03-Apr-2025 Theme: 'Snail'

(1) What is the common name of edible sea snails in the Littorinidae family?

Answer: Periwinkles.

(2) What is the name of SpongeBob Squarepants’ pet snail?

Answer: Gary.

(3) What damaging invasive snail has been detected three times in Queensland – including about 300 individuals in Gordonvale in 1977 – but so far has not become naturalised in Australia?

Answer: Giant African Land Snail (Lissachatina fulica).

(4) According to CSIRO’s ‘A Guide to Land Snails of Australia', about how many species of land snail does Australia have? (a) 25 (b) 250 (c) 2,500 (d) 25,000.

Answer: (c) 2,500.

(5) What fictional English physician, created by author Hugh Lofting in the 1920s, is carried across the Atlantic Ocean in the shell of the Great Glass Sea Snail?

Answer: Dr Dolittle.

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