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1. Jumbo was born in which African country?
2. Which organisation put in a bid in 1881 to buy the magnificent Jumbo from the London Zoo?
3. Which London based group wrote 100,000 letters begging Queen Victoria not to sell Jumbo out of the country?
4. So off Jumbo sailed to conquer a new continent. There he was initially exhibited at which venue we may perhaps associate more with boxing matches?
5. When the Brooklyn Bridge was opened in 1883, rumours led to it being considered unsafe. What did Jumbo do to disprove these rumours?
6. How did the gentle Jumbo die in 1885?
7. P.T. Barnum had parts of Jumbo sent to different sites after his death, both as memorials and tourist attractions. The contents of Jumbo's stomach revealed which law-abiding object among its rather odd contents?
8. Which educational event happened to Jumbo's heart after his death?
9. Jumbo's famous hide was stuffed and mounted after his death - and then what?
10. Now we come to the sorrowful and disgraceful ending of Jumbo's life story. His stuffed and mounted figure was destroyed in a fire in 1975 at Tufts University. His ashes remained. Where do they reside today?
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