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This laundry detergent brand is famous for its bright orange Pods and its promise to clean even in cold water.
What is Tide?
This popular Canadian condiment is a brown sauce made from tomatoes and vinegar, often called "Canada's ketchup" — it's a must-have topping for french fries in the Great White North.
What is HP Sauce? (also accept "brown sauce")
This orange gourd, the unofficial mascot of fall, belongs to the same plant family as cucumbers and watermelons — the cucurbit family.
What is a pumpkin?
This candy brand has used the slogan "Taste the Rainbow" since 1994, referring to its colorful assortment of fruit-flavored candies.
What are Skittles?
Amazon's fulfillment centers use a chaotic storage system where items are placed in seemingly random bins rather than grouped by type. This counterintuitive method — called "stochastic" or this more common two-word term — actually speeds up both storage and retrieval.
What is random stow (or random storage)?
"Betcha can't eat just one" is the classic slogan for this salty snack brand owned by Frito-Lay.
What is Lay's?
This Québécois dish consists of french fries topped with cheese curds and brown gravy, and originated in rural Quebec in the late 1950s.
What is poutine?
The autumnal equinox occurs in this month in the Northern Hemisphere, marking roughly equal hours of daylight and darkness.
What is September?
Unilever, the consumer goods giant behind Dove soap and Hellmann's mayonnaise, is headquartered in London but was originally a merger between a British soap maker and a margarine company based in this European country.
What is the Netherlands? (also accept "Holland" or "the Dutch")
Amazon's voice assistant, Alexa, gets her name from the ancient Great Library of this Egyptian city — chosen because the "x" in the name made it easier for voice recognition to detect the wake word.
What is Alexandria?
This household cleaner brand gets its name from the fact that it originally contained pine oil as its active cleaning ingredient. Despite formula changes over the years, the evergreen-scented product keeps its woodsy name.
What is Pine-Sol?
💥 DAILY DOUBLE! — This massive body of water, shared between Canada and the United States, is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area.
What is Lake Superior?
The name for this harvest-time scarecrow-like figure, burned in effigy on November 5th in England, comes from a historical plotter who tried to blow up Parliament in 1605.
Who is Guy Fawkes? (also accept "Guido Fawkes" — the holiday is Guy Fawkes Night / Bonfire Night)
Colgate's brand name comes from its founder, William Colgate, who started the company in 1806 selling not toothpaste but this household product — toothpaste didn't come until 1873.
What is soap? (also accept "candles" or "soap and candles")
Before settling on the name "Amazon," Jeff Bezos originally registered this domain name for his online bookstore — a word meaning "a seemingly magical process of transformation."
What is Relentless (relentless.com)?
Introduced in 1965, this General Mills cereal features a cartoon vampire mascot and chocolate oat pieces shaped like bats, ghosts, and other spooky shapes.
What is Count Chocula?
This highway, stretching roughly 7,800 kilometers from Victoria, B.C. to St. John's, Newfoundland, is the longest national highway in the world.
What is the Trans-Canada Highway? (also accept "Trans-Canada" or "Highway 1")
As of 2023, the world record for the heaviest pumpkin — over 2,700 pounds — was grown in this small European country famous for chocolate, waffles, and beer.
What is Belgium?
Toblerone chocolate's mountain-shaped logo features a hidden image inside the Matterhorn silhouette — specifically, one of these animals, a nod to the candy's birthplace in Bern, Switzerland, known as "the city of" them.
What is a bear?
💥 DAILY DOUBLE! — Amazon Web Services, now the world's largest cloud computing platform, got its start partly because Amazon had massive server capacity sitting idle between shopping peaks. AWS launched publicly in 2006, and this storage service — whose name sounds like it could hold water — was one of its first two offerings.
What is S3 (Simple Storage Service)? (also accept "S3" or "Simple Storage Service" — the other early service was EC2)
This iconic baking soda brand, sold in a distinctive bright orange box since 1867, is commonly placed in refrigerators to absorb odors — and is also used in toothpaste, cat litter, and laundry.
What is Arm & Hammer?
Carved out of the Northwest Territories in 1999, this Canadian territory is home to the Inuit people and its capital is Iqaluit.
What is Nunavut?
Canadian Thanksgiving, celebrated on the second Monday in October, is often traced back to 1578, when this English explorer held a ceremony of thanks in Newfoundland during his search for the Northwest Passage — 43 years before the Pilgrims' feast.
Who is Martin Frobisher?
Johnson & Johnson's signature red cross logo had to be subtly redesigned after this international humanitarian organization — founded by Henry Dunant in 1863 — argued the cross symbol was legally protected under the Geneva Conventions.
What is the Red Cross? (also accept "International Committee of the Red Cross" or "ICRC")
In 2013, Jeff Bezos personally purchased this major U.S. newspaper for $250 million — a deal that was separate from Amazon.
What is The Washington Post?