The Halifax Explosion in Halifax Harbor was the biggest man-made explosion before the invention of the atomic bomb. This quiz is based on that horrific event which has never been forgotten throughout the years.
How on earth can you help to keep your children busy on a rainy day? Let me share some of the things that I've done with and for my own children when they were youngsters.
Well, I invented this game, to make a connection game fun for kids. All you have to do is find the missing link. (Get it? Link...sausage!) You'll catch on!
Children can spend too much time in front of the television set or playing video games. Let's revive the joy of playing outside and teach them the games we used to play!
We all remember the good old songs of yesteryear, but can you sort out what the song titles should have been before the Fandangle family inadvertently messed them up?
Walt Disney Productions televised "The Mickey Mouse Club" (1955-1959). There were three teams of Mouseketeers, with this quiz focusing on the "Red Team" then, after and now.
Clouds are composed of either small droplets of water or tiny pieces of ice, sometimes both. Clouds are ranked by meteorologists according to how high they are and whether they are fluffy or flat. This quiz may help you to identify some of them.
Shiver me timbers and blow me down, it's a pirate symphony. I'll give you part of a line or two and you finish the lyrics of these well known sea shanties!
Say What? It's a fractured title for Canadian Provinces. Canada is 9,984,670 km. sq. (5,592,341 sq. mi.) in size, so plan a holiday with what you'll learn in the interesting information!
Children's songs and verses from yesteryear will amuse you. All you need to do is to pick the word that you think fits the rhyme. Rhymes and/or songs included. There may be some variations.
What a topic for a fractured quiz!
The answers are areas in which NATO plays a role, as well as some other tidbits of interest. I really hope that you enjoy the interesting information.
I love the great outdoors and seeing wildlife on the shores of a beautiful lake. I really enjoy the peace and quiet of a beautiful day suddenly sparked by a bite on the fishing line.
Come on under the microscope and learn about some of the things that could ail your children.
(Source: the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control.)
No, this quiz isn't about things that smell bad.
This quiz is a mixture of categories with the Dream Weavers using armed forces ranks as part of the question, answer and/or interesting information.
About 160 kilometers (99 miles) southeast of Nova Scotia is a very large sand bar called Sable Island. It is only 1.5 kilometers wide (one mile) but is 42 kilometers (26 miles) long. Learn about Sable Island by playing this quiz.
The color of roses, and sometimes the number of roses, has significance toward the emotion you are trying to convey, when you send roses to someone. What did you really say to a person, when you thought you were saying something else?
The wonderful world of cinema might look glamorous, but gaining weight to play the part of a character in a film is more common than you might think. Good luck and have fun!
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the Andes. The search was called off after eight days. What do you remember about this truly controversial story?
(Research sites used: Wikipedia, Viven, etc.)
Canada has spawned many amazing actors and actresses throughout the years of film and television! These stars have proven themselves time and again through their skills and talents.
This is an up the stairs/down the stairs quiz. Like a "Drop a Letter" but is multiple choice. Rearrange the letters remove or add one, create the answer.
Walt Disney has created a multitude of cartoon characters. Goofy is one of my favorites, so I thought I would do a fun quiz, all about Goofy. Hope you enjoy this!
Our nursery rhyme characters have been running amok while Mother Goose was away. When she returned, she found very strange situations. Your job is to figure out which rhyme isn't part of the NEW rhyme's scenario. Special thanks to Agony, you're the BEST!
In various movie situations both men and women have cross-dressed in order to disguise themselves. I'm curious to find out if you know about these films.
He is widely recognized as Hannibal Lecter from Thomas Harris's notorious trilogy, including "Silence of the Lambs". There is much more to Anthony Hopkins and I do hope you like this quiz!(source: Wikipedia)
With a rainbow of songs to select from, the Dream Weavers have come up with quite the array of color! Enjoy piecing together the questions and answers to arrive at a perfect spectrum of songs!
Put on your rain coat and your rain boots while we jump through the puddles on our journey through rain songs. Dry off the lyrics, come up with the correct song title and curl up by the fire to enjoy the songs playing against your window pane.
The Snowbirds fly the Canadair CT-114 Tutor jet used by the Canadian Forces. This aircraft was used as a basic pilot-training aircraft from 1963 until 2000. The Tutor weight is about 3,260 kg (7,170 lbs) and gets its power from a J-85 engine.
The Beatles were a musical band of four members, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. This highly successful group formed in Liverpool, England in 1960 with their success running into 1970, when they separated.
Since salami_swami made a children's quiz using my name I've decided to return the favor!
To help with clues: A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning.