Hint Sheet for 12 Cat Triv
Canadian History
Card 1
1. Lower means further down the river, closer to the ocean.
2. It was named after engineer John By.
3. Near a major shipping choke point, where boats have to pass through an artificial waterway.
4. $5 bill.
5. North Africa, on the Mediterranean Sea, Algeria’s neighbour.
Card 2
1. Last name is a popular brand of canned soup.
2. Originally called the Red River Colony.
3. 34 years after British Columbia.
4. In the 1960s, it was still politically acceptable to be prejudiced against this racial group.
5. The war where America fought Japan all over the Pacific Ocean.
Card 3
1. One year before Donald Trump.
2. People looking to “strike it rich” came here from all over the continent.
3. Most populous Maritime city in Canada.
4. Very nearly a 50/50 split.
5. Served 22 nonconsecutive years between 1921 and 1948.
Card 4
1. Eastern Canadian city where many have Scottish heritage.
2. 18 years before Canada’s 100th birthday.
3. Ceremonies continued despite the ban, as they were central to many First Nation economies.
4. Canada’s only walled city.
5. Her first name is also the name of a popular hardware store.
Card 5
1. Canada’s first Conservative Prime Minister.
2. Mr. Hudson’s first name is used in the name of a popular chocolate bar.
3. It was the end of a decade, the end of a century, and the end of a millennium.
4. The country of the Afrikaans language.
5. St. something and M something.
Card 6
1. A fur trade luxury good.
2. A riverfront suburb of one of Canada’s three largest metropolitan areas.
3. After World War II, just in time for the booming 50s.
4. In the extreme cold.
5. The Saint Lawrence Seaway starts at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River (Quebec City) and connects to every port on the 5 Great Lakes.
Card 7
1. The same year the rock band The Beetles formed.
2. First name: same as the American founding father Mr. Hamilton. Last name: The longest river in North America, which drains into the Arctic Ocean, was named after him.
3. Has to do with areas defined by water drainage.
4. Métis man with a Métis name, sounds sort of French.
5. French name ending in “-eau.”
Card 8
1. Historic goldrush town about an hour east of Quesnel, BC.
2. It was during World War I, so 1914-1918.
3. The city is in New England.
4. It was 15 years before the second one.
5. The war of the year the war was fought in.
Card 9
1. It is on highway 37 near the Yukon border.
2. There is only one province dramatic enough to have its own revolutions that don’t apply to the rest of the country.
3. He had two first names and a First Nations wife.
4. Starts with 199…
5. Initials are S.H., as in, “Shh, don’t tell anyone that there were already people there when my Indigenous guide and I arrived.”
Card 10
1. Moustached man who led Canada during World War I.
2. The Komagata Maru Was a boat that went from India to Japan to Canada.
3. A huge explosion in an Atlantic harbour prior to 1920.
4. It was the same inhumane economic practice that the cotton industry ran on.
5. What pirates dream of.
Card 11
1. His first year in office was 1921, and his last was 1948.
2. The word “Canada” mushed together with the name of a human body part.
3. The TransCanada highway that is not number 1.
4. The event shares a name with an ice cream bar; the nature of the event was gluttony over a certain natural resource.
5. Start of the 15th century plus 4 centuries, minus 77 years plus 4 decades.
Card 12
1. There is a TV show were Elijah Wood talks to his dog. His dog has the same first name as the guy on the $5 bill.
2. First name is French for Jack.
3. The easternmost province to border Nunavut.
4. This man also collected Indigenous art while trying to prevent Indigenous peoples from practicing their cultures.
5. The one where lots of people lost their jobs and didn’t get enough to eat.
Card 13
1. NWMP.
2. The location is on the Great Northern Peninsula of a well-known island in Eastern Canada.
3. The one with Charlottetown as its Capital.
4. Some say it is a creature; some say it travels on the wind. Starts with a W.
5. Name means “Mountain” in Spanish.
Card 14
1. Two of the slogans that have been used: “Super, Natural…”, and “The Best Place on Earth.”
2. Canada is a 60s baby.
3. It has a pretty descriptive name, sort of like “skull crushed,” or “face caved in.”
4. Billy Bishop flew a plane during World War I.
5. City in Quebec, two hour drive from Ottawa.
Card 15
1. It sits on a ridge in France.
2. Named after R.B. Bennet, Prime Minister of Canada From 1930 to 1935.
3. NWC.
4. During World War II.
5. The captain of the ship that explored the coastlines of Vancouver Island and the Pacific Northwest.
Card 16
1. The English one, the French one, the bilingual one, and the Scottish one.
2. Same year as the Paris Peace Conference following World War I.
3. The Thompson Rivers, in the Kamloops region of British Columbia, are named after him.
4. A small city on the shores of Lake Superior, in a bay, near Sleeping Giant Provincial Park.
5. This animal was the staple of the Plains peoples economies.
Card 17
1. Canada and America did not agree on the reasoning behind the Vietnam War.
2. A famous French President.
3. The Expo Line SkyTrain and the Coquihalla highway were featured at the event.
4. Not the city you might think, but very close.
5. Women in all the other provinces gained this right about 20 years earlier.
Card 18
1. It is 13 kilometers long.
2. During World War II, Mackenzie King held a referendum on this point. English Canada was generally in favour; French Canada was not.
3. The year John Lennon died.
4. A winter mountain sport in the province with the most mountains.
5. You will probably remember, unless you were less than 6 years old when 12 Cat Triv was published.
Canadian Geography
Card 19
1. The resemblance is in the bridges.
2. It is just west of a town called Golden.
3. Two words: 1st word is a large grazing mammal with antlers and hoofs; 2nd word is a kind of building.
4. The two rivers that “fork” here are the Assiniboine River and the Red River.
5. The other Canadian city named after this saint is Saint John, in a province that neighbours Quebec, and is home to Mount Carleton.
Card 20
1. It is world famous, and there is a national park named after it.
2. It is near some sand dunes, and it is not connected to the main highway system.
3. The one with Georgian Bay.
4. Seems to be everyone’s either favourite or least favourite province/territory.
5. Each territory has about the same population.
Card 21
1. The big one to the south.
2. Queen Elizabeth II’s last name.
3. First Nations people often made weapons of this name out of the tree branches that grew along the river.
4. Same province as Duck Mountain and Spruce Woods Provincial Parks.
5. The one that includes The Rock.
Card 22
1. Not the first or second city that comes to mind.
2. It contains the name of another province.
3. Its core area is known as The Hull.
4. The island is at the north end of Nova Scotia, and contains the harbour town of Sydney.
5. If you are travelling across Canada from east to west, this town marks the entrance point to Canada’s prime agricultural area, which you will be in until you reach the Rocky Mountains.
