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This month is when Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving.
What is October?
It is celebrated on the second Monday in October.
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In chess, this piece must be protected at all costs because losing it ends the game.
What is the king?
The object of the game is to trap the opponent’s king.
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This is the capital city of Norway.
What is Oslo?
Oslo hosts the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony each year at City Hall, while the other Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden.
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This layered sandwich served between three slices of bread includes deli meat, bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise.
What is a Club sandwich?
The bread is toasted and is typically held together with toothpicks.
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This tennis term is for a ball hit high in the air, intended to land behind the opponent.
What is a Lob?
This tactic is frequently used when the opponent is near the net.
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This British prime minister served from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War and returned to office from 1951 to 1955.
Who is Winston Churchill?
Many consider him to be one of the greatest wartime leaders.
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This percussion instrument has a circular frame with metal disks and is played by shaking it or striking it with the hand.
What is a Tambourine?
The metal disks are located in slots around the edge of a tambourine.
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This children’s game involves rectangular boxes drawn on the sidewalk with chalk.
What is Hopscotch?
Some sources say that the Romans invented the game to assist in training their army.
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This queen was the first to appear on a British postage stamp.
Who is Queen Victoria?
Queen Victoria appears on the Penny Black, the world’s first adhesive postage stamp, issued in 1840.
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Of these two scientists, this one was born first: Marie Curie or Charles Darwin.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Charles Darwin is famous for his work on evolution and lived from 1809–1882. Madam Curie, most famous for her discovery of radium, lived from 1867–1934.
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The world's largest land mammal is native to this continent.
What is Africa?
The African bush elephant is the largest living land animal and can weigh more than 6,000 kilograms (13,000 pounds).
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At the beginning of The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's house is carried away by this type of windstorm.
What is a Tornado?
The tornado is featured in both the film and the book. In the book, the tornado lifts up the Kansas farmhouse and takes it to the magical Land of Oz. In the film, however, Oz is depicted as a dream. Dorothy awakens from the dream in her bed in the farmhouse.
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This British secret agent has been portrayed in film by Sean Connery, Roger Moore, and George Lazenby.
Who is James Bond?
James Bond first appeared in the 1953 novel Casino Royale by Ian Fleming and has since been portrayed by multiple actors in a long-running film franchise.
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This fairy tale character is taken to the royal ball in a magical horse-drawn carriage made from a pumpkin.
Who is Cinderella?
The carriage is turned back into a pumpkin at the stroke of midnight in the fairy tale.
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This is the term for a group of sheep.
What is a flock?
Sheep are highly social animals and often rely on group behaviour for protection and navigation.
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Name any two of the three countries that share a land border with Mexico.
What are United States, Guatemala, and Belize?
The U.S. is the northern border; Guatemala and Belize border Mexico to the southeast.
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Most standard screws are loosened by turning them in this direction.
What is counterclockwise?
A handy way to remember this is the saying, "Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey."
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Of these two aircrafts, this one is the larger: the Boeing 747 or the Boeing 757.
What is the Boeing 747?
The Boeing 747, nicknamed the “Jumbo Jet,” was the world’s first wide-body passenger aircraft and could carry more than 400 passengers.
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This type of bird is flightless but is well adapted for swimming in cold ocean waters.
What is a penguin?
Some sources indicate that the penguin was able to fly long ago, but it lost the ability because of evolution.
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This natural event is famously said to “never strike the same place twice.”
What is lightning?
Tell that to the Empire State Building, which gets struck around 25 times a year.
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This Major League Baseball team calls Toronto home.
Who are the Toronto Blue Jays?
It is the only Canadian professional baseball team. At one time, Canada had two major league teams: the Toronto Blue Jays and the Montreal Expos.
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This candy company, known for making M&M’s, shares its name with the a planet.
What is Mars?
Forrest Mars developed M&M’s after seeing candy-coated chocolates during the Spanish Civil War. The candy was introduced in 1941.
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This is the Spanish word for “water.”
What is agua?
Seventy percent of Earth’s surface is covered by water. A large percentage of the water is found in oceans, which is salty.
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This country is located directly north of Newfoundland and Labrador.
What is Greenland?
Greenland is the world’s largest island that is not a continent, and most of its landmass is covered by an ice sheet up to 3 kilometres thick.
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To pursue an unrealistic or impossible dream is to “chase this.”
What is a rainbow?
While it looks like a physical object, it is actually an optical illusion that depends entirely on the viewer’s position.