Volume 1 Number 18
October 13, 1995
Steve Caldwell, the coordinator of the Trivia Challenge, has been kind
enough to give CM permission to run his weekly Great
Canadian Trivia Contest, a great way to motivate students to
spend some time in the Library. Here's this week's question, the answers
and winners from September 29, and how the contest works:
IMPORTANT NOTE:
For those of you who access us by way of The Village in Ontario please note that
we're having a lot of difficulty with The Village. We have been able to only
intermittently receive the Village and cannot send to it.
Therefore we might have missed some correct answers this week and
they will be
recognized when we receive them. In light of this could respondents
please use
the
Steve_Caldwell@colby.on.infoshare.ca
address.
We apologize to those who use The Village to receive the weekly question.
CORRECTIONS & APOLOGIES:
Among the winners last week I incorrectly said that:
Amanda Lambert, Brenda Minten, Stacy Ballard & Jennifer Lammers were from
Gregory A. Hogan in Sarnia, when in reality they are in Mr. Vanlieshout's
Gr.7/8 class at St. Peter Canisius School in Watford Ontario.
Danny Ray and Jerry Don Kelly of Alma Middle School were from Alma, Arizona
when in fact they are from Alma, Arkansas.
My apologies to all concerned.
THIS
WEEK'S QUESTION:
What important Canadian city was originally named ``Pile of Bones"?
DUE DATE FOR THIS ANSWER: 22 October, 1995
SEND IN YOUR ANSWERS:
Remember, don't post your answers to CM. Instead, send your
answers to Steve Caldwell at one of the following e-mail
addresses (if possible please use the first of these addresses as The
Village is having a few problems):
Steve_Caldwell@colby.on.infoshare.ca
or
stepcald@village.ca
In addition to your e-mail address, please send us your school's
name and the grade and/or class that you are in, as well as your
postal address.
September 29's Question was:
This year, for the first time, a Canadian won the Indy
Car auto racing championship. The Indy Car
championship, for 1995, was a series of 17 races,
1 in Australia, 2 in Canada and 14, including the
Indianapolis 500, in the United States. What is the name
of this young Canadian?
Bonus question: The answer to the above question is the
fourth different Canadian to win an Indy Car race. What
was the name of the first Canadian to win an Indy Car
race?
ANSWER:
This year's Indy Car champion is 24 year old Jacques Villeneuve.
The bonus question is a little tricky and that is the reason it was a
bonus question and not a two-parter.
The first Canadian to win an Indy Car race was Jacques Villeneuve, who
is the current champion's uncle. Many respondents answered Gilles
Villeneuve, the current champion's deceased father. While Gilles
Villeneuve was the first Canadian to win a Formula 1 race, he never
participated in Indy Car races.
The other two Canadians to have won Indy Car races are Paul Tracy and
Scott Goodyear.
WINNERS:
- Jeb Aarts & Mark Timmermans, Mr. Vanlieshout's Gr.7/8 class, St. Peter
Canisius School: Watford, Ontario
- Steven Tellier & Mario Clewlow, St. Robert School: London, Ontario
- Mrs. A. Serrao-Seppeisa's Gr.7/8 class, St. Raphael's School: Toronto,
Ontario
- Nicholas McBride, Gr.8, R.G. Sinclair Public School: Kingston, Ontario
- Danny Ray, 7th grade keyboarding class, Alma Middle School: Alma, Arkansas
- Jerry Don Kelly, 7th grade keyboarding class, Alma Middle School: Alma,
Arkansas
- Jane Scaplan's Gr.6 French Immersion class, Sacred Heart Elementary School:
Marystown, Newfoundland
- Mrs. Cantalini's Gr.7/8 class, Gregory A. Hogan School: Sarnia, Ontario
- Benny Machtinger, Yorkhill Elementary School, Thornhill, Ontario
about THE GREAT CANADIAN TRIVIA CONTEST:
IT'S BACK!
Welcome to the second year of The Great Canadian Trivia
Contest.
The History Department of Colonel By Secondary School in Ottawa,
Ontario is sponsoring a Canadian Studies Internet trivia contest.
This contest is designed to appeal to students in Grades 7 - 10,
although other grades are more than welcome to participate.
INFORMATION:
Each week a new question will be presented. Students
participating in the contest will, in all likelihood, have to do
some research to find the correct answer to our weekly question.
Questions are based on some aspect of Canadian Studies. Questions
will include the subjects of history, geography, culture, natural
science, sports, current events, law, and any other aspect of
Canadian studies that we can think of.
A new question will be posted every Friday in CM (the
trivia contest is also distributed through Schoolnet a few days earlier).
Answers must be received by 8:00 a.m. eastern time a week
from the following Saturday. Answers will be tabulated, and the
correct answer, along with the winners' names, will be posted in
two weeks. Thus, there will be a new question each week while the
answer and winners will be posted two weeks later.
We plan on offering a few nominal prizes so make sure you let us
know where we can reach you. We would also like participants to
let us know if they are entering as an individual, a group, or if
they are representing a particular class and school. We will try
to award prizes for individuals/groups and classes.
Last year we had participants from across Canada and the United
States and as far away as China. We welcome all new participants
as well as our returning veteran contestants.
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