9 for 10 - Bear Facts Trivia Quiz

Answer: Boston

In 1924 the Boston Bruins become the first U.S. professional hockey team to join the NHL (National Hockey League). The NHL came into being in 1920 with four Canadian teams, Ottawa, Hamilton, Toronto and Montreal.

Answer: India

The sloth bear can also be found in Sri Lanka. It feeds on plants and insects, especially termites. Like an anteater it has a long sticky tongue to deal with these.

Answer: Golden Bear

Jack Nicklaus is regarded by many as the greatest golfer of the 20th century, and, indeed, won the PGA's Golfer of the Century award in 1988. He became a professional golfer in 1962 at the age of twenty-two and won six Masters championships.

Answer: Dumbo

Dumbo is an elephant, featured in the 1941 Disney movie. Baloo was a bear in Kipling's "The Jungle Book". Yogi Bear, who lived in Jellystone Park, was a character in an animated series that first appeared in the early 1960s. Winnie the Pooh, a bear of little brains, was created by A.A. Milne.

Answer: isabellinus

Ursus arctos horribilis is the Grizzly Bear
Ursus inopinatus is now extinct.
Ursus americanus is the American Black Bear.

Answer: Peru

Paddington's aunt sent him to London from 'darkest Peru', with a label around his neck that said: "Please Look After This Bear. Thank You". He was found by the Brown family and given the name Paddington, the name of the London railway terminus where he was found. The author of the "Paddington" books is Michael Bond.

Answer: Polar bear

Believe it or not! The polar bear's skin is black to absorb heat. It has two layers of hair, the outer layer has long, hollow guard hairs. These direct sunlight to the bear's skin. The inner layer has short woolly hairs.

Answer: exit

This stage direction appears in "The Winter's Tale", act III, scene III. Antigonus leaves the baby Perdita on the sea coast of Bohemia. He is disturbed by a bear and runs off - 'exit pursued by a bear'.

Answer: Republic

In June 1846 some American settlers decided to declare California's independence from Mexico. This action was known as the Bear Flag Revolt. California is one of only two American states to have been an independent republic before joining the United States, the other being Texas.

Answer: Big Dipper

The Latin word for bear is Ursa, this gives us the word ursine which means bearlike. The British know this constellation of the northern skies as the Plough.