Time Management
True or False: Multitasking effectively doubles your productivity.
Answer: False. Multitasking actually reduces productivity by up to 40% and costs employees about 6 hours of productivity per week.
He was a Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist. In 1980, having had one leg amputated due to cancer, he embarked on a cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research.
Who is Terry Fox?
This is the total number of credits (compulsory and optional) you need to graduate high school in Ontario:
What is 30?
The primary steroid hormone released by the adrenal glands in response to stress is called:
What is Cortisol?
True or False: Taking short breaks during the workday decreases overall output.
Answer: False. Employees who take regular, short breaks are up to 31% more productive than those who power through without stopping.
This was a civil rights icon who, in 1946, challenged racial segregation in a New Glasgow, Nova Scotia movie theatre. Her courageous act of resistance paved the way for the end of legal segregation in Canada and is memorialized on the Canadian ten-dollar bill.
Who is Viola Desmond?
This is the total number of volunteer hours you need to graduate high school in Ontario:
What is 40?
Fight or THIS: The evolutionary physiological reaction that prepares the body to confront or flee from potential danger.
What is flight?
True or False: Top-performing individuals prefer time blocking over endless to-do lists.
Answer: True. 80% of top performers use daily time blocking to manage their schedules, while only 17% of people use a standard to-do list daily.
Jamal Burger is a Toronto-based photographer and filmmaker. He’s also the founder of the non-profit The Kickback Foundation. He made a name for himself collecting and donating these items for local youth:
What are shoes?
This is the total number of Ontario Secondary School Literacy tests you need to pass to graduate:
What is 1?
TRUE OR FALSE
Studies have shown that chewing gum for just a few minutes can actively reduce anxiety and lower cortisol levels.
True
What is a tomato?
Wab Kinew, the Premier of THIS PROVINCE, is the first First Nations person to serve as a provincial premier in Canada.
What is Manitoba?
To graduate high school with an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD), you need THIS MANY history credits:
You need exactly 1 compulsory history credit, which is Grade 10 Canadian History.
Splashing cold water on your wrists and behind your earlobes hits major arteries close to the skin, helping to quickly calm the nervous system.
True
A fortnight is a unit of time that refers to THIS MANY days.
14 DAYS.
It comes from an old English word, fēowertȳne niht, meaning fourteen night.
The iconic Hawaiian pizza was invented in which Canadian province?
What is Ontario?
True or False
Students must complete a technological education credit and meet the financial literacy requirement.
True (2024 or later)
According to recent statistics, the most common mental illness in Canada is this:
What is anxiety disorder ...