Birds
A flightless bird that is often depicted huddling in groups to stay warm.
What is a penguin?
The drug that is responsible for "Asian flush."
What is ethanol?
("Alcohol" is acceptable)
The name of the street that replaces 25th Ave in Vancouver.
The number of black keys on a standard piano.
What is 36?
This book of the Bible describes a massive invasion of locusts and the pouring out of God's Spirit on all flesh.
What is Joel?
A kind of bird that can fly backwards.
What are hummingbirds?
(You should read "Joyas Voladoras" by Brian Doyle)
A prevalent nervous system stimulant blocks adenosine receptors, making your body unable to detect when it is running out of energy.
What is caffeine?
The park that the Vancouver Aquarium is in.
The instrument that tunes the orchestra.
What is the oboe?
The length of the Vancouver Sun Run, occurring annually in April.
How long is 10 km?
This bird can dive at speeds up to 380 km/h, about 30% the speed of sound.
What is the peregrine falcon?
The medicine for diabetes was discovered Sir Frederick Banting at the University of Toronto, earning him one of Canada's two Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine.
What is insulin?
The kind of body of water that False Creek is.
What is an inlet?
The name of the Broadway Musical that is inspired by the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, first premiered in 2006.
What is "Hadestown?"
The main character in the children's book, You Are Special, by Max Lucado.
Who is Punchinello?
The popular name for the glaucous-winged gull.
What is "seagull?"
The kind of juice you generally should not drink while taking drugs for heart disease or mental health.
What is grapefruit juice?
The animal that Minoru Park in Richmond was named after.
What is a horse?
The composer of a well-known piano sonata, popularly called "Pathetique."
Who is Beethoven?
The seven canonical hours of prayer set by St. Benedict in his Rule.
What are matins and lauds (together considered one hour), prime, terce, sext, none, vespers, and compline?
The most numerous migratory bird that moves through the Lower Mainland, often pooping all over grassy fields.
What is the (lesser) snow goose?
A drug that can rapidly reverse an opioid overdose, and can be administered intramuscularly or intranasally.
What is naloxone?
A plausible house number for a house in Vancouver, facing East, between 50th and 51st Ave.
(multiple but finite correct answers)
What is... (multiple answers)
Constraints: four digits, the first two digits have to be 66, the last digit has to be odd.
A genre of music, involving orchestra, chorus, and soloists, typically telling a story from the Bible. Handel's Messiah and Bach's St. Matthew Passion are two examples of this genre.
What is an oratorio?
The natural phenomenon that is responsible for the iridescence of (soap) bubbles, occurring because light both reflects off the bubble surface immediately and reflects off the bubble after being refracted by it.
What is thin-film interference?