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12 quizzes and 120 trivia questions.
1.
Famous Lions
  Famous Lions   popular trivia quiz  
Photo Quiz
 10 Qns
Take a paws during your busy day to take this quick quiz where lions are the mane topic.
Easier, 10 Qns, Chavs, Nov 30 23
Easier
Chavs gold member
Nov 30 23
549 plays
2.
  Truth Be Told, I'm Lion!   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Written for Commission 47, this is a quiz in which each question contains some truth -- and at least one lion!
Average, 10 Qns, Lalenya, Apr 27 20
Average
Lalenya gold member
Apr 27 20
2427 plays
3.
  A Lion and a Half   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Some of these lions were 'lion-ing' up to make it into this quiz, others I just found 'lion' around...
Easier, 10 Qns, lones78, Apr 14 22
Easier
lones78 gold member
Apr 14 22
678 plays
4.
  Torched By a Tiger   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Torched! You were meant to say "touched" by a tiger. This quiz from Phoenix Rising will look at tigers in different guises. Please enjoy.
Average, 10 Qns, pollucci19, Apr 27 20
Average
pollucci19 gold member
Apr 27 20
398 plays
5.
  That's What Tiggers Do Best (1)   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Tigger is Christopher Robin's toy tiger in the 'Winnie the Pooh' books and cartoons. He pops up in this quiz series, which is a category safari where the questions have one thing in common: tigers. Here's the first quiz in the series.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette, Nov 22 21
Average
Kankurette gold member
Nov 22 21
324 plays
6.
  That's What Tiggers Do Best (2)    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Tigger is Christopher Robin's toy tiger in the 'Winnie the Pooh' books and cartoons. He pops up in this quiz series, which is a category safari where the questions have one thing in common: tigers. Here's the second quiz in the series.
Average, 10 Qns, Kankurette, Nov 11 20
Average
Kankurette gold member
Nov 11 20
192 plays
7.
  Tigers That Never Really Were    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
How many of these tigers found in literature, cinema, advertising, television, poetry, and the like can you sort?
Average, 10 Qns, FatherSteve, Oct 13 22
Average
FatherSteve gold member
Oct 13 22
309 plays
8.
  Tyger Tyger Burning Bright   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A look at some well known tigers, some are real but most are not.
Easier, 10 Qns, 480154st, Apr 27 20
Easier
480154st gold member
Apr 27 20
397 plays
9.
  Tigers in Entertainment and the Media    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz won't ask you anything about where tigers live, what they eat or anything like that. This is all about images of tigers, tigers as symbols, tiger mascots and tiger characters.
Average, 10 Qns, curinfinwe, Apr 27 20
Average
curinfinwe
Apr 27 20
720 plays
10.
  My Pet Tiger Is Called Spot    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Or maybe not... How many of these famous tigers, from books, comics, films, sport, and television do you know?
Average, 10 Qns, Rowena8482, Apr 27 20
Average
Rowena8482 gold member
Apr 27 20
642 plays
trivia question Quick Question
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: what type of gem is tiger's eye?

From Quiz "That's What Tiggers Do Best (1)"




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  In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle...    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Don't be caught cat-napping in this quiz about lions, sleeping and otherwise!
Average, 10 Qns, SBH, Apr 27 20
Average
SBH
Apr 27 20
321 plays
12.
  Tiger, Tiger    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
All the questions have something to do with the word "tiger"... but you don't need to be a Big Cat expert!
Tough, 10 Qns, sallyo, Apr 27 20
Tough
sallyo
Apr 27 20
441 plays

Thematic Big Cats Trivia Questions

1. In Rudyard Kipling's "Jungle Book" (1894) and the Disney motion pictures which followed, what is the name of the Bengal tiger intent on killing Mowgli?

From Quiz
Tigers That Never Really Were

Answer: Shere Khan

Shere Khan is a Bengal tiger who, despite a crippling injury to his leg, thinks himself to be the king of the jungle. He is motivated by jealousy and hatred of the man cub, Mowgli, and seeks to kill him. In Disney's original adaptation of "Jungle Book" (1967), Shere Khan was voiced malevolently by George Sanders, the "ne plus ultra" of those who have voiced this character.

