1 – In what country is the Black Forest located?
2 – Sarnia businessman, Steve Orr, is restoring a pair of vintage what?
Bush Planes Model A cars Motorcycles
3 – What two tools used by communist industrial and agricultural workers were displayed on the flag of the Soviet Union?
4 – Northern Collegiate students Caroline Forbes and Andrew Davies were co-winners of what award that recognizes academic and athletic excellence?
5 – What celebrity jumped up and down on Oprah’s sofa, proclaiming his love for actress Katie Holmes?
6 – What NHL superstar is known as “The Great Eight”?
7 – Under normal circumstances, around how many hours does it take a ship to pass through the Panama Canal: nine or nineteen?
8 – Which prefix is next in this progression: deci; centi; milli; micro; and then?
9 – He was born Theodor Geisel, but what children’s author created his famous pseudonym after his father’s dream for him and his middle name?
10 – When President Ronald Reagan first used one in public in 1983, sales of this went up 40% in the U.S.? What was it?
– Tom St. Amand (column #199)
ANSWERS: 1 – Germany; 2 – Bush Planes; 3 – Hammer and Sickle; 4 – Stefanko Award; 5 – Tom Cruise; 6 – Alex Ovechkin; 7 – nine; 8 – Nano; 9 – Dr. Seuss; 10 – Hearing Aid.