Fun with Quizzes

Are you a Cetacean expert?

Instructions
To pass the test you must answer correctly at least 7 questions out of 10. For each question, one or more answers can be correct and you need to select all the correct options to score a point. Test evaluation is immediate and does not require you to provide any personal data.

1.

Which of the following animals are not cetaceans?

Dugong

Manatee

Sperm whale

Beluga

2.

Which members of the Balaenopteridae family are known to prefer warm waters year round?

Blue whale

Minke whale

Bryde's whale

Fin whale

3.

Which whale species is unique in having three ridges on the top of its head rather than only one?

Blue whale

Fin whale

Humpback whale

Bryde's whale

4.

Herman Melville's white whale in the novel Moby Dick was actually:

A Great White Shark

A Whale Shark

A Sperm whale

A Blue whale

5.

All cetaceans are:

Warm-blooded mammals

Air-breathing animals

Filter feeders

Fish eaters

6.

Resident Orcas in British Columbia are:

Fish eaters

Marine mammal eaters

Omnivorous

Filter feeders

7.

The Gray whale was nicknamed Devilfish by whalers because:

Gray whales are naturally extremely aggressive

A Gray whale mother can become particularly aggressive if someone is harming her baby

They thought the evil would eventually get them for their practices

They regularly mistook Gray whales for Marlins

8.

Which of the following countries has formalised a moral opposition to whaling and prohibits killing and harassing of cetaceans to its citizens anywhere in the world?

Australia

Japan

Norway

Iceland

9.

Porpoises have the following distinctive features:

Lack of beak

Lack of blowhole

Spade-shaped teeth

They belong to the Phocoenidae family

10.

Talking about the ability of some cetaceans to make sounds and process the echoes bouncing back:

Echolocating cetaceans can recognise a woman being pregnant and may be therefore particularly careful and cautious in her presence

Echolocating cetaceans can see air in our lungs and therefore understand we cannot breathe underwater

Being echolocated by a cetacean is a guarantee the animal will not bump into you by mistake

Echolocation is the use of sound (and relative echoes) to locate objects, estimate their distance, shape and density