Canada? Do you Know?
So the trivia tournament is going strong! Over 50 contestants! But since this is the Misconstrued Tournament of Champions... and Misconstrued is Misconstrueing Canada this week...
Today we will have Canadian Questions...
"All the Best!"
A lame canadian quote on we hope you do well.
A Few Other Quotes:
"You Look so Southern. I mean you look like you could be in the Confederate Army. We were talking about that today"
-Sister Schedel
"I love gift shops. I don't care if its even our own! I just love gift shops"
-Aaron, as we head into a Candian Gift Shop
"The difference in the two of you is.... Lea knew she could die, Judy never thought she could... thats still true"
Sister Schedel talking to her daughters.
Comments
After further analysis, it has become clear that Canadian Trivia isn't cool. Canadian people cool, Canadian trivia not. Thank you, have a good day.
Posted by: What, You're Expecting My Name Here? | January 11, 2005 10:45 PM
Todays quiz proved to me something I already knew... that I know nothing about Canada. What we need is a good ol' 'born in the south' trivia day with questions like "How many different ways can you order hashbrowns at wafflehouse?" and "How many hours can roadkill stay in the road before it becomes to spoiled to eat?". Eh?
Posted by: Emily | January 11, 2005 10:48 PM
Ah... good ol Canada Eh! I beat a Candian at her own game!... and as for all yall southerners... ya know I'm half Canadian half southerner Eh? Yepers I sure am. Yes I Is Eh?
So some more good southern questions...
What is a Snipe... and where can you catch them?
What city was Cracker Barrel Started In?
What is the differnce in Homeny and grits?
Country Music Started in What City?
What is the proper number of shotguns to carry in the window of your truck?
Only the most distinguished can own this many of cars on blocks in there yard?
Translate: DjaEt EmAir Dain MunPIs?
... AH AND SO MANY MORE... YES WE MUST CREATE THIS QUIZ!
Posted by: itzjerm | January 12, 2005 12:05 AM
1/10 correct, yessssss!!
who cares about canadian history? I barely care about american/alabama history...
why am I doing this quiz every day? why am i waisting the time asking my self why I am taking the quiz. hmmm this could go on for a while
It goes to show you how much of our information we recieve is localized, if you never get out or take quizes you never know what you are missing... When we go to germany to visit family I am doing good to understand people when they talk to me. I have never talked about german trivia... hmmm, maybe I shouldn't because it will just make me feal more stupid
thanks jerm for the self-confidence downer!
Jerm, did your face ever thaw out?
Posted by: Priddy the Hut | January 12, 2005 01:09 AM
It's funny I actually missed the questions that I read. I gave up at the end on reading because I couldn't even pronounce the words and I never heard of the stuff so why not Christmas Tree it right? Should have remembered that working from school.
Posted by: Amber | January 12, 2005 02:10 AM
That was pretty hard...surprised I came in 2nd, would have probably gotten in first if I remembered that bad things happen in Saskatchewan, not Alberta.
Although Alberta is home to Edmonton, home of the largest mall in the entire world, the West Edmonton Mall....what can I say? I'm a geek!
Posted by: Ben Williams | January 12, 2005 07:04 AM
i am quite suprised by my score. i expected worse.
However I am quite upset by my experience yesterday in taking the quiz. I was at the library checking my e-mail, thought i'd hop on over to misconstruedthoughts to take my quiz. I was like lightening; best quiz I ever took. when i went to submitt my quiz, the computer at the library froze!! I thought, "GREAT! no one will believe this has happened to me twice!" So last night i was at my parents using their computer and I took the test again, knowing my score would be bad because of the great amount of time that had surpassed, but I was determined to finish. When I took the test (and it was before 10pm mind you) it had already switched all the crazy canada questions that I knew nothing about, so that along with long time that had expired caused me to get a score of 0! Jeremy, I hardly believe it is fair to switch to the canada questions before the alloted 24hours to take a test has expired.
basically i am just bitter that it keeps taking me 36000 seconds to take tests.
