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Home Game | Season Eight TEAM:______ TRACKS TRIVIA | Home Game | Season Eight TEAM:________________________________ 1 21 41 2 22 42 3 23 43 4 24 44 5 25 45 6 26 46 7 27 47 8 28 48 9 29 49 10 30 50 11 31 51 12 32 52 13 33 53 14 34 54 15 35 55 16 36 56 17 37 57 18 38 58 19 39 59 20 40 60 Once you have the latest game, you have 2 HOURS to play and send your answers (in any format) to: [email protected] TRACKS TRIVIA Home Game | Season Eight Game 1 of 8 Written by: Gian Submitted: April 20, 2021 Published: April 28, 2021 Time Limit: 120 minutes Season Eight ROUND 1 Game 1 of 8 Category 1 – Miscellaneous - Themed Category 3 – Wine 1. What is the opening line from the 11. What common 3 word Latin expression Shakespearean History Richard III? means that one tells the truth when “Now is the winter of our under the influence of alcohol? ___________”? 12. Generating an annual income of 4.1 2. What 3 syllable word of French origin billion dollars which brotherly California refers to a club where patrons dance to winery is the world’s largest? recorded pop music? 13. April 17 is declared annually as World 3. What is the name of the longest serving Malbec Day by which wine producing space shuttle (1984-2011) that flew 39 nation? missions in total? 14. Is the French wine varietal Chablis a 4. What 4 syllable word is used to refer to white or a red wine? all of a musical artists recordings 15. What are the three VQA wine considered as a body of work? producing regions in Ontario? The 5. What 5 syllable word is a synonym of ________ (7) Peninsula, Prince flummox and means to disconcert and _______ (6) County & Lake _____ (4) confuse someone? North Shore?. Category 2 – Canadiana Category 4 – Geography Islands 6. In 1829 two schooners sailed from Port 16. Is Pearl Harbour closer to the Dalhousie to Port Robinson on what Continental US or to Japan? waterway’s opening day? 17. What island in Australia is roughy the 7. What two Canadian provinces does same size as SrI Lanka? Lake Athabasca straddle? 18. Which island nation recently appointed 8. What Alberta town is located in Miguel Diaz-Canel as Party Leader in addition to his title of President? Canada’s oldest national park? 19. What country owns the Faroe Islands? 9. Mount Allison University is the second largest university in what province? 20. Easter Island is home to over 900 Moai statues. To which country - that is over 10. What happens to the water in a marl 3500 kilometres away - does Easter lake - like Little Limestone Lake in Island belong? Manitoba - when the water temperature changes?? Season Eight ROUND 2 Game 1 of 8 Category 5 – Airports Category 7 – Shipping 21. What airport was the first to feature an 31. An automobile carrying ferry is referred underwater pedestrian tunnel as its to by the acronym RORO which main access point? describes how the cars arrive and depart the vessel. For what does the 22. After which Italian explorer is Venice’s acronym RORO stand? international airport named? 32. What Milwaukee businessman who 23. After which famous Italian artist is brought the Brewers MLB team back to Italy’s busiest airport in Rome named? town later acquired unwanted notoriety 24. In what city is Germany’s busiest when a Great Lake freighter bearing his airport located? name sank? 25. After which Indian politician is the 33. What was the name of the ship that international airport in Delhi named? infamously clogged the Suez Canal in early spring 2021? 34. What ship sank en route from Quebec Category 6 – Sports City to Liverpool near Rimouski Quebec 26. In 1793 the first professional sports on May 29, 1924 when struck by the organization in the US was founded in Norwegian ship The Storstad? Baltimore to promote what sport? 35. What businessman who made his 27. Which Original six NHL team has had 3 fortune as a shipping magnate also of the top 5 all time leaders in games established the first Greek passenger played play for them? Airline - Olympic Airways in 1957? 28. What total would you get if you added the jersey numbers of Wilt Category 8 – US Cities Chamberlain, Matts Sundin and Steve Nash together? Hint: they all wore the 36. What major US city is the starting point same number. for the famed Route 66? 