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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 – March 11, 2017

What is the ‘football’? Who was the first documented European to reach Hawaii? In which movie did Fred Astaire dance on the ceiling? ...

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...
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