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.