Q 01/05

Guinea pigs were first domesticated, as food, in which part of the world?

A) The Andes of South America

B) The savannas of West Africa

C) The islands of Southeast Asia

D) The plains of central Europe

Answer · why

A) The Andes of South America

The Andes of South America: they are still raised for meat there, and many rural families keep them at home or let them roam indoors and out.

Q 02/05

Linny the Guinea Pig leads which Nick Jr. team of classroom animals on musical rescue missions?

A) The Wonder Pets

B) PAW Patrol

C) The Backyardigans

D) Team Umizoomi

Answer · why

A) The Wonder Pets

The Wonder Pets: the show grew out of two Linny shorts, animated by photographing a real baby guinea pig and moving the cut-up photos like paper dolls...

Q 03/05

Which US president's children kept guinea pigs named Admiral Dewey and Bishop Doane at the White House?

A) Theodore Roosevelt

B) Abraham Lincoln

C) John F. Kennedy

D) Calvin Coolidge

Answer · why

A) Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt: his sons once took the family pony, Algonquin, up in the White House elevator to cheer up their sick brother Archie.

Q 04/05

Like humans but unlike most mammals, guinea pigs cannot make which vitamin?

A) Vitamin A

B) Vitamin B12

C) Vitamin D

D) Vitamin C

Answer · why

D) Vitamin C

Vitamin C: in 1907 two Norwegian doctors fed guinea pigs a grain diet to study beriberi and, by lucky accident, gave them scurvy instead.

Q 05/05

What disease appeared when Holst and Frølich fed guinea pigs a 1907 grain diet meant to cause beriberi?

A) Scurvy

B) Rickets

C) Pellagra

D) Anaemia

Answer · why

A) Scurvy

Until then scurvy had been thought an exclusively human disease; they could cure it with fresh foods, years before the word 'vitamin' existed.