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1. In 1962, US astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth. The people of the most geographically isolated capital city in the world turned on as many lights as possible as he passed overhead, causing him to dub it "the city of lights". What is the name of this city?
2. The nomadic aboriginal people of the Canadian prairies didn't leave much concrete evidence of their thousands of years here. A few rock paintings, some teepee rings and medicine wheels, and, not far from the little town of Viking, Alberta, the Ribstones. The two large rocks were carved, who knows how long ago, into the representation of the ribs of an animal that had great significance and meaning to the Cree and Blackfoot of this area, and to their ancestors. What animal was this?
3. A plastic lawn chair by any other name would still spell a seat. During my recent stay in Greece, I discovered that plastic lawn chairs in Greece are virtually indistinguishable from the American plastic lawn chair. The name, however, is an exercise in ethnography, demography, 'insertgreekwordhere'graphy...What do the Greeks call plastic lawn chairs?
4. My hometown is Brighton in the county of East Sussex, located on England's south coast. At just over 50 miles distance from the capital, Brighton is often called "London by the Sea". Which of these facts about Brighton is NOT true?
5. Near the end of the 14th century, the citizens of a French city constructed a candle as long as the circumference of its walls, almost 4km long! It was stored on a spool, and was unrolled as it burned. Which city was this?
6. Metallica released a recording of "Whiskey In The Jar" in 1999. Of course, this was a re-recording of the 1972 version of the song made well-known by Thin Lizzy. However, there is a lesser-known release of this song by an Australian group from the 60s that pre-dates the above renditions. Who performed it?
7. On Canada's Vancouver Island, one can enjoy a delightful stroll through the gardens that Jennie Butchart created in order to hide the scars that had resulted from her husband's obsession. To what was Robert Butchart introduced on his honeymoon that set in motion the events that led to the creation of Butchart Gardens?
8. Canberra is both the capital city and seat of Government of Australia. As such it is the butt of many jokes and is often damned (especially by non-residents and sullen local teenagers) as being 'soulless'. Perhaps this is why there is much speculation about the underlying symbolism employed by architect Walter Burley Griffin when he infamously won the international competition to design Canberra in 1912. Griffin and his draftsman wife Marion Mahony were known to be advocates of spiritual freedom, espousing ideas seen as the forerunners to 'new age' thinking. So it is somewhat ironic that the National Trust Listed municipal building that remains as an example of the great architect's work (not even located in Canberra but in Sydney!) is what type of structure?
9. Alphonse Daudet wrote about this town in the Provence region of France along the Rhone in 'Tartarin de Tarascon'. How did the town get its name?
10. One thing I liked best about my former life in England was the undeniable and constant presence of ghostly activity. Seemed one couldn't swing a ferret without hitting one or more of the disembodied spirits standing around. So, here's a ghostly question for fellow fans of the paranormal. Of the countless "haunted' places that pepper the British Isles, which of the following famous private residences was known throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s as the "most haunted house in England"?
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