A) Spanish officers B) Desert tribes and Mongolian nomads C) Egyptian camel drivers D) Roman auxiliary forces
A) Outer guard hairs and soft inner down B) Curly fleece and straight bristles C) Coarse wool and fine cotton D) Short fur and long mane hair
A) Waterproof coats for herdsmen B) Military tent covers C) Saddle padding D) Decorative rugs
A) 19th century B) 17th century onwards C) 21st century D) 1200 BC
A) 20th century B) 500 BC C) 19th century D) 17th century
A) 500 BC B) 7th century BC C) By at least 1200 BC D) 19th century
A) By reins attached to a bit B) By means of a stick C) Using vocal commands D) By pulling nose rings
A) By at least 1200 BC B) In the 17th century C) During World War II D) Between 500 and 100 BC
A) They were positioned exclusively to the back of the camel B) They were inflexible and bent, and were put over the humps C) They were made entirely of soft wool and down D) They were designed for a single rider without weights
A) 1200 BC B) 20th century C) 19th century D) Seventh century BC
A) The Battle of Thymbra in 547 BC B) The Battle of Qarqar in 853 BC C) World War I in 1916 D) The American Civil War in 1861
A) Border Security Force (BSF) of India B) British Army C) United States Army D) French Armée d'Afrique
A) Dromedarii B) Senussi C) Tropas Nómadas D) Méhariste
A) Their natural armor protection against arrows B) Their ability to carry heavy artillery on their backs C) Their ability to run faster than horses over long distances D) Their ability to scare off horses at close range due to their scent
A) Achaemenid Persians B) British C) French D) Romans
A) 1861 B) 547 BC C) 1200 BC D) 853 BC
A) Berlin B) California C) Texas D) Algeria
A) Achaemenid Persian leader B) King Abdulaziz C) John B. Floyd D) French military commander
A) The outbreak of the American Civil War B) A massive disease outbreak among the camels C) The invention of motorized trucks D) A severe shortage of food for the animals
A) They were integrated into the Confederate cavalry B) They were shipped back to the Middle East C) They were housed permanently in Benicia stables D) They were left to wander away into the desert
A) Confederate Headquarters B) Benicia Historical Museum C) Benicia Arsenal D) California State Capitol
A) They are abandoned ruins B) They are private residential homes C) They are used as active military stables D) They serve as the Benicia Historical Museum
A) To fight against Romanian forces in the Caucasian region B) To exercise greater control over the camel-riding Tuareg and Arab insurgents C) To participate in the Battle of Thymbra D) To transport supplies across the Sinai and Palestine Campaign
A) 1944 B) 1912 C) 1962 D) 1975
A) 1853 B) 1916 C) 1912 D) 1942
A) The Senussi B) The Confederate forces C) The Lydians D) The Tuareg
A) They dismounted at battle sites and fought on foot B) They fought entirely while riding on the camels C) They remained mounted to intimidate enemy horses D) They used the camels strictly as heavy artillery shields
A) 1944 B) 1919 C) 1918 D) 1975
A) Egyptian camel drivers and their camels B) British infantrymen mounted for desert movement C) Sahrawi tribesmen equipped with small arms D) Roman auxiliary forces recruited in desert provinces
A) The Bikaner Camel Corps B) The Imperial Camel Corps C) The Somaliland Camel Corps D) The Tropas Nómadas
A) Bikaner Camel Corps B) Border Security Force C) Tropas Nómadas D) Somaliland Camel Corps
A) French forces in Algeria B) United States Army C) Spanish colonial army D) Romanian forces
A) To scare off German cavalry horses B) Due to a shortage of trucks and horses C) Because camels were faster than all motorized vehicles D) Because camel hair was needed for military uniforms
A) Berlin itself B) Paris C) London D) Rome
A) An auxiliary regiment of Sahrawi tribesmen serving in the colonial army in Spanish Sahara B) A division of British camel drivers in Egypt C) A brigade of French desert insurgents in the Sahara D) A Roman unit of dromedarii in desert provinces
