QoD - August 25, 2008

[MarleysGh0st]

2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon EDT on Tuesday, August 26.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.



1. Montreal lies between the Rivière des Prairies (a channel of the Ottawa River) and what other river?

2. As the head of state of Canada, who opened the 1976 Summer Olympic games?

3. What Canadian province was the last to join the Confederation, in 1949?

4. Poutine is a French Candian dish traditionally made from french fries topped with what two ingredients?
(There may be many variations, but I'm looking for the two most common items, here.)



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Edited to add parenthetical clarification to #1.

[NellyLunatic1980]

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1. St. Lawrence River?
2. Trudeau?
3. Prince Edward Island?
4. cheese and gravy

[Rexer25]

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1. Rivière des Mountains
2. Pierre Trudeau
3. Alberta
4. Gravy, cheese curds

[wintergreen48]

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1. St. Lawrence?

2. Queen Elizabeth II

3. Newfoundland?

4. Vinegar and Mayonnaise?

Jeez, I think I'm 1:4 today...

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

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1. Montreal lies between the Rivière des Prairies and what other river?

I'll just invent the Quebec River.



2. As the head of state of Canada, who opened the 1976 Summer Olympic games?

Trudeau

3. What Canadian province was the last to join the Confederation, in 1949?

Newfoundland

4. Poutine is a French Canadian dish traditionally made from french fries topped with what two ingredients?

Cheese curds and Gravy
(There may be many variations, but I'm looking for the two most common items, here.)

[andrewjackson]

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1. Rivière des Prairies? I thought Montreal was at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers. Hmmmm. "between". The island must be formed by a split in the river. St. Lawrence, final answer.

2. Queen Elizabeth II

3. Newfoundland

4. Gravy and cheese?

[MarleysGh0st]

OK, I quoted something from Wikipedia that may be causing confusion, as indicated by AJ's comment. I've added what I hope is an acceptable clarification.

AJ has no worries with his answer, but if anyone else who's already answered wants to modify their answer to the first question, based on what I've added, I will permit it.

[plasticene]

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1. St. Lawrence?
2. Queen Elizabeth II?
3. Saskatchewan?
4. Cheese curds and gravy?

[ulysses5019]

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St. Lawrence

QE II??? Maybe Trudeau? I'll stick with her nibs.

goofy newfy

gravy and cheese

[jsuchard]

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1. St. Lawrence [?]

2. Trudeau [?]

3. [Gonna go for the obvious, which is probably wrong] Quebec

4. Cheese curd, Gravy [Ooh!]

[elwoodblues]

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1. St. Lawrence
2. Trudeau
3. British Columbia

[tanstaafl2]

2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon EDT on Tuesday, August 26.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

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1. Montreal lies between the Rivière des Prairies (a channel of the Ottawa River) and what other river?
Saint Lawrence River

2. As the head of state of Canada, who opened the 1976 Summer Olympic games?
Bucky Beaver? Snidley Whiplash? Dudley Doright? Hmm, probably not. I will guess it is a wee bit of a trick question and that the answer is Queen Elizabeth II and not Trudeau who was head of government, not head of state.

3. What Canadian province was the last to join the Confederation, in 1949?
NFC. Alberta?

4. Poutine is a French Candian dish traditionally made from french fries topped with what two ingredients?
(There may be many variations, but I'm looking for the two most common items, here.)
Wasn't this recently discussed here? Cheese and gravy?

[frogman042]

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1. Montreal lies between the Rivière des Prairies (a channel of the Ottawa River) and what other river?
St Lawerance

2. As the head of state of Canada, who opened the 1976 Summer Olympic games?
Queen Elizabeth II

3. What Canadian province was the last to join the Confederation, in 1949?
Prince Edward Island?

4. Poutine is a French Candian dish traditionally made from french fries topped with what two ingredients?
(There may be many variations, but I'm looking for the two most common items, here.)
Cheese curds and gravy

---Jay (Montreal hosted the first ever World Outgames in the summer of 2006, attracting over 16,000 participants engaged in this number sporting activities. They were the biggest sporting event in the city since the Summer Olympics of 1976. If you know hte number of sporting activities then you know the rest.)

[T_Bone0806]

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2-Pierre Trudeau

[AnnieCamaro]

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1. Montreal lies between the Rivière des Prairies (a channel of the Ottawa River) and what other river?
St. Lawrence

2. As the head of state of Canada, who opened the 1976 Summer Olympic games?
Mr. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau

3. What Canadian province was the last to join the Confederation, in 1949?
Newfoundland, the place of origin of some very handsome dogs

4. Poutine is a French Candian dish traditionally made from french fries topped with what two ingredients?
(There may be many variations, but I'm looking for the two most common items, here.)
Cheese curds and gravy. (Sounds tasty!)

