October Quiz Answers

Here are the answers to this month’s five quiz questions. If in doubt, all should be able to be easily verified online.

October Quiz Questions: Biological Science

  1. How many hearts does an octopus have? Three
  2. What is the name of the bumps on a raspberry? Drupelets. The raspberry is not a berry but an aggregate fruit of numerous drupelets around a central core.
  3. The Kakapo is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. What type of bird is it? Parrot
  4. Ants and bees evolved from which other insect species. Wasps
  5. According to researchers there are thought to be over a billion individuals of only four bird species. Name two of them.
    House Sparrow, European Starling, Ring-Billed Gull, Barn Swallow.

Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2022.