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         THE GREAT CANADIAN TRIVIA CONTEST
  
From: Steve_Caldwell@colby.on.infoshare.ca
Subject: Great Canadian Trivia Contest
 
Question for 24 March, 1997.
 
GENERAL INFORMATION:
 
Each week a new question  will be presented.  Students participating in
the contest will, in all likelihood, have to do some research to find
the correct answer to our weekly question.
 
Questions are based on some aspect of Canadian Studies. Questions will
include the subjects of history, geography, culture, natural science,
sports, current events, law and any other aspect of Canadian studies
that we can think of.
 
A new question will be posted by noon, eastern time, every Monday and
answers must be received by 8:00 a.m. eastern time the following
Saturday week. Answers will be tabulated, and the correct answer, along
with the winners' names, will be posted in two weeks. Thus, there will
be a new question each week while the answer and winners will be posted
two weeks later.
 
We plan on offering a few nominal prizes so make sure you let us know
where we can reach you. We plan on offering three prizes this year, one
for the top scoring individual or small group, one for the top scoring
class, and one for the top scoring out of country participant. Because
of this it is vital for participants to identify which of the three you
are entering as. If the participants are representing a particular
class please identify the teacher, grade(s) and school. 

Last year we had participants from across Canada and the United States,
while the year before we had participants as far away as China.
We welcome all new participants as well as our returning veteran
contestants.    
 
Don't forget your e-mail address, as well as your school�s name and the
grade and/or class that you are in, as well as your postal address.

March 10th's QUESTION: 

Since winter is slowly coming to an end, hopefully, we'll have a snow
question. Which provincial capital gets, on average, the greatest
amount of  snow each year?

ANSWER:
Once again I had a problem with this one. My original source gave the
following information:

Charlottetown - 339 cm.
Quebec City - 337 cm.
St. John's - 322 cm.

while a second source gave different information:

St. John's - 359.4 cm
Quebec City - 343.4 cm.
Charlottetown - 330.6 cm.

Therefore I will take either Charlottetown or Saint John's as the
correct answer. Quebec City with 343.4 cm. might also have a claim
since, unlike Charlottetown or Saint John's, little of their snow melts
during the winter. So at any one time Quebec City would probably have
the most snow on the ground.

WINNERS:

1. Dean Voykin, Gr. 10, Sa-Hal Secondary School: Kamloops, British
Columbia

2. Ian Raska, Colonel By Secondary School: Gloucester, Ontario

3. Peter and Cindy Bailey, cindy@connix.com

THIS WEEK'S QUESTION:

Christians will be celebrating Easter next weekend. On Easter Monday, 9
April, 1917, an event happened in Canadian history that created an
extraordinary amount of nationalism in Canada and was arguably the most
important single event that led to total independence nine years later.
What was this event that took place on Easter Monday, 1917? 

DUE DATE: 6 April, 1997.
          
SEND IN YOUR ANSWERS:
 
Remember, don't post your answers to this list.  Otherwise everyone
will see what you're sending in. Instead, send your answers to Steve
Caldwell at the following e-mail address:

Steve_Caldwell@colby.on.infoshare.ca