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.

The diet of Mysticeti (toothless whales) includes:

Copepods

Krill

Small fish

Marine mammals

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Which of the following cetaceans can reach speeds of over 30 km/h?

Southern Right whale

Bottlenose dolphin

Humpback whale

Dall's porpoise

5.

Which of the following baleen whales are unmistakable because of their typical V-shaped blow?

Gray whale

Right whale

Minke whale

Humpback whale

6.

The Whale Shark is a shark, not a whale. It follows that:

It is not a mammal

It is a fish

It is not an air breather

It does not suckle its young

7.

All cetaceans are:

Warm-blooded mammals

Air-breathing animals

Filter feeders

Fish eaters

8.

Which of the following species belong to the suborder Mysticeti?

Sperm whale

Blue whale

Bottlenose dolphin

Northern Right whale

9.

What is the biggest animal that has ever lived on Earth?

The Sperm whale

The Fin whale

Some dinosaur

The Blue whale

10.

In which place(s) are Orcas known to attack mother and calf Gray whale pairs?

Monterey Bay (CA, United States)

Kaikoura (New Zealand)

Portofino (Italy)

Peninsula Valdes (Argentina)