Posted by: Autumn | January 12, 2005 09:53 AM
Nothing about beer, nothing about hockey, I did not even get a question about a moose...and you called that Canadian trivia...
Just curious do they have snipes in Canada? What about other parts of the US? We've had people hunt for them in Northern CA, and I was kinda shocked to hear about them in the south...well maybe not, Northern California is about the same as Alabama, just more mountains. Something to ponder...
Posted by: Jeremy | January 12, 2005 09:58 AM
Chilcotin- sounds like some sort of sauce I would put on my tacos. That was a tough quiz.
Posted by: CJ | January 12, 2005 10:22 AM
things we wouldn't have without canadians:
-instant mashed potatos
-the garbage bag
-the tuck-away-handle beer carton
-the anti-gravity suit
-the Prosthetic Hand
-celine dion
....so many reasons to be thankful.
Posted by: mallory | January 12, 2005 11:09 AM
hey jerm check your voicemail
Posted by: Allen | January 12, 2005 11:16 AM
That quiz gave me one more reason to hate canada... social-ist freaks that they are...
On a lighter note, Amber had her baby! Paris Haley Rader - I think... Happened this morning!
It's not letting me post this correctly because it thinks I'm saying something bad... apparently social-ist has a banned word in it...
Posted by: keats | January 12, 2005 12:50 PM
Hey bama boys whenever you is ready, we is ready... and we don't talk trash.... what we say we mean...
ps.
buff better not be playing cause he just got a big bullseye put on his
back... and when I hit it hurts..... been hit by bigger and stronger guys before and it doesn't rattle my cage....on offense i
can outrun a 250lb guy any day...stupid,stupid..
and we know how wimpy alot of the guys are around here, that's why we play with other teams in other areas to put the smack down on guys who
don't cry afterward..or maybe bama boys do cry after a mongo
hit.... we'll have to find that one out on the field....
we never
lose unless it's because of some freak accident of nature,like a corner being paid off by the other team, or our entire line leaving because they think the game is getting too serious and they don't feel like getting df'd when they rip somebody's head off for continuously holding and playing dirty.... so any time you feel man enough buff... mongo make buff cry like little girl that she is....
Posted by: mongo strong | January 12, 2005 12:56 PM
Uh, Mongo, we ARE. . . we ARE ready. You see you conjugate the verb "be" (is, am, are) for the plural form we. There you go. I hope you're better at football than you are at English. =)
Posted by: What, You're Expecting My Name Here? | January 12, 2005 01:14 PM
mongo just learned why I love Javann so much... proper grammar!
But mongo speaks like that for a reason... it's complicated...
Posted by: keats | January 12, 2005 01:40 PM
For Allen:
chapter 17 paragraph 15 i believe. you can review that chapter to ... see if youcan get him to the meeting ;0)
Posted by: toallen | January 12, 2005 02:14 PM
ode for bama:
Oh once there was a bama football team ......falalala
They were fast, and strong, and mean......falalala
They had won many victories and proven many wrong.....falalala
But then there was a new team they had never knew all along.....falalala
the new team was better,stronger, faster.........falalala
they were more atheltic, and smarter and gasp from tennessee........falalalala
and poor bama team never knew what hit them, they couldn't even see..........falalala
bama cried in pain that day... falalalala
and half their team had run away.... falalala
'cause at the end mighty cookeville won... falala
cookeville's mighty defense made alabama come undone... falalalala
twelve interceptions thrown by bama tends to be the norm.... falalala
when playing mighty cookeville and their great defensive storm... falalala
Posted by: mongo strong | January 12, 2005 02:58 PM
HEY!!!! There's somebody taking the quiz under my name! you better stop that! I know what your doing, your trying to rack up my seconds
Posted by: Autumn | January 12, 2005 03:15 PM
Mallory...I knew it was you! You broke my heart....you broke my heart.
