Clocks & Calendars
The popular saying “a month of Sundays” is flawed because you can have a maximum of only this number of Sundays in a month.
What is five? Months have only four or five of each day, depending on what day of the week the first of the month falls.
This instrument can draw a perfect circle.
What is a compass? It can also draw part of a circle, called an arc. Compasses often are used in high school geometry classes.
This capital city is located on the Yukon River.
What is Whitehorse?
A thunderstorm may also produce this frozen precipitation, even during summer months.
What is hail? A hailstone can be deadly. The largest confirmed hailstone fell in Vivian, South Dakota, in 2010, measuring approximately eight inches (20.3 cm) in diameter.
This colour egg is typically more expensive.
What is brown? Hens that lay brown eggs are usually larger than chickens that lay white eggs, so feeding a larger hen is more expensive.
This bell rings inside the giant grandfather-style clock that is one of the dominating features of the London skyline.
What is Big Ben? The clock’s proper name is the Great Clock of the Elizabeth Tower.
The measurement around the widest part of a ball or the outside boundary of a circle is called this.
What is the circumference? In school, we learned that pi multiplied by the diameter equals the circumference.
This is the largest island in Nova Scotia.
What is Cape Breton Island?
This planet is known as the third rock from the sun.
What is Earth? An easy way to remember the order of the planets’ positions in relation to the sun is to learn the sentence “My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Names”— Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
The colour of the eggshell is not an indication of nutritional value, but this can be.
What is the colour of the yolk? Often but not always, the brighter and darker the yolk colour (leaning more toward orange than yellow), the more nutrition the egg provides.
This refers to a calendar that businesses or governments use when their calendars do not start on January 1.
What is a fiscal year?
This is the term for half the diameter.
What is the radius? The radius is the distance from the midpoint of the circle to any point on the outside of the circle.
This Atlantic city is nicknamed the "City of Legends".
What is St. John's?
To smother a fire, you must remove this gas from it.
What is oxygen? Fires need a fuel source, oxygen, and heat. Never attempt to put out an electrical fire with water. The easiest and quickest way to put out a small fire, such as a kitchen fire, is with a fire blanket. If you use one, you do not have to clean up the mess created by halogen fire extinguishers. It’s best to review the instructions before you need to use the blanket.
A hen lays approximately this number of eggs in a day.
What is one? A hen lays an egg every 24 to 26 hours. Within 30 minutes, a new egg begins to form.
This is the official name of the prevalent calendar in use today, particularly in the West.
What is the Gregorian calendar? In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII introduced the calendar because the Julian calendar made it difficult to calculate when Easter should fall.
When Earth turns on its axis, we call it this.
What is rotation? It makes one complete rotation every 24 hours.
This Figure Skater was named Canada's male athlete of the year in 1994.
Who is Elvis Stojko?
If your fire alarm goes off, get out of your house fast! Houses can be fully engulfed in flames in...
A) 7 minutes
B) 10 minutes
C) 5 minutes
What is C) 5 Minutes?
This is how you tell whether an egg is raw or hard-boiled.
What is spinning the egg? If it wobbles, it’s raw. The liquid in the raw egg sloshes as you spin it, causing it to wobble. If the egg is steady as it spins, it’s hard-boiled.
This ultra-precise device is so accurate that it can measure Earth’s rotation slowing down by milliseconds.
What is an atomic clock? The atomic clock uses the vibrations of cesium or rubidium atoms to measure time.
The perpetual cycle of birth, life, and death is known as this.
What is circle of life? It refers to the interconnectivity of life and its progression from birth to death.
Barbera Reid is best known for her children's book illustrations made of this material.
What is plasticine?
Author Ray Bradbury wrote this dystopian novel, titled with the approximate temperature at which paper ignites.
What is Fahrenheit 451? Modern studies suggest paper ignites between 424ºF and 475ºF, depending on type and conditions.
A hen turns her egg nearly this many times a day to keep the yolk from sticking to the side. What is...
A) 20
B) 40
C) 50
What is C) 50 times per day?