World Trivia
This is the country that invented ice cream
What is China?
This is the only continent with no active volcanoes
What is Australia?
This famous PBS bird has a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
Who is Big Bird?
This Queen's research centre focuses on artificial intelligence, robotics, and human-machine interaction
What is Ingenuity Labs?
This famous Canadian band played their final concert in Kingston on Aug 20, 2016
Who are the Tragically Hip?
This creature is the national animal of Scotland
What is the unicorn?
The Amazon river empties into this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
The famous Hollywood sign originally said this.
What is Hollywoodland?
This weekly student event, held on Friday afternoons in Clark Hall Pub, draws large crowds and is part of a long-standing engineering tradition
What is “Ritual”?
This historic fort guards the entrance to the Rideau Canal and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site
What is Fort Henry?
This is the process by which plants make food for themselves
What is photosynthesis?
At 2.16 million square kilometers, this is the world's largest island
What is Greenland?
In Free Willy, Willy is this type of creature
What is a killer whale?
This graduate program at Queen's is a collaboration between the departments of chemical, electrical, and mechanical engineering as includes courses in anatomy and biochemistry.
What is Biomedical Engineering?
This economics professor is currently the mayor of Kingston
Who is Bryan Paterson?
This desert is the largest in the world by area—but not the hottest
What is Antarctica?
This is the only Canadian province that is officially bilingual, with both English and French as official languages
What is New Brunswick?
She is the Canadian author of a famous book that takes place in "Gilead."
Who is Margaret Atwood?
This former Queen's Chancellor designed Canada's first postage stamp and invented standard time.
Who is Sir Sanford Fleming?
This is the largest of the "Thousand Islands" and can be accessed by ferry from both Canada and the United States
What is Wolfe Island?
In 1994, WIRED magazine described this 4-letter word as an idea leaping "from mind to mind ... as viruses leap from body to body."
What is a meme?
This northern Canadian territory is home to the capital city of Iqaluit
What is Nunavut?
In 1984, in the first of the films featuring this character, he only has 21 lines, for a total of 133 words
Who is The Terminator?
This Queen’s alum became the Premier of Ontario in 2013 — and the province’s first openly gay leader
Who is Kathleen Wynne?
In the 2021 census this was the largest ethnic group in Kingston
Who are the Irish?