CM Magazine: Great Canadian Trivia Challenge

________________ CM . . . . Volume I Number 15 . . . . September 22, 1995

Great Canadian Trivia Challenge

Steve Caldwell, the coordinator of the Triva Challenge, has been kind enough to giveCM permission to run his weekly Great Canadian Trivia Contest, a great way to motivate students to spend some time in the Library. Here's how it works, and this week's question:

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 by every Friday inCM (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.

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.

WINNERS:

Last week's correct answer and succesful participants will be posted next week.

THIS WEEK'S QUESTION:

This is another two-parter. Both parts must be answered correctly to receive credit.

What is the name of the mountain with the highest elevation in Canada?
What is its elevation above sea level in metres?

SEND IN YOUR ANSWERS:

Remember, don't post your answers toCM. Instead, send your answers to Steve Caldwell at one of the following e-mail addresses:

Steve_Caldwell@colby.on.infoshare.ca
or
stepcald@village.ca

To comment on this title or this review, send mail to cm@mts.net.

Published by
The Manitoba Library Association
ISSN 1201-9364

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