Question 1

True or false: Attenborough’s brother Richard was a famous actor and director.

Accepted Answer

True. Richard Attenborough directed *Gandhi* and starred in films like *Jurassic Park*; David often jokes about their different careers.

Question 2

True or false: He narrated the original BBC *Planet Earth* series entirely from memory without a script.

Accepted Answer

False. Attenborough always reads from a script or autocue; his narration is carefully prepared, not improvised.

Question 3

True or false: He has a species of dinosaur named after him: *Attenborosaurus*.

Accepted Answer

True. *Attenborosaurus conybeari* is a plesiosaur fossil named in his honor, discovered in the early 1990s.

Question 4

True or false: Attenborough has never been to Antarctica for any of his documentaries.

Accepted Answer

False. He actually visited Antarctica for the series *Life in the Freezer* in 1993, enduring extreme cold conditions.

Question 5

True or false: Attenborough’s first job in television was as a producer on a wildlife show.

Accepted Answer

False. His first TV job was as a producer on the quiz show *Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?*—not a wildlife program.

Question 6

True or false: Attenborough holds the record for the most Emmy nominations for a nonfiction narrator.

Accepted Answer

True. He has received over 10 Emmy nominations and several wins, more than any other nonfiction narrator to date.

Question 7

True or false: He once turned down a knighthood because he disliked the title 'Sir'.

Accepted Answer

False. Attenborough accepted a knighthood in 1985 and has used the title; this myth likely stems from his modest personality.

Question 8

True or false: David Attenborough once discovered a new species of lizard while filming in a hotel room.

Accepted Answer

True. In 1997, he found a tiny gecko on a hotel wall in Indonesia; it was later named after him as *Lepidodactylus lugubris*.

David Attenborough Trivia Questions