STEM
In chemistry, what is the scientific name for this compound: NaCl
sodium chloride
What is the second largest country of the world in terms of land mass?
Canada
In Marketing, What are the 4 Ps?
Answer: product, Price, Place and Promotion
What is the most popular language in the world?
Mandarin
In French, what is the meaning of Sac À Dos?
Answer: Backpack
In Computer Science, what language’s name was inspired by an already existing language, while having absolutely nothing to do with that language?
Javascript
What year did Confederation take place of Canada?
1867
In Entrepreneurship, what is it called when an entrepreneur starts a business?
Sole Proprietorship
How many religions have more than a billion followers, and what are they?
Answer: 3, Christianity, Islam and Hinduism
In sports, who won the FIFA World Cup of 2022?
Argentina
Sin, cos, tan are trig functions. When divided together in different combinations, they create the reciprocal trig functions (eg. Sin/cos). Name one reciprocal trig functions and the division which takes place to achieve it.
Answers: cot = 1/tan, sec = 1/cos, cosec = 1/sin
When was the last residential school closed?
1997
What Stage of the product life cycle do the product’s sales peak?
Maturity stage
In Politics, what is a minority government?
A minority government forms when no party wins a parliamentary majority, requiring the leading party to secure opposition support for legislation and confidence votes.
What year was the penny discontinued in Canada?
Answer: 2013
In Biology, what protein is vital in red blood cells and carries oxygen from the lungs to the body's tissues and returns carbon dioxide from the tissues back to the lungs?
Hemoglobin
Name a contiguous Transcontinental country. Meaning, name a country which lands in more than one continent, not counting countries which have distant territories that don’t share the same border.
Answers: Russia, Turkey, or Egypt
What is the difference between Microeconomics and macroeconomics?
Microeconomics studies individual markets and behaviors; macroeconomics examines the economy as a whole.
In Psychology, according to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, what needs are at the very bottom?
Physiological needs
In English, what is the basic definition of a homonym?
Answer: each of two or more words having the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings and origins
In engineering, what keeps the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling despite its 4° tilt?
Center of gravity remains within its base footprint
Before Canada was established, it was apart of great Britain, and participated in the war of 1812. Who was Britain/Canada fighting against?
United States of America
In business and economics, what does the term elasticity refer to?
Elasticity is a measurement of responsiveness to a change in price that is not changed by the units of measure.
In Sociology, what is the name for the idea that productivity rises under observation?
Hawthorne Effect
In Literature, who says the line “To Be or not to be, that is the question?”
Shakespeare's Hamlet