General knowledge quiz
Chinese zodiac: which animal's year?
Each prompt is a lunar year and the day it begins. Pick the animal it is named after; each animal is used once.
- Format
- Pick the match
- Items
- 12 to match
- Limit
- 2:00
- Level
- Medium
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
- Prompts
- 12
- Bank
- Animal buttons, A to Z
- Time limit
- 2:00
- A miss
- 2 tries, then the answer is shown
- Each lunar year appears in turn. Click its match in the bank.
- Used answers leave the bank. Keys 1 to 9 pick the first nine buttons; type a name to jump to it.
- Skip (0) sends a prompt to the back of the queue.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Pick the animal of each lunar year. The bank appears when you start.
About this quiz
The twelve years from 2020 to 2031 make one full turn of the cycle, so every animal appears exactly once.
- In these twelve years the new year falls no earlier than 22 January and no later than 17 February.
- You get two tries on each year.
- A used animal leaves the bank.
Sources
- [1]Hong Kong Observatory. Gregorian-Lunar Calendar Conversion Table.
Note on the data. Each year's animal and the Gregorian date of its first day (the first day of the first lunar month) are read from the Hong Kong Observatory's Gregorian-Lunar calendar conversion tables for 2020 to 2031, read on 3 October 2026.
Last checked October 3, 2026
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