Murder on the Orient Express
Confederation
Geometry
Data Management
Paris Central
100
What is the name of the protagonist?
Hercule Poirot
100
Before becoming a country, Canada was a British Province. What were the two halves called?
Canada East and Canada West
100
Formula for area of a rectangle?
Length x Width
100
List the (3+2) measures of central tendency we looked at in class.
Mean
Median
Mode
Range
Midrange
100
Who is our Principal? First and last!
Adam Walker
200
Who was the friend of the protagonist who ran the Orient Express?
Bouc
200
In what year did Confederation officially occur? (100 bonus points if you can give me the exact date)
July 1st, 1867
200
Formula for area of a triangle?
Base x Height / 2
200
What is the mathematical term for this data point?
Outlier
200
Name all of the classroom teachers who work on first floor of the school (currently).
Mr. Lawrence
Ms. Pike
Ms. Renton
Mr. Muller
Ms. Crowdis
Ms. MacIntyre
Mr. Mike
300
Who is murdered?
Ratchett
300
Who was the first Prime Minister of Canada?
John A. MacDonald
300
How many faces, vertices and edges does a rectangle have?
1 Face
4 Vertices
4 Edges
300
Explain why finding the median of a data set has an extra step when there is an even number of data points.
When arranged in order, there is not a single middle data point. They will need to be added together and divided by 2 to find the median.
300
Who was our previous Princpal? First and Last!
Latha Reuben
400
What of Poirot's physical features is described in Agatha Christie's original novel as well as the play as being the greatest in the world?
His moustache
400
Who chose Ottawa as Canada's capital?
Queen Victoria
400
Define volume
The space within the boundaries of a 3 dimensional solid.
400
What is the purpose of a scatter plot?
To examine two sets of data to determine the nature of their relationship to one another.
400
Which teacher has only EVER worked at Paris Central as a permanent teacher?
Mrs. Stewart
500
What was the full name of the young girl who is murdered, which sets the plot of the story in motion?
Daisy Armstrong
500
Before Ottawa, which Canadian City was desired as the capital of Canada?
Kingston
500
A circle has a circumference of 314cm. What is it's diameter (rounded)?
100cm
500
In a categorical data set (e.g. words, not numbers), which measure of central tendency is the most useful and why?
Mode - the others cannot be calculated without modifying the data set first.
500
Who are the five adults in the school who have taught grade 8 (classroom teacher, not French or single subjects) at Paris Central school at some point in their career?
Mr. Mike
Mrs. Hendel
Mr. Hunter
Mrs. Sloss
Mr. Walker
600
Which two characters create fake alibis for each other, claiming they were up drinking together when the murder took place?
Arbuthnot and MacQueen
600
There were 4 major political parties between the two halves of the Province of Canada. Name 1 from each half.
West: Clear Grits and Conservatives
East: Parti Bleu and Parti Rouge
600
The surface area of a shape is made up entirely of rectangles with measure 9cm long by 6.5cm wide.
There are 21 rectangles within the surface area, total.
What is the surface area?
1228.50cm2
600
Of 50 participants, 31 voted pepperoni as their favorite pizza topping.
In a pie chart, how many degrees would represent pepperoni?
223.20o Total
600
The original Paris Central School was built in 1909, and demolished in which year (which is also the year our school was built)?
1972
