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Acronyms
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Misconceptions
100

The land where most of J.R.R. Tolkien's works, including The Lord of the Rings, takes place.

What is Middle Earth?

100

Ha-Joon Chang believes that the invention of this technology has done more to change the world than the internet.

What is the washing machine?

100

UN stands for this.

What is United Nations?

100

The three largest metropolitan areas in Canada.

What are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.

100

The false but often cited claim that adult humans only use 10% of this organ.

What is the brain?

200

The name of the world where one finds talking caterpillars, late rabbits, and jabberwockies.

What is Wonderland?

200

Widepsread use of this medical technology has reduced child mortality (child death rates) by more than 40%.

What are vaccines?/What is vaccination?

200

In the context of Canadian news, CBC stands for this.

What is Canadian Broadcasting Corporation?

200

The mean (average) Canadian is in this decade of life.

What are your 40s?

200

The common but false idea that arthritis is caused by this.

What is joint-cracking?

300

The name of the monster-hunting protagonist from The Witcher.

Who is Geralt of Rivia?

300

Isaac Newton invented this mathematical process partly to explain the movements of planetary objects.

What is calculus?

300

In medicine, MRI stands for this.

What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging?

300

The Canadian city with the highest population density.

What is Vancouver?

300

A false historical claim that the Pyramids of Egypt (and Giza in particular) were constructed by this.

What is slave labour?

400

The name of the sword that Jon Snow gifts to Arya Stark.

What is Needle?

400

This hormone, discovered at the University of Toronto, changed diabetes from a fatal disease into a disease that could be managed and controlled.

What is insulin?

400

NASA stands for this.

What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration?

400

Canada is ranked #1 in the G7 for this metric.

What is education level?

400

Many people falsely belief that this historical figure said "let them eat cake" to mock food shortages among peasants.

Who was Marie Antoinette?

500

In Avatar: The Last Airbender, this event marks the period of time when firebenders are at their strongest.

What is Sozin's Comet?

500

The process of mass manufacturing this naturally-occurring material has transformed housing, electronics, medical technology, art, heating, transportation, and many, many other aspects of life.

What is glass?/What is glass manufacturing?

500

LASER stands for this.

What is Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation?

500

22% of Canadians speak this language.

What is French?

500
It is often claimed (falsely!) that Vikings named this country in order to confuse people and discourage settlement.

What is Iceland?

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