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100

a competitive sport of ice skating in patterns or 'figures' and choreographed free skating.

What is Figure Skating?

100

Temperature that is at the freezing point. 

What is 0 degrees Celsius?

100

The activity of sliding down on a snowy hill sitting on a flat object 

What is Tobogganing?

100

This type of knitted hat, that keeps your face warm, is called this


What is a Balaclava?

100

Disney movie in which a princess, the elder of two sisters, has the power to create and manipulate snow and ice.


What is 'Frozen'?


100

A place to ice skate, in Ajax 

What is Pat Bayly Square?

200

 winter sport that evolved from skateboarding and surfing


What is snowboarding?

200

"a severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility" or an ice cream treat at Dairy Queen. 

What is a blizzard?

200

You’d better make him quickly
When there’s white stuff on the ground
Because he disappears
When the sun’s heat comes around

What is a snowman?

200

If you spend too much time outside and your skin freezes, you might get this 

What is Frost bite?

200

This snowman "came to life one day"

What is 'Frosty the Snowman'

200

People who fly south for the winter are often called 

What are 'snow birds'?

300

 competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates.

what is speed skating?

300

Best type of snow to make a snowman 

What is packing snow?

300

This activity looks like you're doing jumping jacks laying in the snow.

What is making snow angels?

300

the condition or period of an animal or plant spending the winter in a dormant state.

grizzly bear gorge on seeds to prepare for this

What is hibernation?

300

Movie about a boy left home at Christmas 

What is 'Home Alone'?

300

This fruit has a ‘Winter Banana’ variety

What is apple?

400

Favourite Canadian Pastime 

What is Hockey?

400

when it's raining and the temperature drops below 0 degrees celsius, you might get this 

What is freezing rain?

400

When making a snowman you start off with this. Fun for throwing..

What is a snowball?

400

The last day of winter 

What is March 20th?

400

In this movie, our hero Mumble is the worst singer in the world, but he can tap dance brilliantly.

What is 'Happy Feet'?

400
  • Millions of these fly to Mexico for the winter
  • *hint: these start our as caterpillars.

What are monarch butterflies?

They are the only insect that migrates to a warmer climate that is 2,500 miles away each year. 

500

 looks like the players are sweeping the ice 

What is curling?

500

This type of road sign has this meaning 

What is 'Caution-road may be slippery at freezing point'

500

catching fish with lines and fish hooks or spears through an opening in the ice on a frozen body of water.

What is Ice fishing?

500

How many sides does a snow flake have 

What is 6 sides?

a typical snowflake, also called a Dendrite, has six sides/points. 

500

this movie is about a dad who comes back to visit his son as a snowman

What is 'Jack Frost'?
500

 A famous winter festival that takes place in New Orleans?

What is Mardi Gras?

600

similar to dirt biking, riders follow a track. Except rather than dirt the terrain is covered in snow. 

What is Snowmobiling? 

600

the coldest Territory or Province in Canada

What is Nunavut?

Nunavut is the coldest territory in the winter, with an average daily temperature of -33.4 C,

Manitoba is the coldest winter province at -25.1 C.

600

When everything is blanketed in thick snow you’d usually rule out hiking unless you have these to trek through the white stuff

What are Snowshoes?

600

 the shortest day of the year is often called this


What is Winter solstice?

The winter solstice, also called the hibernal solstice, occurs when either of Earth's poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the Sun.

600
This story takes place in a prehistoric world, covered with snow and ice. To stay alive, a woolly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger, a sloth and a prehistoric combination of a squirrel and rat, begin migrating south .





What is 'Ice Age'?

600

This Country hosted the 2018 Winter Games

What is South Korea?

700

an ancient practice that relies on energetic packs of huskies to pull sleds through wintry landscapes.


What is Dog Sledding?

Dog Sledding is thought to originate in Alaska. 

Today, dog sled racing is a popular sport in the Arctic regions of America and Europe, in which teams of sled dogs compete in pulling their ‘musher’ (dog driver) the fastest.

700

Canada’s coldest temperature in recorded history


 What is  -63C

Back in 1947, the small Yukon hamlet of Snag got hit with a ridiculously frigid day of -62.8C. Our bones hurt even thinking about that.

700

A Place in Uxbridge to go skiing, snowboarding, tobogganing, snow (fat tire) biking or snowtubing.

Where is Lakeridge?

