Children's Literature
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Oh Canada
Sun
100

 

  • In a classic Brothers Grimm tale, these two siblings find a house made of gingerbread, cake, and candy hidden deep in the forest.

Hansel and Gretel

100

Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994, this e-commerce giant started as an online bookstore before expanding to sell almost everything.

Amazon

100

This breakfast food's name comes from the French word for "crescent," due to its distinct, flaky, crescent-like shape.

Croissant

100

This animal is officially recognized as one of Canada's national symbols, famous for building dams

Beaver

100

The sun is this type of celestial
body 

Star

200

In Alice in wonderland, they play this game at the Queen's castle.

Croquet

200

This company produces over a million of its beloved Twinkies snack cakes per day

Hostess

200

This common financial word comes from the Latin salarium, meaning the money given to Roman soldiers to buy their rations of salt.

Salary

200

Canada has this many provinces

10

200

The sun can harbor life.  True or False

False
Due to high temperatures
and radiation, the sun cannot
support life as we know it.

300

This author wrote both Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little.

E.B. White

300

In business, a company that dominates an entire industry and faces no competition is known by this board game-sharing term.

Monopoly

300

This 9-letter word for an insect may have come about because people believed this bug ate uncovered dairy products

Butterfly

300

This is widely considered Canada's official national winter sport

Ice hockey

300

He is the Greek god of the sun.

Helios

400

This polite bear from "Darkest Peru" loves wearing a blue coat and eating marmalade sandwiches.

Paddington Bear

400

This California region is globally famous for being the high-tech hub of major tech companies like Apple, Google, and Meta.

Silicon Valley

400

Meaning a close friend or godparent in Old English, this word for idle chatter or rumor-spreading now refers to casual

Gossip

400

Known for polar bears that live there in the fall, what town on Hudson Bay in Manitoba is named after one of the UK's most famous Prime Ministers?

Churchill

400


Two of the sunniest cities
in the world are Yuma
and Phoenix, both located
in this U.S. state

Arizona
The sun shines up to
90 percent of the year
in these sunniest cities.

500

Which famous childrens' author said the following: “There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.”

Dr. Seuss

500

This iconic red-and-white soda brand was invented by John Pemberton in 1886 and remains one of the world's most recognizable logos.

What is Coca-Cola?

500

Borrowed directly from German without changing the spelling, this compound word literally translates to "children's garden."

Kindergarten

500

In 1683, the Catholic priest and explorer Louis Hennepin published a book titled "A New Discovery" containing his descriptions of what landmark on the U.S.-Canada border?

Niagara Falls

500

The letters UV in
UV radiation stand for this

Ultra Violet