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Founded in 1764, what is the oldest still operating English newspaper in North America ?The Quebec City Chronicle-Telegraph.

What North American water falls are 106 feet taller than the Niagara Falls ?The Montmorency Falls, a few kilometers from Quebec City Canada.

Which bridge, opened to traffic in 1917, is the longest cantilever type bridge in the world ?Le pont de Quebec, in Quebec City

What school, founded in 1639, by the Ursuline order of nuns, is the oldest still running school for girls in North America ?Le couvent des Ursulines in Quebec City

What city was the most bombed in North America?Probably Quebec City, bombed by British, American and French forces.
Strategically situated on a narrow part of the St Laurence River.  In the days of cannons,
whoever put a few cannons on both sides of the St Laurence River,  "owned"  the Great Lakes.
- quebec is a native word meaning "where the river narrows"

Where is the only preserved and maintained walled city in North America ?Quebec City. Other walled cities in North America are in St Augustine, Florida, and Charleston, South Carolina.

Benedict Arnold and general Montgomery, in 1775, left the state of Maine and attacked which city?Quebec City. They were repulsed by the British. That attack prompted the British to build the citadelle, a fort within a fortified walled Quebec City. The whole complex is on a cliff.
 

Where is the only ice hotel in America ?At the Manoir Montmorency, next to Montmorency falls, a few kilometers from Quebec City. It was built in December 2000

The French equivalent of
'the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog',
a sentence which contains every letter of the alphabet
(useful when learning to type), is
'Allez porter ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume un Havane'
which translates to
'Go and take this old whisky to the fair-haired judge smoking the Havana cigar.