Canadian History
Who are the Métis descended from?
Indigenous peoples and French & Scottish fur traders and settlers
Which warrior’s weakness was their heel?
Achilles
“Adventure of Sherlock Holmes” was written by which writer?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Walter Isaacson is known for his biographies of thinkers such as Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and what tech mogul who appears on the cover of his biography in his signature black turtleneck?
Steve Jobs
What "T" word is technically a wave generated by an undersea earthquake?
Tsunami
What landform sits between British Columbia and Alberta?
Rocky Mountains
Thor was the son of which God?
Odin
Who wrote “Old Man and The Sea” and is considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century?
Ernest Hemingway
Formally adopted by the state government in 1911, what animal is prominently featured on the state flag of California?
Bear
What bird, extinct by 1681, was named for the Portuguese word for "stupid"?
Dodo
Which Canadian province or territory has the longest coastline?
Nunavut, whose extensive mainland and more than 36,000 islands give it 144,689 kilometres of coastline
What was the name of the Egyptian God of the Sun?
Ra
What is the title of the classic Greek epic attributed to Homer, telling the story of the Trojan War?
The Iliad
What creature with an equine name has no teeth or stomach, mates for life, and is the only species on Earth where the male carries the unborn offpsring?
Seahorse
Which type of snake, most commonly found in tropical South America, is known as the largest snake in the world by weight? Its stocky, muscular build allows them to constrict prey.
Anaconda
The governments of Canada and Japan agreed in 1928 to restrict annual Japanese immigration to Canada to how many people?
150
Who was the messenger of the gods?
Hermes
While promoting his sprawling novel "Freedom" in 2010, Jonathan Franzen was the first American novelist to appear on the cover of TIME since what legendary horror writer in 2000?
Stephen King
The name of the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, is the site of which modern-day city?
Istanbul
What athlete famously declared his strategy to be the following nature-full phrase? "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
Muhammad Ali
What did inventor Alexander Graham Bell propose as the standard telephone greeting?
Ahoy! The greeting “Hello” was Thomas Edison’s idea.
Romulus and Remus were raised by what animal?
A she-wolf
Agatha Christie's "By the Pricking of My Thumbs" and Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" are two novels who take their titles from lines in what Shakespeare play?
Macbeth
His name lives on in the form of an oath of ethics taken by medical practitioners. Which ancient Greek physician is known as the "Father of Medicine"?
Hippocrates
The Nike San Francisco Women's Half Marathon features a hilly course ending with tuxedoed firefighters awarding finishers their medals in the signature blue box of what jewelers?
Tiffany & Co.