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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 – February 6, 2016

What is mashup music? How many minutes are there in a game of Rugby Sevens? What is the origin of the word ‘ketchup’?  What is the term...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz — January 30

Answers Drake the rapper’s full name is Aubrey Drake Graham. The bird described in the Saturday question is a macaroni penguin. The lowermost part of a ship...

Diana’s Quiz — January 30

Questions What is Toronto-born rapper Drake’s first name? What is a species of penguin with a distinctive yellow crest that feeds mostly on krill and small...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – January 23

Answers to Diana's Quiz The world’s longest  suspension span is the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge in Japan from the island of Awaji to Kobe on Honshu, a...

Diana’s Quiz – January 23

Questions What is the world’s longest suspension bridge? In shipbuilding what are strakes? Who was Professor Cuthbert Calculus? What is the difference between an epiphyte and a parasite? Where...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – January 16, 2015

The word ‘Indian’ derives from the ancient Sanskrit term Sindhu, meaning river, specifically the Indus River. The commercial company that buys most explosives in the...

Diana’s Quiz – January 16, 2016

What is the origin of the word ‘Indian’? Which company in the USA is its  largest commercial purchaser of explosives? What is the name of Canada’s...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – January 9 2016

Answers Pistol in Shakespeare’s Henry V said that the king had a ‘heart of gold’, but he may not have meant it, as some of...

Diana’s Quiz – January 9 2016

Questions Who in literature was first described as having a ‘heart of gold’, and by whom? What is the name for a small iceberg that rises...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – January 1 2016

The price of a domestic Canadian stamp as of January 1st, 2016, is 90 cents.  As a measure of computer speed, a gigaflop is 1...

Diana’s Quiz – January 1 2016

Questions What is the cost of a domestic Canadian stamp (30 grams or less) as of today? What is a gigaflop? What is the word for a...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – December 26, 2015

Bandleader Guy Lombardo, who with his Royal Canadians, from the 1930s to the mid-1970s, regularly greeted the new year from New York ballrooms, said...

Diana’s Quiz – December 26, 2015

Which Canadian musician said, “When I go, I’m going to take New Year’s with me”? Where is the ‘rose-red city, half as old as time’? What...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – December 19, 2015

Putonghua is more commonly known as Mandarin. Pamela Wallin returned to the Senate this past week after being suspended two years ago over disputed expenses. The...
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