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Diana’s Quiz – April 20, 2024

by Diana Filer 1.  When did Nobel Prizes...

EARTHFEST, April 20 in Carleton Place

Second Annual EARTHFEST, April 20 in Carleton...

An Almonte baby boom

Springtime is often busy in the Almonte...

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Diana’s Quiz – April 20, 2024

by Diana Filer 1.  When did Nobel Prizes start to be awarded, and who was the first winner of the Prize for Peace? 2.  Who is the youngest person to be...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – April 13, 2024

by Diana Filer 1.  The V2 rocket built by a team under the German Werner von Braun is considered to have launched the space age in 1942.  It was responsible...

Diana’s Quiz – April 13, 2024

by Diana Filer 1.  What device in effect launched the Space Age? 2.  What is the Book of Kells? 3.  Movie actor Tom Conway was the brother of which other movie star? 4. ...
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Diana’s Quiz – December 30, 2023

by Diana Filer 1.  Which Canadian was once the Prime Minister of Great Britain? 2.  What was the first message sent by Morse Code? 3.  What is the...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – Decmeber 23, 2023

by Diana Filer 1.  Irving Berlin's 'White Christmas' sung by Bing Crosby for the 1942 movie Holiday Inn, is the first secular Christmas pop song. 2. ...

Diana’s Quiz – December 23, 2023

by Diana Filer 1.  What is considered to be the first secular Christmas song that became a hit? 2.  What are the WPHL? 3.  How many countries...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – December 16, 2023

by Diana Filer 1.  The original 'muffin man' of the children's rhyme was considered to be Frederick Thomas Lynwood, a 16th century pastry chef who...

Diana’s Quiz – December 16, 2023

by Diana Filer 1.  Who was 'The Muffin Man Who Lives on Drury Lane' in the children's ditty? 2.  What is the fastest fish in the...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – December 9, 2023

by Diana Filer 1. Cindy Woodhouse is the new Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. 2.  The Word of the Year according to the OED,...

Diana’s Quiz – December 9, 2023

by Diana Filer 1.  Who is the newly-elected chief of the Assembly of First Nations? 2.  What is the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – December 2, 2023

by Diana Filer 1.  Not counting Australia, which is a continent, New Guinea is the largest island in the Pacific Ocean. 2.  UTC is Universal Time...

Diana’s Quiz – December 2, 2023

by Diana Filer 1.  Which is the largest island in the Pacific Ocean? 2.  What does UTC stand for? 3.  What is the most difficult position to...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – November 25, 2023

by Diana Filer  There are 15 Magdalen Islands or, Les Iles de la Madeleine, located in the middle of the Gulf of St Lawrence ...

Diana’s Quiz – November 25, 2023

by Diana Filer 1.  How many Magdalen Islands are there? 2.  Which bodily organ produces cholesterol? 3.  Who coined the term 'robotics'? 4.  What are now being called...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – November 18, 2023

by Diana Filer 1.  Ishpatina Ridge north of Capreol in the Canadian Shield is Ontario's highest land formation at 693 meters above sea level.  The...

Diana’s Quiz – November 18, 2023

by Diana Filer 1.  What is the highest natural formation in Ontario? 2.  How old was Mary Shelley when she wrote Frankenstein? 3.  What is a puteketeke? 4. ...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – November 11, 2023

by Diana Filer 1.  The Armistice of November 11, 1918, was signed in the ''Compiegne Wagon'', a train dining car, in the forest of Compiegne,...
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