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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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Answers to Diana’s Quiz – March 4 2017

Answers A ‘slush fund’ was money collected from the sale of slush: the refuse fat in the galleys of ships.  The money was used...

Diana’s Quiz — March 4 2017

Questions Where does the term ‘slush fund’ originate? What is now the world’s dominant language? Where and what was the first international television transmission? ...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – February 25, 2017

Answers Trappist is an acronym for ‘transiting planets and planetisimals small telescope’, named after a robotic telescope in the Atacama Desert that astronomers initially...

Diana’s Quiz – February 25, 2017

Questions The star Trappist I has just been discovered to have 7 earth-size planets with the possibility of having life on them.  Trappist is...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – February 18, 2017

After 30 years of incarceration, Air India bomb maker Inderjit Singh Reyat has been released to a halfway house.  The plane that contained...

Diana’s Quiz – February 18, 2017

Who is Inderjit Singh Reyat? What was the name of Admiral Nelson’s flagship at the battle of Trafalgar? The moon Titan orbits which planet? ...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – February 11, 2017

The Hon. James Sinclair, once the Liberal minister of fisheries, was Justin Trudeau’s maternal grandfather. August Comte, a French philosopher born in 1798,...

Diana’s Quiz – February 11, 2017

Who was both Margaret Trudeau’s father and Justin’s maternal grandfather? Who founded the discipline of Sociology? How old will Dustin Hoffman be on...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – February 4, 2017

The West Bank is a landlocked territory in western Asia near the Mediterranean coast, forming the bulk of the Palestinian lands. Dick Tracy...

Diana’s Quiz – February 4, 2017

Where is the West Bank? What did comic book character Dick Tracy do for a living? Who was Tuzo Wilson? What was the...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – January 28, 2017

The next Chinese New Year is the Year of the Rooster, starting today, January 28th. Shimon Peres was a distant cousin of Lauren...

Diana’s Quiz – January 28, 2017

What is this next year in the Chinese calendar? Shimon Peres, the Israeli statesman who died last year, was a distant cousin of...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – January 21, 2017

Les Paul invented the solid body electric guitar.  The best-known song that he and his wife, Mary Ford performed on it was ‘How...

Diana’s Quiz – January 21, 2017

Who invented the solid body electric guitar? Who is Jared Kushner? What is a finger lime? How many senses do human beings have? Who...
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