Animal Quiz Games for September 17, 2026: answers and stories
The five questions everyone got on September 17, 2026. Each answer has a short story.
Key facts
- On September 17, 2026 the five answers were Poyang Lake, China, Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, USA, Dinosaur Cove, Victoria, Australia, Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, England, and Taman Negara National Park, Malaysia.
- The five answers came from 4 different parts of the world.
- A perfect day scores 1,000 points.
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1. Where do wild Siberian cranes spend the winter?
Answer: Poyang Lake, China
Poyang Lake in eastern China is the country's biggest freshwater lake. Most of the world's Siberian cranes spend the winter on its shallow shores and mudflats, feeding on the roots of water plants. Siberian cranes are critically endangered, so people work hard to protect the lake.
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2. Where have Diplodocus fossils been found?
Answer: Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, USA
Dinosaur National Monument lies on the border of Utah and Colorado. A rock wall there shows hundreds of dinosaur bones, and Diplodocus is among them. Diplodocus was one of the longest dinosaurs, about 25 metres from nose to tail, and most of that length was neck and tail.
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3. Where was the first Leaellynasaura fossil found?
Answer: Dinosaur Cove, Victoria, Australia
Dinosaur Cove is on the coast of Victoria, Australia, where diggers cut tunnels into the sea cliffs to reach fossils. More than 100 million years ago this land lay far south, near the South Pole, and winters were long and dark. Leaellynasaura was a small plant eater named after the daughter of the scientists who found it.
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4. Where were the first Megalosaurus bones found?
Answer: Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, England
Stonesfield is a village in Oxfordshire, England, where workers once dug slate for roofs. Some slabs held big bones and jaws with sharp teeth. In 1824 a scholar from Oxford described them, and Megalosaurus became one of the first dinosaurs to get a scientific name.
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5. Where do wild orchid mantises live?
Answer: Taman Negara National Park, Malaysia
Orchid mantises live in the rainforests of Southeast Asia. Taman Negara National Park in Malaysia protects a huge area of rainforest with flowering plants along its rivers and trails. The mantis has petal-shaped legs and sits still on a flower until a bee or fly comes close. Females grow much bigger than males.
| # | Name | Answer: | Latitude | Longitude |
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| 1 | Siberian crane | Poyang Lake, China | 29.1 | 116.3 |
| 2 | Diplodocus | Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, USA | 40.44 | -109.3 |
| 3 | Leaellynasaura | Dinosaur Cove, Victoria, Australia | -38.77 | 143.4 |
| 4 | Megalosaurus | Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, England | 51.85 | -1.44 |
| 5 | Orchid mantis | Taman Negara National Park, Malaysia | 4.4 | 102.4 |