# 🦆 Platypus Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. What country is the natural habitat of the platypus?  
**Answer:** Australia  
**Taglines:**  
- Where nightmares and marsupials collide  
- Australia: the continent of “Sure, that’s an animal”  
- The land down under and weirder  
- It swims, it stings, it confuses  
- Australia: nature’s beta tester  

### 2. What unique feature does a male platypus have on its hind legs?  
**Answer:** Venomous spur  
**Taglines:**  
- Cute but stabby  
- Not just dangerous—passive-aggressive  
- Nature gave it a knife  
- Caution: side effects may include confusion and pain  
- Venom and vengeance in one fluffy package  

### 3. What type of animal is a platypus classified as?  
**Answer:** Mammal  
**Taglines:**  
- A mammal with commitment issues  
- Lays eggs, yet still a mammal—go figure  
- The taxonomist’s migraine  
- Suck it, biology  
- Fur, milk, and attitude  

### 4. What bizarre method does the platypus use to detect prey?  
**Answer:** Electroreception  
**Taglines:**  
- It senses your vibes  
- Duck face, shark senses  
- Your Wi-Fi wishes it was this good  
- Electric boogaloo: marsupial edition  
- Zapping snacks since forever  

### 5. What do platypuses lay that’s unusual for mammals?  
**Answer:** Eggs  
**Taglines:**  
- Because childbirth is overrated  
- Mammal, but with a yolk  
- The breakfast of evolutionary champions  
- Nature said “mammal,” platypus said “nah”  
- Egg-laying chaos generator  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. The platypus is part of a rare group of egg-laying mammals called ______.  
**Answer:** Monotremes  
**Taglines:**  
- Mono = one, treme = weird  
- Just a few friends and zero shame  
- Platypus and echidna: the weird team  
- Monotreme: like extreme, but with eggs  
- Exclusive club, weird vibes only  

### 2. The platypus has a bill similar to that of a ______.  
**Answer:** Duck  
**Taglines:**  
- Quack energy, mammal mood  
- Duck on the face, chaos in the soul  
- Fake duck, real drama  
- Honk if you’re confused  
- The bill that broke biology  

### 3. The platypus is most active during the ______.  
**Answer:** Night  
**Taglines:**  
- Nocturnal nonsense  
- Darkness is its vibe  
- Daylight? Never heard of it  
- Platypus nightlife: damp and deadly  
- Party starts at dusk  

### 4. Platypuses feed mostly on aquatic ______.  
**Answer:** Invertebrates  
**Taglines:**  
- Bugs, worms, and water sushi  
- Bottom-feeder gourmet  
- Tiny, squishy, and delicious  
- Nature’s protein shake  
- Gourmet for weirdos  

### 5. Platypus milk contains special ______-fighting properties.  
**Answer:** Bacteria  
**Taglines:**  
- Move over, antibiotics  
- Milk with a side of superpowers  
- Got germs? Platypus doesn’t  
- Dairy that dares  
- Milk it for science  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What combination of features makes the platypus unique?  
A) Scales and wings  
B) Beak and venom ✅  
C) Shell and tusks  
D) Antlers and hooves  
**Taglines:**  
- The “Build-a-Mammal” experiment gone right  
- Beaked, toxic, fabulous  
- Duck, stab, roll  
- Mother Nature hit shuffle  
- Cute and potentially dangerous  
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### 2. [Difficulty: 2] How many chromosomes does the platypus have?  
A) 46  
B) 78  
C) 52  
D) 90 ✅  
**Taglines:**  
- It’s a mess genetically too  
- 90 reasons to confuse your biology teacher  
- So much DNA, so little explanation  
- Like your cousin’s conspiracy wall  
- Complex, chaotic, correct  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What is the average lifespan of a platypus in the wild?  
A) 2–4 years  
B) 5–7 years  
C) 10–17 years ✅  
D) 20–25 years  
**Taglines:**  
- Weird and durable  
- Long life, weird choices  
- Evolution said “stick around”  
- Your pet turtle is jealous  
- More years to be confusing  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] Which sensory system is absent in a platypus while underwater?  
A) Vision ✅  
B) Hearing  
C) Electroreception  
D) Smell  
**Taglines:**  
- It swims blind, like your dating life  
- Eyes closed, vibes open  
- Water ninja mode: activated  
- Vision? Overrated  
- Who needs eyes when you’ve got radar?  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] Which of these animals is *also* a monotreme?  
A) Koala  
B) Echidna ✅  
C) Wombat  
D) Tasmanian Devil  
**Taglines:**  
- Spike buddy in the weird club  
- It’s not alone in its weirdness  
- Australia: double trouble edition  
- Monotremes, assemble!  
- Spiky meets ducky
