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Questions:

1. In which city is Canada’s only Major League Baseball team located?
   
2. In which country is the river referenced in the idiom “crossing the Rubicon” (meaning to pass the point of no return) located?
3. Which of the following organs were not stored in canopic jars: the heart, intestines, lungs, liver, or stomach?
4. Scurvy is a disease resulting from a deficiency of which vitamin?
5. True or false: U.S. Department of State prohibits foreign service officers from being injected with a needle by a foreign official.
6. Which of the following subjects is trivia: arithmetic, astronomy, music, or logic?
7. The sentence “my pen is in my hand” has the same spelling and meaning in both English and which other Germanic language with over 7 million speakers?
8. Match these fuels with the colour of the containers they are usually stored in: kerosene, diesel, gasoline; red, yellow, blue.

Answers:

1. Toronto.
2. Italy. (In 49 BC, Julius Caesar illegally led his legion across the Rubicon River which separated the province of Cisalpine Gaul from Italy proper, triggering a civil war.)
3. The heart. (Ancient Egyptians, who used canopic jars during the mummification process, considered the heart to be the seat of the soul and left it in the body.)
4. Vitamin C.
5. True.
6. Logic. (In the original seven liberal arts, the trivium consisted of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, while the quadrivium consisted of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy.)
7. Afrikaans.
8. Kerosene, blue; diesel, yellow; gasoline, red.