Board Games
A popular turn-based game based on developing a small island, which happens to activate a ruthless side of Seth.
What is Settlers of Catan?
This (mostly) ceremonial weapon represents the authority of the monarch in Parliament.
What is a mace?
The country of origin for apple pie.
What is England?
The inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification system.
Who is Melvil Dewey?
Seth’s favourite colour
What is orange?
A stained glass building game that appeals to Seth’s dreams of building a church from scratch.
What is Sagrada?
A parliamentary procedure designed to prolong debate in the House in order to delay or obstruct legislation.
What is a filibuster?
The ratio of teaspoons to tablespoons.
What is 3 to 1?
The world’s largest library, which struggles to escape racist trashfire status.
What is the Library of Congress?
The name for the way in which Seth Burnard, the man himself, delays ending a call by simply continuing the conversation.
What is a Saskatchewan Goodbye?
The geographic region that developed Snakes and Ladders.
What is India?
An alternative title to the Cabinet Minister of Finance.
What is the Chancellor of the Exchequer?
A leavening agent consisting primarily of bicarbonate, a weak acid such as cream of tartar, and cornstarch.
What is baking powder?
The latest an overdue library book has ever been returned.
What is 120 years?
An elegant drink to which Seth is very allergic.
Earl Grey Tea
A game developed in Egypt, largely considered to be the oldest board game in the world.
What is Senet?
A statement to bring to the attention of the House a breach of the rules and forms of the House, or when you want the speaker to throw someone into the Speaker’s Dungeon.
What is a Point of Order?
A wood ash derived substance that was the first chemical leavening agent.
What is pearlash?
A library of smells in Versailles, France
What is The Osmothèque?
Seth's favorite book.
What is His Majesty's Dragon?
The predecessor to modern cribbage.
What is Noddy/Nodde/Noddie/Knave Noddy?
This legislature was built with reference to occultism, alchemy, and freemasonry. It contains the Pool of the Black Star, but also possibly the Ark of the Covenant.
What is the Manitoba Legislature?
A kind of cookie that makes up the crust of the lemon square.
What is shortbread?
The only known author to have a book in every single Dewey Decimal classification.
Who is Isaac Asimov?
What is marrying rich and building a bell tower?