| Pete Gayde <pagrsg@wowway.com>: Aug 21 09:58PM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:l_-dndr4_qUOG8bAnZ2dnUU7- > 1. Canadian Forces Station Alert claims to be the northernmost > permanently inhabited place in the world. How many kilometers > is it from the geographic North Pole, within 50? 100; 200 > 2. Which island is Alert situated on? Baffin; Ellesmere > 3. What was the population of Nunavut in the 2016 census, within > 10,000? 90,000; 110,000 > 4. In what year did Nunavut officially begin to exist, within > 1 year? 1990; 1993 > 5. Leaving Nunavut for the Northwest Territories, on what large > lake is Yellowknife situated? > 6. What major river flows from <answer 5> to the Arctic Ocean? MacKenzie > 7. Whitehorse became the capital of the Yukon Territory on > 1953-04-01. What was the previous capital? Dawson > the Sourdough". Name him. > 10. A popular novelist set one of his most famous works in the > Klondike: "The Call of the Wild". Name the author. Jack London > 1. In 1892 Hart Massey broke ground on what would become Massey > Hall, less than one year after which New York landmark stage > opened? Carnegie Hall > and goes by this son's first and middle names. Name it. > 3. 1894 saw the opening of Massey Hall, with what classical > performance? Hint: it has become a Christmas/holiday tradition. Messiah > which still performs today? > 5. Which Russian composer and virtuoso pianist played at Massey > Hall in 1909? Rachmaninoff > 6. This performer played Massey Hall in 1911. Later his son > played a G-man on TV, and his granddaughter played a private > investigator on TV. Name him. Efrem Zimbalist > 7. What singer -- known for his extraordinary bass voice -- > performed here in 1931, 3 years after his on-screen performance > in "Show Boat"? Robeson > 8. What beloved Canadian pianist had his Massey Hall debut in 1946? Oscar Peterson > 9. Five jazz greats performed together on the Massey Hall stage on > 1953-05-19, in what many critics say was the best jazz concert > ever. Name any one of those five men. Dizzy Gillespie > 10. Something was finally installed in 1987 that many people would > have considered a necessity even many years earlier. What? Air Conditioning Pete Gayde |
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