly become popular and successful. The stories have been through many adaptations including Percy Grainger's musical "Jungle Book Cycle" (1958) and Walt Disney's 1967 animated classic and its 2016 remake.
2. What is a Jungle Gym?

Answer: Playground equipment, also called monkey bars

Sebastian Hinton of Chicago, Illinois, invented and patented the first Jungle Gym in 1920. He described it as a climbing frame made of metal pipe, wood and/or rope on which youngsters could exercise. His patent says his invention appeals to the "monkey instinct" in children and encourages them to climb, swing, perch and otherwise use their young muscles on the apparatus. The second prototype, built by Hinton, is located at the Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois, a progressive elementary school.
3. The 1955 movie "Blackboard Jungle" was set in which environment?

Answer: an inner-city high school

Glenn Ford plays teacher Richard Dadier, new to North Manual Trades High School. He is opposed by a black student, played by Sidney Poitier, who tests him in many ways. The film was notable for its social commentary and for its use of a rock-and-roll sound track, which was highly effective. Poitier went on to play a high school teacher himself challenged by his students in "To Sir, With Love" (1967).
4. According to his theme song, for what does George of the Jungle need to look out?

Answer: a tree

The same geniuses who created Rocky and Bullwinkle also created the American TV cartoon hero George of the Jungle. Jay Ward and Bill Scott made George a parody of bodybuilders: long on bulk but short on brains. The TV series ran in 1967. George is accompanied by his mate Ursula (who George calls Fella), an ape named Ape, an elephant named Shep, and a bird named Tooky Tooky. George's theme song warns him repeatedly to "Watch out for that tree!" just as he crashes into one while swinging on a vine. In the live-action cinematic adaptation (1997), George was played by Brendan Fraser.
5. Jungle Rot is a tropical disease which causes what?

Answer: ulcers of the skin

The medical term for Jungle Rot is tropical ulcer. Beginning with any breach of the barrier of the skin, multiple bacteria invade and infect the skin causing a lesion. Minor injuries to the arms and lower legs are common sites. The ulcers grow deeper and erode muscles, tendon and even bone. The disease is more common among those who, due to poverty, are malnourished and have poor hygiene.
6. Inspired by the success of "Jungle Jim" in the comic strips, movies and television, the TV series "Ramar of the Jungle" (1952-1954) was set in which location(s)?

Answer: Africa and India

Jon Hall starred as an M.D., Tom Reynolds, called "Ramar of the Jungle" by natives in their language because he was a medicine man. His co-star was Professor Howard Ogden, played by Ray Montgomery. 52 episodes were produced: 13 in Africa, 13 in India and then 26 back in Africa. Each episode was 25 minutes in length; four movies were produced by splicing together three episodes each. Almost forgotten (in part because it is so very politically incorrect), the programme was recalled by Jimmy Buffet in the lyrics to "Pencil Thin Mustache" where he sings "Ramar of the Jungle was everyone's bwana, but only jazz musicians were smoking marijuana."
7. The perfume Jungle Gardenia was created in 1932 but discontinued forever in the 1990s.

Answer: False

Jungle Gardenia was compounded in 1932 by Tuvaché (a New York company with a French-sounding name). The Madame Tuvaché who promoted the product was a fiction whose identity was borrowed from a character in Gustave Flaubert's novel "Madame Bovary." The company was sold several times until Coty bought it in 1989, discontinued it and replaced it with its own fragrance using the same name. Coty's perfume failed and it sold the brand to a new owner which began again to make and market the original formula.

It has been worn by Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Crawford, Annette Funicello, and Natalie Wood. A 2009 article in Vanity Fair reported that Michael Jackson loved the scent and wore it onstage. Fay Wray wore it during the filming of "King Kong" in order to soothe the savage beast. According to author Patrick Dennis, Jungle Gardenia was Auntie Mame's favourite perfume.
8. The 2017 Australian movie "Jungle" was based on the true story of Yossi Ghinsberg who was lost in what jungle?

Answer: Amazonian rainforest

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Ghinsberg (portrayed by Daniel Radcliffe) joins two friends and a mysterious Austrian geologist to meet a lost tribe in the Amazonas. Two survive. Based on his memoir "Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival" the film is both beautiful and disturbing. The picture was directed by Greg McLean and written by Justin Monjo.
9. In an interesting American primary-election voting scheme, who wins a "jungle primary"?

