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1. The word that started me off on this quiz is FEWMET but which creature has droppings referred to as fewmets?
2. Even dinosaurs and other ancient creatures left traces behind in the form of droppings which we can still see today. What are fossilised droppings called?
3. I like this next word! Which of the following creatures would be most likely to leave a pile of telltale FRASS?
4. The next word is maybe better known and sounds like it should be an injury of some sort - or maybe an Olympic sport! The word is SPRAINT - which animal might you be tracking if you were looking for spraints?
5. My next word is obsolete but would have been very familiar to a mediaeval or Tudor huntsman. Which of his hunting assistants would have produced MUTES?
6. Which plant's name actually means "dung on a twig"?
7. Mozart supposedly suffered from Tourette's syndrome. A feature of this condition is the sudden and repeated use of foul and socially unacceptable language - but what is the technical word for this?
8. This next one's one I think you may have heard of. Guano is used as fertiliser in many places and it's a type of dung. Bats produce guano but what other creatures has guano traditionally been collected from?
9. I suppose if I was REALLY interested in dung I could take it up as a career. If I did what would be the name of the science I was involved in?
10. Which country has the world's first museum of excrement?
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