1 – What is the typical order of the three challenging events in a triathlon?
2 – What is Sarnia’s estimated current population, rounded to the nearest thousand?
- a) 69,000 b) 73,000 c) 77,000
3 – Which of the following is the longest running movie to win an Oscar for Best Picture?
- a) Gone with the Wind b) Lawrence of Arabia c) Parasite
4 – Currently, Ontario’s emergency measures mandate that residents must keep a minimum of how many metres apart from one another?
5 – The name of what prairie province comes from the Cree word for “swiftly flowing river?”
6 – Before “hello” was adopted as a telephone greeting, what word was used to greet people on the telephone?
7 – The earliest version of what popular board game was called “The Landlord’s Game?”
8 – On July 16, 1439, why did King Henry VI of England issue a proclamation to ban kissing?
9 – Since her husband had his hair cut in the style of ancient Roman emperors, a Michigan woman chose what name for her family’s successful pizza chain?
10 – Due to reduced pollution from the coronavirus lockdown, for the first time in decades people in northern India can see the peaks of what mountain range 200 kilometres away?
– Tom St. Amand (column # 289)
ANSWERS: 1 – Swim, Bike, Run; 2 – b) 73,000; 3 – a) Gone with the Wind (238 minutes); 4 – Two metres; 5 – Saskatchewan; 6- Ahoy; 7 – Monopoly; 8 -To stop the advance of the plague; 9 – Little Caesars; 10 – Himalayas.
