Memorable Lines
What is the Wizard of Oz?
These are installed in homes to alert owners to fire.
What are smoke alarms?
What Canadian delicacy consists simply of butter, sugar, syrup, and egg—and sometimes, controversially, raisins—baked together in a pastry filling?
What is a Butter Tart?
This country's springtime array of tulips is legendary.
What is the Netherlands? Holland, a region of the Netherlands, has been known for its tulips since the 17th century tulip mania when tulips were traded as commodities. The Netherlands is the “Tulip Capital of the World,” growing 80 percent of the world’s tulips.
March leaves like a lamb, but it comes in like this animal.
What is a lion? Fall and spring are transitional months with huge swings in temperatures. March comes in as winter (lion) and leaves as spring (lamb), but the proverb originally referred to the constellations and astrology— Leo the lion and Aries the lamb.
"I'm the king of the world!" is from one of the highest grossing films of all time directed by Canadian James Cameron.
What is Titanic?
In 1973, the first communication from this device was completed.
What is cell phone? The cell phone of 1970 bore no resemblance to today’s cell phone. They were called “brick phones” because they were as large as a brick and similar in design.
English is the most-spoken language in Canada. French is second. What language is third?
What is Chinese? (Madarin or Cantonese).
Sometime between January 21 and February 21, on the new moon, this country explodes with colourful floats and parades as the celebration of its New Year begins.
What is China? The celebration lasts until the full moon.
We sometimes describe heavy rains by saying that it’s raining these two animals.
What are cats and dogs? The expression’s origin is unknown, but some suspect it is a reference to Jonathan Swift’s satirical poem “A Description of a City Shower,” published in 1710.
“Play it, Sam” is from this film.
What is Casablanca? Almost everyone misremembers this line as “Play it again, Sam.”
In the 1970s, McDonald’s introduced this jolly menu item that is still going strong today.
What is the Happy Meal? The original packaging resembled a cereal box with games, comics, and jokes on it.
Screech is an alcohol most closely associated with what Canadian island?
What is Newfoundland?
This country’s samba schools prepare for their dazzling competitions, which highlight the country’s culture in parades during the pre-Lenten Carnival.
What is Brazil? The eye-poppingly colourful costumes are on display for all the world to see. The legendary samba schools are organized by neighborhood or community, and students prepare for the Carnival competition year-round.
This meteorological term applies to rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
What is precipitation? The most common form of precipitation is rain.
"May the force be with you" is a memorable line from this very famous movie which turned into a series.
What is Star Wars?
In 1979, Sony released this device for playing cassette tapes.
What is the Walkman? At last, we had a personal and portable device for playing favorite tunes.
Owned by The Woodbridge Company of Toronto, what Monday-to-Saturday newspaper with two nouns in its title is the most popular in Canada?
What is the Globe and Mail?
This desert in Arizona is known for its vibrant, earth-toned colors.
What is the Painted Desert? When you take a scenic drive through the Painted Desert, you will pass through the Petrified Forest. It is believed that some of the fossils in the forest date to 220 million years ago.
Of lightning and thunder, it’s the one that causes the other.
What is lightning (causes thunder)? Lightning heats the air and causes it to expand and contract, creating a sound wave. You see lightning a few seconds before you hear thunder because sound moves slower than light.
"Here's Johnny!" is a line from this famous horror movie.
What is The Shining? Funnily enough, that line was actually improvised by Jack Nicholson, who took it from the intro to The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and director Stanley Kubrick almost didn't include it.
This was the first kind of computer disc.
What is floppy? The first floppy disc was eight inches in diameter. Today, computers use internal hard drives, external drives, or the cloud for backups.
What "sweet" Canadian actor and comedian rose to fame as a member of the Toronto branch of the Second City, starred in major movies like "Uncle Buck," and died of a heart attack in Mexico at the age of 43?
Who is John Candy?
Lavender fields in this country provide an endless landscape of majestic purple.
What is France? The countryside of Provence, France, is where you can view the fields.
When lightning strikes, it allows this gas to combine with oxygen to help plants grow.
What is nitrogen? When oxygen and nitrogen combine, it helps plants absorb nitrogen better. Nitrogen is a component of fertilizer; it’s the N in NPK, along with phosphorus (P) and potassium (K).