Tuesday Trivia: October 24, 2023

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Answer this Oklahoma trivia question to receive awesome prizes!

Test your Oklahoma knowledge and win prizes by answering our weekly Tuesday Trivia question. Every week, we’ll choose a winner from the correct respondents to receive a prize—from an Okie sticker to a subscription to Oklahoma Today and more.

This week we're partnering with the Oklahoma City Zoo & Botanical Garden for a special giveaway: two tickets to this Friday's Haunt the Zoo: All Grown Up event. It's all the Haunt the Zoo fun Oklahoma City's former youths remember from childhood, but this time with a 21+ crowd, craft brews, food trucks, live music, and more. The event is from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, October 27. If you're not lucky enough to be this week's winner, tickets can be purchased at okczoo.org.

In honor of this giveaway, let's get wild about zoo history. The Oklahoma City Zoo pre-dates statehood, having first been founded in 1904 with an original location in Wheeler Park. Within the zoo's first five years, its animal collection had grown to 125 animals. These days, the zoo is home to more than a thousand total specimens representing 324 total species. All those animals got us thinking:

What was the first animal to ever be acquired by the Oklahoma City Zoo?

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Ben Luschen

Luschen joined the *Oklahoma Today*’ staff as Research Editor in 2021 and currently works as the magazine's Web Editor, managing the website and social media fronts. His past *Oklahoma Today* stories have ranged in content from the state's bee and quail industries to its vibrant art and music scenes. Not adverse to a road trip, Luschen is always on the lookout for the next big adventure. He is never out of opinions about the current state of Oklahoma City Thunder basketball.

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