The Great Canadian Trivia Contest

Steve Caldwell, the coordinator of the Trivia Contest, has been kind enough to give CM permission to run his weekly Great Canadian Trivia Contest, a great way to motivate students to spend some time in the Library.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR USERS OF THE VILLAGE

For those of you access us by way of The Village in Ontario please note that we're having a lot of difficulty with The Village. We have been able to only intermittently receive the Village and cannot send or reply to it.

Therefore we might have missed some correct answers this week and they will be recognized when we receive them. In light of this could respondents please use the Steve_Caldwell@colby.on.infoshare.ca address. We apologize to those who use The Village to receive the weekly question for any inconvenience.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR USERS OF SCHOOLNET

Apparently Schoolnet was offline for a time recently and as a result some participants had difficulty finding last week's question. Hopefully everything will be back on line this week. If you ever do not receive the question by Thursday then please contact me.

?November 3rd's Question:

On November 11, Canada will commemorate Remembrance Day. Name the Canadian general, arguably the most able Allied general of World War I, who commanded the First Canadian Division at Vimy Ridge and the entire Canadian Corps from then until the end of the War.

British author Denis Winter describes him as ". . . the most effective commander in the British Army during 1917-18 . . ."

ANSWER:

Arthur Currie commanded the First Canadian Division at Vimy Ridge and in June, 1917 replaced British general Sir Julian Byng as the commander of the four division Canadian Corps. The Canadian Corps along with the Anzacs (Austalian New Zealand Army Corps) became the storm troopers of the British Army. From 1917 on the Canadian Corps under Byng and Currie "never lost a gun, never lost ground and never failed in an assignment." In August, 1918 the Supreme Allied Commander General Foch chose Currie's Canadian Corps to spearhead the Allied advance which resulted in the surrender of Germany three months later. British author, Denis Winter, states that Currie's "capture of the Drocourt-Queant Switch in autumn 1918 remains the British Army's single greatest achievement on the Western Front."

?WINNERS:

Not a lot of winners for this question probably because of network problems.

  1. Michael Zorn, Mr. Reeder's Gr.9 history class, Colonel By Secondary School: Gloucester, Ontario
  2. Evan Bonnell, Mr. Reeder's Gr.9 history class, Colonel By Secondary School: Gloucester, Ontario
  3. Kirby Bennett, Mr. Reeder's Gr.9 history class, Colonel By Secondary School: Gloucester, Ontario
  4. Michael Bowen, Mr. Reeder's Gr.9 history class, Colonel By Secondary School: Gloucester, Ontario
  5. Lisa Day, Mr. Reeder's Gr.9 history class, Colonel By Secondary School: Gloucester, Ontario
  6. Casey Tosh, Mr. Reeder's Gr.9 history class, Colonel By Secondary School: Gloucester, Ontario
  7. Tina Ruff, Mr. Dingee's Gr. 7-3 class, Florenceville Middle School: Florenceville, New Brunswick

THIS WEEK'S QUESTION:

What were the French names for Cape Breton and Prince Edward Islands when they were part of the French colony of Acadia?

DUE DATE FOR THIS ANSWER: 25 November, 1995

SEND IN YOUR ANSWERS:

Remember, don't post your answers to CM. Instead, send your answers to Steve Caldwell at the following e-mail address:

Steve_Caldwell@colby.on. infoshare.ca

In addition to your e-mail address, please send your school's name and the grade and/or class that you are in, as well as your postal address.

about THE GREAT CANADIAN TRIVIA CONTEST:

IT'S BACK!

Welcome to the second year of The Great Canadian Trivia Contest.

The History Department of Colonel By Secondary School in Ottawa, Ontario is sponsoring a Canadian Studies Internet trivia contest.

This contest is designed to appeal to students in Grades 7 - 10, although other grades are more than welcome to participate.

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 every Friday in CM (the trivia contest is also distributed through Schoolnet a few days earlier). Answers must be received by 8:00 a.m. eastern time a week from the following Saturday. 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 would also like participants to let us know if they are entering as an individual, a group, or if they are representing a particular class and school. We will try to award prizes for individuals/groups and classes.

Last year we had participants from across Canada and the United States and as far away as China. We welcome all new participants as well as our returning veteran contestants.

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