Reader\'s Digest Canada - 05.2020

ANDERS HELLBERG/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

1. Kannada is a language
   with at least 43 million
   native speakers, most
   of whom live in which
   Asian country?


2. Now very rare, thanks
   to vaccines, what infec-
   tious disease is the reason
   why Spain remembers
   1613 as “the year of the
   strangulations”?


3. Before humans risked
   flying in a hot-air balloon
   themselves, they sent up
   which three animals?


4. Late blight, the plant
   disease that caused Ire-
   land’s Great Famine, no
   longer threatens potato
   crops. True or false?


5. On average, Danes
   cycle 1.6 kilometres
   per day. Roughly what
   percentage of them own
   a bike?
   6. What actor topped
   the 2019 Forbes list of
   the most influential
   Chinese celebrities?
   7. In what resort can one
   race in a Star Wars-themed
   half marathon?
   8. Who wrote the follow-
   ing? “Is there meaning
   to music? ... Yes. And can
   you state in so many
   words what the meaning
   is? ... No.”
   9. How old was Greta
   Thunberg when she first
   became an activist?
   10. The record for the
   fastest non-tornado wind
   gust was set during trop-
   ical cyclone Olivia in
   which country?
   11. In 2019, Italian artist
   Maurizio Cattelan taped
   what item of fruit to
   a wall and sold it for
   US$120,000?
   12. What kills more
   people worldwide: road
   accidents or homicide
   (including war and cap-
   ital punishment)?
   13. The person who was
   born Princess Anne-
   Marie of Denmark would
   now be the queen of
   which country had it not
   abolished its monarchy
   in 1973?
   14. What sport, invented
   in Amsterdam in 1901,
   requires four men and four
   women on each team?
   15. The ancient Egyptian
   god Khepri was portrayed
   as what insect, or some-
   times as a man with that
   insect for a head?

False. 4. A sheep, a rooster and a duck. They landed safely. 3. Diphtheria. 2. India. Answers: 1.

The composer 8. Disney World. 7.. The Wandering Earth Actor Wu Jing, star of 6. 90 per cent. 5.

Road accidents, which are to 12. A banana. 11. Australia. 10. 15 years old. 9. Aaron Copland.

A scarab beetle. 15. Korfball. 14. Greece. 13. blame for around one in 40 human deaths.

BY Samantha Rideout

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