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Answers to Diana’s Quiz – August 1, 2026

by Diana Filer 1.  Alanis Morissette, the Canadian rock artist from Ottawa, composed Jagged Little Pill.  She has won 5 Grammys and 14 Juno Awards so far. 2.  American millionaire Ted...

Diana’s Quiz – August 1, 2026

by Diana Filer 1.  Who composed the music and lyrics for the rock album Jagged Little Pill? 2.  Who created the television channel CNN? 3.  Pink Ladies and Granny Smiths are what...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – July 18, 2026

by Diana Filer 1.  The two Diomede Islands are located in the Bering Strait.  Big Diomede Island belongs to Russia, and Little Diomed to the USA. 2.  Mascarpone cheese is the...
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Diana’s Quiz: March 16 2019

Questions Who is Ren Zhengfei? What is feta cheese made from? Where in Canada is Punkeydoodles Corners? What is a biathlon in the Winter...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – March 10, 2019

by Diana Filer LeBron James now has more NBA scoring points than Michael Jordan. The British flag is officially called the Union Jack only...

Diana’s Quiz – March 9, 2019

by Diana Filer Which basketball player has now more points in the NBA’s scoring list than Michael Jordan? When is the British flag called...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz: March 2, 2019

Answers Some Buddhists do not eat garlic because it ‘excites the senses’.  Eaten raw, it is claimed to cause distemper; cooked, thought to be...

Diana’s Quiz: March 2, 2019

Questions Why do some Buddhists not eat garlic? How many syllables are there in a Haiku poem? Although the last gold mine in Yellowknife,...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – February 23, 2019

by Diana Filer  Geechee, also known as Gullah, is the Creole dialect of the Georgia Sea Islands. Badminton is the sport that was first...

Diana’s Quiz – February 23, 2019

by Diana Filer  What is Geechee? Which sport made its official debut in the 1992 Olympics? What does TED stand for, as in TED...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – February 15, 2019

by Diana Filer February comes from Februa, a purification festival, beginning in the late 14th century. T.S. Eliot had a cat named Jellylorum? British...

Diana’s Quiz – February 16,2019

by Diana Filer What is the origin of the word February? Who had a cat named Jellylorum? Who was the first person to run...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – February 9, 2019

by Diana Filer St. Valentine – of Rome, to distinguish him from other saints Valentine – was canonized because as a priest during the...

Diana’s Quiz – February 9, 2019

by Diana Filer How did Saint Valentine become a saint? What is the Book of Sirach? What is the last country to have outlawed...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – February 2, 2019

by Diana Filer Groundhog Day began on February 2, 1867 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.  It is related to Imbolc, the pagan Celtic festival which evolved...

Diana’s Quiz – February 2, 2019

by Diana Filer When did Groundhog Day originate? What is copra? What is the deepest lake in the world? 2019 marks the 175th anniversary of...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – January 26, 2019

by Diana Filer Although St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador is the oldest Canadian city, founded in 1583,  it was not incorporated until 1921, so...
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