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Quiz by Trevor Pritchard, updated 4 months ago
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Created by Trevor Pritchard
5 months ago
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Question 1
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Demolition crews razed this structure near Cornwall, Ont., earlier this month, ending a decades-long fight to preserve it. What sort of structure was it?
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A former convent.
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One of the region's oldest jails.
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An inn run by Ontario's first premier.
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A grist mill.
Question 2
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Due to scheduled maintenance work, what stretch of the Confederation LRT line closed for two weeks on Monday?
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Lrt (binary/octet-stream)
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Tunney's Pasture station to Rideau station.
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Hurdman station to Blair station.
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Lyon station to uOttawa station.
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Lees station to Tremblay station.
Question 3
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What do the red hexagons on this map of the ByWard Market and its surrounding area represent?
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Areas where Ottawa police are planning to step up their patrols.
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Potential locations for a new 2,500-seat music venue.
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Establishments that reported rodent infestations to the city in 2023.
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Suspicious fires that have been set over the past four months.
Question 4
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Corey Hurren, seen at his sentencing hearing in 2021, was recently granted a conditional release. What had he been convicted of doing?
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Crashing his truck through the gates of Rideau Hall.
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Burning down a church east of Ottawa.
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Harassing and extorting a teen girl online.
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Orchestrating a cyberattack on the Queensway Carleton Hospital.
Question 5
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Ottawa public servant Kevin Brown told CBC how he's been living through a bureaucratic nightmare because someone with his same name and birthdate did WHAT more than 30 years ago?
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Received a driver's licence suspension.
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Robbed a convenience store.
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Got turned away at the U.S. border.
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Failed to pay a parking ticket.
Question 6
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Nouzha Idrissi says it's nearly impossible to spend time outside her Gatineau, Que., home because of the presence of which vicious insect that once stung her husband so severely he ended up at the ER?
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The European fire ant.
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The Asian giant hornet.
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The African tiger beetle.
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The American bullet wasp.
Question 7
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Rowan Warr-Hunter installed this message on the window of his Picton, Ont., business to protest an order issued by provincial officials. What does Warr-Hunter sell at the shop?
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Vaping supplies.
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Cannabis products.
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Non-alcoholic beer, wine and spirits.
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Electric bicycles.
Question 8
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Which local Liberal MP was named the country's labour minister Friday following the resignation of Seamus O'Regan?
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Steven MacKinnon.
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Anita Vandenbeld.
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Yasir Naqvi.
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Mark Gerretsen.
Question 9
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These workers have been on the picket lines in Ottawa since July 8, and their strike captain told CBC this week they've had no official discussions with their employer since the strike began. Where do they work?
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The local children's aid society.
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The LCBO.
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Seven different Ottawa dental clinics.
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The Ottawa International Airport.
Question 10
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Ottawa Public Health said Friday that they'd confirmed someone had fallen ill — in what was the city's first case of 2024 — with which of the following?
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Mask (binary/octet-stream)
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West Nile virus.
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Avian influenza.
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Listeriosis.
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Measles.
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