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Geese are fascinating creatures, with a rich history and cultural significance in many parts of the world. They are well-known for their migration patterns, honking calls, and strong family bonds. Geese are also commonly kept as domesticated birds, providing eggs and meat for consumption. With a variety of species and breeds, there is much to learn about geese and their behavior. However, not everyone is aware of the interesting trivia and facts surrounding geese. Here are a few examples of goose trivia questions that might test your knowledge:
These are just a few examples of the many fascinating facts and trivia related to geese. Whether you're a bird-lover or just someone who wants to learn more about these fascinating creatures, these questions can be a fun and interesting way to learn more about geese and their behavior.
1. Hey girl! As a certain Canadian actor could tell you, what is the word for a baby goose?
Answer: Gosling
2. Although it sounds like it doesn't have one, what is the name of the 2019 video game in which players control a goose who harasses the inhabitants of an idyllic English village?
Answer: Untitled Goose Game
3. In what fairy tale is there a goose that lays golden eggs, along with a singing harp and some magic beans?
Answer: Jack and the Beanstalk
4. In what language does "gefüllter Gänsehals" literally translate as "stuffed goose neck," which is a traditional simmered dish?
Answer: German
5. According to the family tree made by Carl Banks, Gus Goose has three cousins: Gladstone Gander, Thelma Duck, and which other anatine character, who is the most famous member of the family?
Answer: Donald Duck
6. Some of our favorite collective nouns for animals include a congregation of alligators, a business of ferrets, an ostentation of peacocks, and a gaggle of what other fowl?
Answer: Geese
7. Named after the goose feathers used to stuff it, the "feathery" (also spelled "featherie") was an early type of ball used in which sport, which originated in 15th century Scotland?
Answer: Golf
8. One of the earliest mentions of the idiom "wild goose chase" is when Mercutio says, "Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase" during a conversation with one of the two title characters of what Shakespeare play?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet
9. The silly-sounding portmanteau "swoose" refers to the hybrid offspring of a goose and what other bird?
Answer: Swan
10. Honoring a bird that once roamed the market, "Alec the Goose" is a statue that can be found in St. George's Market in what city, the capital of Northern Ireland?
Answer: Belfast
11. A Dutch word meaning "to chatter" and a Middle English word meaning "to cackle" are possible origins for what word that means a group of geese?
Answer: Gaggle
12. What kind of feather is larger and fluffier on geese than ducks, making them a popular choice for commercial use in blankets and pillows?
Answer: Down Feather
13. In 2023, several Michigan beaches were closed and geese blamed for an outbreak of what common but dangerous bacteria, which is found in the geese's droppings?
Answer: E. Coli
14. Retrices are feathers that help in flight found on what part of a goose's anatomy?
Answer: Tail
15. Twenty goose-feather quills are set out at the "counsel tables" each day when what American institution is in session?
Answer: U.S. Supreme Court
16. Referring to their tendency to hiss and be mean to humans, Canadian geese are often referred to jokingly as WHAT Chickens? Another "C" animal completes the name.
Answer: Cobra
17. Accompanied by a ghost, Ebenezer Scrooge looks in on the Cratchit family having a goose for dinner as a special holiday treat in what Charles Dickens novel?
Answer: A Christmas Carol
18. What word that also refers to a small hand-held purse is the name for a nest of goose eggs?
Answer: Clutch
19. The giant white goose called "The Great Terror" is a character in what 2011 animation named after an anthropomorphic feline voiced by Antonio Banderas?
Answer: Puss in Boots
20. Also known as the beach goose, what is the more common name for Anser canagicus, a small, stocky species of goose found in northern Alaska? It shares its title with the largest species of penguin.
Answer: Emperor Goose
21. The Emden breed of German domestic goose is often called the WHAT goose, because its slender white neck makes it resemble what other bird?
Answer: Swan
22. Geese control companies like Wild Goose Chase in Chicago and Geese Police in New Jersey have pioneered strategies for "harassing" nuisance geese using what animals?
Answer: Dogs
23. The smallest of Africa's waterfowl species, the African pygmy goose is native to what country that also has many lemur species?
Answer: Madagascar
24. In the 1996 film "Fly Away Home," Anna Paquin stars as a young glider pilot leading an abandoned group of geese south from Canada. The film was based on a real "Operation" that went by what guessable M-word?
Answer: Migration
25. According to the classic holiday song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," how many "geese a-laying" are given on each day by the narrator's true love?
