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

Biology

1. What is the fastest land animal? The cheetah
2. How many hearts does an octopus have? 3
3. Gentoo, Adelie and Macaroni are all species of what? Penguin
4. What comic strip’s joke name for the row of spikes on a stegosaurus’s tail, the “thagomizer,” ended up becoming the official name? The Far Side
5. Which fruit did many people in the Western world think was poisonous until 1820? Tomatoes
6. What is the natural compound present in green plants that gives them their colour? Chlorophyll

Answers were correct when questions were compiled in late 2024.