The Sarnia Journal trivia challenge

1 – Which Christmas character is a “cuddly as a cactus” and “as charming as an eel”? 2 – What company announced that Sarnia-Lambton will be the location for a new world-class polyethylene facility? 3 – What breed of dog is known as the “firehouse dog

1 – Which Christmas character is a “cuddly as a cactus” and “as charming as an eel”?

2 – What company announced that Sarnia-Lambton will be the location for a new world-class polyethylene facility?

3 – What breed of dog is known as the “firehouse dog”?

4 – Sarnia’s Mark Woolston recently won the Mackenzie Medal in a skills competition in what sport?

5 – In 2017, whose tweet became the most liked tweet in the history of Twitter? (It begins “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin . . .”

6 – Within $30,000, what has been the average sale price of a residential house in Sarnia so far in 2017?

7 – In what American state was the Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb, developed?

8 – First published in 1857, what well-known Christmas song was originally written for American Thanksgiving?

9 – Which Canadian Prime Minister served for 15 consecutive years (1896 – 1911), the longest uninterrupted tenure in Canadian history?

10 – Initially Facebook’s website was limited to members of what U.S. university?

Tom St. Amand 

ANSWERS: 1 – The Grinch; 2 – Nova Chemicals; 3 – Dalmatian; 4 – Curling; 5 – Barack Obama; 6 – $267,000; 7 – New Mexico; 8 – Jingle Bells; 9 – Wilfrid Laurier’ 10 – Harvard.