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**FINAL JEOPARDY**

It was introduced in 1992 & the record 43.3 was set in the high Andes, where stratospheric ozone levels are naturally low.

What is the UV Index?

100

This Canadian province is known for holding some of the biggest Thanksgiving parades, including the Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest Parade.

What is Ontario?

100

This Great Lake is the shallowest of the five.

What is Lake Erie?

100

In 1492, this explorer set sail across the Atlantic Ocean under the Spanish flag, landing in the Caribbean.

Who is Christopher Columbus?

100

This person became famous for inventing the light bulb.

Who is Thomas Edison?

100

This country was the place where Halloween started in.

What is Ireland?

200

Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving on this day every year.

What is the second Monday of October?

200

This country is known as the land of a thousand lakes, and hint it is not Canada.

What is Finland?

200

This empire, ruled by Genghis Khan in the 13th century, became the largest land empire in history.

What is the Mongol Empire?

200

This was the first sport to have been played on the moon.

What is Golf?

200

The modern classic The Nightmare Before Christmas was released in this year.

What is 1993?

300

English explorer Martin Frobisher celebrated the first Thanksgiving in Canada in this century.

What is the 16th century?

300

The name of a flat, elevated landform that rises sharply above adjacent land on at least one side.

What is a Plateau?

300

The fall of this European city in 1453 marked the end of the Byzantine Empire and the rise of the Ottoman Empire.

What is Constantinople?

300

This star constellation contains the star Polaris.

What is the Little Dipper?

300

Transylvania, otherwise known as Count Dracula's home is located in this country.

What is Romania?

400

While turkey became traditional in most provinces, families in the Maritimes and Quebec often serve this hearty meat pie instead.

What is a Tourtiere?

400

The name of the 0° Longitude line that runs through part of Europe.

What is the Prime Meridian?

400

The Industrial Revolution began in this country in the late 18th century.

What is Great Britain?

400

This is the small sail on a sailboat that is in front of the main sail.

What is a Jib?

400

This is the most common fruit that people put outside of their homes on Halloween. 

What is a Pumpkin?

500

This Canadian province was one of the first to officially recognize Thanksgiving as a public holiday before it went nationwide.

What is Manitoba?

500

The Suez Canal connects these two major bodies of water.

What are the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea?

500

**DAILY DOUBLE**

This 1917 event led to the overthrow of the Russian Monarchy and led to the rise of the world's first communist state.

What is the Russian Revolution?

500

In this year, New Zealand became the first country to give women the right to vote.

What is 1893?

500

This was originally used as the first jack-o-lanterns.

What are Turnips?

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