TRACKS TRIVIA Home Game | Season One 6-week challenge This is the collected version of a 6-week challenge that was run from Wednesday, March 18 to Sunday, April 26, 2020. It’s collected here for anyone who would like to play it now for fun. If you like this, there may be a new season of the home game going on or the live version. You’re welcome to join either. For more info, contact [email protected]. If you don’t get an answer, then at least you’ve got this set of games. How it worked: • Each Wednesday a new set of 60 questions was posted at trackstrivia.com. • Players could play in teams with the people they live with or people over the internet or by themselves. • Teams would write their answers on the answer sheet provided and email a photo of their answers to [email protected]. • They’d receive a score out of 60 for the week. • At the end of 6 weeks, each team’s top 4 score were counted toward an overall total and an overall winner was crowned. How it really works: Play however you want. Have fun. TRACKS TRIVIA | Home Game NAME/TEAM: _____________________________________ 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 8 9 9 9 10 10 10 11 11 11 12 12 12 13 13 13 14 14 14 15 15 15 16 16 16 17 17 17 18 18 18 19 19 19 20 20 20 TRACKS TRIVIA Home Game | Season One Week 1 of 6 TRACKS TRIVIA | Home Game | Season One | Week 1 of 6 ROUND 1 Category 1 - History Category 3 - Science 1. Who was the first Canadian Prime 11. What element takes its symbol from the Minister who was divorced at the time Latin “Hydrargyros” which translates to that they assumed office? “water silver”? 2. What long war did Joan of Arc fight in? 12. What branch of mathematics was simultaneously discovered by Sir Isaac 3. Named for a palace, what treaty officially Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz? ended World War I? 13. More likely to be administered to men 4. Besides Lincoln and Kennedy, name than women, what does the Ishihara one of the US presidents who was test test for? assassinated? 14. What one word can be: a liquid 5. What controversial Russian advisor was component of blood; a superheated reportedly fed cyanide, shot in the back, gas; or a TV format? shot in the head, thrown off a bridge, and drowned, before dying? 15. What engineering “law” describes how the number of transistors that can fit onto a 1-inch chip doubles each year? Category 2 - Geography 6. What African city is the first world capital Category 4 - Nature you’d hit if you were to go due east from the Prime Meridian? 16. What flower was at the center of a mania that consumed Holland in the 7. What country’s flag appears in the 1600s? provincial flags of three Canadian provinces? 17. What “F” is the name of the soft spot on a baby’s head? 8. Alphabetically, what is the first world capital (UN recognized)? 18. The Enhanced Fujita Scale is a system used for measuring what weather 9. What national capital was originally phenomenon? called “Bytown”? 19. Also called “water bears”, or “space 10. In What Mountainous country would bears” what micro-animal can survive you find the Amazon river’s extreme temperatures like -272C to headwaters? 150C? 20. Who wrote and illustrated the book “Bird of America” between 1827 and 1838? March 17, 2020 TracksTrivia.com TRACKS TRIVIA | Home Game | Season One | Week 1 of 6 ROUND 2 Category 1 - Art Category 3 - Culture 1. In 2005 street artist David Choe was 11. Frasier and Niles’s drink of choice, paid in stock later valued at $200 million what kind of fortified wine is Harvey’s when he painted murals in the offices of Bristol Cream? what company? 12. With 304, what city’s restaurants have, 2. The Montreal Biosphere, designed by by far, the most Michelin stars, as of Buckminster Fuller is an example of 2019? what kind of structure? 13. What is the main ingredient in Tahini? 3. What Roman god is depicted devouring his son in a black painting by Francisco 14. What supermodel first appeared in a Goya? Calvin Klein ad campaign in 1989 and again in 2014? 4. What pigment’s name means “beyond the sea”, because of the great distance 15. What gum from the 1990’s used the it had to be imported from, not because slogan “For you, not them”? it is the colour of water? 5. What piece of agricultural equipment is Category 4 - Miscellaneous visible in the painting “American Gothic”? 16. What three words that are anagrams of each other can mean the following: sanctified; groups of people; Category 2 - Literature frightened? 