2. LITERATURE: which Anglo-Indian author created Shere Khan, a terrifying tiger with a fear of fire?

From Quiz That's What Tiggers Do Best (2)

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

The tiger Shere Khan is one of the bad guys of Rudyard Kipling's 'Jungle Book' stories. He has a damaged leg, and is hated and feared by all except Tabaqui, his jackal sidekick. He becomes obsessed with Mowgli, the 'man cub', in 'Mowgli's Brothers' after he tries and fails to hunt Mowgli's parents, and Mowgli strays into the jungle and is adopted by Akela and his wolf pack. Local villagers in 'Tiger! Tiger!' believe that Shere Khan is an injured moneylender reincarnated, and there is a massive price on his head. He is afraid of fire, which he calls the 'red flower', after Mowgli chases him away with a burning branch. While he is burned to death in the Disney movie, in the books, he is trampled to death by a herd of buffalo. He was voiced by George Sanders in the 1967 Disney animated film, and Idris Elba in the 2016 live action/CGI film.

3. ANIMALS: how long is the gestational period of a Siberian tiger?

From Quiz That's What Tiggers Do Best (1)

Answer: 3-3.5 months

The female Siberian tiger gives birth to litters of two to four cubs on average, though some litters can contain as many as six cubs. The cubs are born blind and are the size of an average pet cat. The mating season is usually between December and January, although they have been known to mate at other times of the year, and the female attracts the attention of the male by scratching and urinating on trees.

4. Which tiger has been the face of Frosties breakfast cereal (Frosted Flakes in North America) since 1952?

From Quiz Tyger Tyger Burning Bright

Answer: Tony

The animation team behind Tony also designed the Jolly Green Giant as well as another Kellogg's breakfast icon, the trio of elves that are Snap, Crackle and Pop. Tony's famous catchphrase of "They're grrrrreat!" was voiced by Thurl Ravenscroft who was best known for singing the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" in the Chuck Jones TV movie, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" (1966).

5. Which oil company used the advertising slogan "Put a tiger in your tank"?

From Quiz Torched By a Tiger

Answer: Esso

In 1959 young copywriter Emery Smith was given the task of creating a headline banner that would help boost the sales of Esso Extra. He was aware that the tiger had been used as a symbol by Esso since the early part of the twentieth century, originally appearing in Norway, and used this as his inspiration. In 1964 McCann Erickson used that slogan and a cartoon like character that looked very much like Tigger from the "Winnie-the-Pooh" stories to create one of the most famous advertising campaigns of that decade. The sales of Esso soared so dramatically that Time Magazine declared 1964 as "The Year of the Tiger". Esso, whose acronym stands for Eastern States Standard Oil, was founded in 1906 and is a trading name for the Exxon Mobil Corporation. Exxon Mobil contribute a million dollars a year to the "Save the Tiger" fund, which works towards saving the last of Asia's wild tigers. This question roared into existence from the paws of Phoenix Rising's pollucci19.

6. "The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself." This quote has often been attributed (probably erroneously) to which person, who also has an animal in his name?

From Quiz Truth Be Told, I'm Lion!

Answer: Augustine of Hippo

While there are multiple memes and quotation websites that attribute this quote to Augustine of Hippo (also known as St. Augustine), no one can seem to find it in any of his multiple writings. Instead, the quote appears to be a paraphrase of one by an English Particular Baptist preacher named Charles Spurgeon: "The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself."

7. The original title for the song commonly known as "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is "Mbube", which means "lion". What language does the word come from?

From Quiz In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle...

Answer: Zulu

The song was written in the 1920s by a South African singer named Solomon Linda, but it has been recorded by numerous artists, including Miriam Makeba and the Kingston Trio. The most familiar version is probably the 1961 recording by the Tokens.

8. Not a pet, more a fellow traveller - in which book do we meet a bengal tiger named Richard Parker?

From Quiz My Pet Tiger Is Called Spot

Answer: Life of Pi

"Life of Pi" by Yann Martel won several prestigious awards including the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. In the end, the reader is left unsure if Richard Parker was actually there or just a figment of the narrator's imagination produced under stress.

