Baseball
In baseball, a team has this number of players on the field at one time.
What is 9?
A standard baseball lineup includes nine defensive positions, including pitcher, catcher, infielders, and outfielders.
Of Canada’s three largest cities, this one is an island.
What is Montreal?
Montreal is one of the world’s largest inland island cities and is known for its mix of French and English culture. It sits along the St. Lawrence River and has hosted major international events, including Expo 67 and the 1976 Summer Olympics.
In the 1940s, this kitchen appliance began replacing the icebox in many homes.
What is a refrigerator?
Early “iceboxes” used large blocks of ice delivered by workers known as icemen to keep food cold.
This famous 10-day rodeo and festival in Alberta, founded in 1912, attracts cowboys from around the world.
What is the Calgary Stampede?
It draws over a million visitors each year and features rodeo competitions, chuckwagon races, and Indigenous cultural celebrations.
This Arctic bear appears off-white rather than pure white due to the condition of its fur.
What is a polar bear?
Their fur is also hollow and transparent, which reflects light and makes them appear white or slightly yellowish depending on conditions.
This sparkling term for the playing field in baseball.
What is a diamond?
The baseball “diamond” is actually a square in shape, but it appears diamond-like because home plate is positioned at one corner. The term has been used since the early days of baseball in the mid-1800s.
On April 1, 1999, this became Canada’s newest and largest territory, created from the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
What is Nunavut?
Nunavut was created through one of the largest Indigenous land agreements in Canadian history, giving the Inuit people greater self-governance over their traditional lands.
In the 1940s, this kitchen tool was used to turn cuts of beef into hamburger.
What is a meat grinder?
Manual meat grinders were common in mid-20th-century kitchens and were often attached to a countertop with a clamp.
Affectionately known as “The Ex,” this Toronto fair began as the Toronto Industrial Exhibition in the 19th century.
What is the Canadian National Exhibition?
It is one of Canada’s largest annual fairs, featuring rides, food vendors, concerts, and agricultural exhibits.
This smallest great ape is the only one known to hunt.
What is a chimpanzee?
Chimpanzees are closely related to humans, sharing about 98–99% of our DNA. In the wild, they sometimes coordinate hunts for monkeys.
This is the only Canadian team in Major League Baseball.
What are the Toronto Blue Jays?
Toronto Blue Jays won back-to-back World Series titles in 1992 and 1993, making them the only Canadian team ever to win the championship in Major League Baseball.
In 1960, Indigenous peoples in Canada were granted the unconditional right to do this in federal elections.
What is vote?
Before 1960, First Nations people in Canada had to give up their legal “Indian status” to vote federally.
During World War II, Canadians planted home vegetable gardens called these to help with food shortages.
What are Victory Gardens?
Victory Gardens helped reduce pressure on public food supplies during the war. At their peak, millions of Canadians and Americans grew their own fruits and vegetables.
Since 1980, this festival has made its namesake city a global destination for jazz musicians and fans.
What is the Montreal International Jazz Festival?
This festival holds a Guinness World Record for being one of the largest jazz festivals in the world, attracting millions of attendees and featuring hundreds of performances.
A “maid” may use a special stool while tending to this dairy animal.
What is a cow?
Cows have been milked by humans for thousands of years, and traditional milking stools were designed low to the ground so the milker could easily move between animals.
This raised area in the centre of the baseball diamond is where the pitcher stands to throw the ball.
What is the pitcher’s mound?
The pitcher’s mound is precisely regulated in Major League Baseball: it is 60 feet 6 inches from home plate.
This Ontario city served as Canada's first capital city in 1841.
What is Kingston?
Kingston was chosen largely because of its strategic location on Lake Ontario and its military importance.
This Canadian snack, introduced in 1948, is a crunchy, cheesy-coated puffed corn treat.
What are Cheezies?
Hawkins Cheezies were created in Belleville, Ontario, and are still made using the original recipe and production process. Unlike many modern cheese snacks, they are fried rather than baked, giving them their signature crunch.
Every February, Winterlude transforms this Canadian capital city into a winter celebration of ice and snow.
What is Ottawa?
Winterlude features the world’s largest naturally frozen skating rink, the Rideau Canal Skateway, where visitors can skate for several kilometres through the heart of the city when conditions allow.
This slow-moving rainforest mammal, including the two-toed species, can live up to 20 years and spends most of its life hanging upside down in the trees.
What is a sloth?
Sloths move so slowly that algae can grow on their fur, helping them blend into the rainforest for camouflage. Their slow metabolism also helps them conserve energy.
The total number of bases on a baseball field.
What is four?
Although called “bases,” home plate is technically a five-sided shape, unlike the square bases used at first, second, and third. A runner must touch all four bases in order to score a home run.
In 1921–1922, this life-saving treatment for diabetes was discovered and developed at the University of Toronto.
What is insulin?
Before insulin therapy, type 1 diabetes was almost always fatal. After its discovery in Toronto, insulin rapidly became one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the 20th century and has saved millions of lives worldwide.
By the late 1940s, this boxed gelatin dessert became a supermarket staple with the easy instruction: “Just add water and mix!”
What is Jell-O?
Jell-O became especially popular in North America during the mid-20th century as refrigeration became common in homes. Its colourful, moulded desserts became a staple of community dinners, school lunches, and holiday tables.
Started in 1974, this Winnipeg festival attracts many genres of music, including Blues, Folk Rock, Celtic, Indie Folk, and more.
What is the Winnipeg Folk Festival?
Winnipeg Folk Festival is one of Canada’s longest-running outdoor music festivals, drawing tens of thousands of attendees each summer and featuring artists from around the world alongside local Canadian performers.
In some Asian cultures, this big cat is seen as a symbol of power and good luck.
What is a tiger?
Tigers are the largest living wild cats in the world. As apex predators, they are recognized by their iconic orange coats and vertical black stripes.