Time Management
Canadian Changemakers
What do you need to graduate high school?
Stress Management
100

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.

100

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?

100

This is the total number of credits (compulsory and optional) you need to graduate high school in Ontario:

What is 30?

100

The primary steroid hormone released by the adrenal glands in response to stress is called:

What is Cortisol?

200

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.

200

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?





200

This is the total number of volunteer hours you need to graduate high school in Ontario:

What is 40?

200

Fight or THIS: The evolutionary physiological reaction that prepares the body to confront or flee from potential danger.

What is flight?

300

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.

300

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?

300

This is the total number of Ontario Secondary School Literacy tests you need to pass to graduate:

What is 1?

300

TRUE OR FALSE

Studies have shown that chewing gum for just a few minutes can actively reduce anxiety and lower cortisol levels.

True

400
The pomodoro technique uses a kitchen timer to break work into intervals, typically 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. Pomodoro is Italian for this food:

What is a tomato?

400

Wab Kinew, the Premier of THIS PROVINCE, is the first First Nations person to serve as a provincial premier in Canada.

What is Manitoba?

400

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.

400

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

500

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.

500

The iconic Hawaiian pizza was invented in which Canadian province?

What is Ontario?

500

True or False

Students must complete a technological education credit and meet the financial literacy requirement.

True (2024 or later)

500

According to recent statistics, the most common mental illness in Canada is this:

What is anxiety disorder ...