Day: April 29, 2018

Trivia Column for April 29, 2018

(answers are listed after the questions)

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