Science
This part of the cell contains genetic material.
What is the nucleus?
This country music singer is famous for “Jolene"
Who is Dolly Parton?
This Hudson’s Bay Company chief factor founded Fort Victoria in 1843.
Who is James Douglas?
This river flows through Baghdad before emptying into the Persian Gulf.
What is the Tigris River?
This author wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Who is Gabriel García Márquez?
This scale measures the strength of earthquakes.
What is the Richter scale?
This composer wrote The Four Seasons.
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
This 1858 event caused Victoria’s population to explode almost overnight.
What is the Fraser River Gold Rush?
This desert, the largest hot desert in the world, spans much of North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
In 1984, this is the name of the totalitarian Party’s leader.
Who is Big Brother?
H2O is the chemical formula for this substance.
What is water?
This classical composer wrote the opera The Magic Flute.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
Before being renamed in 1866, Victoria was the capital of this British colony on Vancouver Island
What is the Colony of Vancouver Island?
This mountain range forms much of the border between France and Spain.
What are the Pyrenees?
This epic poem begins with the line, “Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles.”
What is The Iliad?
This organ pumps blood through the human body.
What is the heart?
This composer’s Symphony No. 9 ends with the “Ode to Joy.”
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
Completed in 1898, these grand legislative buildings overlook Victoria’s Inner Harbour.
What are the British Columbia Parliament Buildings?
This African lake is the source of the White Nile.
What is Lake Victoria?
This American novelist created the character Jay Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
This scientist proposed the three laws of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This Russian composer wrote the ballets Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and The Sleeping Beauty.
Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
This luxury hotel, opened in 1908 by the Canadian Pacific Railway, became a Victoria landmark.
What is The Empress Hotel?
This Southeast Asian strait separates the Malay Peninsula from Sumatra.
What is the Strait of Malacca?
This Russian author wrote The Brothers Karamazov.
Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?