There are over 3000 species of snakes in the world – but how much do you know about them? Test your knowledge with 50+ Snake Quiz Questions and Answers plus a picture quiz!

Love them, or hate them – or even if you’re just plain scared of them, there is no denying that with over 3000 species of snake on the planet, you’ve probably been close to a few during your lifetime. But we think only a real snake lover – or a Herpetologist – that’s a reptile/snake expert if you weren’t sure – will be able to answer all our snake quiz questions and answers.

We’ll test your knowledge of snake anatomy, habitats, behaviour, venomous snakes – and even those that are kept as pet snakes. Plus we’ve included a guess the snake picture quiz and a snake quiz tie-breaker in case you need one last trivia question to separate those who like snakes and those who love snakes.

50+ Snake Quiz Questions to Test Your Knowledge

1. Which is the longest venomous snake in the world?

2. Name the fastest-moving snake in the world, which can reach speeds of up to 23km/h (14.3 miles per hour).

3. Which snake is responsible for the most human deaths?

4. Famously known as ‘fierce snake’, which snake has the most toxic venom in the world?

5. The pharmacological effects of snake venoms are classified into three main types: Neurotoxic, Cytotoxic. Name the other.

6. One of the oddest behaviour biologists have witnessed is IBD – a fatal disease that affects captive pythons and boas causing them to tie themselves in knots they can’t untangle out of. What does IBD stand for?

7. What is the main “ingredient” in rattle snakes’ rattles – the same material found in human fingernails and hair?

8. What is the extreme fear of snakes called?

9. Known as the original “Snakemaster” from his various television shows, name the most famous herpetologists in the world?

10. Which animal is famous for being able to fight and kill venomous snakes, cobras in particular?

11. Which basketball legend reportedly nicknamed himself the “Black Mamba,” inspired by Quentin Tarantino’s 2003 film, Kill Bill, in which the mamba snake was code for a deadly assassin?

12. Which short-range air-to-air missile served the US Navy in 1956 is named after a species of small rattlesnake common in the Western United States?

13. Cleopatra died by suicide on August 12, 30 B.C., possibly by a poisonous Egyptian serpent and symbol of divine royalty. Name this venomous snake species.

14. Native to North and Central America, what is the common name for generally harmless, small to medium-sized snakes that eat all the pests that wreak havoc in the garden?

15. “Union of the Snake” was the lead single from which British band’s third album, Seven and the Ragged Tiger?

16. When a copperhead is threatened, it emits a musk that smells vaguely like:
A. Cucumbers.
B. Orange.
C. Pineapple.
D. Mango

17. What is the longest snake species in the world that takes its name from a netlike pattern on its back?

18. True or False: Sea snakes are not the only reptiles to give birth in the ocean.

19. Dark brown with bright yellow stripes, what is the common species of garter snake native to Eastern North America called?

20. Which snake is named for the bristly scales above its eyes?

21. Which is the most venomous pit viper in the world?

22. What is the name of Australia’s Fastest Striking Snake?

23. Also known as the red rat snake, which snake is often killed because they are mistaken for the copperhead, a venomous species?

24. Which large extremely venomous snake found in the semiarid regions of Africa and Arabia is so named because it gives warning by inflating its body and hissing loudly?

25. Name the biggest snake in the world.
A. Burmese python.
B. Green anaconda.
C. African rock python.
D. Cuban boa.

26. Also called the royal python, which python is revered by the Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria, who consider it symbolic of the earth, being an animal that travels so close to the ground?

27. Name this 2006 American action film directed by David R. Ellis and starring Samuel L. Jackson.

28. What name is given to a distribution of the Python and R programming languages for scientific computing that aims to simplify package management and deployment?

29. What is the largest rattlesnake species and one of the heaviest known species of venomous snake called?

30. Native to the jungles and grassy marshes of Southeast Asia, which snake uses its sharp rearward-pointing teeth to seize prey, and then coils its body around the animal, squeezing a little tighter with each exhale until the animal suffocates?

31. What is the name of Africa’s largest snake?

32. Which snake derive their common name from its habit of feeding upon other snakes, including rattlesnakes and copperheads, to whose venom they are immune?

33. Which snake has the longest fangs?
A. Green anaconda.
B. Gaboon Viper.
C. Black Mamba.
D. Cottonmouths

34. One of the big four snakes in India, which snake is named after the person who wrote about it in his 1796 work ‘An account of Indian serpents’, collected on the coast of Coromandel?