9. What was the name of the place where Tigger lived?

From Quiz Tigers in Entertainment and the Media

Answer: The Hundred Acre Wood

Tigger was the beloved tiger character created by A.A. Milne in 1926. He lived in the Hundred Acre Wood with Rabbit, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Kanga and Roo, Christopher Robin and, of course, Winnie the Pooh!

10. "Tyger, tyger, burning bright..." This line comes from a poem by what poet?

From Quiz Tiger, Tiger

Answer: William Blake&Blake

'The Tyger" was written by Londoner William Blake. Blake was a poet, engraver, artist and printer who was born in 1757 and died in 1827.

11. Kellogg Cornflakes are represented by Cornelius "Corny" Rooster in advertising. Which cereal does Tony the Tiger represent?

From Quiz Tigers That Never Really Were

Answer: Kellogg's Frosted Flakes

Kellogg's introduced both Frosted Flakes and their cartoon spokesman Tony the Tiger in 1951. He had a deep bass voice and his catch line was "They're g-r-r-r-r-eat!" Thurl Ravenscroft voiced Tony for many years. After Ravenscroft's death in 2005, there have been several substitutions. Kellogg has had recourse to the courts on several occasions to protect its distinct spokestiger from usurpers such as Exxon Oil ("put a tiger in your tank") and the 1988 Summer Olympics in South Korea mascot (Hodori).

12. MOVIE: the 2012 film 'Life of Pi', based on the book by Yann Martell, featured a Bengal tiger called Richard Parker. Who directed the film?

From Quiz That's What Tiggers Do Best (2)

Answer: Ang Lee

'The Life of Pi' stars Suraj Sharma as Piscine Molitor Patel, or 'Pi' for short, who finds himself stranded in a lifeboat with a tiger called Richard Parker. Pi's parents own a zoo and Richard Parker is one of the animals there, whom Pi befriends, to his father's disgust. The family and their animals travel to Canada but the ship is lost in a storm, with only Pi and a few animals - Richard Parker, a hyena, a zebra and an orangutan - surviving, although the other animals kill each other. It is uncertain how true Pi's story is and both the book and film leave it ambiguous. The film won Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects.

13. BRAIN TEASERS: 'bangle' is an anagram of which species of tiger?

From Quiz That's What Tiggers Do Best (1)

Answer: bengal

If you're a football fan, you'll probably be familiar with the Cincinnati Bengals and their black and orange kit. They get their name from the Bengal tiger, a subspecies of tiger native to the Indian subcontinent. It is the national animal of both India and Bangladesh, and can also be found in Myanmar, Bhutan and Nepal. Some of South Asia's most notorious man-eating tigers, such as the Champawat Tiger, the Thak man-eater and the Tigers of Chowgarh (all of whom lived on the Nepal/India border) have been Bengal tigers. It should be noted, however, that humans are not tigers' primary food source and that their usual prey consists of animals such as wild boar, deer and grey langur monkeys.

14. The Tigers is the nickname of which national cricket team, who played their first test match in 2000 against India?

From Quiz Tyger Tyger Burning Bright

Answer: Bangladesh

The Bangladesh Tigers have been playing international cricket since 1979, when they played their first One Day International (ODI) but weren't given full International Cricket Council (ICC) membership until 2000. They lost their first test match by nine wickets and didn't record their first test win until 2005, when they beat Zimbabwe by 226 runs.

15. In the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes" by Bill Watterson, which one is the tiger?

From Quiz Torched By a Tiger

Answer: Hobbes

Hobbes is delivered to the reader in two formats; purely as a stuffed tiger, which is how everyone else in the strip, apart from Calvin, see him and, as a live creature who is Calvin's best friend. There is a view that the live version of the tiger represents Calvin's conscience because he seems to be the reasoning force who always provides the young man with the obvious faults or likely downfalls of any venture that Calvin puts forward. Add to that he was named after the famous philosopher, Thomas Hobbes. "Calvin and Hobbes" was launched in November of 1985. Cartoonist Bill Watterson retired his creation ten years later, citing that he'd achieved all that he'd set out to do with his creation in this medium. This question was put forward by pollucci19, a Phoenix Rising team member who has long been an avid reader of the strip.