Answer: the top two vote getters overall regardless of party

Also known as a "top two primary" and a "nonpartisan blanket primary," the jungle primary is a system by which the top two vote getters, regardless of party affiliation, win the election and go on to run against each other in the general election to follow. In some areas, this will mean that two candidates of the same party appear on the subsequent ballot and the other party (parties) is/are unrepresented. It is called a "jungle primary" because it enacts a version of the supposed "law of the jungle" which is survival of the fittest.
10. Appearing in comic strips, radio, motion pictures, comic books and television, who was the white safari-suited hunter played by Johnny Weissmuller after he gave up wearing the loincloth?

Answer: Jungle Jim

Weissmuller, who portrayed Tarzan the Ape Man, became "Jungle" Jim Bradley, a great white hunter in Southeast Asia, in this series. The franchise arose from a 1934 comic strip. He was assisted by Kolu, a large strong native sidekick. After years of combatting slave traders and pirates, Jungle Jim turned his attention to the Japanese during the run-up to World War II. From a more modern perspective, the whole series is remarkably politically incorrect.
11. Upton Sinclair caused a public uproar with his 1906 muckraking novel "The Jungle." What is his novel about?

Answer: conditions in the meatpacking industry

Sinclair, a socialist, exposed both the horrific working conditions of (mostly immigrant) labourers in meat packing and the unsafe and unsanitary conditions in that industry. The adoption of the United States Pure Food and Drug Act was partly in response to the publication of "The Jungle." Sinclair was assigned by the socialist newspaper "Appeal to Reason" to study the conditions in the Chicago Stockyards. The novel was the result. The work was highly controversial; it was privately published after all the major commercial publishers rejected it.
12. What is the law of the jungle?

Answer: The survival of the fittest

There is a poem in Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" which describes "The Law of the Jungle." It says that wolves may kill other animals to feed themselves and their families but must never kill for sport nor may they ever kill humans. "... the Wolf that shall keep it [the law] may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die." Kipling's Law of the Jungle is balanced and responsible; in contrast, the modern idiomatic use of the term describes how only the most self-interested, strong, ruthless and cunning survive and prosper in society.
13. To whom does the appellation "King of the Jungle" refer?

Answer: Any of these

The African lion is often referred to as "the king of the jungle" or "the king of the beasts." Tarzan has been called either "the king of the jungle" or "the lord of the jungle." King Kong was described as the "king of the jungle" in film. There have been at least three motion pictures entitled "King of the Jungle" (1927, 1933 and 2000).

The television network Animal Planet produced a reality-contest series called "King of the Jungle" which ran three seasons (2003-2005). Bananarama recorded a song entitled "King of the Jungle" but the words in the title appear nowhere in its lyrics. Mark Jerrold Henry (b. 1971) was an Olympic and Pan-American Games powerlifter before becoming a professional wrestler in the WWE where he wrestled under the moniker "The King of the Jungle."
14. Bomba was popular in children's literature, motion pictures and television. Who or what was Bomba?

Answer: a jungle boy from South America

There were twenty volumes in the original "Bomba the Jungle Boy" series of books, ten of which were set in South America and ten of which moved to Africa. Bomba was a white child reared in the jungle a bit like Mowgli and Tarzan. The stories are overtly racist in that they state that Bomba has a soul which is awake because he is white but the black and Indian native friends have souls which are sleeping.

When the stories were adapted to the screen in 1949, Johnny Sheffield, who played Boy in the Tarzan movies with Johnny Weissmuller, was cast as Bomba.

In the early 1960s, the motions pictures were edited into a television series called "Zim Bomba" The producers claimed that "zim" meant "son of" in Swahili but nobody took that seriously.
15. The "Rumble in the Jungle" occurred on 30 October 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaire, between which two world heavyweight champion boxers?

Answer: George Foreman and Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali lost his world championship crown when he declined to be inducted into the United States Army in 1967. He worked his way back to a title fight against then-champion George Foreman. Don King promoted the fight, set it in the 20th of May Stadium in Kinshasa, Zaire (the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and dubbed it "The Rumble in the Jungle." 60,000 people attended.

This crowd was all the more impressive in that the fight was held at four a.m. Kinshasa time so that it could be seen on closed-circuit television in movie theatres in the Eastern United States at ten p.m.

A series of euphonically-named matches continued when Ali fought Joe Frazier a year later in "The Thrilla in Manila."
Source: Author FatherSteve

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