Super Quiz - October 31, 2011

Subject: BIRDS

(e.g., What color is the female of the common blackbird? Answer: Brown.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. Which painter is renowned for his paintings of U.S. birds?
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2. Which bird migrates the farthest?
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3. It was once one of the most common of U.S. birds but is now extinct.
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GRADUATE LEVEL

4. What is an aviary?
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5. What bird is also known as an apteryx?
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6. What is a capon?
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PH.D. LEVEL

7. In Japan and China, this bird is trained and used to catch fish.
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8. Some cuckoos are brood parasites. What does that mean?
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9. The dodo was a flightless bird endemic to which island?
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ANSWERS:

1. John James Audubon.
2. Arctic tern.
3. Passenger pigeon.
4. An enclosed area where birds are kept.
5. Kiwi.
6. Castrated male chicken.
7. Cormorant.
8. Lays eggs in nests of other species.
9. Mauritius.