What can medical alert dogs detect?

Changes in blood sugar or seizures

What do therapy dogs do?

Comfort people in hospitals and schools

Working Dogs Trivia Quiz – Names, Facts and Surprises

In 1925 relay teams of sled dogs carried life-saving serum across Alaska to Nome, and this working dogs trivia quiz celebrates the jobs dogs still do today. Meet guide dogs, search and rescue dogs in the Swiss Alps, detection dogs at airports and the Saint Bernards of legend.

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

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Balto
Which sled dog became famous after the 1925 serum run to Nome?
Guide
Which breed is most often used as a guide dog?
Bernard
Which breed rescued travelers in the Swiss Alps?
Nose
Which breed is famous for tracking scents?
Airport
Which small hound often sniffs luggage at US airports?
Police
Which breed is common in police and military work?
Medical
What can medical alert dogs detect?
Mines
Which animals besides dogs detect landmines in Africa?
Herding
Which breed is a top sheepdog in Britain?
Therapy
What do therapy dogs do?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: Which sled dog became famous after the 1925 serum run to Nome?
Answer: Balto
Togo ran the longest leg.
Q2: Which breed is most often used as a guide dog?
Answer: Labrador Retriever
Golden Retrievers and crosses are common too.
Q3: Which breed rescued travelers in the Swiss Alps?
Answer: Saint Bernard
Barry saved over 40 people.
Q4: Which breed is famous for tracking scents?
Answer: Bloodhound
Its evidence has been used in court.
Q5: Which small hound often sniffs luggage at US airports?
Answer: Beagle
The Beagle Brigade finds banned food.
Q6: Which breed is common in police and military work?
Answer: Belgian Malinois
It is fast and driven.
Q7: What can medical alert dogs detect?
Answer: Changes in blood sugar or seizures
They smell chemical changes.
Q8: Which animals besides dogs detect landmines in Africa?
Answer: Giant pouched rats
Dogs and rats both use smell.
Q9: Which breed is a top sheepdog in Britain?
Answer: Border Collie
It controls sheep with its stare.
Q10: What do therapy dogs do?
Answer: Comfort people in hospitals and schools
They reduce stress.

Working Dogs Trivia Quiz – Dogs With Jobs

Working dogs have helped people for thousands of years, herding livestock, pulling sleds, guarding homes and hunting. Today they also guide blind people, find missing hikers, detect explosives and drugs and comfort patients in hospitals.

Different breeds suit different jobs. Labradors and Golden Retrievers make calm guide dogs, Bloodhounds track scents for days, Belgian Malinois work with police and Border Collies herd sheep. Saint Bernards became legendary for rescues in the Swiss Alps.

Famous working dogs include Balto and Togo, who helped carry diphtheria serum to Nome, Alaska, in 1925. Modern detection dogs can sniff out diseases, bed bugs and even invasive species, showing how valuable a dog's nose and loyalty remain.

What This Quiz Teaches

Dog lovers and students will enjoy these questions.

What the Nome serum run was
Which breeds guide the blind
How dogs detect scents
Which breeds work with police
What therapy dogs do

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