Animal Quiz Games for September 27, 2026: answers and stories
The five questions everyone got on September 27, 2026. Each answer has a short story.
Key facts
- On September 27, 2026 the five answers were Taman Negara, Malaysia, Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA, Tendaguru Hill, Tanzania, Wachau Valley, Austria, and Ranthambore National Park, India.
- 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 Malayan tapirs live?
Answer: Taman Negara, Malaysia
Taman Negara is a huge national park in the rainforests of Peninsular Malaysia. Malayan tapirs walk along its forest paths and riverbanks at night, sniffing out leaves and fruit with their flexible snouts. Their black and white coats may help hide them in the dark.
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2. Where do western diamondback rattlesnakes live in the wild?
Answer: Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA
Big Bend National Park in western Texas sits in a big curve of the Rio Grande, with desert, mountains and canyons. Western diamondback rattlesnakes rest under rocks and bushes when it is hot and hunt mice, rabbits and birds at dusk. A rattlesnake shakes its rattle as a warning so that larger animals keep away.
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3. Where were the Giraffatitan bones in Berlin dug up?
Answer: Tendaguru Hill, Tanzania
Tendaguru Hill in southern Tanzania is one of Africa's best-known fossil sites. Teams from Germany dug there between 1909 and 1913, and local workers carried the heavy bones to the coast to be shipped to Berlin. The skeleton built from them now stands in Berlin's natural history museum and is about 13 metres tall.
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4. Where do wild European green lizards live?
Answer: Wachau Valley, Austria
Sunny terraced hillsides and old stone walls line the Wachau, a stretch of the Danube valley in Austria. European green lizards bask on the warm rocks here and dash into the bushes when disturbed. They eat insects and spiders, and sometimes berries.
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5. Where do wild Indian peafowl live?
Answer: Ranthambore National Park, India
Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan, India, is a dry forest with old lakes and a hill fort. Peafowl are easy to spot here, walking along tracks and perching in the trees. The peacock is India's national bird, and males spread their bright tail feathers to show off to the females.
| # | Name | Answer: | Latitude | Longitude |
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| 1 | Malayan tapir | Taman Negara, Malaysia | 4.4 | 102.4 |
| 2 | Western diamondback rattlesnake | Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA | 29.25 | -103.25 |
| 3 | Giraffatitan | Tendaguru Hill, Tanzania | -9.7 | 39.25 |
| 4 | European green lizard | Wachau Valley, Austria | 48.38 | 15.45 |
| 5 | Indian peafowl | Ranthambore National Park, India | 26.02 | 76.5 |