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The last province to be added to the Canadian confederation.

What is Newfoundland & Labrador?

The largest province in area that begins and ends with the same

letter.

What is Ontario?

Originally square, when it became a province in 1870, the “postage

stamp province” grew progressively, attaining its modern

dimensions by 1912.

What is Manitoba?

This province was known as New Caledonia from 1846 to 1858,

its shores having been exploredby Scottish fur traders.

What is British Columbia?

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Now named after the father of Queen Victoria, this province was

referred to as Abegweit by the native people who lived there.

What is Prince Edward Island?

This particle adds to the mass of an atom, but not to the charge.

What is a neutron?

Milk of magnesia has a value of about 10.5 on this

scale, making it a base.

What is the pH scale?

Term for a substance that causes or accelerates a

chemical reaction without itself being affected.

What is a catalyst?

Usually, in a liquid solution, the less abundant substance is

called the solute and the more abundant this.

What is the solvent?

The point above which a substance no longer displays

unique liquid or gaseous properties – for CO2 it is 73.7

bars and 31.1°C

What is the critical point?

One of these (two similar black cats, for example) usually means

a glitch in The Matrix.

What is déja vu?

This underground haven for humans hosts an orgiastic dance

in Reloaded.

What is Zion?

In the first film this character turns out to be a friendly cookie-baking African-American lady.

Who is the Oracle?

These two words, Keanu Reeves’ character and the powerful figure

he is supposed to be, are anagrams.

What are Neo and One?

Choosing to stay in The Matrix and enjoy his servitude, Cypher quotes these three words from

Thomas Gray.

What is “ignorance is bliss”?

The 10 new shekels note from this country features Golda Meir and a synagogue gathering on

the reverse.

What is Israel?

To see the whole of the Bolshoi Theatre, turn the note from this

country over.

What is Russia?

The one pound note from this country displays native son, Alexander

Graham Bell.

What is Scotland?

The reverse of the 5 rand note from this country appropriately

displays a gold mine in the Witswatersrand Group.

What is South Africa?

The reverse of the 100,000 cruzeiro / 100 reais note shows the Iguaçu Falls in this country.

What is Brazil?

The longest Phanerozoic time period, some 77 million years

duration, ended with quite a bang.

What is the Cretaceous?

The period is named after the queen who ruled an empire in

which “the sun never sets”.

What is the Victorian period?

The period when the Acadian Orogeny happened, the Old Red

Sandstone was deposited in Britain, and the dolostones of the

oil-rich Fairholme Group were deposited in western Canada.

What is the Devonian?

One of the two punctuation marks other than a period that

can be used to end a sentence.

What is a question mark or an exclamation point?

This most recently approved Precambrian period made its

second appearance in 2004 (its first appearance was 600

million years ago).

What is the Ediacaran?

When someone’s completely in your control, you’ve got him wrapped around this

body part.

What is your little finger?

You’ve ordered too many pizzas when “your eyes

are bigger than” this.

What is your stomach?

Something conspicuously out of place is said “to stick out like a sore” one of these.

What is a thumb?

To work diligently toward a desired goal is “to keep” this

“to the wheel”.

What is your shoulder?

When you’re spending too much time in pointless self-

analysis, you’re “contemplating” this body part.

What is your navel?