Card 23
1. Best place in Canada to see polar bears; reachable by plane or train only.
2. Two words: first word is the name of the people; second is “land” in their language.
3. Both became provinces in the same year of the 20th century.
4. The one next to the one with Whitehorse as its capital.
5. Lake of the Woods is near the city of Kenora.
Card 24
1. Two things the town is known for are the Royal Tyrrell Museum and the Hoodoos.
2. Translating the Latin makes it obvious (But using a translator is cheating).
3. Gets its name from the rivers.
4. Located in the south of the territory, where a river meets Great Slave Lake.
5. Has a variety of uses, including electronics, coinage, and the production of stainless steel.
Card 25
1. In southwest Yukon.
2. The four western provinces are eleven latitude lines tall.
3. Kind of an underwhelming national park in Ontario.
4. The key word in this question is the second “the.”
5. The province that has a salt water lake that is more salty, therefore more buoyant, than the Dead Sea.
Card 26
1. Jacques Cartier misunderstood the meaning of “kanata.”
2. The green on top represents lush forests in the north, and the yellow below represents golden fields in the south.
3. Two have towns named after them; one is the name of an Indigenous people; and the other is a Cree expression.
4. The city with the canal that gets turned into a giant ice rink every winter.
5. A huge one and a small one.
Card 27
1. The name of an animal and its house.
2. The one that doesn’t really need them.
3. Most of these two flags is just the colour red.
4. One shares its name with the closest city, and the other gets its name from its biome.
5. The one that is also home to the Assiniboine River.
Card 28
1. Its name is perhaps a bit childish at first glance.
2. You probably either love or hate this province.
3. Think mountains.
4. It’ll seem obvious once you look at the answer.
5. There is a very famous one nearby, but the closest one is much less famous.
Card 29
1. They built a toll highway that goes around this highway. The toll is over $50 if you drive the whole thing.
2. This park includes a large section of Hudson Bay coastline.
3. It was demolished to make way for the Georgia and Dunsmuir Viaducts.
4. Nova Scotia’s flag closely resembles the answer to this question.
5. Less than four.
Card 30
1. It’s bigger than Switzerland.
2. It includes the towns of Matane and Percé, and Forillion National Park.
3. Located at the southwest end of a highway numbered 401.
4. Its source is Great Slave Lake, in the Northwest Territories.
5. It is sometimes considered part of the GTA, sometimes not.
Card 31
1. Hints for 3 of them: A Canadian province, a US state, and the biggest one.
2. It shares a name with the host city of the 2000 summer Olympics.
3. Same name as the gold rush, and the ice cream bar.
4. Very small town in the southern prairies. Not Drumheller.
5. Cod.
Card 32
1. It is on a rocky coastline with a lighthouse.
2. The river was named after an explorer named Simon.
3. Has to do with Quebec City’s location at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
4. Two of the three smallest provinces by population. (Territories do not count.)
5. The site of the 2016 wildfire known as “The Beast.”
Card 33
1. Sudbury is the furthest.
2. In the local Indigenous language, the word Yukon is a contraction of two words: _____ and River. Yukon was the name given to the river. The territory was then named after this river.
3. There is a bay just off the coast of Victoria, BC, with the same name.
4. At its eastern point, it starts in Manitoba and follows the shape of Palliser’s Triangle, and then travels northwest until it hits the coast.
5. So you’ve narrowed it down to two cities? The one to the north.
Card 34
1. Don’t waste your time in the East.
2. It is about 738 kilometers (459 miles) long, with only one gas/service station, hotel, and restaurant in the middle, at a location called Eagle Plains.
3. Ontario is west of Quebec.
4. Highway 16 passes through this town.
5. Located at the very North of this province or territory.
Card 35
1. This city lives across the bay from the suburb of Dartmouth.
2. Not in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
3. Two words: The first word is the name of a town in Alaska.
4. Someone’s Triangle.
5. If you cross the boundary between them, you are travelling either north or south.
Card 36
1. Usually ranked as one of Canada’s top three universities.
2. The question contains half the answer.
3. One of Canada’s three biggest cities by population.
4. There is a common, popular dog species named after this eastern place.
5. The park is in New Brunswick, but the waters of the bay are shared with Nova Scotia.
History
Card 37
1. Sounds like a brutal guy.
2. Apparently St. Peter is the Peter the city was named after.
3. One would not assume it started in the summer, fall, or winter.
4. Japan renamed it to Manchuko, if that helps.
5. One that Britain finally walked away from.
Card 38
1. Before the Renaissance.
2. A curtain made of iron.
3. A country that once dominated the colonial scene in Europe, before Britain did.
4. That of the country the Ottoman capital was located in.
5. They later evolved into anti-American terrorists, but by that point they had changed their name.
Card 39
1. The city is extremely strategically located, geopolitically and militaristically.
2. Always good to learn a new language.
3. The Korean War started not too long after World War II ended.
4. His name sounds a bit like the sound a cat makes.
5. The last name of a guy named George; the other half of the Truman Doctrine.
Card 40
1. A combination of the names of two huge countries.
2. The country existed from 1918 until the civil war.
3. Mark Twain was a classic American writer, it only makes sense that he work on a classic American body of water.
4. It was signed on a Friday.
5. America was a rather isolationist country in 1861.
Card 41
1. A country that kept a very nervous eye on Germany during the 1920s and 30s.
2. Its name translated to English means something like “death by starvation.”
3. Machu Picchu.
4. One sounds like two very short English words put together. The other is a popular kind of candy.
5. The language was Creole; the neighbourhood was the Caribbean.
Card 42
1. Man of Steel.
2. The flag is mostly red, with some yellow.
3. Occurred inside the Soviet Union.
4. He was a General at the Normandy Landing.
5. In English, his first name is something you wear on your head.
Card 43
1. This country declared statehood in 1948.
2. A disease of the blood.
3. Landlocked European nation.
4. They built pyramids with steep steps going up the sides.
5. One of the most punishing factors of the Gulag was the extreme winters.
Card 44
1. Today they make a lot of clothes.
2. Soviet Union.
3. 1970s; the killing fields.
4. The next day is D+1, and then D+2, and so on. The plus sign is often dropped.
5. A country that hasn’t had a lot of opportunities for real wars.
Card 45
1. A coastal slave state.
2. All eyes were on the map of Africa.
3. His alcoholism got out of control while in office.
4. United we stand, divided we fall.
5. The land of the Khmer Rouge.
Card 46
1. A General, an assassinated one, a former vice president, and a pardoned one.
2. The symbolism implies “the Communist Army.”
3. The Sun King.
4. Since this event, women in Iran have had to cover their hair in public.
5. Real estate.
Card 47
1. This country/empire was an early master of ship building and seafaring.
2. The obvious two and a military ally.
3. If you only know one emperor of Japan, it’s him.
4. The second word is French for a colour.
5. An Egyptian queen.
Card 48
1. One of the first European countries to have colonies.
2. A Baltic neighbour.
3. Exploration in and around northern Canada.
4. About 12 million Holocaust victims in total, including other groups.
5. The country whose land it is, and the country closest to it.
Card 49
1. Same first name as Stalin.
2. Ocean product, not food.
3. The century of the first vaccine, Catherine the Great, and Gulliver’s Travels.
4. The four countries that fought Germany successfully, except one that didn’t.
5. The old guy who killed the nuclear deal over “Star Wars.”
Card 50
1. Sits at the gateway to the Baltic Sea.
2. Guaranteed death for both sides.
3. On the Pacific Rim.
4. One east and one west: West one uses an American flag with one star. East one is known for winning Olympic gold medals in running.