Answer: Six
26. The extension of a goose's sternum, or breastbone, that provides an anchor for its wings to attach, is known by what "K" term that is also part of a boat?
Answer: Keel
27. What type of North American goose, a member of the genus Anser, gets its name from its white plumage?
Answer: Snow Goose
28. The snow goose's bill has been compared to what toy-like tool that gets name-dropped in the title of a wintry Tchaikovsky ballet?
Answer: Nutcracker
29. A giant metal goose statue welcomes visitors to the town of Wawa in what country with a namesake goose on its $100 bill?
Answer: Canada
30. The African goose, Roman goose, Pomeranian goose, and Chinese goose are the best breeds for what kind of duty, due to their loudness and size, as well as their keen eyesight and territorial instincts?
Answer: Guard
31. What species of goose, which looks like a petite version of the infamous Canada Goose, gets its name from its high-pitched, laugh-like call?
Answer: Cackling Goose
32. The giant Canada Goose is the largest subspecies of Canada Goose. Although widespread now, it had once been thought extinct until a small group was found in what Midwestern state in 1962?
Answer: Minnesota
33. Which state’s official bird is Branta sandvicensis, which is also known simply as the nene?
Answer: Hawaii
34. In the second act of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," Romeo has an exchange of witticisms about geese, including references to a "wild goose chase," with what other character?
Answer: Mercutio
35. What capital of Northern Ireland features a statue of "Alec the Goose," a Canada goose once famous for walking local children to school?
Answer: Belfast
36. Featuring goose farmer Nathaniel Bunce as one of its main antagonists, Wes Anderson's stop-motion animated film Fantastic Mr. Fox is based on a book of the same name by which British children's author?
Answer: Roald Dahl
37. The developers of "Untitled Goose Game" almost named the game after a play on the title of a Jack Lemmon-Marilyn Monroe film. But with the more goose-y name "Some Like it..." what vocal H-word?
Answer: Honk
38. Which goose in northern Australia is the only living member of the Anseranatidae family and shares a name with a shiny-things-loving bird in the Corvidae family?
Answer: Magpie
39. As its name says, "Weihnachtsgans" is a roast goose dish traditionally served in Germany on what end-of-year holiday?
Answer: Christmas
40. Like ducks, swans, and some other birds, geese can see what form of radiation with wavelengths shorter than that of visible light?
Answer: Ultraviolet light
41. What "small" Disney animated film of 2005, with Zach Braff as the voice of the title farm bird, features a noisy antagonist named Goosey Loosey?
Answer: Chicken Little
42. "Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry" away from the "Surrey with the Fringe on Top," according to the lyrics of a classic song from what Rodgers and Hammerstein musical?
Answer: Oklahoma!
43. The three-pronged set of tendons in the human leg known as "pes anserinus" gets it name in Latin from its resemblance to what body part of a goose?
Answer: Foot
44. Maybe because they were written with goose quills or bound in goose skin, the Grey Goose Laws are a Medieval set of statutes from what island country that gave us the word for "geyser"?
Answer: Iceland
45. "The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs" is one of many fables credited to what storyteller of ancient Greece?
Answer: Aesop
46. The old English nursery rhyme "Goosey Goosey Gander" advocates a violent end— being tossed down the stairs—for a man who wouldn't say his WHAT?
Answer: Prayers
47. According to the historian Livy, what ancient city was warned by a group of sacred geese of an attack by the Gauls in 387 BCE?
Answer: Rome
48. From 1997 to 2008, which Scandinavian country featured a picture of Mårten the Goose,a children's book characte, on its 20 kronor banknotes? It was replaced by a new design featuring a different children's book characte—Pippi Longstocking.
Answer: Sweden
49. "Flight Stop," a sculpture in Cadillac Fairview's Toronto Eaton Centre, depicts 60 of what birds in flight?
Answer: Canada goose
50. What six-letter D-word means a fold of loose skin hanging from the neck or throat of an animal, as is the case for many geese?
Answer: dewlap
51. Although a merganser is a duck, not a goose, both white and gray geese belong to what genus whose name can be found in the word "merganser?"
Answer: Anser
52. Which Asian country is the world's largest producer of goose meat by quite an extreme margin?
Answer: China
53. What is the alliterative two-word name of Donald Duck’s anserine cousin? His first name is that of a 19th century British Prime Minister with the given name William. His second name is a term used for a male goose.
