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All About Donkeys: A Quiz on Their History and Significance

Test your knowledge about donkeys, their significance in mythology, literature, and their role in agriculture and conservation.

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1 What is Donkey's current status?

2 In ________ Mythology a donkey [in Sanskrit] gardbha is vahana [vehicle] of God Kalaratr.

3 The donkey or ass, Equus africanus asinus,[1][2] is a ________ member of the Equidae or horse family.

4 It was chosen when the need was felt in ________ to produce something genuinely Catalan to oppose to the Spanish Osborne bull.

5 In the western ________, a small donkey is sometimes called a burro (from the Spanish word for the animal).

6 One of ________'s fables has an ass dressed in a lion skin who gives himself away by braying.

7 Eeyore, the gloomy donkey from ________'s Winnie-the-Pooh books.

8 There are numerous references to the donkey ("hamor" or "chamor" חמור) in the ________, (Old Testament).

9 What family does Donkey belong to?

10 To reduce herd populations and preserve grazing land, the ________ conducts roundups of burro herds and holds public auctions.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Gudgeonville Covered Bridge (pictured) in Girard, Pennsylvania is said by local residents to be haunted by the ghost of a donkey.
  • the Italian island of Asinara (pictured) is inhabited by a wild population of albino donkeys.
  • the only elements of the Nativity of Jesus in art (example pictured) to span the whole history of its depiction are the baby, the ox and the ass.
  • the Poitou Ass (pictured) is a rare breed of donkey with a shaggy coat.
  • the donkey that inspired the novel and film Brighty of the Grand Canyon is memorialized at Grand Canyon National Park by a statue and an historic landmark.
  • Alberts Frères, one of the earliest film production companies in the Netherlands, filmed a stunt at a Maastricht market with a donkey and a suckling pig to promote the company.
  • DONKEY.BAS was a computer game cowritten by Bill Gates and included with early versions of the PC-DOS operating system for the original IBM PC, in which the player must avoid hitting donkeys.
  • according to legend, when a peasant stole a donkey from Opportuna of Montreuil's abbey, she "left the matter up to God," and the next day, the peasant's field was sown with salt.
  • Sri Lankan lawyer and media personality Ran Banda Seneviratne was banned from talk shows after comparing a newly nominated President's Counsel to a donkey on State television.
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