Welcome to the Jungle Trivia Quiz

Answer: False

A jungle is a thick, dense forest found in hot, humid climates. Over half of the world's known and unknown animal species' inhabit the jungle.

However, not even 6% of the earth's surface is jungle. Most jungles can be found in Africa, Asia, South and Central America (where the climate is usually the hottest)

Answer: wilderness

Sanskrit was one of the world's first known languages. "Jangala" was a term used to refer to any form of unattended or untouched landscape (such as a desert)

Answer: False

Lions are often depicted as the "king of the jungle." The reason for this is because they are often depicted as the most powerful and dominant animal of the jungle; however, in reality lions very seldom live in jungles but are grassland animals.

Tigers do often live in the jungle but that's not how the saying goes.

Answer: Chicago

Hinton built the jungle gym to allow people to have a "hands-on understanding" of what 3-dimensional space was. Today, it is seen as a common piece of playground equipment. Many parks and playgrounds around the world have jungle gyms in which children (and sometimes adults) can hang from, climb, and sit on.

In the past years however, many children have been harmed while playing on jungle gyms as a result of falling off or hitting their heads on the jungle gym. Many playgrounds now have some sort of material covering the ground to help reduce the chances of injuries (The most common type of impact-absorbing material used is wood chips)

Answer: Brooke Shields

"Lipstick Jungle" is an NBC show centering around three women who try to balance their personal lives with jobs in the fashion world.

Sarah Jessica Parker stars in the show "Sex and the City," and Mariska Hargitay stars in the NBC show "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit."

Answer: Survival of the fittest

"The law of the jungle" states that everyone fends for themselves, and only the strong will survive. Because of all the obstacles and dangers lurking in the jungle, only those who are strong and wise will live.

The law of the jungle is stated much differently in Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book," as a pack of wolves discuss that the pack must stick together to survive, and those who don't will die indefinitely.

Answer: selva

"Selva" is the Spanish word for jungle. "Playa" is the Spanish word for beach. "El mar" is the Spanish word for sea. "Desierto" is the Spanish word for desert.

Answer: Wesley Snipes

The movie "Jungle Fever" centers around an African-American architect named Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes) who falls in love with an Italian-American woman named Angie Tucci (Annabella Sciorra). As their relationship grows, they receive rude and unwanted pressure and commentary from their friends and family. At the same time in the movie, Flipper's brother Gator (Samuel L. Jackson) struggles with a drug addiction that gets out of hand as it takes over his life.

This movie debuted in theaters on June 7, 1991.

Answer: Shere Khan

In this movie, Bagheera (a black panther) and a family of wolves who have been raising Mowgli discuss that he needs to return to the man village in the Indian jungle before Shere Khan can find him and kill him. King Louie, a monkey, kidnaps Mowgli and tries to make him make fire. (Mowgli escapes though) Kaa, a python, attempts to eat Mowgli by hypnotizing him first, and then eating him (though Mowgli escapes both times) When Shere Khan finds Mowgli, several animals distract Shere Khan long enough for Mowgli to attach a burning tree branch to his tail to scare him off.

(This was the last movie Walt Disney helped produce before he died)

Answer: Guns N' Roses

"Welcome to the Jungle" is one of the most famous Guns N' Roses songs to date. It was written by Guns N' Roses members Axl Rose and Slash. It can be heard during many video games, (ex. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock) and during many professional sports games.

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