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by Allan Goddard Hello readers! I have had numerous...

Noreen Young’s early drawings on exhibit at the Sivarulrasa Gallery.

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The Tunic Show at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum

by Edith Cody-Rice On Saturday August 1, the...

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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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Diana’s Quiz – September 6, 2014

What form of pottery takes its name from the Italian for ‘cooked earth’? In hockey, what is a delayed offside? What was the main interest of actress...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – August 30, 2014

Sport-inspired Olympic medals for the arts were and are no longer given because the relevant jury considered that the artists would be professionals, while...

Diana’s Quiz – August 30, 2014

Why were Olympic medals in the arts abandoned after 1948? What is different about the modern basketball hoop that was not part of the game...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – August 23, 2014

 Tincture of merthiolate was a common topical treatment for cuts and abrasions.  The House of Chanel has recently created knee and elbow pads for women.  A...

Diana’s Quiz – August 23, 2014

What was/is merthiolate used for? Which French haute couture house has created kneepads for women? If you are a screever in the United Kingdom, what would...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – August 16, 2014

 A quarter horse is so-called for its ability to outdistance other horse breeds in races of a quarter mile or less.  Giclée is a neologism...

Diana’s Quiz August 16, 2014

What is a quarter horse?  What is giclée? Which Canadian journalist has declared himself a candidate for mayor of Vancouver in the upcoming November election?  To which...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – August 9, 2014

 Riding Mountain National Park is in Manitoba, sitting on the Manitoba Escarpment. Dr. Kay Scarpetta is the medical examiner heroine of the crime novels of...

Diana’s Quiz – August 9, 2014

Where is Riding Mountain National Park? The heroine of which crime writer is a medical examiner? What do Billie Holiday, Sophia Loren and Mae West have...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – August 2, 2014

 1.  Members of the Royal 22e Regiment, also known as the Van Doos (corruption of the French vingt-deux) performed at Buckingham Palace’s Changing of...

Diana’s Quiz – August 2, 2014

1.  Which Canadian regiment participated in the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace this month and why?  2.  Where  were the Danish West Indies?  3. ...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – July 26, 2014

 1.  Pinocchio is the subject of the bronze statue in Collodi, Italy, the village where the writer, Carlo Lorenzini, lived as a child.  Lorenzini...

Diana’s Quiz – July 26, 2014

1. There is a bronze monument in Collodi in Tuscany.  It is of which ‘story book’ and cartoon character? 2.  Which 1944 film, starring Robert Donat...

Answers to Diana’s Quiz – July 19, 2014

  1. Coffitivity refers to a process which streams the ambient noise of a coffee shop to a desktop or other device to stimulate creativity.  2.  ...
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