Cherrygrove wrote:
Reach for the Top!
lol. I was on the team (junior) at my school and was even captain for a little while until I started mssing a lot of the games and got demoted to unofficial co-captain. I played for the senior team once when they were shorthanded where there were questions about nuclear physics....
Yeah, we just had our final tournament a few weeks ago. It was really fun and we actually did pretty well; in a tournament with 14 junior teams, I expected to get maybe 9th or 10th because we were a member short, but we ended up getting
fourth. So that was nice.
Reach is great. I have so much fun, everyone in it is so awesome. I really love when we get really stupid questions. I remember getting "What is one more than three?", "What would one do with a bagel?" and "Clocks and sundials are used to measure what?" And of course, my signature question I get every time it comes up (often), "What is the name for the group of Atlantic islands owned by Portugal?"
Okay, to stay on task:
- $1.19 is the largest amount of money you can have without being able to make exact change for a dollar
- The Dead Sea is called such because it is so heavily salted that no life forms can live there
- During the Great Depression, more than 1/4 of "working" Americans were unemployed
- John Tupper was the shortest serving Canadian Prime Minister, serving around 80 days.
- Kim Campell, the only female Canadian Prime Minister, only lasted about four months.
- In Quebec, weekend translates to "la fin de semaine" but in France it's "le weekend"
- The drinking age is only 18 in Quebec and not enforced very heavily
- In Canada, it is legal to drink on your own property at any age, but parents can be charged with neglect if you get too smashed (is it the same in America?)
Those are all off the top of my head, so if anything is incorrect, correct it please.