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Canadian Military History Trivia Challenge

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Canadian Military History Trivia Challenge

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Readers’ Quiz Answers

Here are the answers to our Readers’ Quiz in the May/June 2011 issue.

  1. HMCS Spikenard was a corvette which was lost while on convoy escort service the night of Feb. 10-11, 1942.
  2. Supplies were brought to the allies after D-Day through a surviving artificial harbour call a Mulberry.
  3. Retired lieutenant-general Romeo Dallaire won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction for his 2003 book Shake Hands With The Devil.
  4. Geocachers call non-geocachers “muggles.”
  5. The “sandwich generation” is a term for those families who are looking after young children and older parents at the same time.

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