HISTORY
This huge object was made in the 1870-1880s in France. It was made of copper and given to the United States as a present.
The Statue of Liberty
In the 13th century Italian traveller and explorer Marco Polo brought noodles to Italy and Europe where this food later transformed into pasta as we know it. Where did he bring it from?
China
Which European language did the following Englsh words come from: mechanic, chemistry, technology, character?
Greek
These tropical trees kill about 150 people a year. Their fruit is really tasty, but you shouldn't stay close to these trees. What is their fruit?
Coconut
Continue the sequence:
Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, ...
Daniel Craig
This event has happened in London several times in history. It happened in 798, 982, 1212, 1666, 1800 and 1940. In 1666 13,200 houses were destroyed because of it, but only 6 people died.
Fire
Which continent is the driest in the world in terms of absolute humidity?
Antarctica
Complete the last line:
brunch = breakfast + lunch
motel = motor + hotel
smog = smoke + fog
Oxbridge = ??? + ???
Oxford and Cambridge
Many years ago these vegetables were purple, yellow, red and black. But farmers in the Netherlands made them available in their national colour. Now we only have them in this colour.
Carrots
This English writer had such a difficult surname that he himself didn’t know how to spell it properly.
What was his name?
William Shakespeare
Once there was a shepherd in Africa. His goats found a strange tree with red fruit. Each time they ate the fruit, the goats became very excited and energetic. The shepherd decided to try the fruit himself and made a drink out of it. What is this fruit?
Coffee beans
Which country has the longest total coastline in the world?
It's Canada with 202,080 km of the total coastline
This international artificial language was constructed by the Polish linguist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887. He combined features of a number of European languages in one lexico-grammatical and phonetic system. What is this language?
Esperanto
This animal lives in Canada, Russia and the US. It can regularly swim over 48 km while hunting for seals - its favourite food. It can smell prey from up to 32 km and survive without food for 8 months.
Polar bear
He was born in Beirut, Lebanon and raised in Yorkville - a neighboorhood in downtown Toronto, Canada. He has become one of the most recognized action actors in the world due to a number of roles in the late 1990s-early 2000s. He also runs a company that makes custom-made motorcycles. What is his name?
Keanu Reaves
In 1961 the Museum of Modern Art in New York displayed a painting by the French artist Henry Matisse called "The Boat". It took museum staff 46 days to notice that there was something wrong with it. What was wrong?
It was hung upside down
Complete the last pair of cities:
Washington DC - New York
Ottawa - Toronto
Brasilia - Sao Paolo
Wellington - Auckland
Ankara - Istanbul
??? – Sydney
Canberra
Which language is considered the official language of international diplomacy?
French,
although English is slowly but surely taking it over
Every doctor knows that this object has enough carbon (C) to make 9000 pencils, enough iron (Fe) to make a nail, and phosphorus (P) for 2000 matches. What is it?
Human body
This artist was born in Toronto and raised in Pickering - a town east of Toronto. At school the artist played ice-hockey, soccer and enjoyed longboarding, and besides learned to play the guitar and piano. This artist gained popularity through video-sharing app Vine, where millions of followers subscribed to the artist's music videos.
Shawn Mendes
In 972 the wife of Holy Roman Emperor Otto II, the woman who came from the Byzantine Empire, introduced this object at an emperial banquet, astonishing the quests from Western Europe. Starting from then, this object spread all across the rest Europe and North America, and is still used today worldwide. What is this object?
Fork
What ancient supercontinent do we get if we put together Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, Australia and Antarctica?
Pangea
Choose the odd one out:
English, German, Finnish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian
Finnish
This mixture of charcoal, sulphur and saltpeter is thought to have been invented in China 2000 years ago. They were mostly used at religious ceremonies at first. Nowadays we use them during holidays, festivals and celebrations.
Fireworks
What unites all these people?
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir John A. Macdonald, Queen Elizabeth II, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Sir Robert Borden
Canadian Dollar