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