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Almonte Civitan Community Luncheon, October 1

The Almonte Civitan Community Luncheon will be...

Almonte’s 1st Metis Kitchen Party – Food, Fiddles and Frolic!

Ever been to a Métis Kitchen Party? ...

Three ways to support Home Hospice North Lanark’s hike for hospice this October

This October, Home Hospice North Lanark (HHNL)...

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Diana’s Quiz – September 19, 2026

by Diana Filer 1. From which schools did  Prime Minister Mark Carney graduate and with what degrees? 2.  What religious movement was founded by Madame Blavatsky? 3  .Petrichor is the smell produced...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – September 12, 2026

by Diana Filer 1.  Jack fruit is the largest tree fruit in the world, some weighing up to 40 pounds.  It is related to figs and mulberries. 2.  A quokka is...

Diana’s Quiz – September 12, 2026

by Diana Filer 1.  What is jack fruit? 2.  What is a quokka? 3.  What is the 3rd word in the slogan,  ''Reduce, reuse _______? 4.  What is the origin of the word...
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Diana’s Quiz – October 20, 2018

by Diana Filer Which country has the highest voter election turnout? Who was Norma Jean Dougherty? Biblical Queen Herodias was whose mother? Which European...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz, October 13 2018

Answers A group of elephants is called a memory. There are 150 psalms in the Bible’s King James version of that book. ‘The Boys...

Diana’s Quiz, Ocotober 13 2018

What is the word for a group of elephants? How many psalms are there in the King James version of the Bible? The...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz: October 6 2018

Answers 1. Jasper is a mixture of quartz and chalcedony and other minerals, usually red in colour. 2. Donna Strickland is an associate professor of physics at...

Diana’s Quiz: October 6 2018

Questions 1. What is jasper? 2. Who is Donna Strickland? 3. What kind of dog is typically bred from crossing a greyhound with a collie or a retriever? 4....

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – September 29, 2018

by Diana FIler Kingston, Ontario, was named Canada’s first province in 1841, and remained so until 1844. Justin Smoak is an American professional baseball...

Diana’s Quiz – September 29, 2018

by Diana Filer What was the first capital of the Province of Canada? Who is Justin Smoak? Where was Melania Trump born? Christa Deguchi...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – September 22, 2018

by Diana Filer Josef Haydn composed the music for Deutschland Uber Alles. Simon Peter was the apostle who was brother of St Andrew. The...

Diana’s Quiz – September 22, 2018

by Diana Filer Who composed the music for the German national anthem, Deutschland Uber Alles? Who was the brother of the apostle St Andrew? ...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – September 15, 2018

by Diana Filer  A Yarborough is a bridge hand with no card higher than a 9.  An Earl of Yarborough in the 19th century offered...

Diana’s Quiz – September 15, 2018

  by Diana Filer What is a Yarborough in bridge, and why the name? What is the origin of Protestantism? Whose child is the...

Diana’s Quiz: September 1 2018

Questions Who was Shakespeare’s mother? When Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, what became Britain’s oldest remaining colony? What is the world’s largest ethnic group? ...

Diana’s Quiz — August 25 2018

Questions SPAR Aerospace, which designed the Canadarm, was originally the Special Projects Research Arm of what company? What is Blueskin? How many Canadian hockey...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – August 16, 2018

by Diana Filer Queen Anne, who was the daughter of James II, followed William and Mary as queen, but having no surviving children to...
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