Quiz
VOLUME 6, ISSUE 12       MARCH 2005
FEBRUARY
QUIZ WINNER:
Karen Gurney

FEBRUARY
QUIZ ANSWERS:

1. What is the oldest operating aquarium in North america?
Answer: B. Belle Isle Aquarium. The Belle Isle Aquarium is the oldest continuously operating public aquarium in North America. It opened in 1904 at the intersection of Inselrue Avenue and Loiter Way across from the Greenhouse and next to the Conservatory.

2. Who designed the master landscape plan for the Belle Isle Island?
Answer: A. Frederick Law Olmsted. In 1883, the city secured the services of Frederick Law Olmsted, the prominent landscape architect and planner responsible for famous urban parks in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Boston.

3. What were the names of the two most famous stingrays at the Belle Isle Aquarium?
Answer: C. Stinky & Stinger. The Belle Isle Aquarium has received honors for its breeding and rearing of stingrays. In 1969 Stinky and Stinger gave birth to two baby stingrays earning the aquarium an Edward H. Beam Award.

4. What was so unique about the two white-spotted bamboo sharks born at the aquarium in 2002?
Answer: D. There was no male shark to fertilize the eggs. In 2002, the Belle Isle Aquarium hosted the surprise birth of two white-spotted bamboo sharks. The birth was unique because there was not a male shark among them to fertilize the eggs.

5. Who was the architect for the Belle Isle Aquarium?
Answer: C. Albert Kahn. The aquarium opened its doors to the public in 1904. Albert Kahn designed another noted building on the island, the Belle Isle Casino, which opened in 1908.
Know Your Animals?
Special Endangered Species Edition Quiz

Answer these questions and you could win a prize! If you select all the right answers, you'll be entered in a drawing to win a Detroit Zoo magnet.

1.
 Can you identify this endangered animal?
A. Purple lilliput
B. Pacific pocket mouse
C. Giant striped long-toed
          golden plover
D. Grevy's Zebra
2.
 Which of these animals is currently still listed as an endangered species?
A. Prairie dog
B. American alligator
C. Giant Panda
D. Bald eagle
3.
 Which of these animals is protected by law, though not an endangered species?
A. Florida panther
B. American black bear
C. Blue whale
D. California condor
4.
 The official "Invasive Species" list is also maintained by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service as part of the Endangered Species Program. Which of these is an invasive species to the U.S.?
A. Africanized honey bees (Killer bees)
B. Kirtland's Warbler
C. Alabama red-belly turtle
D. Virginia northern flying squirrel
5.
 Animals and plants go through various stages as they move up and down the Endangered Species List. One of these stages below is out of order, which one is it?
A. Threatened
B. Endangered
C. Candidate
D. Extinct

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