SS8 - Mid Year

O' Canada

100

Tim Hortons is a beloved Canadian coffee shop chain, but it is no longer Canadian owned! More importantly, this company is named after an athlete who played ____.

Hockey.

200

True or False: Canada was originally the 51st state of the USA

False

300

Name 3 provinces and 1 territory of Canada

Provinces: BC, AB, SK, MB, QB, ON, NF/LB, NB, NS, PEI

Territories: NV, NWT, YK

400

This Toronto-based hip hop artist got into a beef with Kendrick Lamar, who went on to absolutely humiliate him with his Superbowl Performance in 2025.

Drake

500

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau decided to resign as Prime Minister in early 2025. This person, who is not a Member of Parliament, got almost 86% of the vote to become the new interim Prime Minster of Canada on March 9.

Mark Carney

800

The date that Canada was founded

July 1, 1867

Age of Exploration

100

The rough range of years for the Age of Exploration

1400s-1600s CE

15th-17th centuries

200

This Mesoamerican ball game was played by hitting a animal skin ball with one's hips into a small vertically aligned hoop on a rock wall.

Ulama

300

A conquistador from Spain, this man went on to Cuba and eventually Mexico, annihilating the Aztec empire, along with millions of Indigenous Mesoamericans consequently.

Hernán Cortés

400

Francisco Pizarro was responsible for decimating this Indigenous Mesoamerican Empire in modern day Peru.

Incan Empire

500

The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 saw the gathering of major European powers at the time to decide on how to divide and colonize Africa, without African consent. Which two African countries resisted colonization and remained independent?

1) Ethiopia

2) Liberia

800

This specific Indigenous group of people in modern-day Colombia are considered to be the "true" people of El Dorado, who also acted as a loose inspiration for the character designs in the film The Road to El Dorado. 

The Muisca

World Geography

100

The capital city of Colombia

Bogotá

200

The Dutch Empire was active along the East Coast of the USA, famously buying the Island of Manhattan for only $24 from the Indigenous Native Americans at the time. They also colonized modern day New York City, calling it ________ in those days.

New Amsterdam

300

Which three continents did the Silk Road cover?

1) Asia

2) Africa

3) Europe

400

The longest contiguous mountain range in South America

The Andes Mountains

500

Name all 5 oceans of the world

1) Arctic

2) Pacific

3) Atlantic

4) Indian

5) Southern

800

Alberta's license plate features a red wild rose and its slogan is "Wild Rose Country", whereas British Columbia features the BC flag or one of many BC Parks (since 2017). _______ is British Columbia's slogan.

Beautiful British Columbia

Empires and Kingdoms

100

Mansa Musa was the king of this West African empire.

Mali Empire

200

The first two European empires studied in the Europeanization or Globalization unit.

1) Spanish Empire

2) Dutch Empire

300

Christopher Columbus, Francisco Pizarro and Hernán Cortés were all from this empire.

Spanish Empire

400

This European empire caused the Berlin Conference fiasco by first colonizing the Congo.

Belgian Empire

500

The Aztec Empire was located in modern day 1)_____ while the Incan Empire was located in modern day 2)_____.

1) Mexico

2) Peru

800

In order for an empire to become an empire, it first needs these subsumed under their power. An empire can have one or many of these, the number of which often correlates with their perceived power.

Colonies

Slavery 💀

100

True or False: Slavery did not exist in Africa before the arrival of European explorers

False

200

This polygonaly-themed name is another way of calling the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.

Triangular Trade

300

Name three major goods that were traded in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.

1) Tobacco

2) Cotton

3) Sugarcane

4) Molasses

5) Slaves

6) Coffee

7) Cloth

400

La Marie-Séraphique and L'Aurore were two slave-carrying ships from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade that we saw in video recreations. They transported slaves to Saint-Domingue, which is this modern day Caribbean country.

Haiti

500

This was a legal framework set forth by the Catholic church in the 15th century in a series of "papal bulls" (declarations) to legitimize claiming of Indigenous lands if there were no other Christians inhabiting those lands. The Vatican officially repudiated this in March of 2023.

Doctrine of Discovery

800

There were approximately this number of slaves that were transported from Africa to the Americas and Europe during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

12.5 million

Mr. Huh

100

Mr. Huh wears this brand of shoes almost everyday.

Blundstone

200

This is the year that Mr. Huh first immigrated to Canada; it is also the same year that the Iraq War began.

2003

300

While he was decent at it, Social Studies was not Mr. Huh's favourite subject in high school. It was in fact it was these two subjects.

English and Band

400

Mr. Huh continues to hold the record for this exercise at Sentinel according to the weight-room's record board.

Pushups

500

Mr. Huh is one of the few Korean teachers in the West Vancouver School district, and one of two at Sentinel. Who is the other Korean teacher at Sentinel?

Ms. Jiang

800

Name all the courses that Mr. Huh is teaching this year

1) Social Studies 8

2) Social Studies 9 

3) Human Geography 12

4) Work Experience

5) Computers 8