35. Native to the southeastern United States, which is the longest native snake species in North America?

36. The big four Indian snakes are: Russell’s viper, Indian Cobra, Indian saw-scaled viper and which other snake?

37. Which is the smallest species of rattlesnake in the United States?

38. Name the second-longest venomous snake after the king cobra.

39. Who is the Egyptian god of snakes?
A. Isis.
B. Horus.
C. Nehebkau.
D. Anubis

40. Ilha da Queimada Grande, also known as Snake Island is an island off the coast of which South American country in the Atlantic Ocean?

41. Which snake can sense light with its tail?

42. Which snake doesn’t have to mate to lay eggs?

43. There are four recognized species of anaconda. They are the green anaconda, the yellow or Paraguayan anaconda, the dark-spotted anaconda. Name the fourth one.

44. Sounds waves hit which part of snake which is then transferred to a snake’s bone and is interpreted by the inner ear?

45. In Greek mythology, what is a gigantic water-snake-like monster with nine heads called?

46. Chrysopelea genus of snake is more commonly known as what?

47. Which is the slowest snake in the world?
A. Saint Lucia racer.
B. Copperhead.
C. Habu.
D. Rosy boa.

48. What is the common name of the Crotalinae snake?

49. Name the only snake that builds nests for its eggs.

50. French record producer, and songwriter, William Sami Étienne Grigahcine is popularly known by what stage name?

51. Which snake takes its name from the colour of the inside of their mouths, which they display when threatened?

52. Which is the most venomous species of snake in the world?
A. Inland Taipan.
B. Egyptian Cobra.
C. Mozambique Spitting Cobra.
D. King Cobra.

Snake Quiz Tie Break Question

There are 4 countries and 1 continent in the world there are no native snakes. Name as many as you can.

 

Snake Identification Quiz (Snake Picture Quiz)

Guess the snake from the picture: (this one is for real snake experts or true snake lovers!)

 

50+ Snake Quiz Questions and Answers

1. Which is the longest venomous snake in the world?
The king cobra.

2. Name the fastest-moving snake in the world, which can reach speeds of up to 23km/h (14.3 miles per hour).
The black mamba.

3. Which snake is responsible for the most human deaths?
The saw-scaled viper.

4. Famously known as ‘fierce snake’, which snake has the most toxic venom in the world?
Inland Taipan / Western Taipan.

5. The pharmacological effects of snake venoms are classified into three main types: Neurotoxic, Cytotoxic. Name the other.
Hemotoxic.

6. One of the oddest behaviour biologists have witnessed is IBD – a fatal disease that affects captive pythons and boas causing them to tie themselves in knots they can’t untangle out of. What does IBD stand for?
Inclusion Body Disease.

7. What is the main “ingredient” in rattle snakes’ rattles – the same material found in human fingernails and hair?
Keratin.

8. What is the extreme fear of snakes called?
Ophidiophobia.

9. Known as the original “Snakemaster” from his various television shows, name the most famous herpetologists in the world?
Austin Stevens

10. Which animal is famous for being able to fight and kill venomous snakes, cobras in particular?
Mongoose

11. Which basketball legend reportedly nicknamed himself the “Black Mamba,” inspired by Quentin Tarantino’s 2003 film, Kill Bill, in which the mamba snake was code for a deadly assassin?
Kobe Bryant

12. Which short-range air-to-air missile served the US Navy in 1956 is named after a species of small rattlesnake common in the Western United States?
Sidewinder

13. Cleopatra died by suicide on August 12, 30 B.C., possibly by a poisonous Egyptian serpent and symbol of divine royalty. Name this venomous snake species.
“Asp”

14. Native to North and Central America, what is the common name for generally harmless, small to medium-sized snakes that eat all the pests that wreak havoc in the garden?
Garter snake

15. “Union of the Snake” was the lead single from which British band’s third album, Seven and the Ragged Tiger?
Duran Duran.

16. When a copperhead is threatened, it emits a musk that smells vaguely like:
A. Cucumbers.
B. Orange.
C. Pineapple.
D. Mango

17. What is the longest snake species in the world that takes its name from a netlike pattern on its back?
The reticulated python.

18. True or False: Sea snakes are not the only reptiles to give birth in the ocean.
False.

19. Dark brown with bright yellow stripes, what is the common species of garter snake native to Eastern North America called?
The ribbon snake.

