FUN FACTS
Another word for Millennials?
What is Gen Y?
The value of ‘x’ in the equation:
2x + 6 = 14
What is 4?
This beautiful Canadian city sits on the west coast, and is recognized as the 3rd largest city in Canada by population.
What is Vancouver?
The French word for watermelon.
What is melon d'eau?
This Connections teacher has taught on 4 continents.
Who is Jess?
The most popular social network worldwide in 2024, with over 3 billion monthly active users.
What is Facebook?
The formula for calculating the area of a circle.
What is Pi times radius squared?
The largest mall in Canada, and 6th largest in the world, is found in this Western Canadian city.
What is West Edmonton Mall?
The spelling of the Québécoise dish made of fresh-cut french fries topped with cheese curds and gravy.
What is P-O-U-T-I-N-E?
Before devoting her life to changing lives, this Connections teacher once served famous celebrities such as Tom Hanks and Halle Berry while working at Roots.
Who is Melissa?
The best selling video game of all time with over 500 million copies sold.
What is Tetris?
The value of "c" in the equation:
3(5c + 6) - 15 = 33
What is 2?
Canada is bordered by three oceans.
What are the Pacific, Atlantic and Artic Oceans?
The name of the accent used in the following examples: à, è, ù
What is l'accent grave?
This Connections teacher has sung back up on a TVA Christmas special, in addition to singing at the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City.
Who is Lethisha?
Most people who are colour blind have difficulty telling the difference between which two colours?
What is red and green?
Parentheses, exponents, multiplication and division from left to right, and addition and subtraction from left to right.
What is the order of operations in math?
An average of 1 million people use this Montreal service every single day, Monday to Friday, making it the busiest in Canada.
What is the Montreal Metro?
The French word for common slang spoken in Quebec.
What is joual?
This Connections teacher, at the age of 10, once performed a tap dance on a French TV show. (And no, you can't find the video online!)
Who is Natasha?
The former Connections student that the perfect attendance award is named after.
Who is Jahkahi Barrett?
This branch of mathematics deals with points, lines, angles, and surfaces.
What is geometry?
This Nova Scotia woman became known for challenging segregation laws after refusing to leave a whites-only area of a movie theatre in 1946. Her face now appears on the Canadian $10 bill.
Who is Viola Desmond?
The meaning behind the expression "Lâche pas la patate!"
What is "Don't give up!"?
This Connections teacher has lived in both Ontario and Quebec, and in Canada, France and Spain.
Who is Célina?