TRIVIA CORNER
Each week I will ask 3 trivia questions that you can submit answers to by Friday's class. There will be a prize
for those with the most correct answers each week. Check each week to see how you do and you can look up answers if
you want.
Week 10
1. Who won Survivor this past Sunday?
2. If the area of an isoceles triangle is 30 cm squared, what is the area of a rhombus whose outsides have the
same length as the equal sides in the isosceles triangle?
3. I was born in Newmarket but started out living in a small town to the North East that has 2 words and the first
one is Mt. ? What is the name of the town?
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Answers to Previous Weeks
Week 9
1. Which Italian city is mostly canals? (Ans - Venice)
2. Which musical group (one of my personal favourites) sings "Nothing Else Matters and Whiskey in the Jar" (Ans
- Metallica)
3. In what hospital was Mrs. Hicks born? (Ans - Walkerton, there are no hospitals in Cargill)
Week 8
1. What fraction out of 7 is closest to pi? (Ans - 22/7)
2. Who are Banjo and Kazooie? (Ans - Video game characters)
3. What is the name of the town (city) that Archie Andrews lives in?
(Ans - Riversdale)
Week 7
1. Who or what are Jinx, Pixie and Dixie? (Ans - 2 mice and a cat from cartoons).
2. As far as a country name goes, what normally follows Bosnia? (Ans - Herzegovenia)
3. What 2 Govenors of the United States had a major role in one of my favourite movies "Predator" (Ans -
Arnold Schwartzenegger and Jessie Ventura).
Week 6
1. Which famous Canadian had a birthday this past Sunday, the 22nd? (Ans - Toronto Maple Leaf Captain and
my early favourite hockey player Dave Keon).
2. Name any 7 letter palindrome. (Ans- racecar is one, reads same frontwords as backwards)
3. What are Abbott and Horn famous for inventing? (Ans - Trivial Pursuit)
Week 5
1. What 2 numbers do the hands of watches on advertisements usually point to? (Ans 10 and 2)
2. A Mission group from our school is presently in the Dominican Republic. What other country shares the
same island? (Ans - Haiti)
3. Which brother group has the most combined home runs in major league history and how many did each have?
(Ans - Hank Aaron and Tommy Aaron)
Week 4
1. Elton John had an album reach #1 in it's first week on list
entitled "Captain Fantastic and _________________" (ans -Brown Dirt Cowboys)
2. dy/dx is what? (ans - the derivative of y with respect to x)
3. What were the names of the Dionne quintuplets? (ans - Marie, Cecile, Yvonne, Annette, Emilie)
Week 3
1. Name 2 teams Tim Horton played for.(Ans - Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Rangers and Buffalo
Sabres,)
2. Which Sacred Heart alumni won an Olympic medal? (Ans -Laryssa Biesenthal)
3. What sport do I play the most? (This one should be easy!)
(Ans - Soccer 3 times a week but I do love golf too!)
Week 2
1. Which is closer to the earth, the Sun or Jupiter? (Ans The Sun)
2. What are the A, C, G and T in DNA? (Ans - Guanine, Cystosine, Adenine and Thymine)
3. Who is Richard Starkey? (Ans - Ringo Starr from the Beatles)
Week 1
1. In what country is Rotterdam? (Ans - Holland or Netherlands)
2. What is the difference between the largest and smallest 3 digit prime numbers? (Ans 896 997
- 101)
3. On which TV show would you find a cook named Hop Sing? (Ans Bonanza or Ponderosa).
