Toronto Pub Quiz League Questions and Answers
Quiz listing from Toronto Pub Quiz League includes musical instruments Alpenhorn xylophone euphonium washboard clavichord and U S presidency answers Nixon Spock Wallace Hoover Rockefeller plus color themed items like A Woman in Red How Green Was My Valley Mellow Yellow with a note Continued on page 6
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Richard Nixon
Benjamin Spock
George Wallace
Herbert Hoover
Nelson Rockefeller
This Week in Canada: Dates and Key Events Across History
A compact digest noting events on July 22 to 25 across years: 1847 Imperial Act gave Canada taxation control. 1915 Sir Sandford Fleming died. 1627 Lord Baltimore brought colonists to Ferryland. 1892 Manitoba voted for prohibition. 1534 Cartier planted a cross at Gaspe. 1846 electric telegraph demonstrated in Toronto. 1715 Acadians refused oath of allegiance in Halifax. 1759 Wolfe warned Canadians at Quebec to stay out of the fighting.
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Sandford Fleming
Lord Baltimore
Ferryland
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Manitoba
Jacques Cartier
Gaspe
Toronto
Council of Nova Scotia
Halifax
Wolfe
Quebec
Birds Run the Home Front in Our Quiet Acreage
In mid July birds dominate the yard, nesting near the house and garden. Robins goldfinches and waxwings claim saskatoons, magpies and blackbirds arrive as unwelcome visitors, and a grouse causes a fatal garage accident. Local papers report foster care for orphaned fledglings and conversations about protecting nesting songbirds amid a growing avian presence.
Speaking of Canada and the 1882 election
A fragment recalls Sir John A. Macdonald and Colonel A. G. Irvine. It quotes Macdonald on Canada’s future and traitors. It also notes his 1882 election victory and a remark on time versus rivals.
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A.G. Irvine
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