Set #0 Flashcards
What 1950-53 war has never formally concluded with no peace treaty?
Korean War
I played goalie for the Montreal Canadiens between 1971 and 1979. During that time I won six Stanley Cups and was the goalie for Canada in the 1972 Summit Series. Who am I?
Ken Dryden
Which Italian, famous for his work in radio transmission, received the Nobel prize for physics?
Guglielmo Marconi
What is the name for a short story, usually about animals?
Fable
Who was the first woman member of parliament in Canada?
Agnes Macphail
On which island would we find Canada’s most northerly point?
Ellesmere island
What body of water is located north of Venezuela and south of Cuba?
Caribbean Sea
What class of poisonous compound was named for its discovery while producing the pigment Prussian blue?
Cyanide
Which word is a synonym for ‘many’, or a Roman army consisting of 10 cohorts?
Legion
What term refers to the number of waves a sound makes each second?
Frequency (of sound)
What is the SI unit for frequency?
Hertz
In 1521 Ferdinand Magellan was killed in a tribal skirmish on the island of Mactan, in which modern nation?
The Philippines
The German-born Empress of Russia, 1762-1796, was known by what title?
Catherine the Great
The first wife of King Henry the VIII of England, was Catherine of what Spanish territory?
(Catherine of) Aragon
In 1974, what African republic was the first Portuguese colony to gain independence?
Guinea-Bissau
The kidnapping, or perhaps elopement of which woman set off the event leading up to the ‘Illiad’?
Helen of Troy
What is the name of the railway that runs between Moscow and Vladivostok?
Trans-Siberian railway
Which abstract expressionist was famous for his drip paintings?
Jackson Pollock
Which exponent of magic realism chronicled the lives of the Buendia family in One Hundred Years of Solitude?
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Which author wrote about a title character who tilts at windmills he believes are giants and has a squire named Sancho Panza?
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
In the myth of Hades and Persephone, Persephone swallowed seven seeds of what fruit?
Pomegranate
What is the largest and most populated island of the French Polynesian Islands?
Tahiti