Answer: Gladstone Gander
54. Geese and other waterfowl can develop a deformity called “angel wing” if they become malnourished. Which food commonly given to them by humans is thought to contribute to the condition?
Answer: Bread
55. Geese mostly eat water plants and berries. Like humans who don’t eat meat, geese are considered to follow what diet—except for the rare occasion when they have to eat bugs or a very tiny fish (they can catch them, they just can't chew them).
Answer: Vegetarian
56. On the ground, a group of geese is a gaggle. In the air, they can be a team or a skein. What’s the roly-poly word for a group of geese flying close together?
Answer: Plump
57. "Was it for this the wild geese spread" is a line from "September 1913," a poem by what Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet?
Answer: William Butler Yeats
58. What letter in the English alphabet is used to refer to the energy conserving formation in which geese and other large birds fly?
Answer: V
59. Abigail and Amelia Gabble are twin sisters who are also geese in what 1970 Disney animated film whose title characters are Duchess and her children Marie, Toulouse, and Berlioz?
Answer: The Aristocats
60. The delicacy known as foie gras is made from what organ, often from a goose, which has been artificially fattened?
Answer: Liver
61. In Greek mythology, the Charites were often depicted riding in a chariot pulled by geese. By what better name are the Graces, goddess of charm and beauty, known in English?
Answer: Graces
62. In 2021, the Minor League Baseball team of Beloit, Wisconsin renamed itself Sky Carp, a colloquial term for a goose that doesn't do what in winter?
Answer: Migrate
63. It's not exactly the same as beeping your car horn on a busy freeway, but geese honk as they fly to keep each other “in their lane,” so to speak. That means staying in formation, which famously looks like which letter of the English alphabet?
Answer: V
64. In ancient Egyptian mythology, the god Geb, who is often depicted with the head of a goose, is the father of what underworld god who married his sister Isis?
Answer: Osiris
65. Goslings often form groups with other goslings called WHAT broods?
Answer: Gang
66. Which breed of goose has a name that makes more sense once you know that they were originally fixtures on farms in the U.S. South, as they made excellent crop weeders?
Answer: Cotton Patch
67. What goose, named for an Arctic explorer, is the smallest of the three "white geese" that live in North America?
Answer: Ross's Goose
68. What extinct genus, named after a southern hemisphere country, reached nearly 18kg, far bigger than the Canada goose and Cape Barren goose? These geese are sometimes named after the two islands they are found on
Answer: New Zealand Goose
69. The Eurasian species Branta rufficollis is known as the WHAT-breasted goose, where the color is suggested by its Latin name?
Answer: Red
70. What goose with an orange bill, pink legs, and a name starting with "G", is the ancestor of most breeds of domesticated geese? It is the largest wild goose native to Europe.
Answer: Greylag
71. "Although a Gander does not strut before his beloved with the pomposity of a Turkey, or the grace of a Dove, his ways are quite as agreeable to the female of his choice." What French-American naturalist wrote this about the Canada Goose in his monumental Birds of America?
Answer: John James Audubon
72. What goose species, scientific name Anser fabalis, gets its common name from the stubble fields of a certain crop that make up its winter grazing grounds?
Answer: Bean Goose
73. Anser brachyrhynchus is better known by what common name that refers to the color of the goose’s webbed lower appendages?
Answer: Pinkfoot
74. Some Southern Hemisphere birds called geese, like the Orinoco Goose and Egyptian Goose, are actually members of what duck family, whose name comes from a word meaning "pied" and not any similarity to turtles?
Answer: Shelduck
75. The last story in the first volume of the stories by the Brothers Grimm told of geese being menaced by what animal?
Answer: Fox
76. What French film, released in the U.S. in 2003, follows the extensive seasonal journey of several bird species, including Canada and snow geese?
Answer: Winged Migration
77. A flock of Canada geese got themselves into a sticky, and deadly, situation when they landed in what Los Angeles landmark in 2023?
Answer: La Brea Tar Pits
78. What Mr. Universe and Obsessed comedian voiced the carefree swan goose Peng in the 2018 Netflix animated movie Duck Duck Goose?
Answer: Jim Gaffigan
79. The bar-headed goose is one of the highest-flying species of bird in the world, regularly reaching altitudes of over 20,000 feet in order to migrate over what mountain range?