5. She ruled for 34 years.
Card 51
1. Lichtenstein’s neighbour.
2. A virgin queen, allegedly.
3. The region within this modern country is called Macedonia.
4. A queen whose name is still famous today, even among non-historians.
5. It didn’t kill him, but he was dead one year and one month later.
Card 52
1. Prior to a certain event; considered racist to glorify those days.
2. The Polish Corridor separated this territory from the rest of its country.
3. US Presidents who…
4. The international airport in Paris, France, is named after him.
5. It was him and the Nationalists versus Mao Zedong and the Communists.
Card 53
1. Fat Man and Little Boy.
2. New York City.
3. Kim Jong-un, the current dictator (as of May 2024), is his grandson.
4. The chubby bull dog-looking guy with the cigars.
5. Cathay and Canton are historic words used to refer to this country.
Card 54
1. Starts with unsafe sex.
2. Means “apart” in the Afrikaans language.
3. Four years after gaining freedom from the Soviet Union.
4. Often called the dress rehearsal for the Second World War.
5. This state witnessed a partial nuclear meltdown in 1979.
Geography
Card 55
1. A country with almost no history of colonialism.
2. Deeply conservative territory.
3. The country that is home to Bern and mountains.
4. The plates move away from each other, forming a…?
5. A ferry ride away from Helsinki, Finland.
Card 56
1. Mount St. Someone.
2. Ooze.
3. The two main ones south of the Pyrenees Mountains, and a tiny one which the straight leading into the Mediterranean Sea is named after.
4. All of the big cities in Texas.
5. Equator, Christopher, Amazon.
Card 57
1. After India and China.
2. A country that is in both Europe and Asia.
3. A woman’s name.
4. Contains salt water, but technically a lake.
5. Northwest, heartland, southeast.
Card 58
1. A southern city.
2. Car = Auto.
3. Addis Ababa is its capital.
4. The mapping error gives a slice of land just north of Lake of the Woods to America, where Manitoba meets Ontario.
5. It can get very hot in this southern European place.
Card 59
1. There are eight states that begin with the letter M.
2. One is the capital city, and the other is the country’s third biggest city.
3. Croatia used some genocidal tactics against this neighbour in the 1990s.
4. Russia stole it in 2014.
5. One was once controlled by the Roman Empire, and one is Biblically significant in how it was crossed.
Card 60
1. Archipelago means many small islands.
2. New England.
3. Flanders Fields.
4. Abu Dhabi, Al Jazeera, war torn.
5. Moscow Standard Time is UTC +3 hours.
Card 61
1. Go north and go inland.
2. Beach town great for kite flying.
3. Near the Black Sea.
4. Romance languages on both sides.
5. Southeastern state with a Confederate past.
Card 62
1. Dubai.
2. Historically Flemish.
3. Due south of Denver, on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
4. A country with the memory of a brutal genocide in the 1990s.
5. In Minnesota.
Card 63
1. One of two countries you can start your hike up Mount Everest from.
2. The one with oranges on its license plate.
3. Northeastern Russia.
4. It originates near Dijon and terminates in the English Channel.
5. Small coastal country that borders Burkina Faso.
Card 64
1. This country has another country landlocked inside of it.
2. Close to, but not on, the actual African continent.
3. They speak Spanish.
4. The one where the Beetles came from, the one with Loch Ness, The one named after an animal, and the one that is just a piece of the island to the west.
5. It is longer than just the Oregon Coast; it runs from Washington to southern California.
Card 65
1. This country’s coastline grew a little in 2014.
2. A desert, a historic dustbowl, some hot springs, and a swamp.
3. Both of which are landlocked.
4. Not far from Singapore.
5. Think Pacific.
Card 66
1. One of these countries has significant power over the other.
2. Mot Kansas.
3. Mot far from the Bering Straight.
4. A country with the money to spend on man-made islands and a climate with palm tree vibes.
5. It crosses an international border.
Card 67
1. Manhattan is one of them.
2. It contains the word “California.”
3. The country is shaped like a C.
4. The only route to the port of St. Petersburg.
5. It is not an interstate highway, but it crosses two state lines.
Card 68
1. The land of castles, vampires, romance, and a slice of the Carpathian Mountain range.
2. Pretty much the only place on the whole left side.
3. There is a Jeep model named after it.
4. Same state as Lake Mead.
5. It is not pronounced the way it is written.
Card 69
1. Southwestern deserts.
2. A Spanish-speaking republic.
3. The one with the Rhineland.
4. For three of them, it is not obvious which continent they are in.
5. A state with a lot of water, but pretty low elevation.
Card 70
1. The one with oil and Boko Haram.
2. From Sochi to Algeria.
3. Yellowstone.
4. East Africa; often mispronounced.
5. Was a Soviet republic.
Card 71
1. In Europe.
2. Three east coast and one southwest.
3. Both named after Russian heads of state.
4. Andorra is a mountainous country in the Pyrenees.
5. Vlad the Impaler was once king, and he was rumoured to dip his bread in human blood.
Card 72
1. The capital, the world-famous one, and the location of the 2019 mass shooting.
2. A coastal capital of a desert country that is small compared to its neighbours.
3. Not gold.
4. About 1,000 meters (or 3,300 feat) taller than Canada’s highest mountain.
5. Nipple Button.
Politics
Card 73
1. The unacknowledged elephant in the room.
2. King Someone the sixth.
3. The name of the city has the word “the” in it, and so does the country it is in.
4. Things people do and ways people act, not because they are following clearly expressed rules, but simply because everyone does these things and acts in these ways, and has been for a long time; society is full of such …
5. It is a national park that you are not allowed to spend the night in. And there are wild horses there.
Card 74
1. Melon-oh.
2. He was once the Premiere of Saskatchewan.
3. The country that owns all the pandas.
4. Technically a weapon, but this is a fancy, decorated one.
5. Same as Canada.
Card 75
1. Election day is in November. Inauguration day is not.
2. Two years after Medvedev.
3. From the Greek: Autos + kratos.
4. The Congressional position with the shortest term.
5. No one ever bothered to write it down.
Card 76
1. “Quebecois” is Quebecois for “Quebecker.”
2. You see, there is an area in Greece known as Macedonia, which is where Alexander the Great is from. So Greece felt that the former Macedonia was stealing its history by calling their country “Macedonia.”
3. The first two have almost no power, unless there is an existential emergency.
4. A 19th century President with a first name originating in Greek mythology.
5. The place the legislators assemble.
Card 77
1. Neither of them operate anywhere else in Ontario.
2. Yellow is their colour. In America, they have a flag with a picture of a snake and a caption that reads, “Don’t tread on me.”
