Why was the Sea-to-Sky Highway completely reconstructed?
For the upcoming 2010 Vancouver-Whistler Winter Olympics. Whistler Blackcomb had the second-highest snowfall on record with 1,432 cm (over 14 metres) by the end of the 2009-10 season.
What is the name of the longest river in Africa?
The Nile River
Carpathians
What is the only planet to spin clockwise.
Venus
What came first, the can opener or canned food?
Canned food by the French Army, the can opener was invented 30 years later
Which mountain is taller, Whistler or Blackcomb?
Blackcomb 7347 ft (Whistler 7160 ft)
What is the name of the smallest country in the world?
Vatican City
How many countries border Ukraine?
Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia and Slovakia
What were Chainsaws first invented for?
Childbirth
What year was the first successful summit of Everest?
1953. Tenzing Norgay & Sir Edmund Hillary 29 May 1953
What’s the name of the creek that runs in the valley between the two mountains?
Fitzsimmons Creek
What is the capital of India?
New Delhi
Ukraine produces around 10% of this world's export…
Wheat
What is the name of the largest airport in the United States of America?
Denver International Airport
First man in space
Yuri Gagarin (1961)
How long is the longest run Peak to Creek (km)?
11 km
What is the name of the second-tallest mountain in the world?
K2
What date was the Chernobyl disaster?
April 26, 1986
What’s Dua Lipa’s real name?
That is her real name.
First heart transplant: By a team led by Dr. James Hardy at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi, transplanted a heart from what animal into a human in 1964.
Chimpanzee
What is the name of the world-famous run, which is one of the top ten steep in-bound runs in the world located on Blackcomb?
Couloir Extreme
How many recognized countries are there in the world?
195
Ukraine built the largest cargo plane in the world, what is its full name?
Antonov Mriya
It's illegal to own just one of this animal in Switzerland
guinea pig. It’s considered animal abuse because they’re social animals.
The first traffic signal system installed by the American Traffic Signal Company on the corner of what intersection in Cleveland, OH on August 5, 1914
105th Street and Euclid Avenue