A) 1944 B) 1975 C) 1919 D) 1962
A) India B) California C) Spanish Sahara D) Saudi Arabia
A) $12m (£8m) B) $57m (£40m) C) $100m (£70m) D) $1m (£700k)
A) They were discovered to be the wrong breed B) Their owners were found to have injected them with botox C) They were too young to enter the pageant D) They showed signs of aggressive behavior
A) Over 100 camels B) Over 40 camels C) Only 5 camels D) Exactly 12 camels
A) 32 pairs B) 74 pairs C) 41 pairs D) 37 pairs
A) 37 B) 68 C) 74 D) 76
A) One B) Three C) 37 D) 32
A) One B) 37 C) Three D) 32
A) 32 B) 37 C) 3 D) 1
A) Acrocentric B) Small metacentric C) Large metacentric D) Submetacentric
A) Acrocentric B) Submetacentric C) Large metacentric D) Small metacentric
A) 2.15 m B) 1.85 m C) 2.32 m D) 2.70 m
A) 2.50 m B) 2.15 m C) 2.32 m D) 1.90 m
A) 450 kg B) 500 kg C) 650 kg D) 800 kg
A) About 16 million years ago B) About 1 million years ago C) About 11 million years ago D) About 40 to 50 million years ago
A) About 16 million years ago B) About 11 million years ago C) About 5 million years ago D) About 1 million years ago
A) An extinct camel species B) A camel-llama hybrid C) A Bactrian-dromedary hybrid D) The earliest known camel
A) Natural light cycles B) Temperature changes C) Artificial hormones D) Gonadotrophin injections
A) Ears B) Legs C) A hump D) Hooves
A) Varies by gender B) Sometimes fertile C) Sterile D) Fertile
A) Stenomylus B) Protylopus C) Poebrotherium D) Paracamelus
A) Miocene B) Eocene C) Pleistocene D) Pliocene
A) A horse B) A rabbit C) A dog D) A goat
A) South Dakota B) South America C) Africa D) Asia
A) Stenomylus B) Aepycamelus C) Paracamelus D) Protylopus
A) Miocene B) Pleistocene C) Holocene D) Eocene
A) Camelini B) Camelidae C) Lamini D) Protylopus
A) Paracamelus B) Camelini C) Stenomylus D) Lamini
A) Paracamelus B) Camelops hesternus C) Poebrotherium D) Protylopus
A) Via Africa B) Via the Isthmus of Panama C) Via Beringia D) Via South America
A) During the Holocene B) During the Pleistocene C) During the late Miocene D) During the Eocene
A) About seven feet B) About five feet C) About eleven feet D) About nine feet
A) Aepycamelus B) Paracamelus C) Camelops hesternus D) Camelus knoblochi
A) Permian-Triassic extinction event B) Holocene extinction C) Quaternary extinction event D) Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event
A) Camelus knoblochi B) Protylopus C) Camelops hesternus D) Paracamelus
A) 1 million years ago B) 13 to 11,000 years ago C) 7.5 million years ago D) Around 20,000 years ago
A) Old Norse B) Sanskrit C) Ancient Semitic D) Ancient Egyptian
A) Even-toed ungulate B) Marsupial C) Odd-toed ungulate D) Carnivoran
A) 6% B) 50% C) 84% D) 94%
A) Lamini B) Camelid C) Ruminant D) Ungulate
A) Dromedary B) Llama C) Bactrian camel D) Wild Bactrian camel
A) 65 km/h B) 40 km/h C) 25 km/h D) 80 km/h
A) Rete mirabile B) Nictitating membrane C) Os diaphragmaticum D) Dulla
A) Water B) Fatty tissue C) Blood plasma D) Air
A) 30% B) 50% C) 10% D) 5%
A) Humps B) Bladder C) Stomach chambers D) Bloodstream
A) Circular B) Oval C) Star-shaped D) Square
A) 37 °C B) 34 °C C) 49 °C D) 40 °C
A) Os diaphragmaticum B) Dulla C) Rete mirabile D) Nictitating membrane
A) 25% B) 10% C) 40% D) 50%
A) Os diaphragmaticum B) Dulla C) Pedestal D) Rete mirabile
A) Darker B) Red C) Black D) Lighter
A) Pedestal B) Dulla C) Hump D) Cushion
A) A thick syrup B) Foamy milk C) A solid crystal D) Clear water
A) 1993 B) 2003 C) 1963 D) 1983
A) Foot-and-mouth disease B) Anthrax C) Surra D) Rinderpest
A) Fermentation B) Cecotrophy C) Regurgitation of pellets D) Rumination
A) 90 °C B) 100 °C C) 50 °C D) 70 °C
A) Australia B) North America C) Asia D) Africa
A) No B) Only in certain regions C) Yes D) Only recent fossils
A) Extinct B) Domesticated C) Feral D) Wild
A) Brazil B) Australia C) Egypt D) Canada
A) Mongolia B) China C) United States D) Kazakhstan
A) Marine mammals B) All plant life C) Many other megafauna D) Small rodents |