16. Which real-life emperor of Ethiopia is revered by followers of the Rastafari religion and known as the Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah?

From Quiz Truth Be Told, I'm Lion!

Answer: Haile Selassie I

Haile Selassie I, who died in 1975, was crowned emperor of Ethiopia in 1930. He lived in exile in England during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia (1936-1941) and then resumed his rule till 1974, when he was overthrown in a coup. Selassie claimed descent from the ancient Israelite king Solomon and Makeda, the queen of Sheba. His birth name, Tafari, means "one who is respected or feared", and his baptismal name, Haile Selassie, means "power of the Trinity". Selassie was revered by many, especially the Rastas, many of whom still see him as the Second Coming of Jesus of Nazareth.

17. The plot of the 2009 film "The Hangover" features a tiger in the bathroom; who does it turn out to belong to?

From Quiz My Pet Tiger Is Called Spot

Answer: Mike Tyson

"The Hangover" was directed by Todd Phillips. The plot has a lot of bizarre twists and turns, one of which is the appearance of a tiger in a hotel bathroom. It tranpsires that the tiger belongs to boxer Mike Tyson, and he wants it back. Tyson appeared as himself in the film.

18. What was the name of the tiger who first represented Frosted Flakes in 1952?

From Quiz Tigers in Entertainment and the Media

Answer: Tony the Tiger

He was known for saying "They're grrreat!" He wore a red bandana. Kellogg's owned Frosted Flakes and Katy the Kangaroo, Newt the Gnu, and Elmo the Elephant were other nominees for the position of Frosted Flakes mascot.

19. The beautiful gemstone tiger eye (or tiger's eye) is brown and gold in stripes. What is it made of?

From Quiz Tiger, Tiger

Answer: quartz

Tiger eye is a kind of chatoyant quartz. It is basically black, with iron oxide giving it the characteristic colours. It is the birthstone of Gemini, and an anniversary stone for the nineth year of marriage. Most of the world's supply of tiger eye comes from South Africa.

20. "Tyger, Tyger, burning bright" is probably one of the most anthologized poems in the English language. Who wrote it?

From Quiz Tigers That Never Really Were

Answer: William Blake

Blake published this poem in 1794 as part of a collection of poems titled "Songs of Experience." It is a theological poem, asking how the same God with the same intentions for the world can have created both the gentle, innocent lamb and the fearsome, lethal tiger. Blake may have set this poem to a tune. Its loss has prompted others to compose offerings for it: Benjamin Britten, Marianne Faithful, Duran Duran.

21. MUSIC: which Welsh rock band released the album 'Send Away the Tigers' in 2007?

From Quiz That's What Tiggers Do Best (2)

Answer: Manic Street Preachers

'Send Away the Tigers' is the eighth studio album by the Manic Street Preachers and was released in the UK in May 2007. Four singles were released from the album: 'Underdogs', 'Your Love Alone Is Not Enough' (a duet with Cardigans singer Nina Persson), 'Autumnsong' and 'Indian Summer'. The title is a reference to a quote by comedian Tony Hancock, a metaphor of using alcohol as a way of coping with personal demons. 'Send Away the Tigers' peaked at Number Two on the UK Album Chart.

22. CELEBRITIES: what is the real name of golfer Tiger Woods?

From Quiz That's What Tiggers Do Best (1)

Answer: Eldrick

Or, to give him his full name, Eldrick Tont Woods. 'Eldrick' is a mixture of Woods' parents' names, Earl and Kultilda. Woods' mother was Thai, hence his Thai middle name, and his father met her while stationed in Thailand. Woods got his nickname of 'Tiger' from Colonel Vuong Dang Phong, a Vietnamese friend of his father's who was also nicknamed 'Tiger'. The holder of several golfing records, he started playing golf as a toddler and turned professional in 1996 at the age of twenty, and won PGA Player of the Year the following year (and many times after that).

23. What is the name of the tiger in Yann Martel's novel "Life of Pi" (2001)?

From Quiz Tyger Tyger Burning Bright

Answer: Richard Parker

Martel's wonderful novel concerns young Piscine Patel, known as Pi, who is cast adrift in a lifeboat on a voyage from India to Canada, with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan named Orange Juice and Richard Parker for company. In 2012, the novel was made into a film, directed by Ang Lee and starring Suraj Sharma in his movie debut. The film was nominated for 11 Oscars, and walked away with four, including Best Director for Lee.