29. Although he didn’t play a real (or even 37. What is the closest state capital to a pretend) doctor, what Philadelphia Albany New York? and NBA sports icon had a brief part as 38. According to Arizona Real-estate himself in the 1993 Academy Award Report, what feature of most US homes winning film “Philadelphia”? is conspicuously absent on 97 % of the homes in Phoenix, Arizona? 30. John Newcombe and Evonne Goolagong won the men’s singles and 39. Both 7/11 stores and Blockbuster Video women’s singles titles respectively at originated in what North Texas city? Wimbledon in 1971. From which 40. What American city boasts the largest country did they both hail? port in North America? Season Eight ROUND 3 Game 1 of 8 Category 9 – Before and After Category 11 – Geography - Themed Example: Q - NBA Superstar meets a Rebel 51. What Alberta city is located about half Without a Cause? A - Lebron James Dean way between Calgary and Edmonton? 41. A Norse explorer meets a WW 1 flying 52. What river on the eastern border of ace? Toronto begins on the Oak Ridges 42. WW 1 British PM joins up with the US moraine and flows through the only park President from 1789 to 1797? in the Canada Parks system that lies within an urban area? 43. Prolific star of westerns faces off with the portrayer of Joannie’s boyfriend on 53. What sea straddling the African and Happy Days? Asian border was called Mare Rubrum in Latin? 44. Classic film era song and dance man performs duet with the singer of “What 54. The LSU Tigers college teams are based Doesn’t Kill You, Makes You Stronger”? in what state capital located on the Mississippi River? 45. Doctor Dolittle portrayer (1967) meets a fedora wearing archaeologist? 55. What open air amphitheatre built into the side of a geologic formation just outside of Denver, is notorious for having hosted Category 10 – Music the only Beatles concert in 1964 that didn’t sell out? 46. Which 60 year old tv personality and actor released their debut studio album entitled “Supermodel of the World” in Category 12 – Miscellaneous 1993? 56. What animals indigenous to Australia 47. “More Than a Woman” - from the have had their names coopted and used Saturday Night Fever soundtrack - “It as the team nickname of the national Only Takes a Minute” and “Heaven Must rugby team? be Missing an Angel” are all 70s songs by a musical group that shares its name 57. The high end audio component company with what NHL team captain’s surname? Bang Olufsen was founded in 1925 in which European country? 48. Not to be confused with a Canadian Bar 58. What city in Morocco that is immortalized and Grill, what midwestern, US city is the in a 1969 song by Crosby, Stills and hometown for musical artists Chuck Nash is known as the Red City? Berry, Tina Turner and Nelly? 59. What is the only US state capital whose 49. Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is name contains three words? renowned for his recordings of the Goldberg Variations. Which classical 60. What man born in 1732 was voted Britain’s greatest military enemy of all composer wrote the original music? time in a 2012 poll by the British Army 50. Which musical artist/performer is shorter Museum? Lady Gaga or Paula Abdul? TRACKS TRIVIA Home Game | Season Eight | Leaderboard & Answers Game 1 of 8 Time Rank Tie Team 1 2 3 (min.) Final 1 Over Think'king 18 17 20 96 55 2 Hit me with your next shot! 17 14 18 105 49 3 Stay-at-home Wilburys 17 11 12 69 40 4 No Scrubs 12 12 10 90 34 5 Buzzin 12 12 9 48 X 33 6 Patricia all by Herself 13 9 11 76 33 7 AE 13 12 5 87 X 30 8 Team Lucky Guessrs 10 9 11 112 30 Jenny Tull 12 11 4 18 27 9 War! 14 5 8 24 27 Adverse Camber 11 9 7 27 27 Overall Total=sum of top 5 eligible scores Rank Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Total 1 Over Think'king 55 55 2 Hit me with your next shot! 49 49 3 Stay-at-home Wilburys 40 40 4 No Scrubs 34 34 Buzzin 33 33 5 Patricia all by Herself 33 33 AE 30 30 7 Team Lucky Guessrs 30 30 Adverse Camber 27 27 9 Jenny Tull 27 27 War! 27 27 Weekly ties decided by shorter completion time (if difference greater than 10 minutes); and then smaller team. Season ties decided by higher 6th; and then 7th; and then 8th eligible scores. Note: Each correct BOLD ANSWER is worth 1 bonus point for smaller teams. Teams of three up to 1 bonus point; Teams of two up to 2 bonus points; Solo players up to 3 bonus points TRACKS TRIVIA Home Game | Season Eight | Answers | 1 of 8 ROUND 1 ROUND 2 ROUND 3 1.
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