Winter Weather
Winter Sports
Snow Day
True or False
Random Winter Trivia
100
This type of weather is often very cold and windy, but also shares the same name as a delicious ice cream treat at Dairy Queen.
What is a Blizzard?
100
This downhill sport requires a board that can be strapped to your feet.
What is snowboarding?
100
Three giant balls of snow, a carrot, hat, and some rocks will create one of these.
What is a snowman?
100
True or false: going outside with wet hair can cause a cold.
What is false? Only coming into direct contact with a cold virus can make you sick.
100
A snowflake has this many sides.
What are six sides?
200
This large vehicle is used to remove snow from the road.
What is a snow plow?
200
This popular sport is played on ice with sticks and skates.
What is hockey?
200
You will need a pair of these to play out on a frozen pond.
What are skates?
200
True or false: drinking hot chicken soup can relieve a cold.
What is true? Chicken soup has anti-inflammatory properties that helps soothe a cold. Chicken soup also provides fluids and easily digestible calories.
200
This type of person reads and predicts weather.
What is a meteorologist?
300
These are raindrops that freeze to create fluffy flakes.
What are snowflakes?
300
The team that won the gold medal for men and women's ice hockey at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics?
What is Team Canada?
300
When you come in from playing outside, it's great to have a nice hot cup of this...
What is hot chocolate?
300
True or false: black ice is very visible ice and not as dangerous as other types of ice.
What is false? Black ice is a clear type of ice, making it very dangerous because it is hard to see and avoid. This ice is usually flat and very slippery.
300
The highest amount of snow fallen in one storm ever recorded.
What is 95 inches (or eight feet)?
400
This frozen water often causes slippery patches on roads and sidewalks.
What is ice?
400
This major winter event happens every four years and gives out medals for sports such as hockey, figure skating, skiing, luge, etc.
What is the Winter Olympics?
400
This motorized vehicle has skis and is used to drive through and over snow, usually in the woods.
What is a snowmobile (or Ski-Doo)?
400
True or false: cold enough weather can prevent your car from starting.
What is true?
400
The coldest temperature recorded on Earth. (If you come within ten numbers of the actual number, you'll get the points.)
What is -89.2 C?
500
These long shards of ice hang from houses and are created from dripping water freezing into long sticks.
What are icicles?
500
This is the slogan not only used in the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics for Team Canada, but is also used in commercials supporting winter sports, such as the Canadian Tire commercials.
What is "We All Play for Canada"?
500
A lesser used name for a sled, it is usually made of wood that curls up in the front.
What is a toboggan?
500
In Alaska, during certain parts of the year, they have twenty-four hours of sunlight.
What is true? This is called the Midnight Sun due to the placement of being north of the Arctic Circle.
500
This big, tall, furry and white character that lives in snowy caves. He is a myth, but is a character in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. A snowy white version of Bigfoot.
What is a Yeti (or Bumble the Yeti)?