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4 The person to answer the first telephone call was Reverend Father Hippolyte Leduc, an _______ missionary.

6 As one of his experiments leading up to building an airplane, Edmontonian Reg Hunt successfully launched this device from a ramp.

8 No part of the Nodwell 110 was ever.

10 By the 1970s, Nodwell 110s were exported to Russia, South America, Iran and China from their manufacturing plant in which city?

11 This general-purpose programming language, developed by Calgarian James Gosling, is one of the most prominent developments in terms of communication and the World Wide Web.

12 How many months did it take Gosling's researchers to create a single operating environment that could be used by any device, no matter which platform it used?

13 Edmonton's first two telephones were made out of this material.

14 The Nodwell 110 was invented by this man _____ in 1957.

15 Reg Hunt's inspiration for his airplane's propellers came from this device (2 words).

16 This was the original name for Gosling's and Sun's programming language.

17 The Nodwell 110 has been featured on this (2 words).

18 This was the secret code name for Gosling's research group, which was recruited by Sun Microsystems in California (2 words).

19 The first phone call was made between Edmonton and this community (2 words).

20 The Canadian insurance company the ________ is giving a promotional boost to Edmonton's driver testing service.

21 Edmonton's driver testing service assesses the condition of about ____ percent of its clients in the office, without needing to go out on the road.

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1 This is a feature of the Alberta landscape-it's deep, squishy and hard to travel through.

2 Peter Jacobs got the idea for his invention from this ___.

3 This 1958 Edmonton invention by Peter Jacobs was originally a training device for helicopter pilots, and later became a midway ride.

5 In recognition for his achievement, the inventor of the Nodwell 110 received this honour (3 words).

7 In the 1950s, this company decided to hire an inventor to construct a tracked vehicle that could travel through difficult terrain (2 words).

9 This Edmonton-based service tests people's driving abilities to determine if they are medically unfit to drive (2 words).

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