Category: Arts

The Fall – The Season, not The Show

It’s pumpkin question time! Do you remember when Starbucks introduced the infamous pumpkin spice latte? What about these other 9 questions?

It is fall. And with fall come pumpkin stuff, Thanskgiving, colder temperatures, changing leaves, new TV programs and a very early Christmas prep. So before we get to the Christmas quiz, enjoy these 10 Fall-related trivia questions.

  1. Appearing in the fall, the harvest moon is one of about how many full moons that occur each year? – 12
  2. Which decade popularized the commercial brewing of pumpkin ales? – 1980s
  3. The word “harvest” is derived from an Old English word that referred to what season? – Autumn
  4. In a classic nursery rhyme, who did Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater keep in a pumpkin shell? – His wife
  5. What name is given to a pumpkin if it has a face carved into it and is illuminated by a candle? – Jack-o’-lantern
  6. In the fairy tale, what is changed into a coach for Cinderella? – A pumpkin
  7. Which poet described autumn as “the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”? – John Keats
  8. Which tree has catkins in the spring and edible nuts in the autumn? – The hazel
  9. What year did Starbucks introduce the Pumpkin Spice Latte? – 2003
  10. What seasons do the equinoxes occur in? – Spring and fall

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Canada Day 150 Trivia Quiz

If Canada is 5 times older than Drake, then how much older is the Hudson’s Bay Company? And much more to celebrate Canada’s 150 this week!

Canada has been around for 150 years now and I wonder if this site will ever reach that mature old age. But I do know one thing – some of the trivia questions below will definitely stump you. Enjoy our country’s 150th and this trivia quiz!

Round 1 – The Basics

  1. On what day does Canada celebrate its birthday? – July 1
  2. Which Quebec city does Canada’s capital border? – Gatineau
  3. What is the name of the highway that travels through all ten Canadian provinces? – Trans-Canada Highway, or Route Transcanadienne
  4. What river separates the cities of Detroit and Windsor? – The Detroit River
  5. What are Canada’s two official sports? – Ice hockey and lacrosse
  6. Which city is home to the Blue Jays baseball team? – Toronto
  7. What is Canada’s $1 coin commonly referred to as? – Loonie
  8. What is the name of the robotic arm used on some of NASA’s Space Shuttle flights? – Canadarm
  9. Musician Drake first gained popularity appearing on which teen TV show? – Degrassi: The Next Generation
  10. Which Toronto street was once thought to be the world’s longest street? – Yonge Street

Round 2 – Something More Advanced

  1. What is Canada’s motto? – From Sea to Sea
  2. For what period of time is the Governor General of Canada appointed? – Unfixed
  3. What was the last Province or Territory that joined Canada? – Nunavut
  4. What year did the last Province or Territory join Canada? – 1999
  5. What does the Calgary Stampede bills itself as? – The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth
  6. In which Canadian city would you find the largest mall in North America? – Edmonton
  7. Which region of Canada would you find Canada’s Technology Triangle? – Waterloo Region
  8. In what decade did Toronto surpass Montreal as the most populous city in Canada? – 1970s
  9. What are the names of the “Trailer Park Boys”? – Ricky, Julian and Bubbles
  10. What is Toronto’s Pearson International Airport code? – YYZ

Round 3 – The Hard Stuff

  1. What three provinces requested a single Dominion be formed in 1867, thus beginning to shape modern Canada? – New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the Province of Canada
  2. What type of interchange, that is widely used in North America and in some parts of Europe, did the Ontario Ministry of Transportation invent? – Partial cloverleaf interchange, or Parclo
  3. Which event was Canada’s anthem, “O Canada”, originally commissioned for? – The 1880 St. Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony
  4. What year were the Juno Awards first awarded? 1970
  5. What distiller and entrepreneur founded the town of Walkerville, which is now a heritage neighborhood of Windsor, Ontario? – Hiram Walker
  6. Which large Canadian city is named after a fruit-bearing shrub native to western Canada, Alaska and northern United States? – Saskatoon
  7. What year was Hudson’s Bay Company founded? – 1670
  8. Which city became the first capital of the Province of Canada in 1841? – Kingston, Ontario
  9. Which popular musician did artist Feist, share a Queen West apartment with in the late 1990s? – Peaches
  10. What island is the most populous in Canada? – Island of Montreal

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