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1.
What is the meaning of the word pachyderm, a word sometimes used to describe the elephant?
Having a trunk
Having tusks
Grey-skinned
Thick-skinned
2.
A Roman soldier wore greaves to protect what?
His ears
His eyes
His legs
His shoulders
3.
What type of animal is a dhole?
An antelope
A cat
A dog
A horse
4.
What would an Eskimo, or Inuit, do with his mukluk?
Drink it
Eat it
Travel in it
Wear it
5.
In Italian cuisine, farfalle is pasta shaped like what?
Bells
Butterflies
Flowers
Shells
6.
A scrod is a young what?
Cod
Lobster
Medical student
Schoolboy
7.
What is measured by a nilometer?
The circumference of a camel's hump
The distance between sand dunes
The height of the Pyramids
The water level of the River Nile
8.
What type of weapon was a fusil?
A catapult
A musket
A spear
A sword
9.
What is a gricer's hobby?
Board games
Collecting birds' eggs
Marbles
Train spotting
10.
What word is used to describe something pertaining to the planet Jupiter?
Jovial
Jovian
Juperian
Jupitrian
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