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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 – July 2, 2016

Who invented our number system?  Name a people who are relatives of the Innu.  What is Eleanor’s surname in a Beatles song?  What...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – June 25, 2016

 The sciatic nerve is the longest and widest nerve in the human body. The ocelot was revered by ancient Peruvians.  Dunstable Ramsay was the...

Diana’s Quiz – June 25, 2016

What is the longest and widest nerve in the human body? What animal was revered by ancient Peruvians? Who was the narrator of...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – June 18, 2016

18-year-old Brroke Henderson from  Smiths Falls, Ontario won the LPGA title last week in Sammamish, Washington, beating reigning title holder, Lydia Ko.  The...

Diana’s Quiz – June 18, 2016

Who won the Ladies’ Professional Gold Association Tournament this month?  Where and what is the Siq? Who said,  “You can either buy clothes...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – June 11, 2016

An Arctic tern has just this week made the longest ever recorded annual migration from the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland...

Diana’s Quiz – June 11, 2016

Which species of bird makes the longest migration ever recorded? What is the current status of Canada’s only Atlantic submarine, HMCS Windsor? In...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – June 4, 2016

Little Manitou Lake near Watrous, Saskatchewan, is the saltiest lake in Canada.  About 2/3 the salinity of the Dead Sea. Pompeii and Herculaneum...

Diana’s Quiz – June 4, 2016

Where in Canada is there a salt lake? Which two Roman towns were destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD? ...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – May 28, 2016

“The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it arose” – Ecclesiastes, 1:5. Ejecta is material...

Diana’s Quiz – May 28, 2016

What is the source of the Ernest Hemingway novel title phrase, “The Sun Also Rises”?  What is ejecta?  What is the poetic name...

Answers to Diana’s quiz – May 21, 2016

In tv production, grips work with camera or electrical crews.  The key grip supervises these crews, along with dolly, crane and special equipment operators. ...

Diana’s Quiz – May 21, 2016

What is the function of a ‘key grip’ in television production? What is the ‘cognitive revolution’? Which novel opens with the line, ‘It...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – May 14, 2016

A gibbous moon is one when that particular phase is larger than a semicircle.  From the Latin ‘gibbus’  humpback or hunched. The Sadiq...
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