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All About Lions: A Quiz on the Majestic Big Cat

Test your knowledge about lions with this engaging quiz that covers their biology, conservation status, historical significance, and cultural representations.

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1 It makes the lion appear larger, providing an excellent intimidation display; this aids the lion during confrontations with other lions and with the species' chief competitor in Africa, the ________.

2 What is Lion's current conservation status?

3 The oldest lion-like fossil is known from Laetoli in ________ and is perhaps 3.5 million years old; some scientists have identified the material as Panthera leo.

4 What does the following picture show? The lion is a popular symbol and mascot of high schools, colleges and universities throughout the United States. This statue is on the campus of the University of North Alabama. A maneless male lion, who also has little body hair—from Tsavo East National Park, Kenya Four lions take down a cape buffalo in the central Serengeti, Tanzania Nineteenth-century etching of a lion tamer in a cage of lions

5 What family does Lion belong to?

6 What does the following picture show? African (above) and Asiatic (below) lions, as illustrated in Johnsons Book of Nature One of the tree climbing Lions of the Serengeti, Tanzania The lion is a popular symbol and mascot of high schools, colleges, and universities throughout the United States. This statue is on the campus of the University of North Alabama. Lions at the Savuti river are well known for their relatively frequent predation on elephants

7 What does the following picture show? One of the tree climbing Lions of the Serengeti, Tanzania Two lionesses and a mature male of a pride, northern Serengeti African (above) and Asiatic (below) lions, as illustrated in Johnsons Book of Nature

8 Who played Patron in the movie Lion?

9 It was originally only used by Rajputs a ________ Kshatriya or military caste in India.

10 The lion, particularly the face of the male, is one of the most widely recognized animal symbols in human ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the fossilised remains of lions have been found at Crook Peak in Somerset, England.
  • the film I'm No Angel (1933) starred Mae West as a circus lion tamer, and that West did her own stunts including riding an elephant into the ring and putting her face between the lion's jaws.
  • the infamous man-eating lions of Tsavo attacked workers who were building the Uganda Railway which connects Uganda and Kenya.
  • sculptor Pavel Sokolov designed sphinxes for Egyptian Bridge, griffins for Bank Bridge, and lions for Bridge of Four Lions in Saint Petersburg.
  • roars from lions and tigers in the menagerie at Exeter Exchange in central London scared horses in the street outside.
  • during the Indian Independence Movement, Tanguturi Prakasam bared his chest when the police threatened to shoot and that after the incident, he was respected with the epithet of Andhra Kesari (Lion of Andhra).
  • politicians have proposed replacing the red lion on the Flag of Tasmania with a thylacine or cape Barren Goose.
  • Russian architect Lev Kekushev built Art Nouveau buildings in Moscow, Russia, in the 1890s and early 1900s, "signed" with a lion (Lev) ornament or sculpture.
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