Summer Olympics
The country has won the most Summer Olympics.
Where is the USA?
Ice cream month
When is July?
The activity of catching fish for recreation
Common summer storm that includes thunder, lightning and sometimes heavy rain.
What is a thunderstorm?
Country where the first Summer Olympics were held
Where is Greece?
First Summer Olympics were held in Olympia, Greece in 776 BC.
The traditional Peruvian summer seafood dish made with raw seafood that has been “cooked” with citrus juice
What is ceviche?
Activity that involves walking in nature
The acronym SPF stands for....
What is Sun Protection Factor?
The country that has won a gold medal at every Summer Olympics.
What is Great Britain?
Activity that involves hitting a shuttlecock over a net
What is badminton?
The annual meteor show that peaks in mid-August
The Perseids
In 1900 Olympic Games, the most bizarre Olympic event was held for the first and only time.
What is live pigeon shooting?
The winner was Leon de Lunden of Belgium, who bagged 21 of the 300 birds that were released to the gun-toting competitors.
The Eiffel Tower grows by X inches every summer due to thermal expansion.
How much is 6 inches?
Fastest growing sport in North America
What is pickleball?
The name or year of the biggest known earthquake in Canadian history, with a magnitude estimated at 8.7 to 9.2 on the Richter scale.
The Cascadia Earthquake that occurred in North America on January 26, 1700.
According to Indigenous oral history, the cataclysmic shock struck at night, rupturing a 1,000 kilometre-long fault line from Vancouver Island to northern California, plunging coastal forests into the sea, and killing between 2,000 and 3,000 people. Resulting tsunamis struck both the west coast of North America and Japan, where written records date the event to January 26, 1700. Indigenous art and mythology from Vancouver Island tell stories of a great battle between a thunderbird and a whale, an allegory for the quake.
First Canadian Olympian who lost his gold medal due to positive drug test.
Who is Ben Johnson?
It was the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
Cold creamy treat first introduced at the Saint Louis World's Fair in 1904
What is ice cream?
A beginner surfer
Who is a kook?
The cause of the 1816 "the Year Without a Summer".
A volcanic eruption at Indonesia’s Mount Tambora on Apr 5, 1815.
It was the largest volcanic eruption of the last 2,000 years.
1816 became known in Europe and North America as “The Year Without a Summer.”
Mount Tambora ejected so much ash and aerosols into the atmosphere that the sky darkened and the Sun was blocked from view. The large particles spewed by the volcano fell to the ground nearby, covering towns with enough ash to collapse homes. There are reports that several feet of ash was floating on the ocean surface in the region. Ships had to plow through it to get from place to place.
But the smaller particles spewed by the volcano were light enough to spread through the atmosphere over the following months and had a worldwide effect on climate. They made their way into the stratosphere, where they could distribute around the world more easily. Earth’s average global temperature dropped three degrees Celsius.
It took a full year after the eruption for the shockwaves to reach Canada. On April 12, 1816, it began snowing in Quebec City—and it didn’t stop. By June, the noontime temperature in central Ontario was just one below zero. In the Quebec countryside, newly-shorn sheep began dying from the cold. Cold fronts continued to sweep through Lower Canada in July. By September, Lower Canada was destitute. Up to four-fifths of the region’s hay crops were ruined, while the frost left the province with a small wheat harvest and an even smaller supply of oats.
Many countries around the world faced rising food prices, famine and disease (including the world’s first cholera pandemic).
While Mount Tambora’s toxic aerosol cloud had its most catastrophic impact in the summer of 1816, weather patterns around the world continued to be affected for at least another two years.