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100

Which country has the largest population?

What is India?

100

Canadian Thanksgiving is held on which day of the week each year?

What is Monday?

100

In what city were Jesus' followers first called Christians?

What is Antioch?

100

What spice is made from dried crocus flowers?

What is saffron?

100

What mountain range forms a natural border between Europe and Asia?

What are the Ural Mountains?

200

Which country is home to the ancient city of Petra?

What is Jordan?

200

In what year was Thanksgiving officially declared a national holiday in Canada?

What is 1879?

200

What was the name of the high priest who questioned Jesus after His arrest?

What is Caiaphas?

200

What name of pasta translates to "little worms" in Italian?

What is vermicelli?

200

Which ocean is the deepest?

What is the Pacific Ocean?

300

What European country has not fought in a war since 1815?

What is Switzerland?
300

Canadian Thanksgiving was originally meant to celebrate what kind of event? (Two possible answers)

What is a successful harvest?/What is a safe voyage?

300

In the Book of Revelation, which church was described as being "lukewarm"?

What is the church of Laodicea?

300

What is the chemical process called when yeast converts sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide?

What is fermentation?

300

What is the only sea on Earth with no coastline?

What is the Sargasso Sea?

400

Which country was formerly known as Ceylon?

What is Sri Lanka?

400

The earliest recorded Thanksgiving celebration in what is now Canada took place in 1578, led by which English explorer?

Who is Martin Frobisher?

400

Who was the father of King Saul?

Who is Kish?

400

In traditional Japanese cuisine, what does the word "umami" literally mean?

What is "pleasant savoury taste"?
400

Which African nation has three capital cities, each serving a different branch of government?

What is South Africa?

500

Only two countries in the world are completely surrounded by just one other country. Name both.

What is Lesotho (entirely within South Africa) and San Marino (entirely within Italy)?

500

In 1957, the Canadian Parliament fixed the date of Thanksgiving as the second Monday in October. What wording did they use to describe the purpose of the holiday? (Be as exact as possible)

What is "A day of general thanksgiving to almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed"

500

In the Book of Daniel, what two languages (besides Hebrew) are portions of the text written in?

What are Aramaic and Persian?

500

What chemical compound gives garlic its distinctive smell and flavour when crushed?

What is allicin?

500

What is the only continent that does not have any active volcanoes?

What is Australia?

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