Mining, Metals, Geology
This country is the world’s largest producer of lithium.
What is Australia?
This is the NHL team which has the highest number of playoff appearances but never wan the Stanley Cup.
What is the Vancouver Canucks?
This basic economic model shows the relationship between price and quantity.
What is supply and demand?
This is the Australian take on a British food product made from beer byproducts.
What is Vegemite?
This NBA player won 6 championships with the Chicago Bulls in the ‘90s.
Who is Michael Jordan?
This sedimentary rock is the world’s primary source of aluminum.
What is Bauxite?
This trail sees ~150,000 hikers per season and the fastest recorded time to complete it was 23 minutes and 48 seconds.
What is the Grouse Grind?
This is a pet-based thought experiment used to describe quantum superposition.
What is Schrodinger’s cat?
These are 5 types of dumpling-like dishes (i.e. filling wrapped in dough) that are popular around the world.
What are gyoza, mandu, manti, perogies, momos, raviolis, tortellini, samosa, xiao long bao, potstickers, and more…?
This sci-fi series, which started in 1966, coined the phrase “Live long and prosper.”
What is Star Trek?
This is the primary metal used to make the 5 cents coin in Canada.
What is steel? (would accept iron)
Prior to 2000, it was a cupronickel alloy (75% copper, 25% nickel)
This is the largest open-pit copper mine in Canada, located ~50km southwest of Kamloops.
What is Highland Valley Copper
This is the largest organ of the human body.
What is skin?
This flower which represents the fleeting nature of life, was gifted to Vancouver in 1925 in honor of veterans of WWI.
What are cherry blossoms?
This “Queen of Pop” made her debut in the 1980s.
Who is Madonna?
In 1863, a French engineer first used and patented this technology, marking a significant advancement in mineral exploration.
What is diamond drilling?
Nicknamed the “Highway Thru Hell“, this piece of infrastructure is prone to accidents due to its challenging terrain, extreme weather conditions, and the hazardous driving environment, particularly during winter.
What is the Coquihalla Highway?
This scientist was famous for his experiment at the Leaning Tower of Pisa, demonstrating that all bodies fall with the same acceleration, independent of their mass.
Who is Galileo Galilei
This country is the home of the Tikka Masala, invented with Bangladeshi and Punjabi influences.
What is the United Kingdom?
This classic sports movie features the quote, “If you build it, he will come.”
What is Field of Dreams?
This was the mine / municipality in Brazil where a tailings dam suffered a catastrophic failure in 2019, causing widespread environmental damage and loss of life.
What is Córrego do Feijão / Brumadinho?
This historic Vancouver neighborhood is the oldest commercial district and was the original downtown of our city.
What is Gastown?
This number, approximately 6.022×10^23, represents the number of atoms or molecules in one mole of a substance.
What is Avogadro’s number?
This style of music was coined in 1960’s New York, combining Cuban and Puerto Rican influences and jazz elements.
What is Salsa?
This singer holds the highest number of Grammy awards.
Who is Beyonce with 35 Grammys?
In 2025 she was awarded Album of the Year and Best Country Album for "Cowboy Carter"
Previous record was Sir Georg Solti, who was the music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra