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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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Answers to Diana’s Quiz – July 1, 2017

Robert Borden is the face on the Canadian hundred dollar bill. O Canada became the national anthem in 1980. Canada’s national sports are...

Diana’s Quiz – July 1, 2017

Whose face is on the Canadian hundred dollar bill? When did O Canada officially become our national anthem? What are Canada’s national sports? ...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz

 Of several definitions re the origin of ‘Canuck’ the one given the most credence is that it was originally an American term referring...

Diana’s Quiz – June 24, 2017

What is the origin of the word ‘Canuck’? How many points are on the Canadian flag’s maple leaf? When and where was the...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz — June 17 2017

Onychophagia is nail biting. The last Islamic  kingdom in Western Europe was the Nasridic dynasty of Granada, Spain, which lasted from 1238 to...

Diana’s Quiz — June 17 2017

What is the common term for onychophagia? What was the last Islamic kingdom in Western Europe? Which radioactive element takes its name from...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz — June 10 2017

Justin Pierre James Trudeau is the full name of the Prime Minister. Savitar is a supervillain created for the comic publication Flash and...

Diana’s Quiz — June 10 2017

What is Justin Trudeau’s full name? Who is Savitar? What is the mathematical rule that states that the square of the hypotenuse of...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz — June 3 2017

Answers The book most stolen from libraries is an edition of The Guinness Book of Records. June 5th is World Environment  Day. Frame rate...

Diana’s Quiz — June 3 2017

Questions What is the book most stolen from English language libraries? Canada will host what important anniversary on June 5th? What is frame rate? ...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – May 27, 2017

 Slocum spread carpet tack points up on the deck of his little ship when  pirates in South American waters were trying to board...

Diana’s Quiz – May 27, 2017

How did carpet tacks save the life of Captain Joshua Slocum, the Nova Scotian mariner who was the first man to singlehandedly sail...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – May 20, 2017

Vanna White has been with Wheel of Fortune since 1982.  Damascus in Syria is said to be the oldest inhabited city in the...

Diana’s Quiz – May 20, 2017

Since when has Vanna White been co-host of Wheel of Fortune? What is the longest continually inhabited city in the world? Which position...
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