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Trivia

APCs Insider, July 25, 2014

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Next to humans, which animals are the most northern-living primates?
a. Golden snub-nosed monkeys
b. Japanese macaques
c. Northern muriquis
d. Western hoolock gibbons
 
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Last week’s question
Presidents John Quincy Adams and Herbert Hoover kept which unusual animal as a pet for a portion of their time in the White House?
 
a. Alligator
b. Elephant
c. Hippo
d. Zebra
 
The answer is A. Adams received the alligator as a gift from a French Revolutionary War fighter, the Marquis de Lafayette, and kept the animal in a bathtub in the unfinished East Room of the White House. Hoover's son owned two alligators that frequented the White House lawn.



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