Can You Spot the Elephant? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Loxodonta Africana

Ceratotherium simum is a white rhinoceros. Choeropsis liberiensis is a pygmy hippopotamus. Trichechus manatus is a West Indian manatee. Loxodonta Africana is an African elephant. An Asian elephant is Elephas Maximus.

Answer: Jumbo

The word 'Jumbo' is formed from the initial letters of 'joining up many black objects'. Jumbo was also the name of a famous African circus elephant, which died in 1885.

Answer: East 17

After seeing a television programme, Tony Mortimer and East 17 raised funds to provide the Born Free Foundation a vehicle to transport endangered elephants to a place of safety.

Answer: A Jumbo-Sized Problem

In 'A Jumbo-Sized Problem', a van carrying a circus elephant blocks the road when the platoon are trying to erect signposts. In 'Big Guns', the platoon has to learn how to use a large naval gun which they have been given. In 'Things That Go Bump in the Night', the platoon seek refuge in a deserted house after running out of petrol. Lastly, in 'Round and Round Went the Great Big Wheel', the platoon have problems testing a new weapon.

Answer: Edward Trunk

Edward Trunk is the elephant. Algy Pug is a dog. Bill is a badger. Willie is a mouse. Rupert is white bear who wears a red sweater and a yellow checked scarf and trousers. He first appeared in a cartoon strip in the Daily Express. There have also been books and television series.

Answer: New South Wales

The Big Elephant, known as George, stands outside the Nimmitabel Bakery. Nimmitabel is a small town which stands on the Snowy Mountains Highway in south-eastern New South Wales.

Answer: Antarctica

Elephant Island lies south of Tierra del Fuego just off the coast of Antarctica. It takes its name from the elephant seals which live there. After the loss of the Endurance, Shackleton's crew took refuge on Elephant Island while Shackleton himself sailed to South Georgia in one of the lifeboats to get help.

Answer: Leeds

The Royal Armouries collections have been housed at the Tower of London since the seventeenth century, but there isn't enough space to display everything. Much of the artillery was moved to Fort Nelson in Portsmouth in 1995. The following year saw the opening of the main museum at Clarence Dock in Leeds.

Answer: Vietnam

The Vietnamese currency is the dong. The 1000 dong note which was first issued in 1998 shows a picture of an elephant working in the logging industry. The currency in Cambodia is the riel. The currency in Laos is the kip. There is an elephant on the 5 kip note first issued in 1979.

The currency in Thailand is the baht. There was an elephant on the 100 baht note which was issued in 1978.

Answer: Airavata

Airavata is the king of elephants on which Indra rides. Akupara is the tortoise on which the earth sits. Kamadhenu is the mother of all cows. Finally, Sarama is Indra's dog.

Answer: Hathi

Hathi is an elephant. Akela is a wolf. Baloo is a bear. Last, Bagheera is a panther.

Answer: Dumbo

Dumbo is the elephant with large ears that learned to fly. He first appeared in 1941. Bambi is the orphaned deer from the 1942 film. Mulan is the heroine of the 1998 film who fought in the Chinese army. Nemo is the clownfish who was lost in the 2003 film.

Answer: Double bass and piano

A double bass and a piano are used to represent the elephant. Strings and a piano are used for the tortoises. Two pianos represent the kangaroos. Two pianos and a cello signify the swan.

Answer: Denmark

The Order of the Elephant has existed since 1693. It is headed by the monarch of Denmark, and is usually only awarded to other royalty and heads of state.

Answer: Deuterocanonical Books

Presumably there were elephants on Noah's ark and it is assumed that the ivory on Solomon's throne came from elephants. However, elephants only get mentioned by name in the first and second books of Maccabees in the Apocrypha. Antiochus Epiphanes used them when he waged war against the Jews.

Answer: 23ins. X 28ins.

'Elephant' is 23ins. X 28ins. The size 20ins. X 25ins. is known as Royal, while 18ins. X 24ins. is a Broadsheet. And 15ins. X 20ins. is called Crown.

Answer: Cote d'Ivoire

Cote d'Ivoire is known as Les Éléphants - The Elephants. Namibia has the Brave Warriors. Zambia is called Chipolopolo - The Copper Bullets. Ghana's nickname is the Black Stars.

Answer: Nelson

Nelson is the elephant, Georgina is a giraffe, Molly is a hippopotamus and Toby is a tortoise. '64 Zoo Lane' is a television series for children created by An Vrombaut. It was first shown on the BBC in 2000.

Answer: Lost in the City

'Lost in the City' involves the hero trying to work out how his date, April, is involved with him waking up in an abandoned city after being drugged. 'Lost: Via Domus' is based on TV series 'Lost' and is produced by Ubisoft. 'Lost Planet' is produced by Capcom, and is about colonising a new planet after the earth becomes uninhabitable. Finally, 'Lost Odyssey' involves the player controlling a 1000 year old man who has forgotten his past, and it is published by Microsoft Game Studios.

Answer: Fire Brigade

Welephant was originally created for the Greater Manchester Fire Service to promote fire safety amongst children.