Paint in the Arts
To decrease the saturation of watercolour paint, what would you add to it?
Water
What type of magnification device has a stage?
Microscope
What was the name of the tax imposed on Chinese immigrants arriving in Canada from 1885-1923?
The Chinese Head Tax / The Head Tax
Which two words does a simile use to compare dissmilar things?
Like and As
This type of word describes a noun.
Adjective
What is blue's complementary colour?
Orange
What is the name of a substance that dissolves into another?
A solute
What feat of engineering was built to cross Rupert's Land and completed in 1885?
The Canadian Pacific Railway
What is the opposite of a synonym?
Antonym
Tennis' noisier and more briny-sounding cousin.
Pickleball
The process of a liquid flowing through a narrow space; a liquid moving through a solid.
Capillary Action
What is the name of the steamship from India that was denied entry to Canada in 1914?
Komagata Maru
The clue is within
The beauty of words spoken
Familiar style
Haiku
A shark has this many bones.
Stippling
A solution that contains more than the maximum amount of solute that is capable of being dissolved at a given temperature.
Supersaturated Solution
Who was the first Prime Minister of Canada?
Sir John A. Macdonald
This following type of poem uses what rhyme scheme?
There once was a teacher named Jan
Whose had a most masterful plan
With questions so sly
And challenges high
She made the best quiz in the land!
AABBA
In Greek mythology, what is the name of the three-headed beast who guards the gates of the underworld?
Cerberus
Who created the painting, "The Starry Night"?
Van Gogh
What are the Greek root words in Chromatography?
Double points: What do the root words mean?
Chroma (or chromato) / Graphy
Colour / Writing (or recording)
Who was the leader of the Red River Resistance?
Louis Riel
John Keats wrote one a classic ode to this object.
A Grecian Urn
What is the name of the device used to measure the intensity of an earthquake?
A seismograph