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Games
October
100

This singer recorded the 1965 hit "My Girl" with his group.

Who are the temptations?


100

 This U.S. state experiences more earthquakes than any other when small earthquakes are included.

What is Alaska?

100

This desert, despite its freezing temperatures, is considered the world's largest desert.

Antarctica

100

What train-based board game, created by Alan Moon, shares it's name with a Beatles song.

What is Ticket to Ride?

100

October was originally the eighth month of which ancient calendar?

The Roman calendar.

200

This 1960's sitcom featured a talking horse named Mister E.

What is Mister Ed?

200

This Canadian province experienced a magnitude 8.1 earthquake near Queen Charlotte Islands in 1949/

What is British Columbia?

200

This mammal produces cube-shaped droppings, helping prevent them from rolling away.

What is a wombat?

200

What board game was concieved by two Montreal newspaper guys in 1979.

 What is Trivial Pursuit?

200

Which two zodiac signs fall during October?

Libra and Scorpio.

300

These tall white boots became closely associated with 1960's miniskirt fashion.

What are go-go boots?


300

This Canadian province experienced a devastating tornado in Edmonton on July 31, 1987.

What is Alberta?

300

This animal can regrow lost limbs and even regenerate parts of its heart and brain.

What is an axolotl?

300

What is the lowest impossible score in cribbage.

What is 19?

300

 Which Canadian province experienced the October Crisis in 1970?

Quebec

400

This colourful wax-filled decorative lamp was introduced in 1963 and became associated with 1960s style.

What is a lava lamp?

400

This Canadian city experienced a major flood in 1997 when the Red River overflowed.

What is Winnipeg?

400

This fruit floats in water because approximately one-quarter of its volume is air.

What is an apple?

400

What wins in a standard poker:4 of a kind, a flush or a staright.

Four of a kind?

400

Which American president was born October 14, 1890?

Dwight D. Eisenhower.

500

This actor starred alongside Paul Newman in the 1969 western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Who is Robert Redford?

500

This term describes a fire that spreads rapidly through treetops.

What is a crown fire?

500

This part of the human eye has no blood vessels and receives much of its oxygen directly from the air.

What is the cornea?

500

What piece sits on all four corners of a chess board at the begining of a game.

What is the Rook?

500

 Before pumpkins became popular, what root vegetable was traditionally carved into lanterns in Ireland?

Turnips.