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HOW DID THAT GET ITS NAME?
CANADA COAST TO COAST
THE ART OF INVENTION
MUSIC WITHOUT LYRICS
100

This common fruit floats in water because roughly one-quarter of its volume is air.

What is an apple?

100

This sandwich is traditionally said to have been named after an English earl who wanted to eat while gambling.

What is a sandwich?

100

This province is Canada's smallest by land area.

What is Prince Edward Island?

100

Alexander Graham Bell is most famously associated with the invention of this communication device.

What is the telephone?

100

This instrument typically has 88 black and white keys.

What is a piano?

200

This enormous animal has a tongue that can weigh as much as an elephant.

What is a blue whale?

200

This style of facial hair takes its name from Ambrose Burnside, a Civil War general.

What are sideburns?

200

This city is the capital of British Columbia.

What is Victoria?

200

Elias Howe and Isaac Singer helped popularize this machine used to join fabric with thread.

What is the sewing machine?

200

This bowed string instrument is larger and lower-pitched than a violin but smaller than a cello.

What is a viola?

300

Honey can remain edible for extraordinarily long periods largely because it contains very little of this.

What is water?

300

This musical instrument was named after Belgian inventor Adolphe Sax.

What is the saxophone?

300

This Canadian territory has Whitehorse as its capital.

What is Yukon?

300

Chester Carlson invented a process that eventually became the basis of this office machine.

What is the photocopier?

300

This woodwind instrument uses a single reed and is often associated with jazz.

What is a clarinet?

400

Unlike humans, this animal's heart is located near its head.

What is a shrimp?

400

This measurement of electrical potential is named for Italian scientist Alessandro Volta.

What is the volt?

400

Canada's Bay of Fundy is famous for having some of the world's highest examples of these.

What are tides?

400

Edwin Land developed instant photography and founded this company.

What is Polaroid?

400

This percussion instrument consists of tuned wooden bars struck with mallets.

What is a xylophone?

500

This continent is technically the world's largest desert because of its extremely low precipitation.

What is Antarctica?

500

This common silhouette of a person's profile was named after an 18th-century French finance minister.

What is a silhouette?

500

This river forms part of the border between Ontario and New York before flowing into Lake Ontario.

What is the Niagara River?

500

René Laennec invented this medical instrument after rolling paper into a tube to listen to a patient's chest.

What is the stethoscope?

500

This large double-reed instrument is known for its deep, distinctive tone.

What is a bassoon?

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