24. According to a Chinese folk remedy, writing the Chinese character for tiger on the afflicted person cures which glandular ailment?

From Quiz Torched By a Tiger

Answer: Mumps

In days gone past, mumps was called "Pig Head Skin" in Mandarin. People believed that a tiger would chase away the pig, so they would dip a brush in blue ink and write the Chinese character for tiger on the swollen flesh. The ink used was indigo and the person administering the treatment should be one who was born in the year of the tiger. One variation of this remedy is to use washing blue for the ink. Mumps is a highly contagious disease and it is recommended that you see a doctor for treatment. This question was written in blue by Phoenix Rising team member purelyqing, who was not born in the year of the tiger and does not advocate this remedy for treating mumps.

25. "Born Free" (1966) is a British film based on the real-life experience of a couple, Joy and George Adamson, who raised an orphaned lioness cub and later returned her to the wild in Kenya. What was the name of this lioness?

From Quiz Truth Be Told, I'm Lion!

Answer: Elsa

The movie was based on Joy Adamson's 1960 book "Born Free", and it was a British box-office hit, also receiving rave reviews from critics. The Adamsons were able to visit Elsa and her three cubs after her release, and she remembered them. Sadly, Elsa passed away at only about four years of age, succumbing to a malaria-like tick-borne virus.

26. A lion named Clarence appeared regularly in the 1960s television series "Daktari". What was unusual about Clarence?

From Quiz In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle...

Answer: He was cross-eyed.

"Daktari" was a children's series about a veterinary hospital in Africa. It was a spinoff from the 1965 movie "Clarence, the Cross-eyed Lion". The other well known animal star of the show was a chimpanzee named Judy.

27. In the "Masters of the Universe" world, Battle Cat is a mighty warrior tiger who aids He-Man in the fight against evil. What is the name of his mild mannered kitty cat alter-ego?

From Quiz My Pet Tiger Is Called Spot

Answer: Cringer

In the 1980s cartoon series, Cringer is a talking cat, and as far as anyone knows he is the only one of his kind. When Prince Adam transforms into He-Man, he points the Sword of Power at Cringer and a beam of energy turns him into Battle Cat. In the more recent cartoons from the 2000s, Cringer no longer talks but he still transforms into Battle Cat to fight alongside He-Man.

28. Which country is associated with tiger prawns?

From Quiz Tiger, Tiger

Answer: Australia

Tiger prawns (Penaeus esculentus) are striped. They grow up to 340 mm in length, and are a popular seafood found in Australian waters.

29. In which American comedy motion picture does the USS Sea Tiger figure prominently?

From Quiz Tigers That Never Really Were

Answer: "Operation Petticoat" (1959)

In "Operation Petticoat," Cary Grant skippers the Sea Tiger, a decrepit diesel-electric submarine painted pink. In "Down Periscope," Kelsey Grammer is the captain of the Stingray, also a diesel-electric boat which is near to retirement. In "Three Little Sew and Sews," the Three Stooges are ships' tailors who commandeer a submarine. In "The Boatniks," Robert Morse is a Coast Guard officer whose ship patrols the area around Balboa Island.

30. PEOPLE: which zookeeper and collector of exotic pets was the subject of the 2020 Netflix documentary 'Tiger King'?

From Quiz That's What Tiggers Do Best (2)

Answer: Joseph Maldonado-Passage aka Joe Exotic

'Tiger King' kept many Netflix viewers entertained during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. It is a true crime documentary about the big cat collector community. The main focus of the series is on the feud between Joe Exotic, owner of the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, and Carole Baskin, owner of Big Cat Rescue, a Florida-based animal sanctuary. The Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park mainly housed tigers, ligers and tigons, cougars and other big cats, and was criticised by PETA, Baskin and the Humane Society of the United States for the conditions in which the animals were kept, and Exotic's sideshows where he would allow people to pet tiger cubs. Exotic was arrested and received a prison sentence for trying to have Baskin murdered, and Baskin was subsequently granted control of the park in 2020.

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