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This iconic hotel overlooking Victoria’s Inner Harbour is known for its castle-like architecture and afternoon tea.
What is the Fairmont Empress?
This player is known as “His Airness” and won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
What is Michael Jordan?
This ancient civilization, known for cities like Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, flourished in the Indus River Valley.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization?
This planet is the largest in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
This branch of engineering focuses on designing and building structures such as bridges, buildings, and dams.
What is civil engineering?
This garden attraction north of Victoria is famous for its floral displays and is one of Vancouver Island’s most visited destinations.
What is the Butchart Gardens?
A player who scores 10 or more in three major statistical categories in one game records this achievement.
What is a triple-double?
This emperor of the Maurya Dynasty embraced Buddhism after the bloody Kalinga War.
Who is Ashoka the Great?
This author wrote the famous wizarding series featuring Harry Potter.
Who is J.K Rowling?
This device converts mechanical energy into electrical energy and is used in power plants.
What is a generator?
This body of water separates Victoria from Washington State and is named after a 19th-century British naval officer.
What is the Strait of Juan de Fuca?
This NBA team won the 2023 championship behind Finals MVP Nikola Jokić.
What is the Denver Nuggets?
This monument in Agra was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
What is the Taj Mahal?
This element has the chemical symbol “Au” and has been prized as a valuable metal for thousands of years.
What is Gold?
This principle states that a fluid’s pressure decreases as its speed increases, helping explain how airplane wings create lift.
What is Bernoulli’s principle?
This building, completed in 1898, is the seat of British Columbia’s provincial government
What are the Parliament Buildings?
This legendary NBA player holds the record for the most career points scored in NBA history.
Who is LeBron James?
This 1857 uprising against British rule is often called the First War of Independence in Indian history.
What is the Indian Rebellion of 1857?
This country is home to the ancient city of Petra, known for its rock-cut architecture.
What is Jordan?
This engineering material, made by combining carbon fibers with a polymer resin, is valued for being lightweight and extremely strong.
What is carbon fiber composite?
This historic Indigenous group has traditional territory around the Victoria area, including the lands around the Inner Harbour and southern Vancouver Island.
Who are the Lekwungen peoples?
This rule prevents an offensive player from staying in the painted area for more than three seconds without actively making a play.
What is the 3 second violation?
This leader used nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience to help India gain independence from British rule in 1947.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This scientist developed the theory of relativity and is famous for the equation E = mc².
Who is Albert Einstein?
This mathematical method used in engineering analyzes structures by breaking them into smaller parts to solve complex stress and deformation problems.
What is finite element analysis (FEA)?