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QUESTIONS

1. Who became the oldest man in space in 1998 on his second shuttle mission?
2. Where did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver the “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963?
3. What kind of online service is WhatsApp?
4. Which is the handheld grinding tool, the mortar or the pestle?
5. What Blue Jays player has the nickname The Train?
6. Is okra a fruit or vegetable?
7. Who did Maple Leafs head coach Mike Babcock win a Stanley Cup with?
8. What kind of animal is a Portuguese man-of-war?
9. Where did a serious U.S. nuclear plant accident happen in 1979?
10. What is the NATO phonetic alphabet word for the letter M?

 

ANSWERS

1. John Glenn
2. Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
3. voice, text, video messaging
4. the pestle
5. Steve Pearce
6. botanically, a fruit
7. Detroit Red Wings, 2008
8. a jellyfish
9. Three Mile Island, Penn.
10. Mike

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QUESTIONS

1. What form of government is rule by its citizens and their president, with no king or queen?
2. Who are the most decorated figure skaters in Olympic history with five medals?
3. What Central Asian country’s capital is Tashkent?
4. What Toronto observatory is home to Canada’s largest optical telescope?
5. What volleyball term means smashing the ball into the opponent’s court?
6. What South American cape is about 1,000 kilometres from Antarctica?
7. What Roman god’s symbols were the eagle and the lightning bolt?
8. Who is famed wrestler Terry Gene Bollea better known as?
9. What is the rear rider on a tandem bicycle called?
10. What is the longest side of a right-angled triangle called?

 

ANSWERS

1. a republic
2. Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir
3. Uzbekistan
4. David Dunlop Observatory
5. spike
6. Cape Horn
7. Jupiter
8. Hulk Hogan
9. stoker
10. hypotenuse

 

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QUESTIONS

1. What Canadian author wrote ‘Life of Pi’?
2. What is the capital of Illinois?
3. Who is Guns N’ Roses guitarist Saul Hudson better known as?
4. What was the 1990s civil war in the former Yugoslavia called?
5. How many arms does an octopus have?
6. What is Canada’s first transatlantic sports team?
7. Who is believed to have murdered the last Aztec ruler Moctezuma?
8. In archery, where does an archer keep arrows?
9. What does the country name Costa Rica mean?
10. What major theatre and performance festival happens in Toronto every July?

 

 

ANSWERS

1. Yann Martel
2. Springfield
3. Slash
4. Bosnian War
5. eight
6. Toronto Wolfpack
7. Hernán Cortés
8. a quiver
9. “rich coast”
10. Toronto Fringe Festival

 

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QUESTIONS

1. What movie won the Academy Award this year for best picture?
2. What is the proper name for the Jewish Day of Atonement?
3. How many gold medals did Canada win at the Pyeongchang Olympics?
4. What is CCTV short for?
5. Whose debut album was titled ‘Pure Heroine’?
6. Is a cucumber botanically a fruit or a vegetable?
7. Where are the smallest bones in the human body?
8. What was Carrie’s last name in Stephen King’s novel ‘Carrie’?
9. Who sailed to the Galapagos Islands in 1835 on the research ship HMS Beagle?
10. What South American country’s two capitals are La Paz and Sucre?

 

 

ANSWERS

1.’The Shape of Water’
2. Yom Kippur
3. 11
4. closed-circuit television
5. Lorde
6. fruit
7. the ear
8. White
9. Charles Darwin
10. Bolivia

 

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Column #270

QUESTIONS

1. What winter sport did Canadian Olympian Cindy Klassen excel at?
2. Who coined the term “salad days” in his play ‘Antony and Cleopatra’?
3. What hurricane struck New Orleans in August 2005?
4. What is the NATO phonetic alphabet word for the letter U?
5. What is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter called?
6. Who was MuchMusic/MuchMoreMusic’s longest running on-air personality?
7. What kind of animal is a gastropod?
8. What does the term homo sapiens translate as, from Latin?
9. What American statesman called power “the great aphrodisiac”?
10. What does a cartomaniac collect?

 

 

ANSWERS

1. speed skating
2. William Shakespeare
3. Katrina
4. Uniform
5. Pi
6. Bill Welychka
7. snail or slug
8. “wise man”
9. Henry Kissinger
10. maps

 

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QUESTIONS

1. How many tongues does a lemur have?
2. What CFL quarterback has been a member of all nine CFL teams?
3. What Ontario university did inventor and entrepreneur Elon Musk attend?
4. Who is the daughter of singer Minnie Riperton, who had a hit with ‘Lovin You’?
5. What is Aurora australis better known as?
6. What made its final flight from New York to London, in October 2003?
7. What Toronto Blue Jays player is nicknamed Pill?
8. What did this little piggy cry “all the way home”, in the nursery rhyme?
9. What sweet treat is eaten over 291,000 times every year at the CNE?
10. What notorious U.S. prison was on an island in San Francisco Bay?

 

 

ANSWERS

1. two
2. Kevin Glenn
3. Queen’s University
4. Maya Rudolph
5. the southern lights
6. the Concorde
7. Kevin Pillar
8. “wee wee wee”
9. mini donuts
10. Alcatraz