Answer: Himalayas
80. What is the most common domestic breed of geese raised for meat, because of their fast growth and great size? They also have the largest eggs of any domestic breed, averaging six ounces.
Answer: Embden
81. Anser is the Latin genus of gray and white geese. ANSER is the acronym for a group of what recently-launched technological objects that are designed to mimic geese flying in formation?
Answer: Satellites
82. "Fly Away Home" is a 1996 movie about a girl who teaches her geese to fly using an ultralight aircraft. The main role was played by which Oscar winner, whose other roles include Flora McGrath in "The Piano", Rogue in the X-Men franchise, and Sookie Stackhouse in "True Blood"?
Answer: Anna Paquin
83. Three geese are displayed on the coat of arms of the region of Polvijärvi, which is located in which Scandinavian country whose capital city is Helsinki?
Answer: Finland
84. What was the name of the 1971 Golden Globe-winning British television drama about a lighthouse keeper, a girl and her wounded goose, and the evacuation of soldiers at Dunkirk in World War II?
Answer: The Snow Goose
85. What small, brightly colored, endangered goose (scientific name Branta ruficollis) winters in southeastern Europe and the UK, but breeds in Siberia?
Answer: Red-Breasted Goose
86. What member of the Holy Trinity was depicted by Celtic Christians as Ah Geadh-Glas, the Wild Goose, because geese were considered freer doves?
Answer: The Holy Spirit
87. What fictional puppet goose, namesake of a children's television show that ran on Chicago television in the late 1950s and early 1960s, proclaimed himself to be "King of the United States"?
Answer: Garfield Goose
88. What species of goose lent its name to a (rather surprising to find) oilfield off Scotland’s Shetland Islands in the 1970s?
Answer: Brent
89. Like other birds, geese have a ridge that runs along the top of the beak, above the nostrils, called what?
Answer: Culmen
90. What T.H. White novel finds its hero being (temporarily) turned into a goose, where he is befriended by a goose named Lyo-Lyok?
Answer: The Once and Future King
91. Most domestic breeds of geese are descended from the greylag goose, but the African and Chinese breeds are descended from what wild goose whose scientific name is Anser cygnoid?
Answer: Swan goose
92. What is the taxonomic family to which geese (genera Anser and Branta) belong, along with ducks and swans?
Answer: Anatidae
93. Designed in the 1930s by editorial cartoonist J.N. Darling, The Big Blue Goose is the official mascot of what branch of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service?
Answer: National Wildlife Refuge System
94. By what nickname is the Greater White-Fronted Goose (scientific name Anser albifrons) known, due to the dark brown to black blotches on its breast?
Answer: Specklebelly
95. What is the term beginning with W for the maneuver that geese do by turning upside down briefly before landing?
Answer: Whiffling
96. What figure in Greek mythology turned herself into a goose trying to evade Zeus (unsuccessfully, as it turned out)?
Answer: Nemesis
97. Despite its geographic name, what breed of goose is actually Asian in origin and is one of only two domestic breeds that derive from the wild species Anser cygnoides,?
Answer: African goose
98. What South American goose, named after one of the longest rivers on the continent, is actually a member of the shelduck family?
Answer: Orinoco Goose
99. Which goose native to Hawaii gets most of its hydration needs met by eating berries and grass rather than from water?
Answer: Nene
100. What is the term for geese species where the male and female geese have noticeably different plumage from each other?
Answer: Autosexing
101. Since the 1970s, Wally Goose has served as the official mascot of what convenience store chain and gas station franchise that can primarily be found on the East Coast of the U.S.?
Answer: Wawa
102. Preserved goose meat, along with haricot beans, sausage, pork, and mutton, is an essential part of what French stew that gets its name from the pot in which it's cooked?
Answer: Cassoulet
103. Gansewein, meaning "Goose Wine," is a tongue-in-cheek term coined by German satirist Johann Fischart to describe what common substance?
Answer: Water
104. Celtic Christians often used the image of a goose to represent what religious figure, more often depicted as a dove?
Answer: Holy Spirit
105. To keep geese off the runway, in 2021 Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport conducted a six-week study using a herd of what farm animals, highly revered for its bacon-producing abilities?
Answer: Pig
106. What town in North Carolina's Outer Banks, famous for another kind of "flyer," gets its name from Chickahawk, an Algonquin word meaning "a place to hunt geese?"
