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October Octopus!

Although October is the tenth month, it’s pretty obvious that it used to be the eighth, until those pesky Romans jiggled the calendar around and put two new months at the beginning of the year, ruining a perfectly good system. Anyway…to celebrate eightness we’re concentrating on the Octopus and their evolutionary relations for this quiz, so pulse ahead to see how much you know about this clever creature. If you’re a lucky winner we’ll send you a cuddly octopus, and we’ll even throw in a few squid! Geddit – Squid?

So, suckers, if you’ve got the tentacles for this quiz, let’s go!


01

Which of these things does an octopus have?

Feathers

Beak

Wings
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02

An octopus is a cephalopod – which of these animals is also a cephalopod?

Elephant

Nautilus

Shark

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03

An octopus will live almost anywhere – in water – but where are they not found?

In freshwater

In very cold water

In very deep water
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04

Which of these is NOT true about an octopus’ eyes?

They don’t have a blind spot

They have rectangular pupils

They have very long eyelashes
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05

The blue ringed octopus has very toxic saliva.  The toxin comes from what?

Colonies of bacteria living in their salivary glands

Chemicals manufactured in their brains

The seaweed they eat
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06

According to the Oxford University Press what is the correct plural for Octopus?

Octopussy

Octopodes

Octagon
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07

A squid has eight arms – how many tentacles do they have?

Two

Four

Eight
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08

A person who studies squid is called what?

A teuthologist

A octometrist

A squidgist
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09

Cuttlefish are the source of sepia ink – what colour is it?

Green

Blue

Brown
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10

Cuttlefish are amazing at changing colour to camouflage themselves.  They use a combination of chromatophores, ink sacks under the skin producing colours like red, yellow and black, and guanophores which do what?

Exude slime to make the cuttlefish slippery

Reflect back blue and green light

Absorb all light making the cuttlefish invisible
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