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TEAM NAME: TEAM NAME:
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HOST: Welcome to SCHOOLREACH. I’m _________your quizmaster for this game between [school #1]
__________ and [school #2] _________. In this match, we have [player #1] __________, [player #2] _________,
[player #3] __________, [player #4] __________of [school #1]_________ pitted against [player #1] __________,
[player #2] ___________, [player #3] ___________, [player #4] ________ of [school #2]__________.

We’ll play three rounds of questions, with a minute break between each round. Now, if the scorekeeper is ready,
let’s begin ROUND ONE OF SCHOOLREACH!

40-POINT SNAPSTART TO ROUND ONE

1. What is the name for the official, one rank below Chief Electoral Officer, who helps run an election and
often announces the results?
A. RETURNING OFFICER
2. Which country is famous for its Easter Rising that occurred Easter Monday of 1916?
A. (REPUBLIC OF) IRELAND
3. What agricultural product is on the coat of arms of Saskatchewan?
A. WHEAT (3 SHEAVES OF WHEAT)
4. What word beginning with the letter ‘A’ means “fishing with a rod, reel, line and lure”?
A. ANGLING
30-POINT OPEN QUESTION – O CANADA

5. What Canadian poet won the Governor General’s award for Land to Light On and has also written
collections like No Language is Neutral and Ossuaries?
A. DIONNE BRAND
6. In 1923, who became the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize for medicine?
A. FREDERICK BANTING
7. Who is the only Canadian player to win the MVP award in the NBA?
A. STEVE NASH

40-POINT OPEN QUESTION – LITERATURE

8. What novel begins with “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself
transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect”?
A. THE METAMORPHOSIS
9. What friend does Anne of Green Gables get drunk on currant wine?
A. DIANA BARRY
10. What Meg Cabot novel concerns the teenage years of Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo?
A. THE PRINCESS DIARIES
11. Whose life was chronicled in The Life and Times of the Meanest Man Who Ever Played Baseball?
A. TY COBB

40-POINT TEAM QUESTION

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In this two-part TEAM QUESTION, whichever team is first to answer correctly the ten-point SCRAMBLE
QUESTION in PART ONE, is then eligible for the remaining ten-point questions in PART TWO.
PART ONE: Scramble for ten points.

12. What do we call the branch of mathematics which involves the study of triangle measurements?
A. TRIGONOMETRY

SCORE TEN POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER.

PART TWO: The remaining questions deal with TRIGONOMETRY.

13. In a right triangle, what name is given to the side opposite the right angle?
A. HYPOTENUSE
14. For any acute angle in a right triangle, what do we call the ratio of the lengths of the opposite side to the
adjacent side?
A. TANGENT (RATIO)
15. What angle has a cosine value of zero?
A. 90° (NINETY DEGREES)

20-POINT SPECIAL
16. What are the three general categories into which neurons are classified according to their function?
A. SENSORY NEURON, MOTOR NEURON, INTERNEURON (in any order)

80-POINT ASSIGNED QUESTION – SPELLING

Here is an ASSIGNED QUESTION on spelling in which each member of each team is assigned a ten-point
question. If you miss your question, then your counterpart on the opposing team will have a chance at it for ten
points.
Listen to the definition, and then spell the given word.

TEAM A:
17. It means, “One to whom something is shipped”—spell CONSIGNEE.
A. C-O-N-S-I-G-N-E-E
18. It means, “A rapid whirling of the body around and around”—spell PIROUETTE.
A. P-I-R-O-U-E-T-T-E
19. It means, “A division or separation”—spell SCHISM.
A. S-C-H-I-S-M
20. It means, “The quality or state of being unnamed”—spell ANONYMITY.
A. A-N-O-N-Y-M-I-T-Y
TEAM B
21. It means, “The development and cutting of teeth”—spell DENTITION.
A. D-E-N-T-I-T-I-O-N
22. It means, “A waiting line, especially of people”—spell QUEUE.
A. Q-U-E-U-E
23. It means, “Relating to or located near the hip”—spell SCIATIC.
A. S-C-I-A-T-I-C
24. It means, “Slowly or sluggishly”—spell LANGUIDLY.
A. L-A-N-G-U-I-D-L-Y

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30-POINT OPEN QUESTION – FOOD IDIOMS
All of the following answers are idioms or phrases that contain a type of food.

