Calgary
These two rivers meet in downtown.
What are the Bow and Elbow rivers?
This Great Lake is the largest by both surface area and volume.
What is Lake Superior?
This Carthaginian general crossed the Alps with elephants.
Who is Hannibal?
The largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
The name of Joel's childhood cat.
What is Minou?
This famous movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio filmed scenes in and around Calgary and Alberta.
What is the Revenant?
This country was discovered by Vikings and is currently an autonomous territory of Denmark.
What is Greenland?
This Greek philosopher taught Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
This protects spacecraft during atmospheric re-entry.
What is a heat-shield?
In his youth, Joel participated in this structured program where he learned military drills and outdoor survival.
What is Cadets?
This animal appears on the Calgary Stampede logo.
What is a bucking horse?
Travelling from the Atlantic to the Pacific through this canal actually requires sailing east, not west.
What is the Panama Canal?
The treaty that formally ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
What is the Soviet Union?
Joel's favourite dessert.
What is Creme Brule?
This Calgarian astronaut was the first Canadian to walk in space.
Who is Chris Hadfield?
In the mountains of Peru, this Iconic 15th century Incan citadel went completely unnoticed by Spanish conquistadors.
What is Machu Picchu?
This city fell to the Ottomans in 1452, marking the end of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople?
This is what happens when a massive star dies.
What is a supernova?
Joel bought this vehicle, defending it as cheap on gas before the realities of diesel pricing inverted his fuel savings math.
What is the Jeep Cherokee?
The year Calgary was incorporated as a city.
What is 1894?
The only city in the world located in both Europe and Asia.
What is Istanbul?
This metal was most commonly used to make ancient Greek coins.
What is silver?
Our Sun is this type of star.
What is a yellow dwarf?
The number of guns Joel owns.
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