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100

This part of the cell contains genetic material.

What is the nucleus?

100

This country music singer is famous for “Jolene"

Who is Dolly Parton?

100

This Hudson’s Bay Company chief factor founded Fort Victoria in 1843.

Who is James Douglas?

100

This river flows through Baghdad before emptying into the Persian Gulf.

What is the Tigris River?

100

This author wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Who is Gabriel García Márquez?

200

This scale measures the strength of earthquakes.

What is the Richter scale?

200

This composer wrote The Four Seasons.

Who is Antonio Vivaldi?

200

This 1858 event caused Victoria’s population to explode almost overnight.

What is the Fraser River Gold Rush?

200

This desert, the largest hot desert in the world, spans much of North Africa.

What is the Sahara Desert?

200

In 1984, this is the name of the totalitarian Party’s leader.

Who is Big Brother?

300

H2O is the chemical formula for this substance.

What is water?

300

This classical composer wrote the opera The Magic Flute.

Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

300

Before being renamed in 1866, Victoria was the capital of this British colony on Vancouver Island

What is the Colony of Vancouver Island?

300

This mountain range forms much of the border between France and Spain.

What are the Pyrenees?

300

This epic poem begins with the line, “Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles.”

What is The Iliad?

400

This organ pumps blood through the human body.

What is the heart?

400

This composer’s Symphony No. 9 ends with the “Ode to Joy.”

Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?

400

Completed in 1898, these grand legislative buildings overlook Victoria’s Inner Harbour.

What are the British Columbia Parliament Buildings?

400

This African lake is the source of the White Nile.

What is Lake Victoria?

400

This American novelist created the character Jay Gatsby.

Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?

500

This scientist proposed the three laws of motion.

Who is Isaac Newton?

500

This Russian composer wrote the ballets Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and The Sleeping Beauty.

Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?

500

This luxury hotel, opened in 1908 by the Canadian Pacific Railway, became a Victoria landmark.

What is The Empress Hotel?

500

This Southeast Asian strait separates the Malay Peninsula from Sumatra.

What is the Strait of Malacca?

500

This Russian author wrote The Brothers Karamazov.

Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?

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