Answer: Kitty Hawk
107. "Sato-gokoro" ("Longing for Home") is a lullaby in which the singer asks wild geese to show the way home in the folklore of what country?
Answer: Japan
108. Central Asia’s Anser indicus is better known as what goose species that can endure the extreme heights of the Himalayas during migration?
Answer: Bar-headed goose
109. Geese are a common motif in the paintings of Xu Beihong, a 20th-century artist who is considered one of the first to integrate Western techniques into the brush painting traditions of what country?
Answer: China
110. In what Nintendo game can you encounter Goose, a character who, despite his name, is actually a chicken?
Answer: Animal Crossing
111. What European, heritage, medium-sized, auto-sexing goose breed was originally found in Devon and Cornwall?
Answer: West of England
112. Not today! What future-oriented section of Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom once featured a group of singing geese in its America Sings attraction?
Answer: Tomorrowland
113. Which goose species was, unsurprisingly given its moniker, favored as a pet by Pharaohs and appears in many ancient hieroglyphs?
Answer: Egyptian goose
114. Anser cygnoides beget two breeds of domesticated geese in East Asia: the Chinese goose and African goose. The species also known by what common name that conjures up an elegant black vs. white ballet?
Answer: Swan goose
115. "Ivasyk-Telesyk," a fairy tale that culminates in the title character being rescued by a goose, is told from Lviv in the west to Mariupol in the east of what European country?
Answer: Ukraine
116. A fable by Greek storyteller Aesop tells the story of a goose that lays eggs made from what chemical element, number 79 on the periodic table?
Answer: Gold
117. C. h. malvinarumm, a subspecies of what goose species, is only found in the Falkland Islands? Despite its algaeic name, the waterfowl may eat some small insects to supplement its vegetarian diet.
Answer: Kelp goose
118. In a Buddhist folktale, a golden goose gives his feathers to a woman and her daughters until the woman greedily plucks them all at once, causing the feathers to return in what less-valuable color?
Answer: White
119. The Roman goose was said to be sacred to which goddess, the Roman equivalent to the Greek goddess Hera, and namesake of one of the months of the year?
Answer: Juno
120. A synonym for a whip used by a horse rider, what body part on a goose is a muscular pouch located on the front of the bird's neck?
Answer: Crop
121. What word can mean either a flock of geese flying in formation or a length of coiled yarn that can be purchased at a knitting shop?
Answer: Skein
122. With the scientific name Nettapus pulchellus, the Green Pygmy Goose is native to which southern hemisphere country?
Answer: Australia
123. Containing no consonants, what is the three-letter word that means "goose" in French?
Answer: Oie
124. Gribenes, a delicacy from Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine, is made from the solid material that remains when rendering the fat of a goose or chicken?
Answer: Cracklings
125. An unexpected application of AI? Tracking individual geese to learn more about them. In fact, researchers from The University of Vienna have used the tech to recognize an individual goose by what feature? (Hint: No word on whether or not they could unlock your phone…)
Answer: Face
126. Since 2022 when a goose unexpectedly landed on the field in the middle of the second game of the 2022 National League Division Series, what California-based MLB team uses a “rally goose” as its unofficial mascot?
Answer: San Diego Padres
127. Endemic to Ethiopia, what color are the wings of the waterfowl species Cyanochen cyanoptera? This waterfowl is frequently referred to as a goose, though its taxonomy is disputed.
Answer: Blue
128. Geese are susceptible to a range of diseases, including fowl WHAT? It’s a bacterial infection that’s caused by Pasteurella multocida. A sick goose may have diarrhea and swollen wattles, but may not have any symptoms.
Answer: Cholera
129. Which breed of goose shares a name with a fluffy little dog—and in fact, both animals were named after the same European region? Hint: They’re also called the Rügener goose.
Answer: Pomeranian
130. Which ethnic group beginning with “I” has a famous cultural story called “The Goose Wife”?
Answer: Inuit
131. Before it changed its name to Canada Goose in 2000, the cold weather apparel company was known by the name of what other—and quite appropriate—goose species, Anser caerulescens?
Answer: Snow Goose
132. The WHAT/Goose Effect shows that birds respond differently to the shadows of other birds overhead depending on whether they have a long or short neck. What short-necked raptor and predator fills in the blank?
Answer: Hawk
133. Most geese species are described by what "G" word, which means they gather in flocks? When applied to humans, it means something like "outgoing" or "sociable."