Posted by: Autumn | January 12, 2005 03:36 PM
relax pacino.
Posted by: mallory | January 12, 2005 03:45 PM
it wont affect your cumulative score- just your reputation.
you can play both names if you want - the password is 'vonnegut' - i hand it to you as a peace offering.
Posted by: mallory | January 12, 2005 03:49 PM
ok i couldn't even bear to finish reading all of the question, they were just to long. can you make a canadian trivia for people with a short attention span? eh jerm?
Posted by: kim | January 12, 2005 03:51 PM
Mongo? I don't celebrate Christmas, or this supposed day when Huntsville, nay, Alabama will fall at your undoubtedly strong hands. I could taunt you back, and I could make up a song of my own, which, incidentally, would be better than yours. But then again, I prefer to play than talk. In short, less talk more game.
Posted by: What, You're Expecting My Name Here? | January 12, 2005 04:46 PM
Actually, I have the most to complain about with the Canadian trivia. Jeremy started it before the end of yesterdays game, and since I had to wait until after 9PM play, I will be stuck with two days of Canada questions, thus ruining my scores. You don't have to worry about me anymore in January. I'll start again next month.
Bad show, Canada lover!
The Collaboration of I
Posted by: New Paltz Times | January 12, 2005 04:48 PM
TO New Paltz Times:
I know! that happened to me too! We shall have to look at January as a practice run for us.
Posted by: Autumn | January 12, 2005 05:04 PM
Ummm mongo or whatever your weak name may be. If you and your cookville winners, as you hype them up to be send me and email let the bama team know where and when and we will be there. My email is DarthFlint@hotmail.com drop me an email if ya ain't scared.
Posted by: Jared one of the baddest bama football players | January 12, 2005 05:12 PM
I will pay somebody to tell me the name of this mongo strong. Let me tell u somethin, u just lit a fire son, and ur gonna get burned. But I agree with Javann, enough talk I'm gonna bust u up. And trust me I will make sure you know who I am. I'll be the one standin over u while ur layin on ur back in pain. Bein scared ain't got nothin to do with it. But if ur stupid enough to step on the field with us ur gonna find out what pain is.
Posted by: buff | January 12, 2005 05:26 PM
Whoa, whoa, whoa, Buffy the Mongo Slayer!
I root for neither team and have no beef with anyone here personally, but sports or no, in any confrontational life situation you probably shouldn't precurse calling someone stupid with phrases like "over u while ur layin on ur back in pain" and "Bein scared ain't got nothin to do with it", etc.
Just a thought. All the best with the crushings.
The weak ankled D.A.
Posted by: D.A. | January 12, 2005 06:21 PM
Ah, the fuel has been thrown, the fire is raging, and the testosterone is in full cycle! And you wonder why they call them weekend warriors. . .
Posted by: What, You're Expecting My Name Here? | January 12, 2005 06:25 PM
Yes Autumn (and everyone else), the Canadian trivia sucks. Just to prove it, I decided to look up everything. This proved that not only were most of the questions rediculously hard, but also that several of them had more than one answer.
The two that I missed were about the meaning of the name Canada, and a city on the WEST bank of the Frazer river, in the canyon. Of the choices they gave for the Canadian definition, two matched the original word it came from. For the Frazer canyon inquiry, ALL of the cities were on the river, TWO were on the west coast (which it asked for), and BOTH were in the canyon.
Yep. Rant done. Sorry to make something out of nothing...berate me as you see fit.
Collaboration of I
Posted by: New Paltz Times | January 12, 2005 10:06 PM
All the football excitement is great. I hold no allegiance to either teams, but this certainly is reaffirming why I dislike sports. Good stuff.
Posted by: Captian Jonathan!!! | January 12, 2005 10:15 PM
That's it! Three days of Canadian trivia!
I'm never going to that god-forsaken snow hole!!!
Collaboration of I
Posted by: New Paltz Times | January 13, 2005 12:24 AM