40-POINT SNAPSTART TO ROUND 1
The Endurance, whose wreck was discovered in the Weddell Sea in March 2022, belonged to what British explorer?
Ernest Shackleton
Which vitamin is also known as ascorbic acid?
vitamin C
The cities of Winkler, Brandon, and Portage la Prairie are all found in which Canadian province?
Manitoba
Provide any 2 of the years that Marty McFly travels to in the Back to the Future trilogy.
(any two of:) 1885, 1955, 1985, 2015
What legendary 1994 album included the songs “The World is Yours” and “N.Y. State of Mind”, and was the debut album by Nas?
Illmatic
In linguistics, what is the term for the smallest unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a language?
phoneme
Riboflavin is another name for which B vitamin?
vitamin B2
What town on Hudson’s Bay is known as the “polar bear capital of the world”?
Churchill
Aquemini and ATLiens [“ay-tee-ell-iens”] are two 90s releases by what rap duo from Atlanta, who rose to mainstream prominence in 2003 with the song “Hey Ya!”?
OutKast
What spice is prominently found in lecsó [“LETCH-oh”] and goulash, and has a name that means “pepper” in Hungarian?
paprika
What vitamin, whose molecules include retinoic acid, is crucial for effective eyesight?
vitamin A
Many Western Canadian speakers of what language congregate in the St-Boniface [“saint BONN-uh-fass”] neighbourhood of Winnipeg?
French
What rapper and producer from Compton broke onto the scene with his 1992 album The Chronic, and later founded Beats Electronics?
Dr. Dre
The suffix “-thiol” indicates that a molecule contains what element?
sulphur
What Manitoba community is known for its namesake “glider” incident as well as its Icelandic festival?
Gimli
What hip hop girl group became the first female rap artists to achieve platinum status for their 1993 album Very Necessary, and also released the singles “Whatta Man” and “Push It”?
Salt-N-Pepa