20.  Which snake is named for the bristly scales above its eyes?
The eyelash palm pit viper

21.  Which is the most venomous pit viper in the world?
The saw-scaled viper

22.  What is the name of Australia’s Fastest Striking Snake?
Common Death Adder

23. Also known as the red rat snake, which snake is often killed because they are mistaken for the copperhead, a venomous species?
Corn snake.

24. Which large extremely venomous snake found in the semiarid regions of Africa and Arabia is so named because it gives warning by inflating its body and hissing loudly?
The puff adder

25. Name the biggest snake in the world.
A. Burmese python.
B. Green anaconda.
C. African rock python.
D. Cuban boa.

26. Also called the royal python, which python is revered by the Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria, who consider it symbolic of the earth, being an animal that travels so close to the ground?
The ball python

27. Name this 2006 American action film directed by David R. Ellis and starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Snakes on a Plane

28. What name is given to a distribution of the Python and R programming languages for scientific computing that aims to simplify package management and deployment?
Anaconda

29. What is the largest rattlesnake species and one of the heaviest known species of venomous snake called?
The eastern diamondback rattlesnake

30. Native to the jungles and grassy marshes of Southeast Asia, which snake uses its sharp rearward-pointing teeth to seize prey, and then coils its body around the animal, squeezing a little tighter with each exhale until the animal suffocates?
Burmese pythons

31. What is the name of Africa’s largest snake?
The African Rock Python

32. Which snake derive their common name from its habit of feeding upon other snakes, including rattlesnakes and copperheads, to whose venom they are immune?
Kingsnakes

33. Which snake has the longest fangs?
A. Green anaconda.
B. Gaboon Viper.
C. Black Mamba.
D. Cottonmouths

34. One of the big four snakes in India, which snake is named after the person who wrote about it in his 1796 work ‘An account of Indian serpents’, collected on the coast of Coromandel?
Russell’s viper (named after Patrick Russell)

35. Native to the southeastern United States, which is the longest native snake species in North America?
The eastern indigo snake

36. The big four Indian snakes are: Russell’s viper, Indian Cobra, Indian saw-scaled viper and which other snake?
Common Krait

37. Which is the smallest species of rattlesnake in the United States?
Pigmy rattlesnake

38. Name the second-longest venomous snake after the king cobra.
Black mamba

39. Who is the Egyptian god of snakes?
A. Isis.
B. Horus.
C. Nehebkau.
D. Anubis

40. Ilha da Queimada Grande, also known as Snake Island is an island off the coast of which South American country in the Atlantic Ocean?
Brazil.

41. Which snake can sense light with its tail?
Olive Sea Snakes

42. Which snake doesn’t have to mate to lay eggs?
Flower Pot Snake.

43. There are four recognized species of anaconda. They are the green anaconda, the yellow or Paraguayan anaconda, the dark-spotted anaconda. Name the fourth one.
The Beni or Bolivian anaconda.

44. Sounds waves hit which part of snake which is then transferred to a snake’s bone and is interpreted by the inner ear?
Snake’s skin.

45. In Greek mythology, what is a gigantic water-snake-like monster with nine heads called?
Hydra.

46. Chrysopelea genus of snake is more commonly known as what?
Flying Snake.

47. Which is the slowest snake in the world?
A. Saint Lucia racer.
B. Copperhead.
C. Habu.
D. Rosy boa.

48. What is the common name of the Crotalinae snake?
Pit vipers.

49. Name the only snake that builds nests for its eggs.
King Cobra

50. French record producer, and songwriter, William Sami Étienne Grigahcine is popularly known by what stage name?
DJ Snake.

51. Which snake takes its name from the colour of the inside of their mouths, which they display when threatened?
Black mamba

52. Which is the most venomous species of snake in the world?
A. Inland Taipan. 
B. Egyptian Cobra.
C. Mozambique Spitting Cobra.
D. King Cobra

Snake Based Tie Break Question & Answer:

There are 4 countries and 1 continent in the world there are no native snakes. Name as many as you can.
Antarctica, Iceland, Ireland, Greenland, and New Zealand

 

Snake Identification Quiz Answers (Snake Picture Quiz Answers)

Guess the snake from the picture, quiz:

For those playing online, the answers are:
1. Green Mamba, 2. Grass snake, 3. Boa Constrictor, 4. Hognose Snake, 5. Stiletto Snake, 6. Tiger Snake, 7. Coral Snake,
8. Night Adder, 9. Water Snake

 

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