3. It is about the treaties.
4. “Bicameral” contains a prefix that contains the answer.
5. The name of an American political party makes up two thirds of the answer.
Card 78
1. Ignore the CD.
2. “Quebecois” is Quebecois for “Quebecker.”
3. All for one and one for all, or words to that effect.
4. These two states were named after two sisters, both of whom were Queens of England in the 16th century.
5. A horizontal line where the left slowly fades into the right.
Card 79
1. If you know one American political building, it is this one.
2. Two words: The first is a military title with an F sound but no F in the word, if you say it the British way, that is.
3. The elected lower house inside has green seats.
4. -ization.
5. It changed to USMCA, but it didn’t stick.
Card 80
1. The one signed in the city where the World Health Organization is located.
2. Every two years, one-third of these positions are up for election.
3. One for each branch of power in a constitutional democracy.
4. An old house that costs a lot to maintain.
5. Under siege on January 6, 2021.
Card 81
1. There is just one.
2. Washington DC is not a state.
3. Consider the difference between monopoly and oligopoly.
4. The English speakers.
5. What people mean when they say “this government.”
Card 82
1. The political body of the place their island is not attached to.
2. Cartel of oil sellers.
3. Same as UK; in terms of real power.
4. Size doesn’t matter.
5. Canada has 24 senators per region (excluding the rural North). The trick question is: What are the regions?
Card 83
1. The one who shares a last name with a former prime minister.
2. A very powerful position in the US government.
3. First word: Sporting/shoe company starts with an A. Second word: The band that sings Dancing Queen and Mama Mia.
4. I = Indigenous.
5. Their office is in Toronto.
Card 84
1. French Canadian; was a minister in Stephen Harper’s Conservative government.
2. a) Same name as a medium-sized city in Ontario; b) Not clear if it ends in an oh sound or a guh sound; c) Contains a three letter word for automobile; d) Mot Doublin, the other one.
3. The fact that it is a sparsely populated state does not matter.
4. Contains the last name of Canada’s second prime minister, and the French word for Castle.
5. Not Maryland.
Card 85
1. There are ten or thirteen of them in Canada.
2. Opposite of theocracy.
3. When Trump was President, it was Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi.
4. Takes about seven years of schooling, pays well.
5. A single-termer.
Card 86
1. In Europe, but not in the European Union.
2. The middle word has French origins.
3. New Zealand’s capital.
4. Sounds like a green vegetable.
5. Same as the number of federal electoral districts. And same as the number of seats in the House of Commons. Ok, now for the hint: it’s over 300.
Card 87
1. Two of them are hostile neighbours with different religions; One of them is nearly completely cut off from the world diplomatically; and one of them has received lots of support from America.
2. A person who will represent about 100,000 people.
3. He said this in the context of Hitler’s rise to power.
4. This level of government probably has the most impact on the lives of individuals.
5. The annual, absolutely necessary ones.
Card 88
1. Six digits, but many exceptions.
2. Minimum number of Senators plus minimum number of House representatives.
3. Same as Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Newfoundland.
4. Just the one single word that you would expect for the leader of a government.
5. The Speaker is a regular MP but can only vote to break a tie.
Card 89
1. There are 100 federal senators.
2. Yukon is home to about 45,000 people.
3. Blue-haired character on The Simpsons.
4. It involves a post.
5. The five winners of World War II.
Card 90
1. He signed NAFTA.
2. It’s always a Tuesday.
3. The man who did not love Diana the way a prince is expected to love his princess.
4. Santa Clause.
5. It combines two words.
Science and Technology
Card 91
1. Here’s how that trick works where you calculate how far away lightning is by counting the seconds between when you hear thunder and see the lightning: Add 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) for every 2.9 seconds you count.
2. First convert 1 yard into meters.
3. 90 degrees would mean the Earth spins like a wheel, with the North and South Poles at due West and due East. 0 degrees would mean the Earth spins perfectly upright. 180 degrees would mean the same but the Earth is upside down.
4. The name of this car part is closer to AC than DC.
5. It is a nutrient you gotta eat, and there is no K in it.
Card 92
1. A Cambridge University graduate who was perhaps more famous for the disease he lived with.
2. A greenhouse gas.
3. Usually thought of as a land animal, but often categorized as an ocean animal.
4. The exosphere is the layer of Earth’s atmosphere that is furthest from the surface.
5. The Richter scale uses the simplest kind of logarithmic scale.
Card 93
1. Single digit billions.
2. Part of the country of Ecuador.
3. A car part that is often stolen off of cars.
4. Perhaps the middle row will jog your memory: A S D F G H J K L.
5. Contains the Greek word for Earth.
Card 94
1. I always confuse it with pediatrician, but that is a doctor for children.
2. Sounds more like a car company.
3. It was Russian.
4. Where the amount of daylight varies widely.
5. Was once the name of a basketball team based in Seattle, Washington.
Card 95
1. I.
2. It’s a few thousand years old.
3. Same country as Buddhism.
4. These two plates are unambiguously named after the land and water that sits on top of them.
5. When flipped upside down, the number remains readable, and goes up by 693.
Card 96
1. X.
2. One of each.
3. Spread over two provinces.
4. Potentially lethal, but can seem harmless.
5. Lighter than air.
Card 97
1. Life-saving doctor.
2. The key is the decimal.
3. The something effect.
4. Ironman is a female.
5. An even number.
Card 98
1. It involves a magnet.
2. Between 10 and 100 million years ago.
3. There is a 4-5 day coastal hiking trail on Vancouver Island with the same name.
4. At the end of a very culturally significant decade for Canada, America, and the United Kingdom.
5. The engines on most automobiles last long enough to drive 6 or 7 times around the equator.
Card 99
1. The height of the wave determines amplitude; the wavelength determines pitch.
2. Those of people with diabetes do not function properly.
3. Where the sun rises and sets at the same time each day.
4. It’s not bugs, remember? Because 8 legs, not 6.
5. Another word for “syrupness.”
Card 100
1. There are two names for it. One has three medical terms that most people don’t know; the other is “someone’s name disease.”
2. Atmospheric damage; involves the sun.
3. A tumour on or near this nerve will mess with your balance.
4. Shift + 4 = $.
5. It can do this by jumping off of some sort of land or floating ice and landing with its front legs on the Beluga’s spine, breaking its back.
