Intermediate #27 (21-22)

Question 1

What condition often results from an iron deficiency and can cause weakness and exhaustion?

Answer 1

Anaemia

Question 2

What ethnic group has been subjected to forced detentions and so-called “re-education” in the Chinese region of Xinjiang since 2014?

Answer 2

Uyghurs

Question 3

How many kilograms are in a tonne?

Answer 3

1000

Question 4

Franz Liszt was a virtuoso of what musical instrument?

Answer 4

Piano

Question 5

Lake Eyre [“air”] is the largest lake in what country in which Uluru can be found?

Answer 5

Australia

Question 6

What country contains the cities of Marrakesh, Casablanca and Rabat?

Answer 6

Morocco

Question 7

What kind of geographic feature are the Namib, the Sonora and the Gobi?

Answer 7

Desert

Question 8

What country contains the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal?

Answer 8

India

Question 9

What substance is unusual in that it reaches maximum density not in its solid phase, but in its liquid phase, around 4 degrees Celsius?

Answer 9

Water

Question 10

What is the collective name for all of the water on Earth?

Answer 10

Hydrosphere

Question 11

What word refers to a layer of underground material that contains water, which can often be extracted using a well?

Answer 11

Aquifer

Question 12

What word refers to very salty water, saltier than typical seawater?

Answer 12

Brine or briny

Question 13

What two animals are associated with stock market increases and decreases?

Answer 13

Bull and bear

Question 14

What do we call the buildup of electrical charge on the surfaces of objects?

Answer 14

Static electricity

Question 15

What word refers to materials that do not allow electricity to travel easily through them?

Answer 15

Insulators

Question 16

Who promoted direct current in the “war of the currents” but lost out to George Westinghouse’s alternating current?

Answer 16

Thomas Edison

Question 17

What company owns YouTube?

Answer 17

Google

Question 18

Name either of the Canadian women who have reached the final of the U.S. Open in the past three years.

Answer 18

Bianca Andreescu or Leylah Annie Fernandez

Question 19

What four-letter word is a synonym of “countenance” and “visage”?

Answer 19

Face

Question 20

What D-word refers to gas changing phase directly to solid?

Answer 20

Deposition

Question 21

According to legend, who rode in the nude on a white horse through the streets of Coventry?

Answer 21

Lady Godiva

Question 22

What is the largest mammal in the world?

Answer 22

Blue whale

Question 23

How many days are there in a fortnight?

Answer 23

Fourteen

Question 24

What is the capital of Argentina?

Answer 24

Buenos Aires

Question 25

What kind of acid does the stomach use to help break down food?

Answer 25

Gastric acid

Question 26

What is the name of the coloured part of the eye?

Answer 26

Iris

Question 27

What kind of tissue attaches muscles to bones?

Answer 27

Tendons

Question 28

What precious mineral was being mined by the seven dwarfs in the fable of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?

Answer 28

Diamonds

Question 29

What term refers to diamonds that are used to finance militaries or militia groups, usually in Africa?

Answer 29

Blood diamonds

Question 30

Ekati and Diavik are diamond mines in what country?

Answer 30

Canada

Question 31

What 19th-century English-born businessman founded the diamond company DeBeers?

Answer 31

Cecil Rhodes

Question 32

What does S.I.N. stand for

Answer 32

Social Insurance Number

Question 33

What does N.F.B. stand for

Answer 33

National Film Board

Question 34

What does R.E.S.P. stand for

Answer 34

Registered Education Savings Plan

Question 35

What does B.N.L. stand for

Answer 35

Barenaked Ladies

Question 36

How many stars make up the Big Dipper?

Answer 36

Seven

Question 37

In what city would you find Canada’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?

Answer 37

Ottawa

Question 38

What do we call the spot on the earth’s surface directly above an earthquake’s focus?

Answer 38

Epicentre

Question 39

Where does a player who rolls three consecutive doubles get sent in Monopoly?

Answer 39

(Directly to) jail

Question 40

What word refers to one who dwells in Toronto?

Answer 40

Torontonian

Question 41

What word refers to rows on the periodic table of elements?

Answer 41

Periods

Question 42

According to Homer, what city did the ancient Greeks attack to regain Menelaus’s wife Helen?

Answer 42

Troy

Question 43

What event typically takes place every February or March at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood?

Answer 43

Academy Awards or Oscars

Question 44

At different times in the past, what country was ruled by the Capetian, Bourbon and Valois dynasties?

Answer 44

France

Question 45

What are the three colours of the French flag?

Answer 45

Blue, Red, White

Question 46

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?

Answer 46

Joan of Arc

Question 47

Developed in France in the 17th century, what lawn game sees players use wooden mallets to hit balls through arches?

Answer 47

Croquet

Question 48

The Rainmaker, A Time to Kill, The Firm and The Pelican Brief are all books by what author of legal thrillers?

Answer 48

John Grisham

Question 49

Though he may have led his own religious sect, what ancient preacher also baptised Jesus?

Answer 49

John the Baptist

Question 50

What star of many Western movies was nicknamed “The Duke”?

Answer 50

John Wayne

Question 51

Who sang Candle in the Wind at Princess Diana’s funeral and wrote the soundtrack to The Lion King?

Answer 51

Elton John

Question 52

What duo ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil?

Answer 52

Adam and Eve

Question 53

What man was swallowed by a giant fish, was spit up whole, and then went to warn Nineveh of its doom?

Answer 53

Jonah

Question 54

What do we call an angle measuring more than 180° but less than 360°?

Answer 54

Reflex angle

Question 55

Aside from degrees and gradians, what unit are angles measured in?

Answer 55

Radians

Question 56

What is the value of the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle if the third angle is 30°?

Answer 56

75°

Question 57

If two angles are complementary and one of them is 10°, what is the other one?

Answer 57

80°

Question 58

In which American state would we find the highest mountain in North America?

Answer 58

Alaska

Question 59

What is the chemical formula of table salt?

Answer 59

NaCl

Question 60

What term refers to a polygon with 12 sides?

Answer 60

Dodecagon

Question 61

What infamous sea captain was tried and executed on charges of piracy and murder in 1701?

Answer 61

William Kidd

Question 62

What wading birds with large bills are known for generally being monogamous, and were said to deliver babies to parents in European folklore?

Answer 62

Storks

Question 63

What Christmas carol is named for a ruler of Bohemia during the 10th century?

Answer 63

Good King Wenceslas

Question 64

What city did Rome fight against in the Punic Wars?

Answer 64

Carthage

Question 65

Who was Prime Minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957?

Answer 65

Louis Saint-Laurent

Question 66

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?

Answer 66

Cinnamon

Question 67

Since 2019, Jair Bolsonaro has been the president of what country?

Answer 67

Brazil

Question 68

What composer was working on his Requiem Mass in D Minor when he died in 1791?

Answer 68

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Question 69

Mother’s Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of which month?

Answer 69

May

Question 70

In which province would you find L’Anse aux Meadows?

Answer 70

Newfoundland and Labrador

Question 71

What is the capital of the Philippines?

Answer 71

Manila