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She was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, USA with an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at 11:40pm. She sank two hours and forty minutes later on April 15, resulting in the deaths of more than 1,500 people, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.
What Is 1912?
Is a beverage brewed from roasted, ground beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, it has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content
What is Coffee?
Is a theme park at a Resort in Anaheim, California. It was the first theme park opened by the the same named Company and has a larger attendance than any other theme park in the world, with 757 million visits since it opened on July 17, 1955
What is Disneyland?
Is a lightweight, narrow water vessel, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel and using paddles
What is a Canoe?
Are known as the 3 National Animals of Canada
What are the Canada Goose, The Beaver and the Moose?
A series of coordinated terrorist attacks occurred in the United States, that involved the hijacking of four commercial airplanes by al-Qaeda. Two planes were flown into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and the fourth crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
What is 2001?
Is a period of abnormally hot weather that lasts for multiple days. It is usually measured relative to the usual climate in the area and to normal temperatures for the season. It forms when a high-pressure area in the upper atmosphere strengthens and remains over a region for several days up to several weeks, trapping heat near the earth's surface
What is a Heat Wave
It is the 24th-most populous city in the United States with 641,903 residents (2020 census). It is an internationally renowned major resort city, known primarily for its gambling, shopping, fine dining, entertainment, and nightlife
What is Las Vegas?
They have the elongated, torpedo-like shape typical of predatory fishes, with sharply pointed heads and sharp teeth. Their colouration is typically grey-green with a mottled or spotted appearance with stripes along their backs, providing camouflage among underwater weeds, and each individual has marking patterns that are unique like fingerprints.
What is a Pike?
Is a dish of french fries and cheese curds topped with a hot brown gravy. It emerged in Quebec in the late 1950s in the Centre-du-Québec region, though its exact origins are uncertain, and there are several competing claims regarding its invention.
What is Poutine?
Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor. Less than 34 hours later, Union forces surrendered. Traditionally, this event has been used to mark the beginning of the Civil War.
What is 1861?
Is an English-language tabloid newspaper published daily in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The newspaper is one of several tabloids published by Postmedia Network. The newspaper published its first edition in November 1971
What is The Sun
Is Canada's first national park, established in 1885 as Rocky Mountains Park. Located in Alberta's Rocky Mountains, 110–180 km west of Calgary. It encompasses 6,641 square km of mountainous terrain, with many glaciers and ice fields, dense coniferous forest, and alpine landscapes.
What is Banff?
Is a surface water sport in which an individual is pulled behind a boat over a body of water, skimming the surface on wooded or fiberglass objects
What is water skiing?
Located in Moncton, New Brunswick, this famous location is a truly unique tourist attraction. This intriguing spot creates an optical illusion that gives the impression of cars rolling uphill on their own.
What is Magnetic Hill?
At approximately 12:30 p.m., President John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a motorcade with his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and his wife, Nelly Connally.
What is 1963?
The hottest place on Earth has recorded an air temperature there of 56.7°C (134°F), which was measured on July 10, 1913. It's name is synonymous with Boiler or Heater and is located in Death Valley California
What is Furnace Creek?
Is the most popular cruise destination worldwide, followed by the Mediterranean and Alaska. It is one of the most ethnically diverse regions on the planet, as a result of colonization by the Spanish, English, Dutch, and French.
What is the Caribbean?
Has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake, at 82,100 square km. It also holds 10% of the world's fresh surface water. The Ojibwe name for the lake is gichi-gami (pronounced gitchi-gami) meaning "great sea"
What is Lake Superior?
Now a globally cherished sport, it was created by James Naismith, a Canadian, in 1891. The first game of used a soccer ball and two peach baskets as equipment, unlike the modern gear used today.
What is Basketball?
EMI releases The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" nation-wide in the UK; it goes to number one for 22 weeks in the UK
What is 1967
This pepper also known as bhut jolokia, is a superhot chili pepper cultivated in Northeast India. In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that this pepper was the world's hottest chili pepper, 170 times hotter than Tabasco sauce.
What is the Ghost Pepper?
This country is the most popular vacation destination worldwide, attracting the most international tourist arrivals. It is known for its iconic landmarks, historical sites, and renowned wine regions.
What is France?
The township is located on the Canadian Shield and thus is marked with outcrops of igneous rock and evergreen trees. Although inland from both Lake Huron's Georgian Bay and Lake Simcoe, the township contains lakes including Lake Rosseau and Lake Joseph, amongst many other smaller lakes.
What is Muskoka Lakes?
Amid much controversy, the Parliament of Canada in 1964 voted to adopt a new design for the Canadian flag. This flag would replace the Canadian Red Ensign, which had been in conventional use as the national flag of Canada since 1868. Nearly 4,000 designs were submitted by Canadians. On October 22, 1964, the Maple Leaf flag—designed by this historian, won with a unanimous vote.
Who is George Stanley?