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The Sarnia Journal trivia challenge

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1 – Madagascar is the largest island in what ocean?

 

2 – What local historian has written, “Keeping the Peace,” a book on the history of Sarnia’s police department, available on March 22?

 

3 – What biblical figure was six cubits, or nine feet tall?

 

4 – What downtown bank will be celebrating 100 years of service this week?

 

5 – Name one of the two letters in Scrabble worth 10 points.

 

6 – What Yiddish term literally means “good luck” but in practice is usually said to mean “congratulations”?

 

7 – The basic braille alphabet, braille numbers, and braille punctuation are constructed from how many dots?

a) Three     b) six     c) ten

 

8 – What state was the main setting of the TV series The Sopranos?

 

9 – What is the name of the biggest part of the human brain?

a) Cerebrum  b) Cortex  c) Medulla

 

10 – In what country was Greenpeace founded in 1971?

 

 

– Tom St. Amand (column # 284)

 

ANSWERS: 1 – Indian Ocean; 2 – Phil Egan; 3 – Goliath; 4 – Scotiabank; 5 – Z and Q; 6 – Mazel Tov; 7 – b) Six; 8 – New Jersey; 9 – a) Cerebrum; 10 – Canada.

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