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:
The winners: RayPutYourPantsOn
Let’s Get Quizzical
Victorious Secrets
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 |
