Canada
This warm cotton garment with a pouch and hood has a very unique name in Saskatchewan.
While Americans tune into football on their Thanksgiving Thursday, Canadians traditionally spend Thanksgiving weekend watching key matchups in this sports league.
What is the CFL (Canadian Football League)?
This first book of the Bible opens with the famous creation narrative starting with the words "In the beginning..."
What is Genesis?
Completed in 1897 and designed by Francis Rattenbury, this grand green-domed complex overlooks the Inner Harbour and serves as the seat of BC's government.
What are the BC Parliament Buildings?
This four-letter capital city of Switzerland is famous for its clock towers, cobbled streets, and resident bears along the River Aare.
What is Bern?
If it's raining outside there is a very good chance you will but these on your feet.
What are rubbers (or rubber boots)?
In 1957, Parliament declared Canadian Thanksgiving a permanent annual holiday dedicated to giving thanks for this general gift of nature.
What is a bountiful harvest?
Moses received the Ten Commandments inscribed on two stone tablets on top of this holy mountain.
What is Mount Sinai (or Mount Horeb)?
Opened in 1904, world-famous floral displays stretch across 55 acres of a former limestone quarry in this nearby Brentwood Bay attraction.
What are The Butchart Gardens?
Straddling the border between Switzerland and Italy, this legendary pyramid-shaped Alpine peak is one of the most photographed mountains in the world.
What is the Matterhorn?
This highway is the 2nd longest national highway in the world and runs 7,476 KM's.
What is the Trans Canada hwy.?
Along with turkey and stuffing, this tart red condiment made from berries harvested from bogs across Canada is a mandatory fixture on the dinner table.
What is cranberry sauce?
Discovered in caves near Qumran between 1946 and 1956, these ancient manuscripts contain some of the oldest surviving copies of Old Testament books.
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Built in 1843 as a Hudson's Bay Company fur trading post, Victoria was originally established under this official fortress name.
What is Fort Victoria?
Established in 1863 in Geneva, this international humanitarian organization adopted a reversed version of the Swiss flag as its official symbol.
What is the Red Cross?
This is the site of a reclaimed railyard in the Winnipeg and where the Assiniboine and Red Rivers meet.
What is "The Forks?"
Prior to 1957, Canadian Thanksgiving was held on various dates, often coinciding with the anniversary of the end of World War I, which is now observed on this day.
What is Remembrance Day?
Traditionally attributed to King David, this poetic book consists of 150 sacred songs, prayers, and hymns.
What is the Book of Psalms?
Marking Mile 0 of the Trans-Canada Highway, a seaside statue in Beacon Hill Park honours this courageous young hero who began his Marathon of Hope in 1980.
Who is Terry Fox?
Legendary folklore hero William Tell was forced by a tyrannical governor to shoot an apple off his son’s head using this weapon.
What is a crossbow?
Canada’s official name originates from the Saint-Lawrence Iroquoian word kanata, which translates to this basic structural concept.
What is a village (or settlement)?
French settlers in New France brought harvest celebration traditions to Canada, often citing this famous Order founded by Samuel de Champlain in 1606.
What is the Order of Good Cheer (L'Ordre de Bon Temps)?
This ancient language, closely related to Hebrew, is the language in which several passages of Daniel and Ezra were originally written.
What is Aramaic?
Built in the late 1800s by coal baron Robert Dunsmuir, this imposing 39-room Victorian mansion towers over the city's Rockland neighborhood.
What is Craigdarroch Castle?
Located near Geneva, this massive physics laboratory is home to the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator.
What is CERN?