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Quiz by Trevor Pritchard, updated 11 months ago
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Created by Trevor Pritchard
11 months ago
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Question 1
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Letitia Stiller says it's "disgusting" that Beechwood Cemetery — where her father is buried — has been holding what sorts of events only a few hundred metres from her father's grave?
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Movie nights.
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PIckleball matches.
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Performances of Shakespeare plays.
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Farm-to-table dinners.
Question 2
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What forced the closure of the beach at Mooney's Bay this week?
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High E. coli levels.
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A blue-green algae bloom.
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A shortage of city lifeguards.
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An oil spill.
Question 3
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Medical researchers at the University of Ottawa say that raising the age of WHAT common sporting activity from 13 to 15 could significantly reduce the rates of one particular injury?
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Body-checking in hockey.
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Heading the ball in soccer.
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Throwing a curveball in baseball.
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Tackling in football.
Question 4
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, announced on Wednesday they were separating. Who was the last Canadian prime minister to publicly separate from their spouse while in office?
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Pierre Trudeau.
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Louis St. Laurent.
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Kim Campbell.
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Stephen Harper.
Question 5
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Gatineau police arrested 56-year-old Simon Brossoit on Wednesday after finding the body of a 31-year-old man in the city's north end. What had they been called to the scene to investigate?
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A hit-and-run.
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An arson.
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A disturbance on a city bus.
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A confrontation between two cyclists.
Question 6
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CBC News has learned that the driver who survived this Wednesday morning crash that left two others dead had been previously convicted for doing what?
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Crash (binary/octet-stream)
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Operating a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol.
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Dangerous driving causing bodily harm.
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Stunt driving.
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Theft over $5,000.
Question 7
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Work began Thursday on what element of the Confederation Line — a key step in the plans to eventually get Ottawa's LRT service up and running again?
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The track signals.
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The overhead power network.
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The restraining rails.
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Cracks in the downtown tunnel.
Question 8
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Edith Dumont was appointed Thursday as the next lieutenant-governor for Ontario. What local role did she once hold?
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Dumont (binary/octet-stream)
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Director of education for one of the French school boards.
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Morning radio host for Radio-Canada.
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CEO of the Montfort Hospital.
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Chair of the National Capital Commission.
Question 9
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Paddlers recently found the remains of Grace, a 125-year-old snapping turtle who'd been missing for the past year. What was unusual about the discovery?
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Grace (binary/octet-stream)
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Grace was missing an eye.
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She was found far from her usual habitat.
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There were strange marks etched onto her shell.
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The tag used to track her had been swapped with a different one.
Question 10
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Scott Casey told CBC he worries his Rolling Barrage motorcycle rally — set to arrive in Ottawa on Wednesday — will be mistaken for the Rolling Thunder rally, whose origins trace to the 2020 convoy protests. What does Rolling Barrage raise awareness about?
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Casey (binary/octet-stream)
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Post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Prostate cancer.
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Domestic violence prevention.
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Autism.
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