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Exploring Goats: A Quiz on Their Role in Culture and Nature

Test your knowledge about goats, their cultural significance, and their representation in media with this engaging quiz.

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1 What does the following picture show?  A domestic goat feeding in a field of capeweed, a weed which is toxic to most stock animals   A goat being milked on an organic farm.   An Angora goat   A 2 month old goat kid in a field of capeweed.

2 What role did Ja Rule play in the movie Goat?

3 The ________, a probably-mythological "Satanic mass," was said to involve a black goat, the form in which Satan supposedly manifested himself for worship.

4 What role did Al Sapienza play in the movie Goat?

5 They have a four-chambered stomach consisting of the ________, the reticulum, the omasum, and the abomasum.

6 Who played Lenny Leone the movie Goat?

7 A common superstition in the ________ was that goats whispered lewd sentences in the ears of the saints.

8 The horn of the goat, which signifies wellbeing (Cornucopia), is also used to make ________.

9 What does the following picture show?  An Angora goat   A 2 month old goat kid in a field of capeweed.   A Nigerian Dwarf milker in show clip. This doe is angular and dairy with a capacious and well supported mammary system.   Suckling

10 Who played Tyler the movie Goat?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Kri-kri is a type of wild goat once common around the Mediterranean but now restricted to a few parts of the island of Crete in Greece.
  • the Stiefelgeiss, a breed of goat, became nearly extinct in the 1980s but is making a comeback.
  • the earliest bones of the rare Golden Guernsey goat, dating from 2000 BC, were found in dolmens in Guernsey on the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy.
  • the fictional goat KozioÅ‚ek MatoÅ‚ek has been a popular Polish children's literature character since first appearing in 1933.
  • the Exotic World Burlesque Museum is located on the site of an abandoned goat farm.
  • the Tibetan saint Drukpa Kunley, according to mythology, created the Takin, found in Motithang Takin Preserve, with the head of a goat and the body of a cow.
  • camelot is a woven fabric that might have originally incorporated camel or goat hair.
  • a 1970s weather forecast of "low goat pressure" on radio station KRSB in Roseburg, Oregon, was a sure sign of rain ahead.
  • a smokie is a West African delicacy made by blowtorching the carcass of a sheep or goat without removing its fleece.
  • the ant Pseudomyrmex ferruginea kills insects such as crickets and stings the heads of animals such as goats, attacking any approaching creatures attracted to the leaves of the Bullhorn Acacia.
  • British Army officer Sir William Horrocks confirmed Sir David Bruce's theory that Malta fever was spread through goat's milk.
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