Geography
Inventions & Discoveries
Canadian History
Food & Cooking
Nature & Animal
100
What is the capital city of Australia?
Canberra.
100
Who is commonly credited with inventing the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell.
100
What is the capital of Canada?
Ottawa.
100
What fruit is used to make traditional cider?
Apples.
100
What is the largest land animal in the world?
The African elephant.
200
Which river flows through Egypt and was essential to the growth of ancient Egyptian civilization?
The Nile River
200
Which inventor is famous for developing a practical incandescent light bulb?
Thomas Edison.
200
What year did Canada become a country through Confederation?
1867.
200
Which country is generally credited with inventing pizza as we know it today?
Italy.
200
What do bees collect from flowers to help make honey?
Nectar
300
Which mountain range traditionally forms part of the boundary between Europe and Asia?
The Ural Mountains.
300
Who developed the first successful polio vaccine in the 1950s?
Jonas Salk.
300
Which Canadian athlete began the Marathon of Hope in 1980 after losing a leg to cancer?
Terry Fox.
300
What spice is made from the dried stigmas of a crocus flower and is famously expensive?
Saffron.
300
What is the only mammal capable of true, sustained flight?
The bat.
400
What is the smallest country in the world by area?
Vatican City. Covering about 44 hectares (110 acres), it has a population of roughly 800–1,000 people.
400
Which two brothers made the first successful powered airplane flight in 1903?
Orville and Wilbur Wright.
400
What was the name of the railway completed in 1885 that connected eastern Canada with the Pacific coast?
The Canadian Pacific Railway.
400
What is the main ingredient in traditional hummus?
Chickpeas.
400
What is the name of the process by which plants use sunlight to make food?
Photosynthesis.
500
Which African country was historically known as Abyssinia?
Ethiopia.
500
Which Polish-born scientist won Nobel Prizes in both Physics and Chemistry for her work on radioactivity?
Marie Curie.
500
Which Canadian province was the last to join Confederation, in 1949?
Newfoundland and Labrador.
500
What French cooking term describes preparing ingredients in their proper place before cooking begins?
Mise en place.
500
What is the only continent where giraffes live naturally in the wild?
Africa.