USA
In Minnesota, it's illegal to tease this type of animal.
Skunks
St Patrick supposedly drove this (these?) out of Ireland
Snakes.
Canada has 2,860 of these, more than any other country in the world.
Hockey Rinks
The flags of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland all have this in common.
The Nordic Cross.
Which 2 countries (both of which have a significant EcoOnline presence) were technically 'at war' from 1972 to 2022?
Canada & Denmark (The 2 countries had an ongoing land dispute over Hans Island that started in 1972 and was only resolved in the summer of 2022. The two countries took turns staking their claim to the island by planting flags and leaving bottles of liquor as gifts for the other country's armed forces.)
This is the number one selling product at Walmart in the US.
Bananas
This is where you can find the town with the longest name in Europe.
Wales. (The town is called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. No I can't pronounce it.)
Quebec is the top producer of this condiment.
Maple Syrup (The province of Quebec makes about 73% of the global supply)
Children in Sweden dress up as witches for this holiday.
Easter. (Children dress up as Easter witches; clad in discarded clothes, gaily coloured headscarves and red-painted cheeks, they go from house to house in the neighbourhood and present the occupants with paintings and drawings in the hope of getting sweets in return)
In which country can you find the North Pole (and presumably, Santa)?
Trick question. The North Pole is not in any country (you can currently hear the hearts of all the Canadians breaking). Russia, Denmark and Canada have all claimed it, and Canadian territory is closest to it (Nunavut), but no country owns it.
This person said: “I’m the president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli”?
George H.W. Bush
The King legally owns every one of these in Great Britain.
Swans
This type of pizza was created by Sam Panapoulos in Chatham, Ontario in 1962.
Hawaiian pizza ("Hawaiian" pizza [with ham, bacon & pineapple], invented in Canada by a Greek-born Canadian. That's this country in a nutshell.)
Modern and ancient skiing were invented in this country.
Norway
Who were the first non-indigenous people to arrive in North America?
The Vikings. Around 500 years before Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ the American continent, Vikings had visited its shores, landing in what is now Canada in around AD 1000.
In Alaska, it’s legal to shoot bears, but illegal to do this to them.
Wake them up
10 million pints of this beverage are produced each day in Dublin.
Guinness
People in Churchill, Manitoba leave their cars unlocked for people escaping these.
Polar Bears (It's one of several local strategies designed to mitigate attacks)
Do Danes own more cars or bikes per capita?
Bikes. Only 4 out of 10 Danes own a car but a whopping 9 out of 10 Danes own a bike
Both the US and Canada were British territories. Can you name which monarchs were the last ones be King or Queen of each of the US and Canada?
King George III was the last King of America
King Charles III is still officially the King of Canada (and when you become a Canadian citizen, you swear allegiance to him).
This was the prior name of New York City
New Amsterdam
Anywhere in Great Britain you are never more than 75 miles (115 km) from this.
The coast.
Letters addressed to the postal code H0H 0H0 are delivered here.
The North Pole. (Volunteers write replies from Santa for approximately 1.6 million letters each year).
The game Angry Birds originated in this country.
Finland. (Angry Birds isn't the only worldwide smash to have originated in Finland. Nokia's Snake–arguably the most influential mobile game ever–and Clash of Clans are also Finnish.)
What has a larger population. The USA, or all of Canada, Ireland, the UK, New Zealand and the Nordic countries combined?
The US has 2.3x more people than the rest of our 'EcoOnline countries' combined.