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This parrallel or line of lattitude separate Western Canada and the United States.
What is the 49th.
True or False: Queen Cleopatra VII had a Pyramid built for her tomb.
False! Cleopatra ruled from 51 to 30 BC, thousands of years after the pyramids were built and the practice had long fallen out. In fact, we are closer to Cleopatra in the timeline than she is to when the pyramids were built.
Who unanimously is considered the greatest guitar player of all time?
Jimi Hendrix. While the title of "greatest" is subjective and open to debate, Jimi Hendrix is widely considered to be the greatest guitarist of all time by many experts and fans. His innovative playing style, unique sound, and influence on rock music have solidified his place in music history.
Was Antarctica first sighted before or after 1800?
After! Antarctica was not sighted until 1820 by a Russian expedition. Ice packs and rough sea waters kept the continent hidden to early sailors.
This Great Lake is the only one not to have a Canadian coastline.
What is Lake Michigan.
With a volume of roughly 2.6 million cubic metres of limestone, weighing in at 6 million total tons, The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World and was the world's tallest human-made structure for more than 3,800 years. For whom did it serve as a tomb?
A.) Aliens
B.) Sneferu
C.) Ramses
D.) Khufu
Khufu! I wouldn't blame you if you named Sneferu, who was known as the pyramid builder due to how many pyramids were built during his reign.
Which music genre was the foundation for at least 3 other music genres, including Rock?
Blues! The blues has become the basis for nearly every form of American popular music over the past 100 years: jazz, R&B, rock, hip-hop...
Two expeditions set off in 1910 with the goal of reaching the South Pole; the British lead by Robert Falcon Scott and the Norwegian lead by Roald Amundsen. Scott had lead a previous expedition in 1901 that made great strides in Antartica's exploration, setting a Farthest South record of the time, having to turn back due to weather hardships. Amundsen wanted to be the first to reach the North Pole, but upon hearing news that Americans had reached it he secretly changed plans and set out to be the first to reach the South Pole. Which team made it to the South Pole first, Scott's or Amundsen's?
Amundsen's party reached the south pole on the 14th of December, 1911, just 33 days before Scott's team did. While Amundsen's team, skilled with ski's and snow dogs, made it safely back, Scott's team perished on their return journey due to weather conditions and poor survival skills.
This war with the United States is the last one to see troops fighting on Canadian soil.
What is the War of 1812.
A.) Eat it.
B.) Sleep with it.
C.) Wear its wrappings.
D.) Hang it above the fireplace.
A, eat it! Mummies were thought to have great medicinal properties, along with the older belief of gaining the powers of whomsoever soul you consumed.
Who was considered the Father of Rock and Roll?
A.) Elvis Presley
B.) Chuck Berry
C.) Little Richard
D.) The Beatles
Chuck Berry! While Elvis was considered the King of Rock and Roll, it was Chuck Berry who was considered the Father of the genre. He refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive with songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957), and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958).
Located in Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land, East Antarctica, Blood Falls is:
A.) not real, a hoax.
B.) the blood of sea life killed and ground below the ice.
C.) salt water colored red due to red algae.
D.) iron-rich salt water.
It's real, and named after its red colour! The first discoverer attributed the color to red algae, but it was later proven to be due to iron oxides. D
During the COVID-19 crisis this Canadian Prime Minister asked Canadians not to speak moistly.
What is Justin Trudeau.
"Dispute between a Man and his Ba," is a philosophical text considered to be one of the most important works of ancient Egyptian literature. In it, the man cites the hardships of life and tries to convince his Ba to stop holding him back from going to the afterlife. His Ba pushes back, urging him to focus on life and not seek death before his natural time. The Ba, one of nine parts that make up a soul, represents:
A.) A Guardian Angel
B.) The heart
C.) The psyche, or personality
D.) The Name, or identity
C, The psyche, or personality! The Ba is what makes a person unique and is considered to live on after we die. The man tries to convince his Ba to let him die by promising a fancy funeral that will please his Ba.
Which of these musical movements was the shortest lived?
A.) Grunge
B.) Disco
C.) Punk
D.) No Wave
While all of those movements were short-lived, No Wave is considered to only have existed between 1976 and 1981. The name was a pun based on the "New Wave" movement, which was criticized for recycling of rock and roll cliches. The scene often reflected an abrasive, confrontational, and nihilistic world view.
Wilkes Land Mass Concentration is the location of a gravitational anomaly. The land surface beneath the Antarctic ice cap at this location is hypothesized to be an impact crater, with a width of:
A.) 80 kilometres
B.) 180 kilometres
C.) 280 kilometres
D.) 380 kilometres
E.) 480 kilometres
E: 480 kilometres! That's more than 2.5 times larger than the 180-kilometre (110 mi) Chicxulub crater! The meteor that caused the Chicxulub crater is believed to have caused the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event (end of the dinosaurs).
This major Canadian political party runs Candidates exclusively in the province of Quebec.
What is Bloc Quebecois.
This stele issued a decree on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes in two languages. Its discovery was crucial to deciphering the Egyptian language.
The Rosetta Stone! If the "written in two languages" threw you off, that was on purpose! The text was written 3 times, once in ancient Greek and twice in ancient Egyptian, so technically only two languages. However, one Egyptian script was written in Hieroglyphics and the other was written in Demotic!
Who is considered the Godfather of the Grunge Movement?
A.) Joan Jett
B.) Niel Young
C.) The Ramones
D.) Elvis Costello
Niel Young! His music, particularly his work with Crazy Horse, is characterized by heavy distortion, simple chord progressions, and raw emotional lyrics, which are all hallmarks of the grunge sound. He's also credited with influencing bands like Pearl Jam.
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) recorded an ultra-low-frequency, high amplitude underwater sound in 1997 that was of sufficient amplitude to be heard on multiple sensors, at a range of over 5,000 km (3,000 miles). The prevailing theory currently is it was caused by glacial movements such as ice calving, or through seabed gouging by ice. The name of this sound, which is also how it sounds, is...
The Bloop!