Reader’s Digest Canada – September 2019

BY Paul Paquet

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1. What geothermal Ice-
   landic site has the same
   name as a 1980 movie?


2. Which European coun-
   try technically shares a
   border with Brazil,
   because one of its “over-
   seas departments” does?


3. What “finger-lickin’
   good” company piloted a
   chicken- flavoured polish?


4. In printing, it’s the
   colour black. In chemis-
   try, it’s potassium. In
   baseball, it’s a strikeout.
   Which letter is it?


5. Samuel Tilden, Grover
   Cleveland, Al Gore and
   Hillary Clinton share what
   distinction among U.S.
   pres idential candidates?


6. What Scottish poet’s
   works inspired the book

titles Of Mice and Men and

Catcher in the Rye?

7. What Indian mauso-
   leum was called a “tear-
   drop ... on the cheek of
   time” by Nobel Prize in
   Literature laureate Rabin-
   dranath Tagore?


8. Which letter is omitted
   from the names of a prom-
   inent GBTQ+ dating app,
   a website that hosts over
   465 million blogs, and
   many other tech brands?


9. In a 2010 study, people
   found more mistakes
   when they marked essays
   with a pen of what colour?


10. What actor said, “If
    you had been a public fig-
    ure since the time you
    were a toddler ... maybe
    you too would value pri-
    vacy above all else”?
    11. Which has more
    landmass: Antarctica
    or Canada?
    12. What princess was
    traditionally called Badr
    al-Budur before Disney
    renamed her?
    13. In Swedish, a skvader
    is a rabbit with what
    unusual feature?
    14. Makeup artist Joanna
    Balkin says she needed
    40 bottles of sunscreen
    per month to protect
    what 1990s TV show’s
    cast from sunburns?
    15. In 2017, the site
    Bachtrack.com deter-
    mined the 10 most per-
    formed ballets in the
    world. What composer
    gave us three of them,
    including the first?

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