Famous First and Last Lines
God's in his heaven. All's right with the world!
Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
This Quebecois idol made her return to singing at the Paris Olympics from the top of the Eiffel Tower
Celine Dion
Fear of crowds and crowded spaces
The scoring system includes a bastardization of the French word for egg.
Tennis
This capital has won zero of its country's national sports' prizes.
Ottawa (Senators - in their current iteration - have zero Stanley Cups)
'He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.'
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
This star of Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman suddenly past away this spring.
Catherine O'Hara
Chronophobia
Fear of time
Players are required to have their toenails trimmed and checked before a match.
Water Polo
This capital's name is a combination of the two towns that its made out of (there was a third named Obuda) but that did not factor into the name.
Budapest, Hungary
And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
This U of T professor saved millions of lives with the invention of this glucose regulating drug.
Frederick Banting, Charles Best, J.J.R. Macleod
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Fear of long words
This sport has banned the numbers 0 and 00 because their legacy player databases couldn't handle the "null" value.
Hockey
This former capital of a large empire was briefly named for a famous dictator, but now has its original name, and is no longer that region's capital.
St. Petersburg
Mother dies today. Or maybe yesterday. I can't be sure.
The Stranger, Albert Camus
This longest serving Prime Minister had three Irish Terriers all named Pat.
William Lyon MacKenzie King
Arachibutyrophobia
Fear of peanut butter
Equestrian
Participants cannot use their voice, but can only click their tongue or use one word commands.
This island capital (named after a Queen) in the Atlantic reportedly hosts the worlds busiest Dairy Queen.
Charlottetown, P.E.I
I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased.
Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
This railway tycoon founded the Renfrew Millionaires and financed the National Hockey Association, the first iteration of the NHL
Michael John O'Brien
Bromidrophobia
Fear of body odour
The "meatball flag" is used by officials to denote danger in this sport.
Formula 1
This capital is the world's youngest capital city, as its country gained independence in 2011.
Juba