On Campus
What is the name of the union that serves graduate teaching assistants at Trent?
CUPE 3908
What is the name of the river outside?
Otonabee
What plant family does kale belong to?
Will accept mustard, Brassicaceae, Cruciferae, or Brassica.
What does DNA stand for?
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Interdisciplinary Social Research
Who administers the supplemental health benefits package?
Trent Central Student Association (TCSA)
What is the Anishinaabemowin name the town also known as Peterborough?
Nogojiwanong
What is the name of the ice sheet that covered Peterborough 12,000 years ago?
Wisconsin Glacier
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell, but what does it actually do; why do we refer to it as the powerhouse?
Because they turn nutrients from food into ATP (energy) through cellular respiration
Submit an application to the Research Ethics Board (and have it approved).
Who is the current Chancellor of Trent?
Zabeen Hirji
What is the name of the municipal ward that Trent Symons Campus sits on?
Northcrest Ward
What is heavier, an ounce of cotton, or an ounce of gold?
Gold. Gold is measured in troy ounces, which are about 10% heavier than regular ounces
What is the name of the type of motion that a photon would use to traverse from the core of the sun to its surface?
Brownian motion
List 3 types of ethnographic research
Will accept: Auto, digital, cultural, institutional, classic, feminist, duo, rapid, hermeneutic, critical, realist +
What is the name of the college currently under construction?
Gidiga Migizi
Name 3 candidates running for Mayor of Peterborough?
Acceptable answers (Neil, Michael, Brian, Rebecca, Rob, Jacob, Keith)
Which technique was discovered as a result of the discoveries made by the three neuroscientists who won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
Optogenetics
Vygotsky introduced the idea that there is a gap between what a learner is capable of on their own and what they can achieve with support from a more skilled person. What term did he use to describe this concept?
Zone of proximal development
Which theorist is known for developing Necropolitics
Achile Mbembe
What year was Trent founded?
Will accept 1962 (founded), 1963 (Trent Act), or 1964 (first year of classes).
What local lake has recently been given Legal Personhood?
Rice Lake.
In the popular show the Simpsons, what is Mr. Burns’s first name?
Charles (Montgomery is his middle name)
What tiny marine animal can snap its claw so quickly that it creates a cavitation bubble that briefly reaches temperatures comparable to the surface of the Sun?
Pistol shrimp
What is epistemology?
The theory of knowledge (the nature of knowledge, its origins, whose knowledges are validated, which knowledges are invisibalized, the limits of knowledge).