Are any two tigers striped alike, and what does a startled tiger say? These tiger trivia questions and answers fill five rounds, from the snow leopard's sister cat to a poem of 1794.
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Five rounds, from Felis tigris to The Tyger
Names and family tree follows the name from Linnaeus to Pocock and explains the size of a liger. Stripes, teeth and coat reads the dots on a snout and the spots behind the ears. Territory, signals and sounds learns prusten, pok and woof. Hunting and cubs times a sprint and a wait. Forests, history and stories goes from Kublai Khan to Blake.
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Call out the question and tap the choice your table agrees on. The answer is checked there and then, with one sentence of reason and a link to its article. Each set has ten; Scored round gives twenty and marks them once you finish.
Questions and answers
Are any two tigers striped alike?
No. Each tiger wears its own pattern of stripes. Most stripes run vertically; the ones on the legs and forehead run across.
How fast can a tiger run?
A tiger can sprint at 56 km/h (35 mph) and leap 10 meters (33 feet). It cannot keep that up over a long distance, and it abandons a chase once the prey pulls away.
Where do tigers live?
In Asia, mainly in forests. Its range today is scattered: parts of the Indian subcontinent and the Indochinese Peninsula, the island of Sumatra, northeastern China and the Russian Far East.
How were the answers checked?
Each was read on October 3, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article Tiger, linked under every question. Population counts, poaching and trade, attacks on people, and circus acts are left out.
Genetic analyses show which cat to be the tiger's sister species?Answer: The snow leopard. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
In which country were the earliest fossils of the modern tiger species, jaw fragments from Lantian County, found?Answer: China. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Modern tiger populations spread across Asia from a refuge in which region?Answer: Indochina. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Since ancient times the word tigris has been said to come from a Persian or Armenian word meaning what?Answer: Arrow. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Some authorities recognize only two subspecies of tiger: the mainland Asian tiger and which other?Answer: The Sunda Islands tiger. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Supposed tiger fossils from the late Pleistocene of Japan turned out to belong to which animal?Answer: The cave lion. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Under which scientific name did Linnaeus describe the tiger in 1758?Answer: Felis tigris. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
What is the offspring of a male lion and a female tiger called?Answer: A liger. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
What is the scientific name of the tiger?Answer: Panthera tigris. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Which of these is one of the nine tiger subspecies proposed between the 19th and 21st centuries?Answer: The Caspian tiger. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Who placed the tiger in the genus Panthera in 1929?Answer: Reginald Innes Pocock. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Why do ligers grow far larger than either parent species?Answer: A growth gene from the lion father meets no check from the tigress. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
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A tiger's stripes are mostly vertical. Where are they horizontal?Answer: On the limbs and forehead. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
About how long is a tiger's tail compared with the rest of its body?Answer: About half as long. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Besides white and snow-white, which color variant of the Bengal tiger is named?Answer: Golden. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
How many teeth does a tiger have?Answer: 30. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
In which national park of India have pseudo-melanistic tigers, with thick merged stripes, been recorded?Answer: Simlipal. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
What color are the stripes of a white tiger?Answer: Sepia-brown. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
What increases in number with age on the pink tip of a tiger's snout?Answer: Small black dots. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
What is true of the stripe pattern of every tiger?Answer: It is unique to the individual. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
What marks the back of each of a tiger's ears?Answer: A white spot surrounded by black. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
What shape is the pupil of a tiger's eye?Answer: Round. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Which of the tiger's teeth are the longest in the cat family?Answer: The canines. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Which tiger grows a particularly thick winter coat?Answer: The Siberian tiger. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Which tigers are the smallest, likely through insular dwarfism?Answer: The island tigers. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Why may a tiger's orange coat help to hide it from its prey?Answer: Its prey is color blind and may see it as green. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Territory, signals and sounds 12
At a kill, what will a male tiger do that a male lion will not?Answer: Let females and cubs feed before he has finished. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
From how far away can a tiger's roar be heard?Answer: 3 kilometers (1.9 miles). Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
