Quiztime Whales Quiz

A whale was seen swimming in the River Thames in the centre of London today.
Identified as a northern bottle-nosed whale, it was seen swimming past Parliament by boaters and sightseers.

1. Which is the largest type of whale which can grow to over 100 feet long?
The Blue Whale
2. What name is given to minute plants and animals floating on the surface of the water, used as food by whales and other creatures?
Plankton
3. What was the name of the killer whale which played Willie in Free Willie?
Keiko
4. What is a baby whale called?
Calf
5. Which 80's pop song includes the lyrics "Hop in my Chrysler, it's as big as a whale and it's about to set sail!, I got me a car, it seats about 20, So come on and bring your jukebox money"?
Love Shack - The B52's
6. Which 93 year old actress appeared alongside Bette Davis in 'The Whales of August'?
Lillian Gish
7. The 'Intelligent whale' was the nickname of an early type of what?
Submarine
8. What is a cachalot?
A Sperm Whale
9. Nurse, Lemon, Reef and Whale are all types of what?
Shark
10. True or False - In California it is illegal to shoot game from a moving vehicle except a whale?
True
11. Which Old Testament character was swallowed by a whale?
Jonah
12. What is the collective noun for a group of whales?
Pod (also Gam)
13. Which company used to use oil from the sperm whale as transmission fluid in their cars?
Rolls Royce
14. What colour was the whale in Moby Dick?
White
15. In Victorian times what Were stays and corsets stiffened with?
Whalebone
16. What kind of whale was Moby Dick?
Sperm Whale
17. Where are a whales nipples?
On its back
18. What name is given to the fat obtained from a whale?
Blubber
19. How heavy is a Blue Whale at birth?
Two Tons
20. What is the technical name for a whale's penis?
Dork

21. Which animal gives birth to the world's biggest babies?
Blue whale
22. What is the correct name for a White Whale?
Beluga
23. Which creature has the heaviest brain of any animal?
Sperm whale
24. On his seven voyages, which mythical person encountered a giant whale, giant cannibals, and a giant bird known as the roc?
Sinbad
25. Which Roy played the role of Whaley, one of Arthur Daley's dodgy business contacts in 'Minder'?
Roy Kinnear
26. Which K is the name of the tiny shrimp like creature which forms a large part of the whale’s diet?
Krill
27. How many gallons of sperm does a blue whale ejaculate in one mating session?
400 gallons, 360 of which spill into the sea!
28. The 1956 film Moby Dick saw which actor play a captain obsessed with capturing a great white whale?
Gregory Peck
29. The orca, more commonly known as the killer whale is a type of which creature?
Dolphin
30. What name is given to the small whales found along coasts and in rivers throughout the Artic?
Narwhal
31. A Court in the USA has decided what about the world's whales, porpoises and dolphins - A/ they cannot be enrolled to vote, B/ they do not need passports when entering U.S. Territorial waters, and therefore cannot be shot as illegal aliens, C/ they are not allowed to own property or D/ they have no standing to sue president George W. Bush?
Answer = D
32. According to the bible, how many days and nights did Jonah spend in the belly of the whale that swallowed him?
Three days and nights
33. Which marine mammal was nicknaed the sea canary because of its whistling?
White Wale
34. True or false - there is a constellation called The Whale?
True
35. What was the name of the whale in Disney's Pinocchio?
Monstro
36. What soft toy range devised by H Ty Warner included characters such as Flash The Dolphin, Splash The Whale and Patti The Platypus?
Beanie Babies
37. What is the name of the world’s largest fish?
Whale Shark (some up to 50ft long)
38. True or False? - The death of Cromwell in 1658 was preceded by the arrival of a large whale in the River Thames?
True
39. What animal undertakes the world's longest migration each year - Arctic Tern, Pacific Herring or Gray Whale?
Arctic Tern
40. What was the Bob Marley’s backing band called?
The Wailers

Tiebreaker - The blue whale, the biggest creature on the planet, has the longest penis – but how long is it to the nearest foot?
10 feet

Balein, Boops, Fin, Grampus and Pothead are types of whale

Footnote -
'And even the like precurse of fierce events / As harbingers preceding still the fates / And prologue to the omen coming on…" In Shakespeare, mighty events are heralded by portents, such as the presence of strange, out-of-place animals.
Indeed, the death of Cromwell in 1658 was preceded by the arrival of a large whale in the River Thames. What does yesterday's visitor portend? A currency crash? War with Iran? It cannot come to good.
One thing is encouraging. The 1658 whale suffered at the hands of Londoners: as John Evelyn recorded, "after a long conflict it was killed with the harping irons… after an horrid groan it ran quite on shore, and died".
The whole nation was willing the whale to life and freedom. Sentimental zoophiles we may be, but we recognise a harmless beast of awe and beauty. The whale was welcome in Westminster.