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The Dinos live in a den on the campus of this prairie university.

What is the University of Calgary?

The Thunderbirds rumble out of this western school.

What is the University ofBritish Columbia?

The Thunderwolves howl in this Ontario school.

What is Lakehead?

Université Laval teams play in (and are referred to as) these

two colours.

What are red and yellow (or gold) – “rouge et or”?

With a little help from Merlin, Trent University teams should be able to slice their way to victory

with this name.

What is Excalibur?

The term “rock opera” was first applied to this 1969 classic

about a deaf and dumb boy who played “a mean pinball”.

What is Tommy?

The Who’s second rock opera examines this title character who

has four personalities, each corresponding to a member of The

Who.

What is Quadrophenia?

This Michael Lee Steenbergen rock opera features a title track

that begins:“Light skimmer, light walker,smooth talker, _____ _____.

What is Space Walker?

“Bat out of Hell” was the rock opera debut album of Marvin

Lee Aday, better known as this.

Who is Meat Loaf?

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust is the closest

album to the rock opera genre produced by this

British singer.

Who is David Bowie?

This class is so-called because its organisms consists of three parts, the cephalon, thorax and

pygidium.

What is Class Trilobita (trilobites)?

This “head-foot” class of Phylum Mollusca is divided into two

subclasses, one with external shells, and one without.

What are the cephalopods?

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The Latin term for this phylum indicates that the organisms are characterized as “pore-bearing”, an attribute which has led them

to be harvested for cleaning processes.

What is Porifera, or the sponges?

This “seed shrimp” class of crustaceans and modern benthos and zooplankton lives in a hinged

bivalve-like shell and has a microscopic record stretching back

to the Cambrian.

What are ostracods?

The phylum, once known as Coelenterata, that includes coral, sea anemone, jellyfish and hydra.

What is Cnidaria?

Famous for its monster, it makes up part of the Caledonian Canal.

What is Loch Ness?

Less than 200 km long, this river flows “below sea level” for over 80% of its length, to disgorge into the Dead Sea.

What is the Jordan?

About halfway along its course from Erie to Ontario, it drops 51 m.

What is the Niagara?

This “Great” lake is the largest lake wholly in Canada.

What is Great Bear Lake?

The longest river that flows westward out of North or South

America.

What is the Yukon?

Berlin, London, Stockholm.

What is Stockholm?

San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco.

What is San Francisco?

Baghdad, Bangkok, Beijing, Bombay.

What is Beijing?

Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Algiers

What is Algiers?

Charlottetown, Fredericton, Halifax, St. John’s.

What is St. John’s?

Promoted by Lyell, this principle states that processes operating today have operated

throughout time.

What is the principle of uniformitarianism?

The basic law of stratigraphy that states that, in an

undeformed sequence, the oldest strata occur at the base.

What is the law of superposition?

When you infer a dyke is younger than the rocks its

intruded you are invoking this law.

What is the law of cross-cutting relationships?

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Playfair’s law of accordant junctions states that these

geomorphological agents fit their positions in the

landscape.

What are rivers?

Sometimes referred to as the father of stratigraphy,

this Danish scientist devised the principle of original

horizontality.

Who was Nicolas Steno (or Niels Stensen)?