Card 101
1. Mot methane.
2. They pluck their food out of the ocean.
3. Affects the biggest organ.
4. There is a trench between them.
5. Used around the world. Five syllables.
Card 102
1. Two kinds of exhaust.
2. Rhymes with Talleous, dinkus, and apes.
3. Much of it is mined in Chile.
4. Makes it seem like they study meteor showers.
5. Lots to be found in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
Card 103
1. Has to do with dopamine.
2. I forget.
3. The century that began 530 years after the Egyptian queen Cleopatra died.
4. Wave after wave.
5. Each has a current.
Card 104
1. Wave height relates to amplitude.
2. Characterized by loss of bone density.
3. Also called spirit bear, looks like an albino black bear, but it is not.
4. Contains the sound tin.
5. Close to Belarus.
Card 105
1. Ask the rhinoceros.
2. Mot exactly a thousand.
3. It provides energy for the cell.
4. More than 10 years before World War I.
5. Not groundwater or water table.
Card 106
1. Colonial-era explores would often get this; it was frequently fatal.
2. A peninsula in Central America.
3. Mot computer.
4. These components define the atom.
5. Tectonic in nature.
Card 107
1. The word sounds like it means, “something that urinates.”
2. Not cowpox, but cowpox was used in the development of this vaccine.
3. Your own little network.
4. CH4.
5. Beavers make these.
Card 108
1. The pure middle.
2. The one with Surinam.
3. Each bee hive a Four Seasons hotel.
4. It has a phobia, so to speak.
5. A difficult shell to crack.
Pop Culture
Card 109
1. They dated in Season 4.
2. White bricks on the album cover.
3. Chandler, Joey, Monica, Phoebe, Rachel, Ross.
4. “Um,” + something you use to cross a river.
5. Based in Japan.
Card 110
1. The first two.
2. There are three seasons and a narrator.
3. This woman dated Elon Musk right after him.
4. It’s a pretty thick snake.
5. The implication is that she is the scariest, most evil thing in the world.
Card 111
1. 180 episodes.
2. I often wonder if I am a character in this game.
3. Bottom left and bottom right of the country.
4. Red hair.
5. Someone perhaps better known for performing at a rave.
Card 112
1.Jack-o-lantern.
2. Fat guy.
3. Someone who used to be a stripper and Someone the Horse.
4. A short Jewish guy with a high voice.
5. David Brent in the UK version.
Card 113
1. The main character is Hank Hill.
2. Kind of like, Susy-Anna Louisiana; the other is assumed to be her real name.
3. The first track is “Come Together.”
4. It is on fire.
5. The Notebook.
Card 114
1. Made of hexagons.
2. Biblical first name, wooden last name.
3. It came in a cereal box back in 2003.
4. I don’t believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now.
5. His colours are blue, white, and red.
Card 115
1. She was once married to Will Arnett.
2. This name is also the title of numerous official positions within police or fire departments, courts, the military, and government offices.
3. The owner of Donkey Kong.
4. Shime on you crazy diamond, twice.
5. a) With Dustin Hoffman; b) a decision; c) Margaret Thatcher.
Card 116
1. The one with the Triwizard Tournament.
2. The day the music died, and Peggy sue cried.
3. Sugar and a vegetable.
4. Big mouth, long hair.
5. Princess Leia strangles him with a chain while wearing a bikini.
Card 117
1. He has a very flexible face and is known for his physical comedy.
2. Think ink.
3. Japanese; very popular.
4. A country that no one had heard of before the movie.
5. His real first name is Able.
Card 118
1. At the end of the film, after Anakin loses a hand for the first time.
2. Named after a vegetable almost no one likes.
3. Not Larry, Terry, Cary, Bary, or Harry.
4. Each of these buttons are like the left click on a computer mouse.
5. Dr. Evil and a famous comedian.
Card 119
1. The Rolling Stones have a logo: lips with a tongue sticking out.
2. This company also bought Marvel.
3. These letters are taken: A, B, L, R, X, Y, Z.
4. There is a gas station in every episode.
5. All the dishes and furniture can talk.
Card 120
1. Their most popular songs are “My Name is Mud,” and “Jerry was a Racecar Driver.”
2. Starring Jim Carrey.
3. The employer of Smithers.
4. No title written on album cover, but it does say “The Beatles.”
5. He is only around for one film.
Card 121
1. Takes place in a stadium.
2. Its name is an extreme winter weather event.
3. Takes place at work.
4. The one that, if turned up loud enough, feels like it could cause internal bleeding.
5. Cross this line. (paraphrased)
Card 122
1. The Swedish one.
2. “The representative from California has the floor.”
3. Runs fast.
4. This season came out in September 2009.
5. Same movie as “Doe, a dear, a female dear” and “These are a few of my favourite things.”
Card 123
1. Mr. Something.
2. It is set in some snowy mountains.
3. The character the bald guy with the shot gun is always after.
4. On the album cover, the band members are all looking down at the camera.
5. Ten years before Family Guy.
Card 124
1. The town name consists of two French words that every English speaker knows.
2. Last name is an automobile company.
3. Some people put $500 in the middle, but the rules don’t mention this.
4. Fry, Layla, and Bender.
5. Before The White Stripes.
Card 125
1. A female British billionaire.
2. What you would probably do if you noticed a dead bug on your arm.
3. Two Jewish comedians, one with hair, one with glasses.
4. He died in 2017.
5. The same name as a legendary Russian princess rumoured to have survived the assassination of her whole family.
Card 126
1. Think pink.
2. Two words merged together.
3. It is just two initials, but it is four syllables.
4. Wears green.
5. The title evokes a fairytale feeling.
Lifestyle
Card 127
1. It’s in Utah.
2. Inspired by Peter Pan.
3. Amounts to about one drink per hour and a half.
4. The Nordic country with the highest population.
5. Take the noun, apply the appropriate adjective to it, now make it a verb.
Card 128
1. It is a boulevard.
2. Flanders Fields.
3. There are oranges on the license plate.
4. A mineral and a fruit.
5. The one named in honour of the equator.
Card 129
1. In the state run by the Cartel Jalisco New Generation.
2. It is an animal-born disease.
3. Half of one unit.
4. If you shoot before you get a chance to find the hoop, than you’re pretty much just chucking the ball at the backboard.
5. Japanese word.
Card 130
1. You buy, trade, and collect the cards, and then use them to dual.
2. The correct answer includes both natural and synthetic types; there is a similar word that refers only to the natural types.
3. In this part of the city, the streets are arranged and numbered in a grid, horizontally and vertically.
4. Also called darts.
5. Has to be the blue kind.
Card 131
1. You are looking for a word that means ancient.
2. The one with The Dodgers.
3. An eighth of an ounce is $35 at $10/gram.
4. What happens here stays here.
5. A cheap one.
Card 132
1. Perhaps the most environmentally conscious state.
2. The state of freedom; southwest.
3. The opposite of a bear, in financial jargon.
4. Measured in ounces: there is a decimal. Measured in milliliters: A multiple of 5.
5. The city with the Lincoln Memorial.
Card 133
1. One year over the Canadian voting age.
2. Sort of like a bubble maker.
3. Three right answers. This is where America’s stock trading happens.
4. One word, sounds like two. 1: A thing that opens a lock; 2: (singular) You have five on each foot.
5. A European country with a centuries-old tradition of neutrality.
Card 134
1. Coastal country, home to Rotterdam.
2. One letter.
3. P…tarian.
4. A California suburb.
5. Happens every October.
Card 135
1. Its name implies that it blows air into the grass.
2. Think literally.
3. Same as LSD.
4. In the Northern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere.
5. If they had lived three times as long, they still would have died one year prior to Canada’s current average life expectancy.