25. When you are in conflict with or have a disagreement with someone, you are said to have what with them?
A. BEEF
26. When an athlete describes their favourite move or a business person describes their main source of income,
they say, “that’s my what? The missing phrase consists of three words.
A. BREAD AND BUTTER
27. When a person gives a reason for the outcome of a certain event, they might say, “that’s the way the what
crumbles?”
A. COOKIE

40-POINT SNAPOUT TO END ROUND ONE

28. Which team of songwriters wrote the music and lyrics for the musical My Fair Lady?
A. (ALAN JAY) LERNER AND (FREDERICK) LOEWE
29. It means, “a picture of a person or thing showing the outline only”—spell SILHOUETTE.
A. S-I-L-H-O-U-E-T-T-E
30. What is 30% of 130?
A. 39
31. What South American country was Francisco Solano López dictator of until his death in 1870?
A. PARAGUAY

ONE-MINUTE BREAK TO ROUND TWO

40-POINT SNAPSTART TO ROUND TWO

32. A bathtub is being filled at a rate of 5 litres/minute, while it drains at simultaneously at 1 litre/minute. If it
is initially empty, how long will it take to fill, if its volume is 16 litres?
A. FOUR MINUTES
33. What is the largest lake in Australia?
A. KATI THANDA–LAKE EYRE (Accept either half of the name)
34. What now-outdated term describes thick-skinned mammals like elephants and rhinoceroses?
A. PACHYDERM
35. What empire dominated modern-day Saudi Arabia from 1517 until the early 20 th century?
A. OTTOMAN EMPIRE

40-POINT WHO AM I? QUESTION

36. This question is worth 40 points if you guess the answer on the first clue and 10 points less with each
succeeding clue, until either team answers the question correctly.

CLUE A: In the late 2010s, I developed an educational augmented reality app called East of the Rockies.
WHO AM I?
CLUE B: Although my best-known work is a novel, I have written several poetry collections, including A Choice
of Dreams.
WHO AM I?

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CLUE C: My family home in Vancouver has been a museum and cultural centre since 2006 following a successful
petition to prevent its demolition.
WHO AM I?
CLUE D: Many of my works, including my most-acclaimed novel Obasan, deal with the experiences of interned
Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War.
WHO AM I?
A. I AM JOY KOGAWA

30-POINT OPEN QUESTION – ACADEMY AWARDS

Three feature films won the most ever Academy Awards when each received eleven Oscars. Name the film
described that each won eleven Oscars.

37. What film won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Picture?
A. WINGS
38. Who directed the 2019 Best Picture winner, Parasite?
A. BONG JOON-HO (note: do not accept just JOON-HO under any circumstance, as surnames go
first in Korean)
39. Who has won the most Academy Awards for acting?
A. KATHARINE HEPBURN

40-POINT TEAM QUESTION

In this two-part TEAM QUESTION, whichever team is first to answer correctly the ten-point SCRAMBLE
QUESTION in PART ONE, is then eligible for the remaining ten-point questions in PART TWO.
PART ONE: Scramble for ten points.

40. What term refers to the implied or suggested positive, negative, or neutral meaning of a word or phrase?
A. CONNOTATION

PART TWO: The remaining questions deal with grammar

SCORE TEN POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER

41. What term refers to the restatement of someone else’s writing using your own words?
A. PARAPHRASE
42. What specific term describes the frame of mind or atmosphere established by the author using word choice
and setting details?
A. MOOD
43. Sometimes a writer makes use of a series of hints that may suggest the outcome of a story. What are these
hints called?
A. FORESHADOWING

40-POINT OPEN QUESTION – ANIMALS

A level of taxonomical classification is provided. In each case you must give the group classification to which humans
belong.

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44. Phylum?
A. CHORDATA
45. Class?
A. MAMMALIA
46. Order?
A. PRIMATES
47. Species?
A. HOMO SAPIENS

40-POINT SNAPOUT TO END ROUND TWO

48. Who was the biblical muscle man who lost his strength when his hair was cut?
A. SAMSON
49. Someone researching botany is studying what?
A. PLANTS
50. What English king signed the Magna Carta?
A. JOHN (LACKLAND)
51. The British Interplanetary Society completed designs for an interstellar craft in 1978. By what Greek
mythological name was the project called?
A. DAEDALUS

ONE-MINUTE BREAK TO ROUND THREE

40-POINT SNAPSTART TO ROUND THREE

52. What term refers to a committee made up of all members of Parliament or of a legislative assembly?
A. COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE
53. What term refers to the point in the constellation Hercules toward which the sun is moving?
A. APEX
54. What were Frosty the Snowman’s last words in the song bearing his name?
A. I’LL BE BACK AGAIN SOMEDAY
55. What controversial Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence was dismissed in 1916?
A. SIR SAM HUGHES
40-POINT TEAM QUESTION

In this two-part TEAM QUESTION, whichever team is first to answer correctly the ten-point SCRAMBLE
QUESTION in PART ONE, is then eligible for the remaining ten-point questions in PART TWO.
PART ONE: Scramble for ten points.

