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This legal principle, meaning 'let the decision stand,' refers to courts following previous rulings in similar cases.
What is stare decisis?
The process that gives foods their tang involves microorganisms breaking down sugars.
*Examples include yogurt, kimchi, and sauerkraut
What is fermentation?
Famous for its 4,000+ km migration, this butterfly travels from Canada all the way to Mexico every year
What is the monarch butterfly?
I’m a woodwind that doesn’t use a reed, I’m held sideways, and orchestras stick me near the violins to balance my bright, piercing tone. What instrument am I?
What is a flute?
The male Harry Potter character Sylvia deems her favourite.
Who is Hagrid?
In this 1869 novel, Prince Andrei and Pierre wrestle with questions of destiny, war, and family in Napoleonic Russia.
What is War and Peace?
These vegetables are known for containing sulphur compounds that give them their punchy smell and health benefits.
*Examples include broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage.
What are cruciferous vegetables?
Nova Scotia’s Bay of Fundy is globally famous for this natural phenomenon, the highest ______ in the world, reaching up to 16 metres.
What are tides?
Known for his poetic storytelling and a voice critics once described as “sand and glue,” this folk-rock legend wrote “Tangled Up in Blue.”
Who is Bob Dylan?
Sylvia's least favourite weather.
*Weather is described as the specific atmospheric conditions at a particular time and place, such as temperature, wind, and precipitation.
What is snow?
This term describes the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape.
What is the event horizon?
This classical French technique requires slowly whisking warm liquid into egg yolks to raise their temperature without scrambling them, essential for recipes like crème anglaise, hollandaise, and certain custards.
What is tempering?
A dead tree that remains standing is called this, and despite looking spooky, it supports woodpeckers, insects, fungi, and entire mini-ecosystems.
What is a snag?
This term describes a chord made of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th notes of a scale; the building block of basically every folk and rock tune ever played around a campfire.
What is a triad?
The foot on which Sylvia lifts when she is cooking and/or cleaning in the kitchen.
What is her right foot?
Often measured by the current ratio or quick ratio, this concept gauges a company’s ability to meet short-term obligations.
What is liquidity?
This ancient staple is often called “the staff of life,” and evidence of it exists from more than 10,000 years ago.
What is bread?
Often found along Canada’s ancient shield, this type of rock forms when molten magma cools and hardens
*Granite is an example.
What is an igneous rock?
These words open a 1971 folk-rock classic: “Hello darkness, my old friend…”
What is “The Sound of Silence” by Simon & Garfunkel?
Sylvia's preferred Christmas movie.
What is The Santa Clause?
This country has the world’s longest coastline, spanning over 202,000 km, and is bordered by three oceans.
What is Canada?
During fasting, the body shifts into burning fat for fuel by producing these molecules, a state many call 'going keto'.
What are ketones?
Known for its haunting call and ability to dive up to 60 metres underwater, this bird is native to Canada.
What is the common loon?
This 1983 hit opens with the line “Once upon a time, not so long ago…” before launching into a blue-collar love story.
What is “Livin’ on a Prayer” by Bon Jovi?
The Canadian artist Sylvia saw as her first concert.
*She was 7
Who is Carly Rae Jepsen?