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100
This affluent and predominantly anglophone enclave of Montreal is a nickname for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
What is the "Westmounties"?
100
This is a unit of computer information or data-storage capacity
What is a "byte"?
(Bite)
100
This psychologist showed that dogs could be conditioned to associate a neutral stimulus (such as a bell) with a reflexive response (such as salivation) by repeatedly pairing the two stimuli together.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
100
Also known as "the Rocket", he was the first player in NHL history to score 50 goals in one season.
Who is Maurice Richard?
100
From Dr. Simon Tran: This is the fluid from salivary glands.
What is, saliva?
200
This animated children's film series centered around dinosaurs is an upscale food court with locations around the world, including one in Montreal's Eaton Centre.
What is "The Land Before Timeout market"?
200
This word means to pay a tenth of one's income especially in support of a religious establishment.
What is "tithe"?
(Teeth)
200
This zoologist is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, and founded an institute that supports conservation and development programs in Africa.
Who is Jane Goodall?
200
In this year in Montreal, student protests rocked the city in response to proposed tuition hikes.
What is 2012?
200
From Dr. Christophe Bedos: This is the biggest cause of carbon emissions related to dental care.
What is transportation of staff and patients?
300
This local Montreal charity hosts the Jim Lund Clinic, a series of American action spy films, produced and starred by Tom Cruise.
What is "Welcome Hall Mission: Impossible"?
300
This mathematical area of study was developed by Newton and Leibniz, and means "small pebble" in Latin.
What is "calculus"?
(Hard residue, commonly know as "tartar", that forms on teeth due to inadequate plaque control, often stained yellow or brown.)
300
Known as one of the most influential proponents of existentialism, he was famously in an open marriage with Simone de Beauvoir.
Who is Jean-Paul Sartre?
300
The name of this 16th century Iroquoian village, thought to have been located near the foot of Mont Royal, gives one Montreal neighborhood its name.
What is Hochelaga?
300
From Dr. Alissa Levine: Some super smart bacteria evolve to protect themselves against a drug that used to be the death of them. This is the term used to refer to this phenomenon.
What is Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)?
400
This graph depicting the normal distribution, often used for grading, is a type of pitch that imparts forward spin on the ball.
What is a "Bell curveball?
400
This word is defined as a point of transition between two different states, or a pointed end where two curves meet.
What is "cusp"?
(The raised round parts on the chewing surface of the teeth)
400
This Palestinian-American authored the book Orientalism. His model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle Eastern studies.
Who is Edward Said?
400
This mural, situated on Milton street near McGill campus, is an homage to this famous Montreal painter.
Who is Jean Paul Riopelle?
400
From Dr Samer Abi-Nader: Those specialized in this branch of dentistry are considered the architects of the oral cavity.
What is prosthodontics?
500
Having taken place on the Western Front in France, this battle was the longest of the First World War, and is the first outdoor swimming pool in the Montreal area, built in 1940 and slated for demolition in 2024.
What is the "Battle of Verdun Natatorium"?
500
This "steppe" was once home to the Scythians, an ancient Eastern Iranian equestrian nomadic people.
What is the Pontic steppe?
(An artificial tooth used in a bridge to replace a missing tooth.)
500
This postmodernist author of Gravity's Rainbow coined the term "Psychodontia". In his work V., he writes "[...] psychoanalysis had usurped from the priesthood the role of father-confessor. Now, it seemed, the analyst in his turn was about to be deposed by, of all people, the dentist."
Who is Thomas Pynchon?
500
This university, located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, was first managed from across the continent by McGill University.
What is the University of British Columbia?
(Formerly known as the McGill University College of British Columbia)
500
From Dean Emami: Recognized as the first dental practitioner, he was an Egyptian scribe who lived around 2600 B.C.
Who is Hesy-Re?