6. Reardon Steel is a construction material 17. On a modern Gregorian calendar, what poised to revolutionize the railway day is the ides of March? industry in what Objectivist novel? 18. What 1 word can follow each of the 7. First published in 1910, what one- following to create a recognizable word sentence-long poem is made up of 288 or phrase: art___; bridge____; words and 28 clauses? shift____? 8. What novel did Mark David Chapman 19. What real-life father and daughter have read immediately after shooting John each been portrayed in Oscar-winning Lennon? performances? 9. Galleons, knuts, and sickles are fictional 20. According to Segal’s Law, a man with currency associated with what series of one of these is always sure, but a man books? with 2 never is. What piece of 10. What 1967 film about Broadway technology was he referring to? musicals was adapted into a play that won a record 12 Tony’s? March 17, 2020 TracksTrivia.com TRACKS TRIVIA | Home Game | Season One | Week 1 of 6 ROUND 3 Category 1 - Entertainment Category 3 - Sports 1. What 2014 Richard Linklater film was 11. What retired 6-time French Open shot over the course of 11 years? winner from Sweden staged a 1991 comeback where he insisted on using a 2. On what late night talk show did wooden racquet and failed to win a set? presidential candidate Bill Clinton play saxophone in 1992? 12. In Baseball statistics, what does the letter “K” represent? 3. Charles Fleischer provided the voice of what title rabbit in a 1988 film? 13. What is the name of the playing surface used in curling? 4. What Japanese film was the first to win Best Animated Picture? 14. Who is the only man to win a gold medal in boxing for Canada? 5. The characters Zach Morris, Lisa Tuttle and “Screech” Powers first appeared on 15. What NHL trophy is awarded to the what TV show? NHL player who exhibits the most sportsman-like conduct? Category 2 - Music Category 4 - Games 6. What artist released the best-selling album of 2017 which features a black 16. An “oche” is a line associated with what obelus on a blue background on its traditional pub game? cover? 17. What toys were originally marketed as 7. “The Button-Down Mind” of what the “Little People” before growing in comedian was the first comedy album to popularity in 1983? the win an album of the year Grammy? 18. In the film “Casino Royale”. James 8. What European country is streaming Bond plays Texas Hold ‘em. What giant Spotify headquartered in? does he play in the novel of the same name? 9. What New Wave musical duo had hits with “Shout” and “Everybody Wants to 19. Japanese for “egg watch” what Rule the World”? electronic toy became popular in the 1990s? 10. What heavy metal band takes its name from the Spanish for a large cat? 20. Beginning in 2009, what board game features characters named, in clockwise order, Sweetie, Bottomless, Veggie, and Picky? March 17, 2020 TracksTrivia.com TRACKS TRIVIA Home Game | Season One Week 1 of 6 | Answers The answers to week 1 are on the next page. Don’t continue if you haven’t played week 1. TRACKS TRIVIA Home Game | Season One Week 1 of 6 | Answers ROUND 1 ROUND 2 ROUND 3 1. KIM CAMPBELL (Pierre Trudeau 1. FACEBOOK 1. BOYHOOD got divorced while in office) 2. GEODESIC DOME 2. THE ARSEINEO HALL SHOW 2. THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR or LANCASTRIAN WAR 3. SATURN 3. ROGER RABBIT 3. THE TREATY OF VERSAILLE 4. ULTRAMRINE 4. SPIRITED AWAY (Original question incorrect) 5. PITCHFORK 5. GOOD MORNING, MISS BLISS 4. JAMES GARFIELD or (Saved by the Bell was a spin-off) WILLIAM MCKINNLEY 6. ATLAS SHRUGGED 6. ED SHEERAN 5. GRIGORI RASPUTIN 7. IF— 7. BOB NEWHART 6. LOME, TOGO 8. CATCHER IN THE RYE 8. SWEEDEN 7. UK (BC, Manitoba, Ontario) 9. HARRY POTTER 9. TEARS FOR FEARS 8. ABU DHABI, UAE 10. THE PRODUCERS 10. PANTERA 9. OTTAWA, CANADA 11. SHERRY 11. BJORN BORG 10. PERU 12. TOKYO, JAPAN 12. STRIKEOUT 11. MERCURY 13. SESAME SEEDS 13. SHEET 12. CALCULUS 14. CHRISTY TURLINGTON 14. LENNOX LEWIS 13. COLOURBLINDNESS 15. BUBBLE TAPE 15. THE LADY BYNG 14. PLASMA 16. SACRED; CADRES; SACRED MEMORIAL TROPHY 15. MOORE’S LAW 17. MARCH 15 16. DARTS 16. TULIPS 18. WORK 17. CABBAGE PATCH KIDS 17. FONTINELLE 19. GEORGE VI & ELIZABETH II 18. BACARAT (Chemin-de fer) (The King’s Speech; The Queen) 18. TORNADOES or HENRY VIII & ELIZABETH I 19. TAMAGOTCHI (The Private Lives of Henry VIII; 19.