SOLUTION: This is for a work seminar I'm involed in. I have solved half the problem....but can't get the last question. My brain is tired....help:) The Facts: There are five houses.Each h

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Question 66481: This is for a work seminar I'm involed in. I have solved half the problem....but can't get the last question. My brain is tired....help:)
The Facts: There are five houses.Each house is a different color.Each house is inhabited by people of different nationalities.Each house has a different pet, and the people in each house drink different drinks and smoke different cigarettes.
The clues: 1. The english man lives in the red house.
2. The spaniard owns the dog.
3. Coffee is drunk in the green house.
4. The ukrainia drinks tea.
5. The green house is immediately to the right of the ivory house.
6. The camel smoker owns snails.
7. Kools are smoked in the yellow house.
8. Milk is drunk in the middle house.
9. The norwegian lives in the first house on the left.
10. The man who smokes marlboroughs lives in the house next
to the man with the fox.
11. The lucky strike smoker drinks orange juice.
12. Kools are smoked in the house next to the house where the
horse is kept.
13. The japanese smokes parliaments.
14. The noewegian lives next to the blue house.
The two questions are: Who owns the zebra?
Who drinks water? The answer is the Norwegian
So my question is who of these upstanding, heavy smoking neighbors, keeps a zebra in his yard.......cause I mean...WHO wouldn't want a zebra?:)

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The Japanese owns the zebra
House 1 Norwegian fox yellow water Kools
House 2 Ukrainian horse blue tea Marlborough
House 3 Englishman snail red milk Camel
House 4 Spaniard dog ivory OJ Lucky Strike
House 5 Japanese zebra green coffee Parliaments