Toronto
Line 1 (Yonge-University) and Line 2 (Bloor-Danforth) cross paths to form major subway transfer hubs at St. George and this other central station.
What is Bloor-Yonge?
Thrown into a den of lions for praying to God instead of King Darius, this prophet survived the night completely unharmed.
Who is Daniel?
Emerging as the birthplace of Western democracy, this Greek city-state was home to philosophers like Socrates and Plato.
What is Athens?
With over 37 million people in its greater metropolitan area, this capital of Japan is the world's most populous megacity.
What is Tokyo?
Known as the "Red Planet" due to iron oxide on its surface, this is the fourth planet from the Sun.
What is Mars?
This 98-room Gothic Revival mansion and castle in midtown Toronto has served as a filming location for X-Men, Chicago, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
What is Casa Loma?
In the book of Acts, the Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles like tongues of fire on this Jewish feast day, 50 days after Passover.
What is Pentecost?
In April 1917, all four divisions of the Canadian Corps fought together for the first time to capture this heavily fortified French escarpment from German forces.
What is Vimy Ridge (the Battle of Vimy Ridge)?
This narrow waterway separates southern Spain from Morocco, connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
In the Star Wars saga, this green, diminutive Jedi Master trained Luke Skywalker in the swamps of the planet Dagobah.
Who is Yoda?
Before its 1834 incorporation under its current name, the colonial settlement of Toronto was founded in 1793 by John Graves Simcoe under this British name.
What is York (or the Town of York)?
As queen of Persia, this Jewish woman risked her life by approaching King Ahasuerus unsummoned to thwart Haman’s plot to exterminate her people.
Who is Queen Esther (or Hadassah)?
This Kurdish Muslim general and sultan of Egypt and Syria famously recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders following the Battle of Hattin in 1187.
Who is Saladin (Salah ad-Din)?
Plunging nearly 11,000 metres beneath the western Pacific Ocean, the Challenger Deep within this oceanic trench marks the deepest known point on Earth.
What is the Mariana Trench?
Set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, this 1960 Harper Lee novel centers on lawyer Atticus Finch defending Tom Robinson against false charges.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
Built in 1845, Toronto's historic First City Hall and police station building was integrated directly into the south side of this famous operational public food market.
What is the South Market (or St. Lawrence Market)?
Instituted in Leviticus 25, this celebratory year occurred every 50th year, during which all debts were forgiven, Hebrew slaves were set free, and ancestral land was returned to its original owners.
What is the Year of Jubilee (or Jubilee)?
In 208 AD, allied southern warlords Liu Bei and Sun Quan defeated the numerically superior northern forces of Cao Cao at this naval clash on the Yangtze River.
What is the Battle of Red Cliffs (or Battle of Chibi)?
Lying between the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, this 800-kilometre-long strait is one of the busiest shipping channels in the world, carrying roughly a quarter of all traded goods.
What is the Strait of Malacca?
In George Orwell's 1984, this is the official simplified language of Oceania designed by the Party to restrict independent thought by eliminating shades of meaning.
What is Newspeak?
Built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in 1962, this 36-car subway fleet was famous for being the first North American transit cars constructed almost entirely of unpainted aluminum alloy, earning them this series letter designation.
What are the M-series cars (or M1 cars)?
In John 18, before being brought to the reigning High Priest Caiaphas, Jesus was first taken and interrogated by this former High Priest, who was Caiaphas's father-in-law.
Who is Annas?
In 1600, Tokugawa Ieyasu decisively defeated an alliance of western clans at this massive battle in central Honshu, paving the way for the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
What is the Battle of Sekigahara?
Comprising 16 federal states, Germany shares land borders with nine sovereign European nations; this Scandinavian country is the only one that borders Germany along a single land frontier to the north.
What is Denmark?
In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered this zero-electrical-resistance phenomenon after cooling liquid mercury to 4.2 Kelvin using liquid helium.
What is superconductivity?