Kangaroos Trivia Quiz

Answer: Australia & New Guinea

While there are over 40 species of kangaroos and wallabies found in Australia, with species of tree kangaroos found in New Guinea, Australia's northern neighbour. Tree kangaroos are much smaller.

Answer: False

Don't believe all you see on TV. Kangaroos are wild animals and are best left that way. They need wide open spaces to survive naturally. It's not totally uncommon for an orphaned or injured juvenile to be raised by human hand and then released into the wild once it can fend for itself, but it would be cruel to keep one as a pet (and illegal without permission to do so).

Answer: Boomer

Male kangaroos are called boomers, females are does or flyers. Juvenile kangaroos are joeys.

Answer: Wombat

Macropods (a Greek word meaning 'big foot') have large hind legs and muscular feet, shorter fore legs and a strong tail which is used for balance. A quokka is a unique little fellow whose main population calls Rottnest Island, off the South West Australian coast, home.

Answer: Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders discovered the island while circumnavigating and charting Australia in 1802. Deserters from American and English whaling ships settled it soon after. Kangaroo Island is still a natural wonderland and is home to seals, fairy penguins, whales, dolphins, kangaroos, wallabies, koalas and emus, over 250 bird species and 70 native tree species.

Answer: Mob

Kangaroos are a social animal and live in 'mobs.' Mobs can be as small as two and three or as large as 100. Other recognised collective nouns for kangaroos are 'troop' and also a less used term, a 'court' of kangaroos.

Answer: Red Kangaroo

While the red kangaroo is the tallest marsupial on earth, the eastern grey male, though shorter on average is roughly the same weight.

Answer: Emu

The emu is second in height only to the ostrich and, like the ostrich, they are flightless. The coat of arms shows a shield with the emblems of all the states supported by the kangaroo on one side and the emu on the other.

Answer: 9 months

Although out of the pouch, a joey will continue to suckle until 12 to seventeen months old. Amazingly, kangaroos can have 3 babies at a time. One baby out of the pouch and still feeding, one in the pouch, and an embryo ready to go but in pause mode until the pouch is vacated. A flyer has four teats, all with different milks for the various levels of infant maturity.

Answer: Olly: The Olympic Kangaroo

For the 2000 Sydney Olympics, 3 unique Aussie mascots were adopted. 'Mille' the echidna, 'Syd' the platypus and 'Olly' who was in fact a Kookaburra (Aussies were not happy not having our most famous ambassador ignored as a mascot). Qantas is Australia's national airline and is known as the 'flying kangaroo' due to the kangaroo on the tail insignia. Matilda was a boxing kangaroo in a 1978 movie and is now one of Australia's favourite sporting icons.

It can be seen at any Aussie sporting event on boxing kangaroo flags. Skippy? "Well, she'll be right 'ey skip?"