PCHS Community Trivia 2022

32. He is best known for his work with radio and the telephone, but he thought his work with the deaf most important.

(Literature) 16. Siblings Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny are characters in which book series ?

(Literature) 36. Which Charles Dickens novel included the characters Bob Cratchit and Jacob Marley?

(Weird Facts) 25. How far can a dog run into a forest?

(Weird Facts) 55. Seven months have 31 days. How many have 28?

(The World)49. Identify the country shown below.

(Movies) 21. In the newest Thor movie, "Thor: Love and Thunder", who is love and who is thunder?

(Mathematics) 57. What is the length of side "c" in the diagram below?

(Weird Facts) 5. Which of the following is not a fruit?

(Mathematics) 17. Which answer below correctly identifies sides a, b and c of the right angle triangle below?

(Movies) 51. In this movie Kevin Costner's character actually hears a strange whisper: "If you build it, he will come."

(Canada) 44. This Treaty encompasses large areas of Alberta and Saskatchewan including Edson.

(Literature) 56. Who wrote "In Flanders Fields"?

(Canada) 54. At its creation in 1867, the Dominion of Canada included four provinces. This was not one of them.

(Music) 3. This band had hits with "Love Me Do" and "Blackbird".

(Math) 47. Dwayne has 9 cows. All but 3 break out, wreck the neighbour's yard and wander away. How many are left?

(The World) 39. Identify the country shown below.

(Weird Facts) 15. The fear of insects is called

(Music) 23. This performer had hits with "Run to You" and "Straight from the Heart"

(Literature) 6. Which book series includes the characters Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli?

(Canada) 14. Identify the province shown below.

(Weird Facts) 35. What does a camel store in its hump?

(The World)59. Identify the country shown below.

(Literature) 26. Which book included the characters Ellie Sattler, John Hammond, Alan Grant, and Ian Malcolm?

(The World) 9. This is the city where a large government building was burned down during the battle of 1812.

(The World) 29. In 1588, the Spanish Armada sailed with the goal of defeating which country?

(Sports) 10. Toronto won the grey cup in 2022. Winnipeg won in 2021 and 2019. (2020 was cancelled.) Who won in 2018?

(Science) 2. In 1928, Dr Alexander Fleming extracted this substance, from mould growing on bacteria in a Petri dish.

(Sports) 30. Who was the Canadian who won the Decathlon in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics? (He actually won in August, 2021)

(Movies)31. In this war movie, a character said: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning"

(Art) 38. Which famous painter was also a sculptor, an architect, and an engineer?

(Mathematics) 37. How many cubic meters of dirt are in a hole that is 3 m wide x 4 m long x 2 m deep?

(Science) 12. In 1921, Banting and Best figured out how to isolate this substance, used by diabetics, from dog pancreas.

(Canada) 4. Identify the province shown below.

(Sports) 60. He won gold in the men's skeleton event at the 2010 Winter Olympics. He now hosts the Amazing Race Canada.

(Art) 58. Where was the artist when they painted Starry Night?

(Science) 52. The discovery of the structure of DNA, in 1953, was made possible by her X-ray diffraction photographs.

(Canada) 24. Identify the territory shown below.

(Science) 22. Concerted vaccination campaigns were successful in eliminating this disease from Canada by 1946.

(Sports) 20. Name the last 4 winners of the Stanley cup.

(Weird Facts) 45. Which 2 letters do not appear in the names of the elements on english periodic tables made after 2015?

(Sports) 50. Who won a silver medal at Provincials in Badminton for PCHS last year?

34. France and Britain both lost over 100,000 men trying to take it, but Canada took it with a total force of 100,000.

(Mathematics) 27. You start with 40. Divide by 1/2 and then add 10. What do you get?

(Literature) 46. This play contained the lines "something wicked this way comes" and "out damn spot".

(Movies) 11. Identify the movie that this quote came from: "human beings are a disease. A cancer of this planet."

(Art) 8. What does "bardolatry" mean?

(Music) 43. Identify this song from 2020 and the artist or band that recorded it.

(Sports) 40. Canada's grinning goalie, she stopped 4 of 6 in the shootout as the women won gold in olympic soccer.

(M) 41. In this movie, a character says: "The most famous [blunder] is never get involved in a land war in Asia . . ."

(Art) 48. His works include the sculpture shown below and a rather famous ceiling.

(Mathematics) 7. If I have three apples and you take two, how many do you have?

(Music) 53. This country artist released the song "When It Rains It Pours" in 2017.

(Movies) 1. What movie, from 1975, is this clip from?

(Art) 28. Claude Monet is most known for his paintings of what?

(The World) 19. A wall separated East and West Berlin from August of 1961 until

(Music) 13. This performer had hits with "When the Doves Cry" and "1999"

(Science) 42. The first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.

(Art) 18. In what museum can you find the Venus de Milo?

(Music) 33. This singer had hits with "Haven't Met You Yet" and "It's a Beautiful Day"