Card 136
1. One year before Obama’s election.
2. The D stands for Domination, but some prefer discipline.
3. One was alcohol, and the other is commonly known to be fatal when mixed with alcohol.
4. Same as Alberta.
5. The thing you use to play hockey, plus an animal that is cute and cuddly.
Card 137
1. The one in the name, the opiate, and the one most commonly consumed at coffee shops.
2. It’s slippery, with oatmeal added.
3. Southeast; 3 hours from Key West.
4. The region thought to have a utopian economic model.
5. New Jersey on the ocean.
Card 138
1. Some dating apps for smart phones let you accept or decline a person based on their picture by either swiping left or right on the screen when their picture comes up.
2. Bitcoin is the most popular.
3. It is named after someone from the British royal family.
4. He has been removed from almost all social media sites, including YouTube.
5. The land of lochs and scotch.
Card 139
1. West Coast.
2. It is a group of stocks you buy at once and can then trade as a single investment product; its price fluctuates with the changing prices of the stocks within it.
3. It’s a trick; it’s almost a royal flush, but it’s not. But it is the second best hand in poker.
4. Code names.
5. If you want a hint for this question, write one yourself.
Card 140
1. It’s a new one in name only.
2. Something social Conservatives do not like.
3. In chess, when one player threatens the other’s king.
4. This company was not a household name before the COVID-19 pandemic.
5. It is a classic American story to arrive at this city by river.
Card 141
1. Three words. Both the L and the S refer to the first word. The second word is acid. The D stands for the third word.
2. The Portuguese language is still alive and well there.
3. It is very unlikely that you will have to play dead.
4. YouTuber, been around a while.
5. Cortana and Alexa.
Card 142
1. One where it is still possible to find hotels with rooms you can smoke in.
2. He has experienced a lot of loathing and fear.
3. It is mot usually advisable to hold this position for the long term.
4. Body shots are a bit sexual in nature.
5. Often confused with Switzerland.
Card 143
1. The heart of Silicon Valley.
2. A German liquor and an energy drink that is marketed as an athletic beverage.
3. Logo is a circle.
4. Four years.
5. A fruit and a wake up call.
Card 144
1. Laundry.
2. Same as Hinduism.
3. The company may be trying to invoke the word “duration” or “durability.”
4. The one with the silent P and the one that worked with Bio N Tech.
5. It’s white, even though it’s usually white and red.
Sports
Card 145
1. Some obvious information will guide you to the answer: There are 18 holes. The par is either 3, 4, or 5. There are as many par 3s as par 5s, making the average par 4.
2. This city’s NBA team is the Bulls.
3. These were the winter Olympics after Vancouver, Canada.
4. Two are Canadian; One plays in a city connected to Canada by bridge and tunnel; One plays in a city located across a Great Lake from Canada; and the other two teams play in cities with unique local accents.
5. Wisconsin.
Card 146
1. The heart of the Louisiana purchase.
2. When you get a strike, both of your next two throws count towards it.
3. You get enough points for it to be considered a bonus.
4. First you need the advantage.
5. Same state as Savanah.
Card 147
1. Christ the Redeemer.
2. There are four numbers on a disc.
3. With a spare, only your next throw counts towards it.
4. People in British Columbia only remember this because they remember which team lost.
5. The difference is one.
Card 148
1. Speed and accuracy.
2. The St. Louis Rams moved to Los Angeles, so only one team left in Missouri.
3. No team mates.
4. Involves colour.
5. Synonym for divide.
Card 149
1. Never more than once in any city; never in Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Halifax, or Quebec City.
2. Yao Ming. Not Austin. Cowboys and Stars. Not El Paso. Tim Duncan.
3. Doping scandal.
4. Not St. Paul.
5. Something men.
Card 150
1. They moved there from Vancouver.
2. It is pretty far inland, and it is pretty cold.
3. An equal number of solids and stripes, the 8 ball, and the white ball.
4. Not to be confused with the 1988 summer Olympics, which were in Seoul, South Korea.
5. An animal name, but it is redundant.
Card 151
1. Canada’s centennial.
2. Even Steven.
3. An odd number.
4. The Golden Gate Bridge is named after the same bit of golden Earth; it’s the way the dead grass glistens in the sunlight, with the shimmering ocean all around it.
5. A penguin born in Nova Scotia.
Card 152
1. Has to do with his body.
2. The sport with perhaps the most figures of speech that come from it.
3. Persian Gulf.
4. They changed their name fairly recently.
5. Is it a sport? All you do is sit on a chair.
Card 153
1. In One of Canada’s oldest cities.
2. Edgar Allen Poe.
3. Close to Canada.
4. Huge in America.
5. A salt water animal, a fresh water animal, and a position among humans; located in a tech city, a tourist city, and a movie star city, respectively.
Card 154
1. A green team.
2. Only in Calgary and Edmonton.
3. It involves a choice.
4. Somehow it is related to a deck of cards.
5. A city made famous for another sporting event.
Card 155
1. He played for the Pheonix Suns for many years.
2. Can be one v. one or two v. two.
3. A plant, a fossil, and a bird.
4. In 2021.
5. 90210 is a zip code.
Card 156
1. West of the Jets, north of the flames.
2. One where you could get stuck in the sand.
3. F is for fighting.
4. A sport where body hair slows you down.
5. It’s mew; the old one is in England.
Card 157
1. There are tornadoes there.
2. It is the least bad of the not good scores you could shoot on a hole.
3. Club 16.
4. Winter fun.
5. East coast of the peninsula.
Card 158
1. Team logo features a whale.
2. Lots of Irish ancestry there.
3. Down under.
4. Birdie comes before eagle.
5. This team plays in a state that is famous for being the ending place of the expedition.
Card 159
1. A German luxury car.
2. Colorado’s capital.
3. An animal most people are scared of.
4. Has to do with location.
5. Less than half a kilometer.
Card 160
1. Less than the CFL.
2. Has to do with literal lakes.
3. Same as the number of par 5s.
4. Capital of NC.
5. He was a basketball player.
Card 161
1. A garden.
2. The mascot is a machine.
3. Don’t waste your time looking outside of Ontario.
4. A multiple of 50.
5. a) Chicken sold as fast food; b) Snow that chases you; c) Name of nearby mountains; d) Hoofed animals that run.
Card 162
1. As seen in the film A Knight’s Tale.
2. Not just one.
3. An assistant captain on the Canucks while Markus Nasland was captain.
4. Between Tiger and Woods, only one of those is part of his real name.
5. One of them is on TV all the time and there is a professional league for fans to follow. The other is nearly invisible in the media.
