Good quiz, never heard of the 'Quonset Hut'......... in UK was known as a "Nissen Hut'. Originally designed during the First World War by the engineer and inventor Major Peter Norman Nissen, it was used extensively during the Second World War.
I was surprised it is so low. They still sell them in the US and I see a lot of them around here for grain storage, or for road departments storing sand.
I knew the answer was quonset, but couldn't spell it for the life of me. I must have tried 15 different spellings, but never got the right one. I think most of the spellings I tried started with qua...
Quonset huts are rectangular, not semicircular, if you go by the usual rule of describing the 2-dimensional shape of a building by its floorplan, not its cross-section (for example a yurt is a circular hut). Quonset huts could more accurately be described as semicylindrical.
In English, this kind of usage is common. Do you want the left or the right? The red or the green?
And especially for drugs: the diuretic, the antipyretic, the analgesic, the anxiolytic, the anti-inflammatory. "The anti-malarial" is just fine. The "one", "agent", "thing", "medicine" can all be omitted.
St. John's was established in 1497 whereas Quebec City was established in 1608. So "possible oldest city" doesn't really apply to Quebec. Quebec tries to claim it is the oldest European settlement, and there's some debate there, but if we are talking oldest city in Canada, the official answer is St. John's, by about 111 years.
Is it a Hochelaga/Stadacona thing? Is it about the settlement of St. John's?
It is generally received wisdom in Canada that Quebec City is the oldest Canadian city, dating to 1608. Criteria matter, of course.
I think you accidentally missed out the noun in "Anti-malarial that European colonists...."
And especially for drugs: the diuretic, the antipyretic, the analgesic, the anxiolytic, the anti-inflammatory. "The anti-malarial" is just fine. The "one", "agent", "thing", "medicine" can all be omitted.
So many difficult to spell words.