Trivia quiz #12: Hiking, kombucha and cooking classes

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Welcome to this week’s trivia quiz! I’ve updated last week’s game with the answers, and Jackie Lortie was our lucky winner of the Tim Hortons gift card.

Which reminds me: I’ll still be creating these games, but I’ll no longer be drawing for a gift card. They’re now just for fun.

I’ve added the answers to this week’s game at the end of the post. Enjoy!

Question 1: Fabulous forest

What is the name of the managed forest between Limoges and Bourget where you can explore 180 kilometres of trails on foot, by bike or on horseback?

Question 2: A festival of traditions

What is the name of the free event that normally draws crowds to Vincent Massey Park each June to watch drummers and hoop dancers, learn how to make bannock, and shop for traditional crafts? The festival is taking place virtually this year, from June 1 to 21.

Question 3: Dressing dispute

What salad dressing with a local connection is made with eggs, mayonnaise, pickle relish, Worcestershire sauce and ketchup? (Hint: Historians dispute who invented it, but many believe it was a restaurateur in Clayton, New York.)

Question 4: Cool kombucha

In what Eastern Ontario town would you find Aritzen Kombucha, which makes its namesake fermented beverage in flavours such as lemon ginger and tart cherry? (Hint: Look under “Coffee, tea and other non-alcoholic beverages” in my big list of food companies that deliver.)

Question 5: Hike among eagles

Near what Eastern Ontario resort could you hike up Manitou Mountain to the Eagle’s Nest Lookout, with its sheer 120-metre drop and eye-popping views?

Question 6: Food festivals you didn’t know about

Each fall, the small community of Lowville, New York, usually hosts a festival dedicated to what particular food? (A hint: The festival made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for making the world’s largest cake with this food.)

Question 7: Learn about textiles

In what Eastern Ontario community can visitors learn about the history of local woollen mills at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum? (Note: The museum is hoping to re-open on June 30.)

Question 8: Leap off a cliff

What is the name of the attraction between Chelsea and Wakefield where you can (if you dare) fling yourself 61 metres off a cliff into the abandoned quarry below?

Question 9: Painting the Bonnechere Valley

What member of the Group of Seven created a painting of this scene on Lake Clear, in the Bonnechere Valley, in 1962?

Question 10: Take a cooking class

In what Prince Edward County community could you normally take a weekend cooking class at the Waring House Inn?

And here are the answers!

1. Larose Forest
2. Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival
3. Thousand Island dressing
4. Perth
5. Calabogie Peaks Resort
6. Cream cheese
7. Almonte
8. Great Canadian Bungee
9. A.Y. Jackson
10. Picton

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