1 - What device, now used typically as a toy, did Benjamin Franklin use to prove that lightning was a form of electricity?
2 - Earlier this month, a daily inter-city bus service began and will take Sarnians on round trips to what two cities?
3 - Who portrayed former CIA operative Bryan Mills in the action thriller “Taken”?
4 - Approximately, what percentage of Sarnia-Lambton’s residents are 65 or older? (within three percent)
5 - What is the unit of measurement commonly expressed using the abbreviation Db?
6 - After Mount Everest, this mountain in Pakistan is the next highest mountain in the world? What’s its name?
7 - Remember when? David Cronenberg's A History of Violence was the last Hollywood film released on what home format?
8 - Which brand of fruit-flavoured candy has the tagline “Taste the Rainbow”?
9 - What name is given to the painful inflammation or the infection of the small pouches in the intestines?
10 - Named after the French brothers in whose restaurant guide it first appeared, what is the star system used for ranking restaurants around the world?
- Tom St. Amand (column #299)
ANSWERS: 1 – Kite; 2 - London and Strathroy; 3 - Liam Neeson; 4 - 22%; 5 – Decibel; 6 - K2 (or Chogori); 7 - VHS (Video Home System); 8 - Skittles; 9 – Diverticulitis; 10 – Michelin.