How are disputes between tigers usually settled?Answer: By intimidation rather than fighting. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
How do adult tigers mostly live?Answer: Alone. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Over what distance may a tiger disperse to reach tigers in another area?Answer: Up to 650 kilometers (400 miles). Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
What does a tiger's tail do to show cordiality?Answer: Sticks up and sways slowly. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
What is the curled-lip grimace that a tiger makes when smelling a scent mark called?Answer: The flehmen response. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
What is the soft, low snort that tigers make in friendly situations called?Answer: Prusten. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
What sound does a startled tiger make?Answer: A woof. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Which sound, like that of a deer, do tigers produce for unknown reasons, most often at kills?Answer: Pok. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Which tigers may routinely climb trees?Answer: Cubs under 16 months old. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
With which sound do tiger cubs call back to their mother?Answer: Meows. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Hunting and cubs 15
At about what age can tiger cubs leave the den and start eating meat?Answer: Two months. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
At what age does a young tiger reach independence?Answer: 18 to 24 months. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Depending on the size of the prey, how often does a tiger typically kill?Answer: Weekly. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
For how long can a tiger stay in the same spot, waiting for prey?Answer: As long as a day. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
From whom do tigers learn to hunt?Answer: Their mothers. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
How do tigers, leopards and dholes manage to live in the same country?Answer: By hunting prey of different sizes. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
How does a tiger take its prey?Answer: By ambush. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
How far can a tiger leap?Answer: 10 meters (33 feet). Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
How fast can a tiger sprint?Answer: 56 km/h (35 mph). Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
How long do wild Bengal tigers live?Answer: 12 to 15 years. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
How many cubs are typical of a tiger litter?Answer: Two or three. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
How much meat can a tiger consume in one session?Answer: As much as 50 kilograms (110 pounds). Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
In a tiger litter, which cub is the most dominant and the first to eat its fill at a kill?Answer: The biggest, often a male. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
In much of their range, tigers share habitat with leopards and which wild dogs?Answer: Dholes. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Which of these is among the hooved mammals a tiger mainly feeds on?Answer: The sambar deer. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Forests, history and stories 11
In a 2004 online poll of more than 50,000 people, the tiger was voted the world's favorite animal. Which animal did it narrowly beat?Answer: The dog. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
In ancient China, the tiger was seen as the king of what?Answer: The forest. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
In the Greco-Roman world, which god was depicted riding a tiger?Answer: Dionysus. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
In which Himalayan country was a tiger documented in forest at 4,200 meters?Answer: Bhutan. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
In which year was Project Tiger founded in India?Answer: 1973. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
On which two Indonesian islands is the tiger now extinct?Answer: Java and Bali. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
The tiger is one of the animals shown on the Pashupati seal of which ancient civilization?Answer: The Indus Valley Civilization. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
The tiger's historic range reached west as far as the east of which country?Answer: Turkey. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Which dynasty of southern India used the tiger as its official emblem on seals and coins?Answer: The Chola. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Which Mongol ruler is reported to have kept tigers in the 13th century?Answer: Kublai Khan. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
Which poet wrote The Tyger in 1794?Answer: William Blake. Source: Wikipedia: Tiger
How this list was compiled
Written for this site; nothing was copied from another list. Questions and wrong choices are our own. Each explanation restates, in our own sentences, a fact from the English Wikipedia article named and linked beside the question (https://en.wikipedia.org, text under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license): Tiger. On October 3, 2026 the passage that states each fact was read in that article before the question was kept. Left out on purpose: population counts and conservation listings, poaching and the trade in body parts, hunting totals, attacks on people, how a tiger kills, mating, protection laws by country, circus acts and trainers, cereal and cartoon characters, and the tiger in living faiths and astrology. Levels are our estimate: easy is fair for any table, medium suits people who know the animal, hard will stump most tables. Unofficial, and not advice on keeping, feeding or approaching an animal. Licence: own work