Q 01/05

Which US president kept a raccoon named Rebecca as a pet after she was sent to be his Thanksgiving dinner?

A) Theodore Roosevelt

B) Calvin Coolidge

C) Herbert Hoover

D) Warren G. Harding

Answer · why

B) Calvin Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge had never eaten raccoon and had no appetite to try it, so Rebecca got an embroidered collar and walks on a leash instead.

Q 02/05

After a 1977 cartoon about a boy's pet raccoon became a hit, which country imported up to 1,500 raccoons a year?

A) Italy

B) Sweden

C) Japan

D) Australia

Answer · why

C) Japan

Japan fell for the animated raccoon, but discarded and escaped pets bred in the wild and had spread to all 47 of the country's prefectures by 2008.

Q 03/05

Which sense is the raccoon's most important, taking up almost two-thirds of the sensory area of its cerebral cortex?

A) Smell

B) Hearing

C) Sight

D) Touch

Answer · why

D) Touch

Touch dominates a raccoon's world: whiskers above the claws let its front paws identify an object before they even reach it.

Q 04/05

Which actor voices Rocket, the sharp-shooting raccoon bounty hunter, in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy films?

A) Bradley Cooper

B) Vin Diesel

C) Jason Sudeikis

D) Seth Rogen

Answer · why

A) Bradley Cooper

Bradley Cooper has voiced Rocket since 2014, giving a film career to a comics character who made only ten appearances in his first thirty years.

Q 05/05

Which frontiersman's 1950s Disney television episodes set off a children's craze for raccoon-fur coonskin caps?

A) Daniel Boone

B) Kit Carson

C) Davy Crockett

D) Buffalo Bill Cody

Answer · why

C) Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett, as played by Fess Parker, made the caps sell at a rate of 5,000 a day, though the real man is unlikely to have worn raccoon fur.