Daily Quiz On elephant – The Hindu

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The World Elephant Day was co-founded on August 12, 2012 by Patricia Sims and an Asian royal whose birthday also happens to be on the same date. Name the former queen of the country which has the sobriquet ‘Land of the White Elephant‘.

Answer : HM Queen Sirikit of Thailand

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The three recognised species i.e.: African savannah, African forest, and Asian are the only surviving members of which Family and Order?

Answer : Elephantidae and Proboscidea

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Apart from the size, one standout feature of the largest land animal are their tusks. Of which type of teeth are tusks an enlarged version?

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How can one say if an elephant is an Asian or African variety by examining its trunk?

Answer : African elephants have two finger-like extensions at the tip of the trunk, while the Asian has only one

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What are the names of the sophisticated elephant king in a the popular series of books by Jean de Brunhoff and Bart’s pet elephant in ‘The Simpsons’?

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In Indian myth, from where did Indra’s six-tusked mount Airavata emerge?

Answer : During the churning of the cosmic ocean (Samudra Manthan)

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Name the elephant from the Oscar-winning Indian short film ‘The Elephant Whisperers’