Ottawa Fun Facts
This body of water in Ottawa freezes in the winter and becomes one of the biggest skating rinks in the world.
What is the Rideau Canal?
This is the process of water vapour cooling off and become droplets of water.
What is condensation?
This leader used to sell Rainbow Loom bracelets to their friends in elementary school.
Who is Corbin?
This Model of the iPhone was released in September 2026.
What is the iPhone 18?
"Chicken Jockey"
The Minecraft Movie
This maman sculpture in downtown Ottawa is a larger than life depiction of this multi-legged creature.
What is a spider?
A shift of these types of plates that are deep below the earth surface can cause earthquakes and tsunamis.
What are tectonic plates?
This leader accidentally ruined a game of lawn bowling while in Switzerland as a kid.
Who is Sam?
This former Ottawa Senator was traded to the Florida Panthers in July 2026.
Who is Brady Tkachuk?
"The cold never bothered me anyway."
What is Frozen?
Who is the Ottawa Titans?
NaCl is the elemental name for this common cooking staple.
What is salt?
These two celebrities were married in summer 2026, shutting down multiple blocks of downtown New York for their big day.
Who are Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce?
"Everything is awesome!"
Though this sweet treat can be found across Canada today, it orignated in Ottawa in the 1980s.
What are Beaver Tails?
The "Big Dipper" is actually part of this larger constellation.
What is Ursa Major?
The Canadian Men's team won their first ever match in this prestigious event.
What is The World Cup?
"Peaches, peaches, peaches, peaches, peaches."
This bomb shelter has now been converted into a museum, and is a spinoff of the Prime Minister's name who commissioned its construction.
What is the Diefenbunker?
This quantum mechanical phenomenon allows a particle to pass through a potential energy barrier that is higher than the particle's total kinetic energy.
What is quantum tunneling?
Pope Leo XIV wrote this work on the dangers of AI in May 2026.
What is Magnifica Humanitas?
"Oh you're a villain alright, just not a super one"
What is Megamind?