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Sarnia Journal trivia challenge

1 - In which city would you find the University of Saskatchewan? 2 - Sarnia resident Shirley Willis is raising money to build a grade school in what African nation? 3 - Which Greek god is usually pictured holding a trident in his hand? 4 - The offici
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1 - In which city would you find the University of Saskatchewan?

2 - Sarnia resident Shirley Willis is raising money to build a grade school in what African nation?

3 - Which Greek god is usually pictured holding a trident in his hand?

4 - The official opening of what radio station was broadcast from Kenwick-on-the-Lake in Bright’s Grove 70 years ago next week?

5 - What Scottish born inventor with deep ties to Canada was the second president of the National Geographic Society in the late 1890s?

6 - Fittingly, what structure at Canatara Park is named in memory of the late William E. Brush, a local musician who was the conductor of Sarnia’s Boys’ Band in the 1940s? 

7 -  Loup-garou is another name for which type of monster?

8 - Retired teacher Bill Walters is a local en plein air artist, which means he paints where?   

9 -  To give pitchers a better grip, every baseball used in the major leagues is wiped down with what beforehand?    

10 - No kidding. In 1959, the U.S. Army ran Project Horizon that aimed to create a military base in what location? Hint: A place that, at the time, no one had ever explored?

- Tom St. Amand

ANSWER: 1 – Saskatoon; 2 – Kenya; 3 – Poseidon; 4 – CHOK; 5 - Alexander Graham Bell; 6 - The Band Shell; 7 – Werewolf; 8 – Outdoors; 9 - Mud (from an undisclosed location on the Delaware River); 10 - The moon  (at the height of the Cold War).

  


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