Language quiz
Collective nouns for animals
English has a special word for almost every gathering of animals. Eighteen animals, four choices each.
- Format
- Pick the answer
- Items
- 18 questions
- Limit
- None
- Level
- Medium
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
- Questions
- 18
- Options
- 4 each
- Time limit
- None
- Click an option, or press 1 to 4.
- A short note follows every answer.
- Enter moves to the next question.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
About this quiz
Collective nouns for animals range from the everyday (a pack of wolves, a herd of elephants) to the gloriously odd (a shrewdness of apes).
- Rooks, like owls, gather in a parliament.
- Peacocks can be a muster as well as an ostentation.
- A group of frogs and a group of toads are both called a knot.
- Starlings form a murmuration, and goldfinches a charm.
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