Says Who?

The following paragraph consists of famous quotations by prime ministers.
Using the list of former PMs, can you match the quote to the speaker?

JEAN CHRÉTIEN
KIM CAMPBELL
JOHN A. MACDONALD
JOHN TURNER
SIR WILFRID LAURIER
LESTER PEARSON
JOE CLARK
JOHN DIEFENBAKER
PIERRE TRUDEAU
BRIAN MULRONEY

Let's face it, there's no whore like an old whore.
You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.
Ready, aye, ready.
My strategy has always been to stay on course unless a change of course is announced.
I've seen more common sense expressed around the table in a farmhouse.
A proof is a proof, and when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.
A British subject I was born, a British subject I will die.
My life has always been dull, and I'm still waiting for the 15 minutes Andy Warhol promised.
Gee, I'm glad I didn't sell my car.
Now I can go back to being arrogant.

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DISORDER

Get Wet

Each of these phrases is a rearrangement of the letters in a well-known Canadian lake or river. What are their names?

I PIN SIGNS RIPE SOUR
RICH MIAMI ASS WHUP
AYE, ANGUS I SWING PONIES
CAT WAS SHAKEN ECZEMA INK
A REGAL VEST RECTAL NEWS

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LIKELIHOOD

Tea Time
By Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

Rank the following scenarios, from most probable to least probable:

a. A group of 100 people all have different birthdays
b. If you start with $1,000 and repeatedly make $5 roulette bets on red, you will get up to $2,000 before losing all your money
c. If you flip a coin 40 times, you will get heads every time
d. Your next cup of coffee will contain a molecule of water that was once in Queen Elizabeth II's tea

Jeffrey S. Rosenthal is a professor in the department of statistics at the University of Toronto. His book, Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities, will be published this year by Harper Collins Canada.

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UNCOVER

Kidlit

The type has been removed from the covers of these bestselling Canadian children's books. Can you name the title and the author?

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ANSWERS

PARAGRAPH:

Brian Mulroney, John Diefenbaker, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, John Turner, Lester Pearson, Jean Chretien, John A. Macdonald, Joe Clark, Kim Campbell, Pierre Trudeau

DISORDER:

Nipissing, Miramichi, Saguenay, Saskatchewan, Great Slave, Superior, Shuswap, Winnipegosis, Mackenzie, St. Lawrence

LIKELIHOOD:

d. A virtual certainty - in fact it will probably contain thousands of them
a. About one chance in three million
b. A little less than one chance in a billion
c. Just under one chance in a trillion

UNCOVER

Alligator Pie By Dennis Lee, illustrated by Frank Newfeld, now published by Key Porter Books
Love You Forever By Robert Munsch, illustrated by Sheila McGraw, published by Firefly Books
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler, now published by Tundra Books