Sports
All About March
"25"
Canadian Trivia
Year 2000
200

Excluding warm-up and practice lanes, this is the number of racing lanes  in an Olympic swimming pool.

What is eight?

200

This sport goes Mad in March

What is College Basketball?

200

Six days after being shot, this rapper died on September 13, 1996, at the age of 25.

Who is Tupac Shakur?

200

You can find the world’s highest tides here.

What is the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia? They can range anywhere from 3.5 to 16 metres.

200

Referring to potential computer errors, in and after the year 2000

What is Y2K?

400

The fifth player in golf history and the youngest to win the grand slam

Who is Tiger Woods?

400

First issue of this Marvel comic character published in March 1941.

Who is Captain America?

400

It's the traditional gift for the 25th Wedding Anniversary

What is Silver?

400

Canadians eat 1 billion of these every year

What are doughnuts? (Thanks Tim Hortons)

400

This current world leader was first elected in 2000

Who is Vladimir Putin?

600

The oldest person to score a hat trick in the NHL

Who is Jaromir Jagr?

600

Form of communication used for the first time ever on March 21, 2006

What is a Tweet?

600

5 squared is 25. Square 25 and you get..

What is 625?

600

This event was the most watched broadcast in Canadian history

What was the 2010 Olympic men’s hockey final? Some 16.6 million Canadians watched Team Canada clinch the gold medal.

600

Winner of the first "Survivor" airing in North America

Who is Richard Hatch?

800

ixty feet, six inches or 18.44 meters

What is the standard distance between home plate and the pitcher's mound in a regulation baseball field?

800

Family board game invented March 7, 1933

What is Monopoly?

800

This South American nation declared independence from Brazil on August 25, 1825

What is Uruguay?

800

One third of the world’s supply of this salty fast food is made in New Brunswick.

What are French Fries? They’re produced by McCain Foods in Florenceville-Bristol.

800

This epic film won the Academy Award for best movie and best actor in 2000

What is Gladiator?

1000

Comalander Stadium, The Alamodome, and AT&T Center are all sports venues located in this southern U.S. city

Where is San Antonio?

1000

Born in March 1943 in Chicago, he became the youngest chess grandmaster.

Who is Bobby Fischer?

1000

The "Eastern" period of this Chinese dynasty began in 25 A.D.

What is the Han Dynasty?

1000

This actor, who became famous playing a Scot on TV, was actually Canadian.

Who is James Doohan? (a.k.a. Lieutenant Commander Scotty on Star Trek. He was born in Vancouver)

1000

With only one fatal accident in its 27 year history, occurring in July 2000, this aircraft was later decommissioned  in 2003.

What is the Concorde?