Cooking
Shipwrecks
Winter Olympic Games
Disney
Canadian Comedy
200
The name of the chef who is second in command in the kitchen?
Sous-chef, second in command after the executive chef
French: "under-chief of the kitchen"
200
This is a term/name often used for survivors of a shipwreck who are left on a deserted island.
Castaway
200
Which country will host the 2026 Winter Olympic games?
Italy
200
In the 2020 Pixar film "Soul", what is the name of the cynical unborn soul who avoids going to Earth?
22 
200
This Canadian-American actor and comedian voiced Batman in the Lego Movie franchise and the main character in animated series BoJack Horseman.
Will Arnett
400
______ is a water-based cooking method that works by expelling air from a vessel, trapping the steam to permit higher temperatures, together with high thermal heat transfer from steam to reduce cooking time by half or less than conventional boiling.
Pressure cooking
400
The Canadian novel "Life of Pi" tells the story of a shipwrecked boy who spends 227 days stranded on a lifeboat floating in the _______ Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
Pacific Ocean
400
What is the name of this event?
Biathlon, a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.
400
The word 'Simba' (name of protagonist in Disney's "The Lion King") means ________ in East African language Swahili.
Lion; also has other definitions such as king, strong, 'born leader' or aggressive.
400
What is the name of the comedy festival held each July in Montreal, Quebec featuring this mascot?
Just for Laughs (French: Juste pour rire)
600
The process of thickening and intensifying the flavor of a liquid mixture such as a soup, sauce, wine, or juice by simmering or boiling until the desired concentration is reached by evaporation.
The process of reduction, which concentrates the flavors left in the pan.
600
This celebrated racing ship and fishing vessel, nicknamed the 'Queen of the North Atlantic' and eventually wrecked in 1946 on a reef off Haiti, was built in which Canadian province?
The Bluenose was a fishing and racing schooner built in 1921 in Nova Scotia, it became an icon and was portrayed on stamps, license plates, and the Canadian dime coin.
600
Where does Canada rank on the all-time medal count for the Winter Olympics?
a) 2nd place
b) 5th place
c) 8th place
b) 5th place, behind Norway, USA, Germany, Soviet Union
600
The classic fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper", which describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused, inspired this 1998 Pixar animation film.
"A Bug's Life"
600
Comedian Jim Carrey dropped out of Agincourt Collegiate Institute on his 16th birthday to pursue comedy while working at a tire factory in Scarborough. Which school board owns and operates this secondary school?
Agincourt Collegiate Institute (known locally as ACI or Agincourt) is a secondary school located in Agincourt, a neighbourhood in the Scarborough area of Toronto, Ontario, owned and operated by the Toronto District School Board that was sanctioned by the Scarborough Board of Education prior to amalgamation in 1998.
A.C.I is one of the oldest surviving secondary high schools in the former Scarborough in the north, the other being R. H. King Academy (formerly known as Scarborough High School/Collegiate Institute) in the south.
800
In restaurant terminology, this two-digit number is a term used when the restaurant has run out of, or is unable to prepare a particular menu item, or to indicate an inventory item has gone bad.
It's also used when a bar patron is ejected from the premises and refused readmittance.
Eighty-six or 86
For example, you might only make a certain amount of ham and cheese croissants every morning, because they are expensive and time-consuming for your bakers. At 11:00 AM, your back of house staff flags to the front of house staff to “86 ham and cheese croissants.”
800
This phrase describes a maritime tradition that a sea captain holds ultimate responsibility for both their ship and everyone embarked on it, and in an emergency will either save those on board or die trying.
Hint: Similar to "women and children first", it stems from the Victorian ideal of chivalry in the 19th and 20th centuries.
"The captain goes down with the ship"
800
Including the 2010 Winter Olympics, how many times has the Canadian women's hockey team won the Gold Medal?
Three gold medals at four Winter Olympics
2010 gold medal game: defeated United States 2-0
2014 gold medal game: defeated United States 3-2
2018 gold medal game: lost to United States 3-2
2022 gold medal game: defeated United States 3-2
800
What is the common theme of the surnames of the three main characters in "Pirates of the Caribbean" films?
They are all types of birds. This was intentional as part of a motif that all the characters want to fly away and break free in some way.
Jack Sparrow
Elizabeth Swann
Will Turner (a 'tern' is a type of seabird).
800
Canadian actor/comedian and star of TV sitcom "Schitt's Creek" Eugene Levy was student council president of Westdale Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario, which is administered by which school board?
Westdale Secondary School is a public high school founded in 1931 in Hamilton, Ontario. It is located in Westdale Village, a suburb in the west-end of the city. It is administered by the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board. Westdale is also the most populated public high school in Hamilton, Ontario.
1000
What is the name and/or function of this device?
A cherry pitter is a device for removing the pit from a cherry, leaving the cherry relatively intact. Can also be used for olives.
1000
The RMS Titanic struck an iceberg around 11:40pm on Sunday April 12, 1912. How long did it take for the ship to sink?
a) 2 hrs 40 mins
b) 40 mins
c) 4 hr 20 mins
a) 2 hrs 40 mins, around 2:20am in the North Atlantic, 600km southeast of Newfoundland
1000
How many times and in which city has Canada hosted the Winter Olympics?
1988 Calgary
2010 Vancouver
1000
The 2013 film "Frozen" is inspired by which fairy tale by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen?
"The Snow Queen" was first published 21 December 1844. Centering on the struggle between good and evil, it is one of Andersen's longest and most highly acclaimed stories.
1000
In the "Rant" segments of CBC Television's Rick Mercer Report, comedian Rick Mercer walks along the graffiti-covered alleys of which Toronto street, in which he discusses his personal views on contemporary Canadian politics.
Graffiti Alley aka Rush Lane, runs east-west south of Queen Street West (just north of Richmond Street W) in two stretches, one from Spadina Avenue to Portland Street just west of Toronto's Entertainment District, and then picks up again at Bathurst Street and runs a few more blocks west