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Welcome to This Awful/Awesome Life! My name is Frances Joyce. I am the publisher and editor of this magazine. We'll be exploring different topics each month to inform, entertain and inspire you. Meet new authors, sharpen your brain and pick up a few tips on life, love, entertaining and business. Enjoy and please share!

The November 2019 "That's Not Right!" Quiz

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A successful holiday season often hinges on organization and knowing how to prioritize.  Keeping up with your everyday commitments while making time to plan a fantastic Thanksgiving meal, coordinating with family and friends about who brings what, who’s cooking or cleaning up and making sure timeless family traditions don’t fall by the wayside can be overwhelming.

How many times have you heard the expression, “A place for everything and everything in its place?”

In honor of the perfect perfectly imperfect Thanksgiving, we’d like to help you hone your organization skills.

We’re testing your knowledge and organization skills with these ten topics. Under each topic, five answers are listed, three are correct, but two are wrong. Your job is to move the incorrect items to their correct spots.

For the answers to this quiz go to https://www.thisawfulawesomelife.com/home/2019/11/10/next-month-in-this-awful-awesome-life-december-2019

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 Famous Authors born in the month of November           

1. Alice Munro                                                                            

2. Margaret Atwood                                                                      

3. Neil Gaiman                                                                                 

4. Leonard Cohen                                                      

5. Madeleine L’Engle                                                                    

 Common Ingredients in Cranberry Sauce

1.       Cranberries

2.       Vanilla

3.       Allspice

4.       Wild Mint

5.       Nutmeg

 Movies set during Thanksgiving

1.       Titanic

2.       Scent of a Woman

3.       The Big Chill

4.       Spider-Man

5.       Billy Madison

 Famous Authors born in the United States                         

1.       Toni Morrison                                                                  

2.       Robert Louis Stevenson                                                         

3.       Judy Blume                                                                       

4.       James Baldwin 

5.       Bram Stoker

 Foods Indigenous to the New World (North, Central & South America)

1.       Chili peppers

2.       Sugar

3.       Corn

4.       Avocados

5.       Cinnamon

 Famous Authors born in Canada

1.       Stephen King

2.       L. Frank Baum

3.       Lucy Maud Montgomery

4.       Michael Ondaatje

5.       Ann Martel

 Culinary Herbs and Spices Indigenous to the New World (North, Central & South America)

1.       Tarragon

2.       Wild Onion

3.       Pumpkin

4.       Sunflower seeds

5.       Allspice

 United States Thanksgiving

1.       The 4th Thursday in November

2.       First celebrated in this country in 1578

3.       First Thanksgiving was proclaimed by Governor William Bradford

4.       Watching football

5.       Not observed nationwide

 Canadian Thanksgiving

1.       The 2nd Monday in October

2.       First celebrated in this country in 1621

3.       First Thanksgiving proclaimed by Martin Frobisher

4.       Watching Football

5.       Observed nationwide

 Movies filmed in Canada

1.       Brokeback Mountain

2.       Catch Me if You Can

3.       Planes, Trains and Automobiles

4.       Down and Out in Beverly Hills

5.       Chicago

 

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