Here are the answers to today’s questions.
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All of todays questions are about animals.
One
What birds are shown on the Australian coat of arms?
Answer: Emu, (Australian piping) shrike and black swan.
The shield’s centre features symbols representing Australia’s six states and its border symbolises federation. Holding the shield are the native Australian animals, the kangaroo and the emu. These were chosen to represent a nation moving forward as neither animal easily moves backwards. Above the shield sits a seven-point gold Commonwealth Star. Six of the star’s points represent the Australian states while the seventh point represents the territories. South Australia is represented by an Australian piping shrike and Western Australia, a black swan.
Two
A xylophage is an animal whose diet consists mainly of which substance?
Answer: Wood.
Xylophagy refers to herbivorous animals primarily consuming wood. Most are arthropods, especially insects, which may specialise in certain plant groups or wood characteristics. Many have symbiotic organisms aiding cellulose breakdown. Examples include Cossidae moths, termites, shipworms, and wood-boring beetles, among others.
Three
In the terminology used to describe swans:
What is a young swan known as, and what two nouns of the same length are used for the male and female, respectively?
Answers: Cygnet; Cob and pen.
Young swans are known as cygnets, from Old French cigne or cisne (diminutive suffix et ‘little’), from the Latin word cygnus, a variant form of cycnus ‘swan’, itself from the Greek κύκνος kýknos, a word of the same meaning. An adult male is a cob, from Middle English cobbe (leader of a group); an adult female is a pen.
— Wikipedia
Four
What species of whale was the fictional Moby Dick?
Answer: Sperm whale.
Moby Dick is a fictional white sperm whale and the main antagonist in Herman Melville’s novel. Based on the real-life Mocha Dick, Moby Dick is described as having distinctive white markings and a history of attacking and destroying whaling ships. The novel ends with Moby Dick destroying the Pequod, leaving Ishmael as the sole survivor.
Five
According to the narrative of the Bible’s Book of Genesis 4:2, who was the keeper of sheep?
Answer: Abel.
Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground.
— Book of Genesis, The Bible
The Nabi Habeel Mosque, Bilad Ash-Sham, Syria, is believed by Muslims to be the grave of Abel. Abel, murdered by his brother Cain, is the world’s first homicide victim?
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