Spirituality
Card 163
1. Saudi Arabia.
2. The one that is not like the others.
3. East and west; follows a similar line of division as the Iron Curtain.
4. Followers sometimes knock on your door.
5. Latin America.
Card 164
1. Same god.
2. They do not eat the meat of cows.
3. The eye of the storm in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
4. Relates to the question of who should succeed the Prophet.
5. It’s just his normal name, not an extended title.
Card 165
1. This is part of the reason they side with the UK rather than Ireland.
2. At first glance, the word’s definition seems to be the study of numbers, given the Greek suffix.
3. The Great Salt Lake is in Utah.
4. One of his twelve disciples.
5. Currently not fully in the hands of Muslims.
Card 166
1. South Asia.
2. An area that science struggles to coexist with.
3. Relates to the question of who should succeed the Prophet.
4. Bloody Mary was queen of this country in the 1500s.
5. More generally, he is also the god of violence and bloodshed.
Card 167
1. Sounds like the spicy goo you put on sushi.
2. The first syllable is sin.
3. Major is a serious understatement; it is a similar event to the Great Schism of 1054.
4. The ones that originated in India.
5. Most people associate it with Jamaica.
Card 168
1. They have “Reading Rooms” in neighbourhoods all over North America.
2. Scandinavia.
3. Everyone pronounces his name a little differently; impressive moustache.
4. One of their philosophies is to give more weight to personal experience than to religious doctrine.
5. The “F” in F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Card 169
1. The main church in this religion is called The Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints, and is located in Salt Lake City, Utah.
2. It’s not a revolution.
3. As of 2024, Islam is approximately 85 years away from its 1500th birthday.
4. A kind of freedom.
5. This region is in the northern borderlands area between India and Pakistan.
Card 170
1. This fighting was all part of the Protestant Reformation.
2. Indonesia is home to more followers of this religion than any other country.
3. The main one in India.
4. Has to do with the one known as The Buddha.
5. Another word for human plus another word for middle.
Card 171
1. The name is so common it sounds made up.
2. Think of the famous statue in Rio de Janeiro.
3. Starts with a D.
4. The word means strict, traditional, or resistant to change; there is also the geographical direction in the name.
5. About 1100 years before Islam.
Card 172
1. Doll E baby sheep.
2. Follows Ramadan.
3. They have been known to knock on doors.
4. Many followers wear turbans.
5. The word “Mennonite” is derived from the guy’s first name.
Card 173
1. It was written in Arabic.
2. A polytheistic religion.
3. The Abrahamic ones.
4. His name makes him sound like a real wuss.
5. Involves Jesus.
Card 174
1. The one most commonly practiced in Palestine.
2. Same guy who talked to the burning bush.
3. Both started in India.
4. Someone the 6th.
5. One of the classic Athenian gods, also recognized as a Roman god, and big on poetry.
Card 175
1. Also called the Festival of Lights.
2. Island nation.
3. Considered a protector of Lower Egypt.
4. A very common name; just the one name.
5. Cone as you are, something in the way, all apologies.
Card 176
1. Pretty much the Old Testament of the Bible.
2. Post war, economic boom, rise of the suburbs.
3. The remains of fire.
4. For Mr. Meseeks, existence is pain; give him a task so he can dedicate his time to completing it and then die already.
5. About 3,000 years older than Protestantism.
Card 177
1. Your neighbour, no matter where on Earth you live.
2. Mountains in the North, beaches in the South.
3. Perhaps the most famous person with this religion.
4. Egypt once attacked Israel on this day, unsuccessfully.
5. Easier for a medium-sized animal to get through a tiny hole.
Card 178
1. It is the holiest month in Islam, a month of prayer and introspection.
2. The man who gave the famous “I Have a Dream” speech in America in the 1960s sort of has the same name.
3. One of the five biggest cities in America by population; ridiculous urban sprawl.
4. Contains the root of a synonym for “single,” or “individual.”
5. The century William Shakespeare was born.
Card 179
1. French philosopher.
2. A very old religion.
3. Fourth rock from the sun.
4. All black; capable of making and mimicking a variety of sounds.
5. Where today there is dwindling hope for a two-state solution.
Card 180
1. Common in Russia and in Russian tea houses in North America.
2. These are a bit like paying for forgiveness.
3. A Latin American nation that, since the Atlantic slave trade, has been home to a number of traditions borne in Africa.
4. Think about the main symbol of Christianity, and what happened three days later.
5. One of the world’s oceans.
Literature
Card 181
1. East coast state; Walks on four legs only.
2. They have never been in the same room together and no one has ever seen them meet.
3. Relates to how the novel’s narration is set up; this takes place on a ship headed to the Arctic.
4. Type of theatre that explores and makes fun of life’s inherent meaninglessness.
5. The one who succeeded the one who pardoned Nixon.
Card 182
1. You know his name, even if you haven’t read the book.
2. Set in both Paris and London.
3. The one all his books are set in.
4. He also bankrolled him.
5. The capital of this state contains the name Louis.
Card 183
1. The title implies a bird theme.
2. The leader of the coup.
3. Coastal, close to the capital, where the national park is.
4. Her name is a female first name plus a male first name.
5. Born in 1799; perhaps Russia’s most celebrated artist.
Card 184
1. Same first name as the singer of Nirvana.
2. A big country known and celebrated for its literary history.
3. A bloody pig head swarming with buzzing bugs.
4. There are girl guides and boy…?
5. The setting is Narnia.
Card 185
1. Written in French, there are two English titles it is often translated into.
2. He is a vampire hunter from the 1897 novel Dracula, by Bram Stoker.
3. Studied creative writing at the University of British Columbia, lives in Toronto, widely read and respected among Canadian readers.
4. Something very general.
5. Published in 1962.
Card 186
1. Three are from the 19th century and one is from the 18th century.
2. Something mechanical and a fruit.
3. A self-chosen nickname for Severus Snape.
4. He lived through the Harlem Renaissance and most of the Civil Rights Movement in America.
5. UK.
Card 187
1. He is late.
2. In Munich, after an attempted coup.
3. Noun also verbs.
4. A big name in English literature; 14th century; his first name sounds modern.
5. An activity you might do at the beach or in an open field.
Card 188
1. A cute version of a longer name that you would use with a child.
2. An American footballer.
3. These days this name seems to be used almost exclusively in video games.
4. Vladimir.
5. Born in India; first name sounds like a fish; last name sounds like these fish are trying to move quickly.
Card 189
1. The name seems to imply: Life before heaven.
2. Involves a lack of trust.
3. Seems like an oxymoron.
4. Known by one name only; also wrote The Odyssey.
5. The front cover of perhaps every edition since its publication in 1968 has featured a picture of a rainbow/tai-dye painted school bus.
Card 190
1. He also wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and George’s Marvelous Medicine.
2. A coastal one that many people dream of, and a landlocked one that almost no one dreams of.
3. Contains the syllables pistol. (Card 196, question 5, contains an example and the answer (spoiler!) to this question.)
4. Written by Jonathan Swift.
5. In the something of an animal.
Card 191
1. His most famous book; there is a movie starring Johnny Depp.
2. A male poet who lived from 1914 to 1953; both his first and last names are first names.
3. A greatly depressing decade.
4. He was born in 1899.
5. A little bird that sings.
Card 192
1. China to the north, ocean to the south, Muslims to the east and west.
2. This American city began as a French colonial town.
3. Balding with glasses; wrote for Rolling Stone Magazine; broke a lot of rules; hated Richard Nixon; loved drugs, guns, grapefruit, and Wild Turkey.