700

 an annual celebration of African culture from December 26 to January 1

What is Kwanzaa?

an annual celebration of African-American culture  culminating in a communal feast called Karamu, usually on the sixth day

700

A cynical TV weatherman finds himself reliving the same day over and over again

What is 'Ground Hog Day'?

700

“Winter Is Coming” is the motto of which family/house in Game of Thrones?



What is House Stark?

800

The movie, "Cool Runnings" showcased this fast paced sport where the riders speed down a icy track 

What is Bobsledding?

800

a blizzard or squall that reduces visibility to near zero

What is a 'Whiteout'?

800

 the act of forming figures with tools, using Ice as the raw material.

What is ice sculpting? 

800

 Geese (and many other migrating birds) fly in this formation to conserve energy

What is a 'V' formation?

When birds fly in this formation, it decreases the wind resistance, meaning they can fly for much longer before stopping to rest. It also makes it easier to keep track of each other in the group!

800

Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.

What is: 'The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'?

800
hosting 2022 Winter Games

What is Beijing, China?

2022 Winter Games start Fri, Feb 4, 2022 - until Sun, Feb 20, 2022



900

an Olympic sport that consists of a small one- or two-person sled on which one sleds face up and feet-first. A luger steers by using the calf muscles to flex the sled's runners or by exerting opposite shoulder pressure to the seat. 


What is 'luge'?

900

What it's called when rain is mixed with snow.

What is Sleet?

900

At the end of February you can find these sweet festivals in some communities nearby  

what are Maple Syrup Festivals. 

900

If you exhibit mental confusion, lack of coordination, and slurred speech in cold weather, you are suffering from this 

Hypothermia 

 defined as a drop in body core temperature- below 35.0 °C (95.0 °F) in humans.

It is important to take care and wear warm dry clothing during the winter months. 

900

A family heads to an isolated, haunted resort hotel for the winter where a sinister and paranormal things start to happen. 

What is 'The Shining'?

900

Name the 3 winter Astrological Signs 


Capricorn -  December 22 – January 20

Aquarius -  January 21 – February 18

Pisces - February 19 – March 20

1000

Ice sailing is a winter sport?

true of false

Canadians are adept at taking summer sports and creating winter versions. Especially since, after all, winter is our most prominent season. Ice sailing is a great example of this, because who said you can’t go sailing in the winter? Take a sailboat and add skates. Let the wind whisk you across frozen lakes and rivers, doing your best to avoid thin ice.

True 

Canadians are good at taking summer sports and creating winter versions.  Ice sailing is a great example of this, because who said you can’t go sailing in the winter? Take a sailboat and add skates. Let the wind whisk you across frozen lakes and rivers, doing your best to avoid thin ice.

1000

a chinook is this 

a.) a polar bear

b.) a snowy hill     OR

c.) a warm winter wind

What is c.) a warm winter wind?

Chinooks are warm, dry winds. Chinook winds blow down the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains.

1000

When you're in Ottawa for winter break, you can skate on this Canal


What is the Rideau Canal?

1000

The earth is the closest to the sun in this month

What is December?

Though it might seem unlikely, the Earth’s orbit typically brings it the closest to the sun during the coldest period of the year. Our cold weather comes from the decreased sunlight.

1000

A novelist crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by an unstable woman, the "number one fan" of his heroine Misery Chastaine.

What is 'Misery'?

1000

 This  country’s winter climate is commonly referred to as “general winter”

What is Russia?

1100

This unique sport is reminiscent of dog sledding, except instead of a sled, the participant uses a pair of skis to slide through the snow. And  it doesn’t necessarily have to be a dog pulling you — it could be a horse or vehicle, etc.. 

What is Skijoring?

1100

Another word for snow pellets - starts with the letter 'G'.

what is Graupel?

graupel refers to round, snowflakes that almost look like tiny pellets. They form when regular snowflakes fall through ice-cold liquid clouds. Droplets from the clouds freeze onto the crystals, forming a solid mass. Graupel is similar to hail, but is smaller and less dense.

1100

In Finland, you can stay in glass igloos during winter to watch these

What are the Northern Lights

1100

 Chionophobia is an irrational fear of what

(Ke-on-oh-phobia)

What is snow?

1100

A paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.

What is 'The Day After Tomorrow'?

1100

an ancient stone monument that is aligned with the winter solstice sunset

What is Stonehenge?