56. Which 2017 movie depicted the famous tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billy Jean King?
A. BATTLE OF THE SEXES

____________________________________________________________
PART TWO: The remaining questions deal with tennis.
SCORE TEN POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER

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57. What score would the announcer indicate when a player wins the first point of a game?
A. FIFTEEN – LOVE
58. Which of the Grand Slam events is always witnessed by a member of the Royal Family?
A. WIMBLEDON
59. Grass and hard are two types of surfaces suitable for a professional tennis match. What is the third?
A. CLAY

40-POINT OPEN QUESTION – GREEK STEMS

I will give you a Greek stem used in English and you must tell me its meaning. For example, if I said “ZOO”
you would say “animal”.

60. ASTRO or ASTRA

A. STAR
61. AUTO
A. SELF
62. GYRO
A. CIRCLE OR SPIRAL
63. THERM or THERMO
A. HEAT

40 POINT WHAT AM I? QUESTION

64. This question is worth 40 points if you guess the answer on the first clue and 10 points less with each
succeeding clue, until either team answers the question correctly.

CLUE A: I am a system founded in 1971 in North America.

WHAT AM I?
CLUE B: Every day, I transport more than 85,000 people.
WHAT AM I?
CLUE C: Some of my lines include the Acela Express and the Northeast Regional.
WHAT AM I?
CLUE D: I am a train service in the U.S. with a portmanteau for a name.
WHAT AM I?
A. I AM AMTRAK

20-POINT OPEN QUESTION - WORLD LEADERS OF THE PAST

Which country was each of these former world leaders known?

65. Michael Manley

A. JAMAICA
66. Josip Broz Tito
A. YUGOSLAVIA

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40-POINT OPEN QUESTION – SPORTS

67. Who won the 1968 Olympic gold medal in the high jump with an astonishing new style of flop and later
had this style of jump named after him?
A. DICK FOSBURY
68. What traditionally is the last athletic event held at the Summer Olympics?
A. MEN'S MARATHON
69. During a relay race, what item is passed between runners on the same team?
A. BATON
70. The United States boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics to protest the Soviet invasion of which country?
A. AFGHANISTAN

100-POINT SNAPOUT TO FINISH THE GAME

71. What term refers to groups of cells that have the same size and function?
A. TISSUES
72. Tender is the Night, The Last Tycoon, and The Great Gatsby were all written by which author?
A. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
73. Which French designer, known for his space-influenced style, also created the first ready-to-wear designer
collection for men?
A. PIERRE CARDIN
74. What pioneer of the geodesic dome is responsible for a design of that type in Montréal?
A. (RICHARD) BUCKMINSTER FULLER
75. What is the capital of Croatia?
A. ZAGREB
76. Which Cynthia Voigt novel features four abandoned children searching for a grandmother they had never
met?
A. HOMECOMING
77. Which hockey superstar was a goalie for the Detroit Red Wings and later had his number 1 retired by them?
A. TERRY SAWCHUK
78. This music term means “to perform broadly” and begins with an “L”.
A. LARGO (or LARGAMENTE)
79. Dark areas on the Sun’s surface where magnetic activity has led to reduced temperatures are known by
what term?
A. SUNSPOTS
80. A 1926 constitutional controversy developed out of a conflict between the Governor General Lord Byng
and which Prime Minister?
A. (WILLIAM LYON) MACKENZIE KING

END OF GAME

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TIE-BREAKERS IF NEEDED

1. When x = 5, what is the y-value of the line y = 10x – 40?

A. y = 10
2. What name is given to the part of the ski that holds the boot in place?
A. BINDING
3. What is the English translation of the Julius Caesar quote “Veni, vidi, vici”?
A. I CAME, I SAW, I CONQUERED
4. Which ship, carrying Punjabi immigrants, was turned away at the port of Vancouver in 1914 as a result of
discriminatory immigration policies?
A. KOMAGATA MARU

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