4. Something heavenly in the United States of America.
5. He also wrote Time Machine and War of the Worlds.
Card 193
1. cents.
2. Having blood on one’s hands is pretty common figurative language for having killed someone.
3. Same name as the current pope (May 2024).
4. Barcelona is in Catalonia; Hemingway also fought in this war.
5. Don’t know about his face, but there was something in his brain that was rather good looking.
Card 194
1. The word that best describes a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.
2. He is a highly regarded absurdist writer. Although these plays are not musicals, the writer, who also often directed, would bring a metronome to rehearsal so that the actors would deliver their lines on point with the play’s rhythm.
3. In Florida, at the end of a chain of islands connected by a bridge. It has a name.
4. A Russian name, but it seems to contain the English word/sound rascal.
5. Odd number; less than 10.
Card 195
1. The language the novel is written in matches the country the main characters live in; Dracula lives in a country where a romance language is spoken.
2. Born in Boston, died in Baltimore.
3. Lived 1874 to 1946; lesbian; She knew Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway.
4. Every city, suburb, village, and one-horse-town in the country’s got one.
5. A type of jar often used in laboratories to form and contain a vacuum.
Card 196
1. No man is an island.
2. It stands for something (supposedly) universally and timelessly shameful for a woman.
3. In plain language: “Where All the Different Plants and Animals come from.”
4. Hard labour camps.
5. Perky flowers.
Card 197
1. Watson.
2. All the evils of Belgian colonialism packed into a pamphlet-sized novel.
3. The title comes from a line in W.B. Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming.”
4. He was finished being Prime Minister when he wrote it.
5. By continuing to beat, the heart is, in a way, telling a story.
Card 198
1. Rage, On Writing, It.
2. Contains both a pun and a label that is best reserved for people from India.
3. Technically impossible because you cannot hold this in your hand.
4. Germany’s fault.
5. Imagine Captain Morgan sitting at his desk writing in his journal.
People
Card 199
1. Kneel before Buzz Lightyear.
2. His books became acting jobs for Johnny Depp.
3. French guy.
4. Elizabeth II’s husband.
5. Transformer was his first solo album; died in 2013.
Card 200
1. There is a silent “E.”
2. Man with afro.
3. Two hints: a) One of the female ones; b) Became Prime Minister in 2017.
4. Charlie Sheen’s replacement and “Shut up Meg.”
5. She repeats Jolene’s name many times as she sings.
Card 201
1. He is also known for his appearances on Saturday Night Live, and for promoting Smart Water.
2. Kim Jong-il was his father.
3. The Crocodile Hunter.
4. Camel, ah!
5. Same first name as the King of Pop; same last name as one of the Rolling Stones.
Card 202
1. He was Vice President earlier that year.
2. Drunk driving.
3. Thunder bolts of lightning, very very frightening…
4. Last name is a weapon.
5. He also made the movies Ted and Ted 2.
Card 203
1. He later joined the Trump campaign as his lawyer and destroyed his reputation.
2. His initials are no problem.
3. His name is unrecognizable without the “L.”
4. His last name means “bear” in Russian, but his personality is closer to that of a lap dog.
5. The year after Justin Trudeau got elected as Prime Minister of Canada.
Card 204
1. He was not a literal monk.
2. She sailed from Sweden to New York in a boat with zero carbon footprint.
3. He also directed Fantastic Mr. Fox, Isle of Dogs, and Rushmore.
4. He was Canada’s longest serving Prime Minister, and he is on the $50 bill.
5. You could drown in his last name.
Card 205
1. French Fry, the science guy.
2. Clement Attlee was Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951.
3. Died at the age of 53 in 2017.
4. Real bushy eyebrows.
5. Everybody hates Chris.
Card 206
1. Robert Allen Zimmerman is his birth name.
2. He was murdered shortly after Britain quit India.
3. Last name is a fruit.
4. An oil-rich country that became very poor due to bad management.
5. Perestroika, Glasnost, and democratization were his three main policies.
Card 207
1. Those classic glasses with the perfect circle frames.
2. His basketball jersey was usually yellow.
3. A highly respected politician and journalist in Nova Scotia during the 19th century; there is a street named after him in Downtown Vancouver.
4. Last name is a bird; his style is more vert than street.
5. The Other Guys, Ted, Ted 2, The Departed.
Card 208
1. Sounds pretty similar to their old female name; same last name.
2. When is inauguration day?
3. He walks the line and wears black.
4. The Bill and _____ Gates Foundation.
5. His first name is French, but he does not sound French at all.
Card 209
1. Two words: The first word is “El.”
2. Everybody’s favourite gangster rapper from the 90s; died young.
3. Rhymes with bike fluffy.
4. The guy who took two movies to kill Bill.
5. The father of classical economic theory.
Card 210
1. Patented in 1879.
2. When asked how far he will go to stop the FLQ, he replied, “Just watch ne.”
3. He has a French last name, but he does not sound French at all.
4. His first name is two first names; his last name implies strength in at least one limb.
5. One ball and ten players.
Card 211
1. No, his last name was not McDonald, and his first name was not Wendy, but you’re getting closer.
2. An Englishman in New York.
3. He was visiting Dallas from Washington, DC, at the time.
4. He was also the keyboardist; born in 1946.
5. Alex.
Card 212
1. He shares a first name with the undisputed Muslim Prophet; his last name is that of the man whom many believe should have succeeded him.
2. A type of air travel that, if it were still around today, would have extremely expensive overweight baggage fees.
3. First name is shared with an American fast food burger joint.
4. “People have the right to know if their President is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.”
5. The Father of New France, which is to say, the founder of Quebec.
Card 213
1. Also sings “Highwayman” and “Always on My Mind.”
2. He wrote “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “Nevermore.”
3. Someone in the Middle; last name is Elon Musk’s favourite letter.
4. Julius Caesar is July; his successor is August.
5. When Transliterated from the Arabic, it is not clear if his last name should start with a G, Q, or K.
Card 214
1. Still in power, as of May 2024.
2. The manager of the Velvet Underground.
3. Two of the same digits; very young for a famous musician.
4. His name was pronounced more like: ee-vaan.
5. His last name sounds a bit like “camera man.”
Card 215
1. Her first name is unisex.
2. Woody, Andy’s favourite toy.
3. A very successful French Emperor.
4. The gun is named after the inventor, who shares a first name with the last head of state of the Soviet Union.
5. He ruled Wallachia, an area of modern Romania.
Card 216
1. Same first name as Canada’s most famous elderly female author; same last name as her son.
2. Her last name is sort of a colour, but of course some people would disagree.
3. He often tried to explain unusual psychological conditions by exploring his patients’ childhoods as well as any deviant sexualities.
4. Usually spelled with a “ph,” but not in Sweden; use an “F.”
5. Not Da Vinci.