Animal Quiz Games for September 28, 2026: answers and stories
The five questions everyone got on September 28, 2026. Each answer has a short story.
Key facts
- On September 28, 2026 the five answers were Cocos Island, Costa Rica, Wolong National Nature Reserve, China, Rottnest Island, Western Australia, Australia, Sanaga River near Edea, Cameroon, and Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, United States.
- 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 scalloped hammerheads live?
Answer: Cocos Island, Costa Rica
Cocos Island is a small, green island in the Pacific Ocean about 550 kilometres off the coast of Costa Rica. Big schools of scalloped hammerheads gather around the underwater mountains near the island, where smaller fish clean their skin. Cocos Island National Park is protected, and it became a World Heritage Site in 1997.
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2. Where do wild giant pandas live?
Answer: Wolong National Nature Reserve, China
Wolong National Nature Reserve lies in the mountains of Sichuan province in south-west China. Its cool, misty bamboo forests are home to wild giant pandas. Pandas eat bamboo for many hours every day, and conservation teams work in the reserve to help protect them.
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3. Where do wild quokkas live?
Answer: Rottnest Island, Western Australia, Australia
Rottnest Island lies off the coast of Perth in Western Australia. In 1696 the Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh mistook the island's quokkas for giant rats and named it Rottnest, which means rat's nest in old Dutch. Today thousands of quokkas live there, feeding on leaves and grass mostly at dusk. Quokkas are small marsupials, and mothers carry their baby in a pouch.
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4. Where do wild goliath frogs live?
Answer: Sanaga River near Edea, Cameroon
Cameroon's Sanaga River runs through west Africa on its way to the Atlantic Ocean. Goliath frogs live in fast, clear water and rapids in rainforest rivers like this one. These huge frogs sit on rocks near the water and eat insects, crabs and other small animals.
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5. Where do wild Virginia opossums live?
Answer: Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, United States
Shenandoah National Park runs along the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, the state that gave this opossum its name. The Virginia opossum is a marsupial, and it is the only one living in the United States and Canada. Babies spend their first weeks in the mother's pouch. It hunts at night for insects, fruit and small animals.
| # | Name | Answer: | Latitude | Longitude |
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| 1 | Scalloped hammerhead | Cocos Island, Costa Rica | 5.53 | -87.07 |
| 2 | Giant panda | Wolong National Nature Reserve, China | 31 | 103.2 |
| 3 | Quokka | Rottnest Island, Western Australia, Australia | -32 | 115.52 |
| 4 | Goliath frog | Sanaga River near Edea, Cameroon | 3.8 | 10.13 |
| 5 | Virginia opossum | Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, United States | 38.53 | -78.35 |