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Quiz by Trevor Pritchard, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Trevor Pritchard
about 1 year ago
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Question 1
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Some residents of Wilno, Ont., are still touchy about a 1972 report by Slavic folklorist Jan Perkowski, who wrote about legends that WHICH supernatural creatures infested the Ottawa Valley town?
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Werewolves.
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Vampires.
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Chupacabras.
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Baba Yagas.
Question 2
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The local French public school board says that next year it will rename one of its schools "Grande-Ourse," which translates into English as Ursa Major, the constellation that holds the Big Dipper. Who is the school currently named after?
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Sir John A. Macdonald.
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Julie Payette.
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Maurice Duplessis.
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Alex Trebek.
Question 3
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What did work crews do last weekend at the Rideau LRT station during a partial shutdown of the Confederation Line?
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Rideau (binary/octet-stream)
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They pumped hundreds of litres of grout into the tunnel walls.
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They completely reinstalled the station's multi-storey escalator.
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They tore up and reoriented a section of the tracks.
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They reinforced the station with stronger concrete to prevent another sinkhole.
Question 4
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Five people were injured and the driver of this van died after they collided with WHAT in South Stormont, Ont., on Monday afternoon?
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Crash (binary/octet-stream)
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A school bus.
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An ambulance.
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A group of cyclists.
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A moose.
Question 5
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Ottawa city council debated the possibility of dropping the speed limit from 80 km/h to 60 km/h on a stretch of this suburban road, due to the number of crashes. Which road is it?
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March Road.
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Trim Road.
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Greenbank Road.
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Castlefrank Road.
Question 6
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This graph shows how bylaw calls in Ottawa have increased between 2019 and 2022 for which of the following complaints?
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Dogs (binary/octet-stream)
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Aggressive dogs.
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Vehicles parked in bike lanes.
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Public drinking and drug use.
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Noise violations.
Question 7
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The reverse of a Canada's new $100 bill.
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A page from the country's redesigned passport.
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Artwork that will be installed at Ottawa's future central library.
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An NFT that once belonged to former Sens owner Eugene Melnyk.
Question 8
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An Ontario bill called Garrett's Legacy Act — named in memory of Garrett Mills, a 15-year-old boy who died in Napanee in 2017 — could become law later this year. What recreational amenities would the bill regulate?
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Soccer nets.
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Playground swings.
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Field goal posts.
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Outdoor rinks.
Question 9
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Sgt. Eric Mueller, the OPP officer who was shot and killed Thursday in Bourget, Ont., had also been seriously injured in an arrest gone wrong 15 years earlier. What happened?
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A tractor-trailer driver struck him while fleeing the scene.
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A woman wanted for outstanding warrants doused him with acid.
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He was stabbed while breaking up a bar fight.
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He was mauled by a pit bull.
Question 10
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Roger Romero and Giselle Valazero say they've been left disappointed and disheartened by the police force in Kingston, Ont. What do they accuse the force of doing?
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Allowing a report they helped write to collect dust on a shelf.
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Promoting white officers ahead of racialized officers with equal qualifications.
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Failing to share documents that should legally be available to the public.
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Refusing to look outside Kingston for the city's next police chief.
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