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Canada: Provinces, Territories & Capitals
Colorado History
Astronomy
Treasure Island
100

The book Little Women was authored by this New England woman in only 70 days.

Who is Louisa May Alcott?

100

Up until almost the turn of the century, the only two territories in Canada were the Northwest Territories and Yukon. It was not until 1999 that the Northwest Territories was split up and the largest chunk of it was renamed this.

What is Nunavut?

100

This man was the first governor of Colorado.

Who was Gilpin.

100

The third planet from the sun.

What is Earth.

100

Billy was here when he received his black spot.

What is the inn?

200

The opening stanza of this poet's "Daffodils", begins:

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;

Who is William Wordsworth?

200

The capital city of this province is not only the oldest city in Canada, but among the oldest in all of North America, existing on maps as early as 1519.

What is St. John’s

200

This philosophy described the belief that America was meant to stretch from one coast to the other.

What is manifest destiny?

200

This hot and rocky planet has the shortest trip around the sun.

What is Mercury?

200

The character that owns the boat that Jim takes when he hunts for the Hispaniola.

Who is Ben Gunn?

300

This autobiographical account is of Ralph Moody's early life in the vicinity of Littleton, Colorado.

What is Little Britches?

300

Canada has only hosted the Olympics three times in history. The first being in Montreal in 1976, the second was in Calgary in 1988, and the third in 2010 in this western province.

What is British Columbia?

300

The mountains that are home to most of Colorado's ski areas were originally part of this southern state which existed as a soverign country at the time.

What is Texas?

300

Iron Oxide in its outer crust gives this planet its signature red color.

What is Mars?

300

This character imitates the voice of a dead man to frighten the pirates.

Who is Ben Gunn?

400

Antarctica is the only continent that does not natively have these amphibious 5th-grade science subjects.

What are frogs.

400

The extremely cold winter temperatures of this prairie province make it ideal for the country’s population of polar bears to settle. Its northern town of Churchill is known as the polar bear capital of the world.

What is Manitoba?

400

This woman was gifted a necklace that supposedly once belonged to the Queen of Spain when she married to owner of the Little Pitsburg Mine,

Who was Baby Doe?

400

This giant moon, orbiting Jupiter, has a diameter of 3,275 miles, making it even larger than the planet Mercury, which has a diameter of 3,032 miles.

What is Ganymede?

400

This is where the treasure was taken immediately after its initial excavation.

What is a cave?

500

This type of rock is formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or lava.

What is Igneous?

500

Despite having quite a large population of 4.28 million people, over 60 percent of the entire provincial population lives in the cities of Calgary and Edmonton.

What is Alberta?

500

This explorer saw Colorado as a beautiful and fruitful place, in contrast to the dry and lifeless description provided by Stephen Long.

Who was John Charles Freemont?

500

This gas giant, which orbits the Sun once every 29.4 Earth years, is the farthest planet from Earth that is visible to the naked eye.

What is Saturn?

500

Treasure Island was originally published in this year, just seven years after Colorado became a state.

What is 1883?