Answer: Gregarious
134. A "gireogi appa," or "Goose Dad," is a father who works in what East Asian nation while his wife and children stay in an English-speaking country for the sake of their education?
Answer: South Korea
135. The nene is a species of black goose that in 1957 was named the official state bird of what U.S. state, to which it is endemic?
Answer: Hawaii
136. Although it generally prefers to be out of the water, the Orinoco goose is named after the Orinoco River, one of the longest rivers on what continent?
Answer: South America
137. Until CCTV took over in 2012, a platoon of geese served as an alarm system and occasional ad mascots for Ballantine's stores of what kind of smoky whisky?
Answer: Scotch
138. What British celebrity chef single-handedly caused sales of goose fat in the UK to double in 2006, after she mentioned it as an essential Christmas ingredient on her Christmas Kitchen show? You can also add her first name to “Bites” and “Feasts.”
Answer: Nigella
139. What loyal wife of the Greek hero Odysseus dreams that an eagle has killed all her geese—an omen that Odysseus will return and defeat her obnoxious suitors?
Answer: Penelope
140. What “G” type of goose has an orange beak and pink legs? Part of its name refers to its muddled black/white color, and another part is a word meaning to fall behind in movement.
Answer: Greylag
141. The round Canada Goose logo features the brand name at the top of the circle, and what two-word phrase at the bottom of the circle?
Answer: Arctic Program
142. Toolka is the Indigenous Wemba Wemba name of the Cape Barren goose in the southern portion of what very southern island nation?
Answer: Australia
143. By what "color" name are geese of the genus Branta also known, as opposed to the "gray geese" of the genus Anser?
Answer: Black
144. The Goose of Cairo, a comic opera about a man who rescues his beloved with the help of a mechanical goose, was an opera left unfinished by what composer of "Idomeneo" and "Don Giovanni?"
Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
145. What goose that shares a name with a graceful (though reputedly mean if provoked) bird is actually somewhat uncommon in the wild? They can be found in Mongolia and parts of China and Russia, but have been domesticated at least since the 18th century.
Answer: Swan goose
146. What species of goose is believed to be one of the only examples of hybrid speciation in birds, as it may be the result of interbreeding between the ancestral brant goose and white-cheeked goose? Maybe that’s how it got its ruddy chest coloring.
Answer: Red-breasted goose
147. Poetry lovers might want to chase down a bestselling 2004 collection by Pulitzer prize-winning poet Mary Oliver titled WHAT Geese?
Answer: Wild
148. Roman geese (in America, they’re called tufted Roman geese) helped protect the city of Rome from invasion by the Gauls in 4 B.C. by honking loudly and alerting the Romans of the attack. In honor of this, the Romans erected a temple to the goddess to whom the geese were sacred. What goddess was that?
Answer: Juno
149. Boris Goosinov is a Russian-born snow goose in a series of movies about (and named after) which Alaskan husky who led the team of sled dogs on the final leg of the 1925 serum run to Nome?
Answer: Balto
150. The Gänsemarkt, or "geese market," is a public square located in what German city, the country's second most populous after Berlin?
Answer: Hamburg
151. A common myth says that a certain type of bird has a name in Mandarin that means "business goose." What bird actually has a Mandarin name that means "standing goose?"
Answer: Penguin
152. What is the only extant goose species that is not found in continental areas, but only on an island group in the Pacific?
Answer: Nene
153. A breed of domestic goose with unique curly, white feathers is named for what major Black Sea port on the Crimean Peninsula?
Answer: Sebastopol
154. It's customary to eat goose on the saint day of what French saint and 4th-century bishop of Tours with an "M" name?
Answer: St. Martin
155. A Scottish Gaelic term for what non-goose seabird is the "solan goose?" In the 2023 live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, the character of seagull Scuttle was changed to be a member of this species.
Answer: Northern Gannet
156. A relative of true geese, the flesh of the spur-winged goose of Africa has what alarming quality as a result of its diet of blister beetles?
Answer: Toxicity
157. Geese are among many animals (including humans) that use what celestial object to navigate by at night?
Answer: Stars
158. What confusing-sounding "A" term refers to the practice of controlling goose populations by replacing laid eggs with frozen eggs, so that geese will continue to sit on the eggs but they never hatch?
Answer: Addling
159. The goose with the binomial name Branta leucopsis has what common name? It derives from the mistaken belief that this goose spawns from a type of crustacean.
Answer: Barnacle goose
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