Edited to add spoiler tags only

[kroxquo]

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1. Montreal lies between the Rivière des Prairies (a channel of the Ottawa River) and what other river?

St. Lawrence

2. As the head of state of Canada, who opened the 1976 Summer Olympic games?

Pierre Trudeau

3. What Canadian province was the last to join the Confederation, in 1949?

Prince Edward Island

4. Poutine is a French Candian dish traditionally made from french fries topped with what two ingredients?
(There may be many variations, but I'm looking for the two most common items, here.)

mayo & curry

[LookingForHumorPoints]

2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon EDT on Tuesday, August 26.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.



1. Montreal lies between the Rivière des Prairies (a channel of the Ottawa River) and what other river?

The Rivière de Etoaín

2. As the head of state of Canada, who opened the 1976 Summer Olympic games?

Bob McKenzie

3. What Canadian province was the last to join the Confederation, in 1949?

North Dakota

4. Poutine is a French Candian dish traditionally made from french fries topped with what two ingredients?
(There may be many variations, but I'm looking for the two most common items, here.)

Moose and Squirrel


LFHP

[SportsFan68]

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2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon EDT on Tuesday, August 26.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

Looks like my 10-point days are gone.


1. Montreal lies between the Rivière des Prairies (a channel of the Ottawa River) and what other river?

I'll guess St. Lawrence.

2. As the head of state of Canada, who opened the 1976 Summer Olympic games?

I'll guess Trudeau.

3. What Canadian province was the last to join the Confederation, in 1949?

I'll guess B.C.
4. Poutine is a French Candian dish traditionally made from french fries topped with what two ingredients?
(There may be many variations, but I'm looking for the two most common items, here.)

Gravy
Vinegar




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Edited to add parenthetical clarification to #1.

[jarnon]

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1. St. Laurence
2. Queen Elizabeth II
3. Newfoundland
4.

[Here's Fanny!]

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1. Montreal lies between the Rivière des Prairies (a channel of the Ottawa River) and what other river?


St. Lawrence (Is a seaway the same as a river? It's my standard answer for questions like these and it's already been wrong once this month so what the hell. Ha!)


2. As the head of state of Canada, who opened the 1976 Summer Olympic games?


Elizabeth II



3. What Canadian province was the last to join the Confederation, in 1949?

British Columbia


4. Poutine is a French Candian dish traditionally made from french fries topped with what two ingredients?
(There may be many variations, but I'm looking for the two most common items, here.)

Cheese curds and gravy (thanks to AD (I think) for constantly talking about this).

[megaaddict]

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1. Montreal lies between the Rivière des Prairies (a channel of the Ottawa River) and what other river?
St. Lawrence?

2. As the head of state of Canada, who opened the 1976 Summer Olympic games?
Trudeau

3. What Canadian province was the last to join the Confederation, in 1949?
Nunavat?

4. Poutine is a French Candian dish traditionally made from french fries topped with what two ingredients?
(There may be many variations, but I'm looking for the two most common items, here.)
Cheese and onions?

[MarleysGh0st]

ANSWERS


1. Montreal lies between the Rivière des Prairies (a channel of the Ottawa River) and what other river?

St. Lawrence. Sorry if that Rivière des Prairies business confused anyone. I think it's like the East River in NYC.

2. As the head of state of Canada, who opened the 1976 Summer Olympic games?

Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state, which is different, in Canada, from being the head of government. Pierre Trudeau did hold the latter office, at the time.

3. What Canadian province was the last to join the Confederation, in 1949?

Newfoundland and Labrador, which is commonly just called Newfoundland, was a separate dominion until that year.

4. Poutine is a French Candian dish traditionally made from french fries topped with what two ingredients?
(There may be many variations, but I'm looking for the two most common items, here.)

Fresh cheese curds and brown gravy cover those fries. A French Canadian QoD Meister would probably take points off if you didn't mention that they had to be fresh curds, but just mentioning cheese was good enough for me.

And if you have seen or should see this question elsewhere, that's entirely coincidental!



POINTS


Our neighbors to the north proved to be a good deal more challenging than most of our other stops on this month's tour. Congratulations to uly and AJ for their perfect scores!


ulysses5019 = 10
andrewjackson = 10
LookingForHumorPoints = 10 (Maybe I'm just getting easier to amuse as the month goes along!)
Here's Fanny! = 6
wintergreen48 = 6
AnnieCamaro = 6
tanstaafl2 = 6
plasticene = 6
jarnon = 6
frogman042 = 6
themanintheseersuckersuit = 4
jsuchard = 4
NellyLunatic1980 = 4
megaaddict = 3
kroxquo = 2
SportsFan68 = 2
Rexer25 = 2
elwoodblues = 2
T_Bone0806 = 0


Edited to add elwoodblues's points.

[elwoodblues]

Hey, where's my two points?

[MarleysGh0st]

Hey, where's my two points?

Oops, sorry!