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Sarnia Journal Trivia Challenge

1 - At age 51, what was conquistador Ponce De Leon allegedly searching for when he claimed Florida for Spain? 2 - Bright’s Grove resident Laura Dally recently led what Canadian university to its first national women’s basketball championship? 3 - The
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1 - At age 51, what was conquistador Ponce De Leon allegedly searching for when he claimed Florida for Spain?

2 - Bright’s Grove resident Laura Dally recently led what Canadian university to its first national women’s basketball championship?

3 - The name of what type of pasta is derived from the Italian for “little cords”?

4 - Born in Sarnia in 1898, Marie Bickford Dunn became Marie Prevost and achieved fame for two decades in what occupation?

5 - What name is given to a creature that lacks a backbone?

6 - Mayors of cities on the Great Lakes, including Mayor Bradley, are opposed to a town’s plan to divert 38 million litres of water daily from which Great Lake?

7 - Doctors have ordered AC/DC singer Brian Johnson to quit because he risks what?

8 - Beginning this Friday, Sarnia Gives is facilitating a six-week campaign to encourage high school students to do what?

9 - When the RMS Titanic sank in 1912, its cargo included more than 7 million what in some 3,400 sacks?

10 - In 1990, Ron Townsend became the first African-American to be admitted to what club? (only 2% of its current membership is African-American).

- Tom St. Amand

ANSWERS: 1 - Fountain of Youth; 2 - University of Saskatchewan; 3 – Spaghetti; 4 - Acting (she appeared in 121 silent and talking movies); 5 – Invertebrate; 6 - Lake Michigan (from Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha); 7 - Going totally deaf; 8 - Volunteer with local organizations; 9 - Pieces of Mail; 10 - Augusta National Golf Club


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