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The force that pulls objects toward Earth’s centre.
What is gravity?
In soccer, the restart awarded for a foul inside the penalty area against the attacking team.
What is a penalty kick?
The 0° line of longitude that runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The 1867 event that created Canada as a self-governing dominion.
What is Confederation?
A legal entity that is separate from its owners (shareholders).
What is a corporation?
The number of protons in an atom that determines which element it is.
What is the atomic number?
In volleyball, the defensive specialist who wears a different-colour jersey.
What is the libero?
Canada’s largest island.
What is Baffin Island?
The 1919 labour protest that shut down a major Canadian city for weeks.
What is the Winnipeg General Strike?
A primary research method that involves collecting in-depth opinions from small groups.
What is a focus group?
A safety device in home wiring that “trips” and can be reset when current is too high.
What is a circuit breaker?
In hockey, the line that determines offside when attackers enter the offensive zone.
What is the blue line?
The river that runs between Ottawa (Ontario) and Gatineau (Quebec)
What is the Ottawa River?
Canada’s first Prime Minister
Who is Sir John A. Macdonald?
The part of the cell that contains most of the genetic material (DNA)
What is the nucleus?
In basketball, the two-player action where a screener sets a pick and then moves to the basket to receive a pass.
What is the pick-and-roll?
The mountain range that forms a natural border between Spain and France.
What are the Pyrenees?
The code name for the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
What is Operation Overlord?
Abbreviated KPI, it is a critical, quantifiable number that shows if you’re reaching an important goal.
What is a key performance indicator?
A program that secretly records what you type on a keyboard.
What is a keylogger?
In the CFL, the 2-point score awarded when the offence is tackled in its own end zone.
What is a safety touch?
The world’s largest freshwater lake by surface area.
What is Lake Superior?
: The 1763 British document that set rules for treaties and acknowledged Indigenous land rights.
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
A type of funding in which people pre-pay for a product that is delivered later.
What is crowdfunding?