Fly Quiz: Trivia Questions and Answers

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1. What are the halteres?

A pair of small club-shaped organs on the body of two Orders of flying insects that provide information about body rotations during flight

A kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants or animals

A subsection of Schizophora in the insect order Diptera

2. The earliest fly fossils so far found are from the:

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

3. In terms of their scientific classification, to which order do flies belong?

Blattodea

Diptera

Embioptera

4. Which of the following diseases mosquitoes are not a vector for?

Influenza

Malaria

Dengue

5. How many species of Diptera are present in Europe?

15,000

23,000

19,000

6. What was the estimated speed of the deer bot fly suggested by Charles Townsend in 1927?

25 miles per hor

300 - 400 miles per hour

600 to 800 miles per hour

7. Many Dipteras are mimetic, what does it mean?

They have the ability to imitate one or more traits from another organism (with which it’s unrelated) so that they can obtain some benefit.

Dipteras have the ability to be unnoticed by their predators

Dipteras derive their energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue

8. According to some Abrahamic religions, who is Beelzebub?

A demon

A profet

An Israeli king

9. Which of the following TV shows used the style of documentary-making called fly-on-the-wall?

"Cops"

"Tutu's Children"

"Narcos"

10. Who composed the 1920s piano work "From the Diary of a Fly"?

Béla Bartók

Yoko Ono

Sean Kinney

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