Ultimate Survivor Quiz Please enter your email: 1. Have you ever caught fish for food? Yes. No. 2. What would you collect to make a fire in wet conditions? Collect any wood you can find, it will burn anyway! Cut down a green tree, it will be dry at the inside! Cut down a dead standing tree for firewood! 3. Have you ever hunted or trapped an animal for food? Yes. No. 4. Let us assume you have shot a big deer, it is summer time and you cannot eat all of it. You want to make it last longer, do you…? Put it into milk or water! Hang it into the air! The sun and heat will dry it perfectly! Smoke it over a fire! 5. You are in a desperate survival situation, luckily you found a dead deer which has ceased away not too long ago. After you roasted some of its meat you want to utilize the hide of the animal too. How do you remove the hair from the hide? Use some charcoal from the fire and apply it to the outside (hairy side) of the hide. Use some ashes from the fire and apply it to the inside (flesh side) of the hide. Use the brain of the animal and apply it to the inside or outside of the hide. 6. You are stuck in the wilderness and you do not have lighter or matches on you. How would you make a friction fire? Search for dry hard wood, it will work best for the bow drill! Search for dry soft wood, it will work best for the bow drill! Search for resinous wood, the resin will ignite the ember of the bow drill! 7. What tinder works best for igniting a fire with a fire-steel? Shavings of birch bark – No matter if wet or dry. Brown and dry leaves. Dry pine cones. 8. Which tree species would you use for a friction fire? Willow, Alder, Poplar – Soft woods are the best! Oak, Maple, Beech – Hard woods are the best! Birch or any kind of resinous trees. 9. You injured yourself in the wilderness und your wound is bleeding a lot. Which herb do you use to stop the bleeding? Plantain. Pot Marigold. Sheperd’s Purse 10. You are stuck in the wilderness and you had bad luck with hunting and fishing so far. You decide to eat some plants instead, which one has the highest starch content? Cattail roots. Pot Marigold. Stinging Nettle. 11. You want to find your bearings by using the stars. How do you find North at the northern hemisphere? Find Polaris by using the big dipper or Ursa Minor. Find the cross of the south and follow the long end towards North, 12. The red needle of a compass points… North. South. West. East. 13. Can you swim? Yes. No. 14. Which knot would you use for tying a fishing hook to a line? Snell knot. Prusik knot. Trucker’s hitch. 15. How fit are you in terms of body strength and stamina? I am really fit. I am unfit. I need to get in shape again. 16. You want to make a loop from a piece of line that you have. Which knot do you use to make this loop adjustable? Bowline knot. Double Fishermans knot. Alpine Butterfly hitch. 17. You are stuck in the wilderness and you want to build yourself a bow, which of the following woods would you choose to carve an effective survival bow? Beech. Alder. Osage Orange. Willow. 18. You are searching for resinous woods because they are really flammable, which of the following trees has resin in it? Pine and spruce. Birch and beech. Maple and elm. 19. You want to tap a birch tree because the syrup is high in manganese. Which time of the year do you tap the tree? Summer. Spring. Winter. Loading … Results will be send via email. With taking the quiz you automatically sign up for our newsletter. The Ultimate Survivor Quiz © written by Surival Lilly and published 18th Nov. 2019