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Canadian Thanksgiving 2019

A short trivia round on Canadian Thanksgiving. A few easy and a few hard questions to stump the family with.

1. What year marked the first annual celebration of Thanksgiving?

1879

2. When in October is Thanksgiving celebrated?

Second Monday

3. Which sports league holds games each Thanksgiving?

Canadian Football League

4. Which holidays do the United States observe on the same day as Thanksgiving?

Columbus Day and American Indigenous People’s Day

5. In which provinces is Thanksgiving not an official statutory holiday?

Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia

6. Which former Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Rangers hockey player celebrates his birthday on October 14?

Sylvain Lefebvre

7. What is Thanksgiving better known as in Quebec?

Action de grâce

8. What province often serves Jiggs’ Dinner instead of turkey?

Newfoundland

9. In 2000, Thanksgiving coincided with which safety-related week-long event?

Fire Prevention Week

10. On what day in 1957 did Queen Elizabeth II open the 23rd Canadian Parliament, making it the only parliament formally opened by the Queen of Canada?

October 14

Random Responses #2

Addressing a Random Trivia Generator user’s email about a question related to states starting with the letter O.

I regularly receive e-mails with corrections, some of which are valid, suggestions for alternative answers, ways questions can be misinterpreted and so on. I take each one seriously and I do look into every request. I often have a discussion with users, especially those who are related to people whose names are forever immortalized, and we end up rephrasing questions or sometimes completely eliminating some from the database.

Once in a while, I get such requests submitted as questions. I take these seriously as well, but I cannot have discussions with the users who submitted these because there is no way to contact them back. When you submit a question, this site does not capture any private details, just the question you submit. Therefore, I have decided to publish some responses publicly now in the hopes that the user sees the response. There won’t be many of these posts since these submissions are rare, but here goes it…random response #2.

I received the following from a user (there are no edits):

“question” : “You suck”
“answer” : “Because your answere on how many states start with O days 4”

Like with all other submission, I took this one seriously and dug through over 3,000 geography questions. With all the database filtering options I have at my disposal, I was able to narrow down the questions that contain the words “states” and “O” to roughly 100. I read each one and the question pertaining to the states starting with the letter “O” has the correct answer:

“question” : “How many US states begin with the letter “O”?”
“answer” : “Three – Ohio, Oklahoma, and Oregon”

I also found this question:

“question” : “How many US states end with the letter “O”?”
“answer” : “Four”

I believe that the user may have misread the question, because both of these are correct. Or if the database indeed has an incorrect question/answer on this topic, and my filtering completely missed it, please let me know. When you do, please include a screenshot of the card so that I can find the exact question and answer.

Countries starting with a C!

Another geography round. This time it is countries starting with a C…..C for Christmas!

Here we go with another geography trivia round! All on countries starting with the letter C! 

  1. How many territories does Canada have? – 3
  2. What country starting with a “C” borders Chad to the south? – Central African Republic
  3. What two South American countries are known for producing Pisco, a brandy made by distilling fermented grape juice? – Chile and Peru
  4. Dalmatian dogs are named after a historic region part of which modern-day country? – Croatia
  5. The “Trits” ice cream brand originates in which Central American country? – Costa Rica
  6. Columbia takes its name from what explorer? – Christopher Columbus
  7. The island country of Cabo Verde, or Cape Verde, is part of which continent? – Africa
  8. What country’s women’s football team is known as the “Indomitable Lionesses”? – Cameroon’s
  9. Plzen, the birthplace of the pilsner style beer, is located in which European country? – Czech Republic
  10. According to Greek mythology, Cyprus is the birthplace of what goddess and her lover? – Aphrodite and Adonis

Image credit: Graham Dennis

The Weekend Edition – 10 More Totally Random Trivia Questions

Hello and welcome to another Weekend Edition of 10 totally random trivia questions, where no theme exists at all.

Hello and welcome to another Weekend Edition of 10 totally random trivia questions, where no theme exists at all. Just enjoy the randomness that is the Random Trivia Generator.

  1. What is the birth name of actress Paula Prentiss? – Paula Ragusa
  2. From which state does the US band “The Great Divide” originate? – Oklahoma
  3. What is the name of the album for which Kendrick Lamar won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music? – “DAMN.”
  4. In which football league does the team Rigas FS compete in? – Latvian League
  5. Falcon State is located in which South American country? – Venezuela
  6. In architecture, what is a “Purlin”? – A horizontal structural member
  7. The “Chuuk Lagoon”, considered one of the best World War II wreck dive sites, is part of which island nation? – Micronesia
  8. The “Arenga Micrantha” species of flowering plants is more commonly known as what? – The Tibetan sugar palm
  9. Popular in the Balkans, what type of beverage is the “Rakia”? – Fruit brandy
  10. What month is the Calgary Stampede held in? – July

Have a great weekend!

Countries Starting with B!

Here we go with another geography trivia round! All on countries starting with the letter B.

Here we go with another geography trivia round! All on countries starting with the letter B. 

  1. How many countries does Bangladesh share a land border with? – Two
  2. What word is used to identify the residents of Burkina Faso? – Burkinabe
  3. What was Belize known as until 1973? – British Honduras
  4. Which popular artist was born as Robyn Fenty in 1988 in Barbados? – Rihanna
  5. The Republic of Benin shares a border with which other African country to the east? – Nigeria
  6. Until 1989, what European country was the world’s second largest exporter of bottled wine? – Bulgaria
  7. In which Brazilian city was F1 driver Ayrton Senna born? – São Paulo
  8. French fries are claimed to have originated in which country? – Belgium
  9. Which ocean does the African country, Burundi, has access to? – None
  10. Minsk is the capital of which European country? – Belarus

Bonus: Which countries does Bangladesh share a land border with? – India and Myanmar (Burma)

Image credit: Graham Dennis