Following up on last year’s successful CSEB Trivia Night, we held the 2017 version last week on May 19.  There was substantially less turnout, due to the timing, I believe. But fun was had by all.

There were three rounds of 15 questions, followed by a 4th round of just 5 questions, with the theme of round 4 being all things Canadian. Due to popular demand, the rules for round 4 were also changed on the fly, with each point being worth 2 points, rather than just one, and 2 points being deducted for either a blank or incorrect response.

Here were the results:

TEAM NAME	round 1	round 2	round 3	round 4	sum
rayputyourpantson	11	9	9	2	31
victorious secrets	5	2	5	-6	6
lets get quizzical	5	6	8	-2	17

Note that RayPutYourPantsOn changed their name several times. I just call them “Team Asshole”, because, well, you know.

Here are some pics:

And now the questions. How well would you have done?

ROUND #1

No	Category	Question	Answer
1	Geography	In which U.S. state would you find Mount Rushmore?	South Dakota
2	History	What was Malcolm X’s real surname?	Little
3	History/ Science	Who was the first female Canadian astronaut to actually go to space?	Roberta Bondar
4	Science	What was the first planet to be discovered using the telescope?	Uranus
5	Geography	What body of water separates Saudi Arabia from Africa?	The Red Sea
6	History / Politics	Who is the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms?	Franklin D. Roosevelt
7	History	In what year was Napolean defeated at Waterloo?	1815
8	Science	What percentage of the world’s population is left-handed? 10%, 20%, or 30%?	10%
9	Art	How many paintings did Vincent Van Gogh sell during his lifetime?	One, “The Red Vineyard at Arles”
10	Sports	Who was the last NHL player to play without a helmet?	Craig MacTavish
11	Geography	What is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?	Sicily
12	Science	In computer science, what does “GUI” stand for?	Graphical User Interface
13	Sports	Who is the only athlete ever to play in a Super Bowl and a World Series?	Deion Sanders
14	Geography /Business	In what city was the very first Hard Rock Cafe opened?	London, UK
15	Geography	In which state of the United States would you find Fort Knox?	Kentucky

ROUND #2

No	Category	Question	Answer
1	Science	Which liquor is made from the blue agave plant?	Tequila
2	Geography	Yerevan is the capital city of what country?	The Republic of Armenia
3	Music	Which one of Prince’s songs reached highest on the music charts?	When Dove’s Cry
4	Geography / History / Politics	What did the letters of the former communist country U.S.S.R. stand for?	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
5	Science /Math	What is the largest three-digit prime number?	997
6	Business	What was the first commercial product that had a Barcode?	Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit Gum
7	Sports	What professional wrestler was the first to defeat the Undertaker at Wrestlemania?	Brock Lesnar
8	Geography	What nation produces two thirds of the world’s vanilla?	Madagascar (also accept Malagasy Republic)
9	Art	Which painter started the impressionist movement?	Claude Monet
10	Geography	What is the only sea on Earth with no coastline?	Sargasso Sea
11	Sports	Who was the shortest player ever to play in the NBA?	Tyrone Bogues
12	History	In 1783, the first free flight of a hot air balloon carrying a human occurred in what city?	Paris
13	Art	What does the Statue of Liberty hold in her right hand?	A torch
14	History	The Beothuks were the indigenous people of what Canadian province?	Newfoundland
15	Geography	What’s the capital city of Zambia?	Lusaka

ROUND #3

No	Category	Question	Answer
1	History	Who was Canada’s first female Prime Minister?	Kim Campbell
2	Geography	What’s the capital city of Croatia?	Zagreb
3	History / Geography	Which Great Lake did the Ojibwe call “Gichi-Gami”	Lake Superior
4	Science	Which blood type is the universal donor?	O-
5	Science	How many people have walked on the Moon?	12
6	Sports	Which country originated the sport of Curling?	Scotland
7	Business	In what year was the first iPhone released?	2007
8	Mythology	Who is the Greek god of victory?	Nike
9	Science	On what planet would you find the biggest volcano in the entire solar system?	Mars
10	Music	What was the Beatles’ first single (1962)	Love Me Do
11	History /Geography	Founded in 1607, what is considered to be the first permanent English settlement in the New World?	Jamestown, Virginia
12	Philosophy	“The Analects” is the name given to the collected wisdom of what philosopher?	Confucius
13	Philosophy	Who said, “Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.”	Soren Kierkegaard
14	History	In what year did American women gain the legal right to vote in federal elections?	1920
15	History	Who was the first woman to be US Secretary of State?	Madeleine Albright (1996)

ROUND #4

No	Category	Question	Answer
1	Politics	Who is the youngest Prime Minister in Canadian history?	Joe Clark (40); Trudeau was 43
2	Music	Who was the first person inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame? (1978)	Guy Lombardo or Oscar Peterson
3	Business	When did Canada abandon the gold standard? 1908, 1933, 1971, never was, still is	1933
4	Politics	What Canadian province has the highest percentage of women in their provincial legislature?	BC (39%)
5	Geography	What is the only officially bilingual province?	New Brunswick