1. In Major League Baseball, which pitcher won the most Cy Young awards?
2. Name the last province to join Canada?
3. Dwayne Johnson is also known as what nickname?
4. Who was the youngest president to serve the United States?
5. This American writer had her book, To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. Who is the author?
6. Where was the first World Fair held?
7. What company manufactures the board game Monopoly?
8. This equipment, found in laboratories, produces a single flame and consists of a vertical metal tube connected to a gas source. Name the equipment.
9. This technology was not commercially successful until the 1980s. The technology is read by scanners and it comes in forms of lines, text and specific patterns. Name the technology.
10. In Venezuela, the world’s highest waterfall can be found. Name the waterfall.

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April 17, 1919

The film company, United Artists, is formed by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin.

1. Shaquille O’Neal played for what team in his rookie year in the NBA?
2. What city would you find the Sears Towers?
3. This music television station debuted in 1981. Name the television channel.
4. Samuel De Champlain is the founder of what Canadian city?
5. The books 50 Below Zero and Mortimer are written by what successful children’s author?
6. This poem written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae is known to be one of the most famous poems about World War I. Name the poem.
7. This tire company uses a white animated character in its advertisements. Name the company.
8. The Canadian, Frederick Banting, is the doctor who discovered what?
9. James Gosling is a software developer who created what?
10. Koalas originate from what country?

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April 12, 1980

Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope begins on the Atlantic coast of St John’s, Newfoundland.