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This stimulant is found in coffee.
What is caffeine? An eight-ounce cup of coffee contains around 90 milligrams of caffeine. Healthy adults should consume no more than 400 milligrams of caffeine per day.
This European country, with its famed food, wines, and champagne, is the most visited in the world.
What is France? You can book one-day or multi-day tours that visit wine country and/or focus on French cuisine.
There are this many judges in the Supreme Court of Canada.
What is 9? This is including the Chief Justice of Canada.
Avocado, zucchini, and pumpkin are classified as this because they have seeds.
What is a fruit? Fruits can contain a single seed, like an avocado, or many seeds, like a zucchini or pumpkin.
This casino game is sometimes called the “one-armed bandit”
What is a slot machine? Older slot machines are activated by pulling down on the arm located on the side of the machine.
This Italian coffee is made of espresso and steamed milk and topped with milk foam.
What is cappuccino? Italians don’t drink cappuccino after 11 a.m., but tourists ignore this rule if they even know about it. Tourists are typically served whenever they order it.
Tourists can find the Christ the Redeemer statue in this city.
What is Rio de Janeiro? The statue is struck by lightning several times a year during the rainy season. That was considered when it was placed on top of a hill, and cables were strategically placed to conduct and divert the electricity in the event of a strike.
Sleeping Giant Provincial Park is located in this province.
What is Ontario? is located in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, on the Sibley Peninsula, stretching into Lake Superior. It is also east of Thunder Bay.
During the 1600s, these bulbs were worth more than gold.
What are tulips? At the peak of Tulipmania, the price for one tulip bulb was around 5,200 guilders. In today’s dollars, the bulb sold for around $250,000.
These three animals are mentioned in the nursery rhyme “Hey, Diddle Diddle”
What is a cat, a cow, and a dog? Many sources indicate the nursery rhyme has been around since the 16th century. Theories about the meaning of the rhyme have been unproven. Most say it is simply a nonsense poem.
This process takes brewed coffee, freezes it, and extracts the water, leaving behind coffee concentrate granules.
What is freeze-drying? Many people believe that freeze dried coffee tastes better than instant coffee, even though both are prepared by the consumer in the same way.
This desert is about the same size as the land area of China.
What is the Sahara Desert? The desert spans North Africa and takes up 10 percent of the continent. The desert is home to around four million people.
This Canadian city was formerly known as Bytown.
What is Ottawa? It was known as Bytown until 1855.
This South American country is named after a tree.
What is Brazil? The Brazil nut tree is one of the tallest trees in the rainforest.
This Irish actress stars in Miracle on 34th Street and The Quiet Man.
Who is Maureen O’Hara? Her other films include How Green Was My Valley, Rio Grande, and Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation.
This 1773 act by England’s King George III led to the rise of coffee consumption in America.
What is the Tea Act? The Tea Act of 1773 led to the Boston Tea Party and to America’s favourite hot morning beverage after the colonists dumped 90,000 pounds of tea in Boston Harbour.
The Penguin Post Office is located here.
What is Antarctica? It’s the most visited site by tourists on guided tours of Antarctica. The post office is located on an island just off a peninsula, and tourists and those working in Antarctica can send mail from there.
This province's flag features a ship sailing in front of a golden sky.
What is New Brunswick? It consists of a golden lion passant on a red field in the upper third and a gold field defaced with a lymphad on top of blue and white wavy lines in the bottom two-thirds.
Saffron comes from this plant.
What is the crocus? Specifically, it comes from the stigma of the fall-blooming crocus. It is hand-harvested, and the stigma is also removed by hand, which contributes to its high cost.
This team sport uses the terms crosse, rake, and crease.
What is Lacrosse? Early inhabitants of North America first played the sport.
This distinctive Hawaiian coffee is named for the district in which it’s grown on the Big Island.
What is Kona? Visitors can tour the region’s coffee farms.
The carving of the Three Wise Monkeys is found in this country.
What is Japan? The monkeys see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil.
Brrrr! The lowest recorded temperature recorded in Canada happened on February 3rd, 1947, in the Yukon Territory. It reached this temperature:
A) -53 degree Celsius
B) -63 degrees Celsius
C) -73 degrees Celsius
What is B) -63 degrees Celsius? This reading, also the lowest ever recorded in continental North America, occurred during a period where cold air from Siberia stalled over the region, causing breath to freeze into powder and sound to travel for miles.
This is the fastest growing woody plant.
What is bamboo? There’s no need to fertilize bamboo; it self-fertilizes. Its leaves act as a mulch when they drop, and as they decompose, they return nutrients to the soil.
A decagon has this many sides.
What is 10? Deca means 10.