IN PURSUIT OF OBSCURE FROG KNOWLEDGE

The Answers

ANSWER 1:

The obstacles in Frogger were (b) road then river.

[2 points]

The frog could finish safely at 5 places.

[3 points]

ANSWER 2:

In series 1-5 of Yowies, there were 6 frogs and toads. A further frog was to be found in the Lost Kingdoms series B. Together the 7 species are: Barking Marsh Frog, Corroboree Frog, Green Tree Frog, Platypus Frog (also known as Southern Gastric Brooding Frog), Weigels Toad, Green and Golden Bell Frog, and the Murgon Cannibal Frog

[2 points each]

ANSWER 3:

The correct labels for the diagram are:

• (6) - Tibial gland
• (1) - Dorsolateral fold
• (3) - Tympanum
• (2) - Parotoid gland
• (8) - Cloaca
• (4) - Supratympanic ridge

[2 points each]

ANSWER 4:

The movie described is Hell Comes to Frogtown.

[8 points]

Hell Comes to Frogtown III is also known as The Toad Warrior.

[2 points]

ANSWER 5:

The band who recorded the Frogstomp album is silverchair.

[5 points]

ANSWER 6:

The collective nouns are an army of frogs and a knot of toads.

[5 points each]

ANSWER 7:

The first picture shows Robin, nephew of Kermit in The Muppets. The second is Greenback, the villain from DangerMouse. The third picture is the famous image of the Gastric Brooding Frog giving "birth" to a fully-formed frog that has developed in its stomach.

[5 points each]

ANSWER 8:

The groups of names can be reorganised into:

• Frog 1: Pobblebonk / Eastern Banjo Frog / Limnodynastes dumerili
• Frog 2: Southern Bell Frog / Growling Grass Frog / Litoria raniformis
• Frog 3: Southern Brown Tree Frog / Ewing's Tree Frog / Litoria ewingi
• Frog 4: Spotted Tree Frog / Spencer's River Tree Frog / Litoria spenceri
• unmatched: Green & Golden Grass Frog / Spotted Marsh Frog / Limnodynastes spenceri

[2 points each complete match]
[10 points total]

ANSWER 9:

The calls sampled (in order) are the Victorian Smooth Froglet (Geocrinia victoriana), Peron's Tree Frog (Litoria peroni), and the Baw Baw Frog (Philoria frosti).

[5 points each]

ANSWER 10:

The frog who caused a flood is Tiddalick. This is an Australian Aboriginal story.

[6 points]

ANSWER 11:

The stars of The Wind in the Willows are Toad, Ratty, Mole, and Badger.

[3 points each]

ANSWER 12:

The Pobblebonk makes a floating foamy mass exposed to sunlight.

Ewing's Tree Frog typically lays it eggs in a small jelly clump attached to submerged vegetation.

The Victorian Smooth Toadlet lays only a few eggs beneath moist litter on land.

Common Froglets lay small clumps or single eggs in water.

[2 points each]

ANSWER 13:

Green and Golden Bell Frogs (Litoria aurea) caused delays to the Olympic development in Homebush.

[4 points]

ANSWER 14:

The creator of the Muppets, Jim Henson, was the voice of Kermit the Frog.

[4 points]

ANSWER 15:

John Thwaites is Victoria's Planning Minister for the Bracks' Labor Government.

[4 points]

ANSWER 16:

Kenneth Grahame penned TheWind in the Willows.

[4 points]

ANSWER 17:

Freddo Frog was first sold in 1930 by the chocolate makers MacRobertson's, later taken over by Cadbury's.

[4 points]

ANSWER 18:

The climatic scenes of Magnolia consist of a rain of frogs.

[4 points]

ANSWER 19:

The bromeliad can be a perfect home for frogs. The leaves form a bowl that traps water in a small pond which is used by both the plant and developing tadpoles.

[4 points]

ANSWER 20:

The frog that went courtin' on a summer's day says "Miss Mousie, will you marry me?"

[4 points]

ANSWER 21:

The Brothers Grimm are responsible for The Frog Prince.

[4 points]

ANSWER 22:

Endora is completely justified in her treatment of her annoying son-in-law Darren.

[4 points]