How big can a giant squid's eyes be?

About the size of a dinner plate

Where do giant squid usually live?

In the deep ocean, hundreds of meters down

Giant Squid Quiz: Deep-Sea Giants and the First Footage

For centuries sailors told tales of the kraken, but the real giant squid was not filmed alive in its deep habitat until 2012, and this giant squid quiz explains what we now know. Play an interactive set of 10 questions on Architeuthis, its length, huge eyes, the 2004 photos, the 2012 footage, the 2019 Gulf of Mexico video, sperm whales, sucker scars and the kraken legend.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Name
What is the giant squid's scientific genus?
Length
Roughly how long can giant squid grow?
Eyes
How big can a giant squid's eyes be?
Photo
When was a giant squid first photographed alive in the wild?
Film
When was a giant squid first filmed in its deep-sea habitat?
US
Where was a giant squid filmed in US waters in 2019?
Predator
Which whale hunts giant squid?
Scars
What marks are found on sperm whale skin?
Legend
Which sea monster legend may come from giant squid?
Depth
Where do giant squid usually live?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: What is the giant squid's scientific genus?
Answer: Architeuthis
It means ruling squid.
Q2: Roughly how long can giant squid grow?
Answer: Up to about 12 to 13 meters
Females are larger.
Q3: How big can a giant squid's eyes be?
Answer: About the size of a dinner plate
They help see dim light and predators.
Q4: When was a giant squid first photographed alive in the wild?
Answer: 2004
Japanese scientists used a baited camera.
Q5: When was a giant squid first filmed in its deep-sea habitat?
Answer: 2012
The footage came from near Japan's Ogasawara Islands.
Q6: Where was a giant squid filmed in US waters in 2019?
Answer: The Gulf of Mexico
A special camera used glowing lures.
Q7: Which whale hunts giant squid?
Answer: The sperm whale
Squid beaks are found in their stomachs.
Q8: What marks are found on sperm whale skin?
Answer: Scars from squid suckers
They hint at deep-sea battles.
Q9: Which sea monster legend may come from giant squid?
Answer: The kraken
Sailors told tales of huge tentacles.
Q10: Where do giant squid usually live?
Answer: In the deep ocean, hundreds of meters down
Sunlight barely reaches them.

Giant Squid Quiz – Deep-Sea Giants and the First Footage

The giant squid, genus Architeuthis, can reach about 12 to 13 meters, with females larger than males. Its eyes, about the size of dinner plates, are among the largest in the animal kingdom, helping it spot predators in dim deep water.

Japanese researchers took the first photographs of a live giant squid in the wild in 2004, and in 2012 a team filmed one in its deep-sea habitat near the Ogasawara Islands. In 2019 a camera with glowing lures filmed one in the Gulf of Mexico.

Sperm whales hunt giant squid, and sucker scars on whale skin hint at deep-sea battles. Legends of the kraken may come from sailors' sightings of these giants.

What This Quiz Teaches

Ocean fans will enjoy these questions.

How big giant squid get
How they see
When they were filmed
Who hunts them
Which legends they inspired

Did You Know?

The colossal squid is heavier but shorter-bodied.
Giant squid have a sharp beak like a parrot's.
Their two feeding tentacles are very long.
Dead specimens sometimes wash ashore.
Little is known about their breeding.