Intermediate #27 (21-22) Flashcards
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What condition often results from an iron deficiency and can cause weakness and exhaustion?
Anaemia
What ethnic group has been subjected to forced detentions and so-called “re-education” in the Chinese region of Xinjiang since 2014?
Uyghurs
How many kilograms are in a tonne?
1000
Franz Liszt was a virtuoso of what musical instrument?
Piano
Lake Eyre [“air”] is the largest lake in what country in which Uluru can be found?
Australia
What country contains the cities of Marrakesh, Casablanca and Rabat?
Morocco
What kind of geographic feature are the Namib, the Sonora and the Gobi?
Desert
What country contains the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal?
India
What substance is unusual in that it reaches maximum density not in its solid phase, but in its liquid phase, around 4 degrees Celsius?
Water
What is the collective name for all of the water on Earth?
Hydrosphere
What word refers to a layer of underground material that contains water, which can often be extracted using a well?
Aquifer
What word refers to very salty water, saltier than typical seawater?
Brine or briny
What two animals are associated with stock market increases and decreases?
Bull and bear
What do we call the buildup of electrical charge on the surfaces of objects?
Static electricity
What word refers to materials that do not allow electricity to travel easily through them?
Insulators
Who promoted direct current in the “war of the currents” but lost out to George Westinghouse’s alternating current?
Thomas Edison
What company owns YouTube?
Name either of the Canadian women who have reached the final of the U.S. Open in the past three years.
Bianca Andreescu or Leylah Annie Fernandez
What four-letter word is a synonym of “countenance” and “visage”?
Face
What D-word refers to gas changing phase directly to solid?
Deposition
According to legend, who rode in the nude on a white horse through the streets of Coventry?
Lady Godiva
What is the largest mammal in the world?
Blue whale
How many days are there in a fortnight?
Fourteen
What is the capital of Argentina?
Buenos Aires
What kind of acid does the stomach use to help break down food?
Gastric acid
What is the name of the coloured part of the eye?
Iris
What kind of tissue attaches muscles to bones?
Tendons
What precious mineral was being mined by the seven dwarfs in the fable of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
Diamonds
What term refers to diamonds that are used to finance militaries or militia groups, usually in Africa?
Blood diamonds
Ekati and Diavik are diamond mines in what country?
Canada
What 19th-century English-born businessman founded the diamond company DeBeers?
Cecil Rhodes
What does S.I.N. stand for
Social Insurance Number
What does N.F.B. stand for
National Film Board
What does R.E.S.P. stand for
Registered Education Savings Plan
What does B.N.L. stand for
Barenaked Ladies
How many stars make up the Big Dipper?
Seven
In what city would you find Canada’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
Ottawa
What do we call the spot on the earth’s surface directly above an earthquake’s focus?
Epicentre
Where does a player who rolls three consecutive doubles get sent in Monopoly?
(Directly to) jail
What word refers to one who dwells in Toronto?
Torontonian
What word refers to rows on the periodic table of elements?
Periods
According to Homer, what city did the ancient Greeks attack to regain Menelaus’s wife Helen?
Troy
What event typically takes place every February or March at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood?
Academy Awards or Oscars
At different times in the past, what country was ruled by the Capetian, Bourbon and Valois dynasties?
France
What are the three colours of the French flag?
Blue, Red, White
What Frenchwoman helped win a battle against England in the Hundred Years’ War but was burnt at the stake for heresy because she said she had received messages from angels?
Joan of Arc
Developed in France in the 17th century, what lawn game sees players use wooden mallets to hit balls through arches?
Croquet
The Rainmaker, A Time to Kill, The Firm and The Pelican Brief are all books by what author of legal thrillers?
John Grisham
Though he may have led his own religious sect, what ancient preacher also baptised Jesus?
John the Baptist
What star of many Western movies was nicknamed “The Duke”?
John Wayne
Who sang Candle in the Wind at Princess Diana’s funeral and wrote the soundtrack to The Lion King?
Elton John
What duo ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil?
Adam and Eve
What man was swallowed by a giant fish, was spit up whole, and then went to warn Nineveh of its doom?
Jonah
What do we call an angle measuring more than 180° but less than 360°?
Reflex angle
Aside from degrees and gradians, what unit are angles measured in?
Radians
What is the value of the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle if the third angle is 30°?
75°
If two angles are complementary and one of them is 10°, what is the other one?
80°
In which American state would we find the highest mountain in North America?
Alaska
What is the chemical formula of table salt?
NaCl
What term refers to a polygon with 12 sides?
Dodecagon
What infamous sea captain was tried and executed on charges of piracy and murder in 1701?
William Kidd
What wading birds with large bills are known for generally being monogamous, and were said to deliver babies to parents in European folklore?
Storks
What Christmas carol is named for a ruler of Bohemia during the 10th century?
Good King Wenceslas
What city did Rome fight against in the Punic Wars?
Carthage
Who was Prime Minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957?
Louis Saint-Laurent
What spice, highly prized for burning as incense in ancient times, is often used as a flavouring in sweet and fruity dishes, particularly of apple flavour?
Cinnamon
Since 2019, Jair Bolsonaro has been the president of what country?
Brazil
What composer was working on his Requiem Mass in D Minor when he died in 1791?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mother’s Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of which month?
May
In which province would you find L’Anse aux Meadows?
Newfoundland and Labrador
What is the capital of the Philippines?
Manila
