50th Trivia Questions
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Fifty Years - Fifty Questions
1. Name the first administrators at CVR.
2. What were the names of the original intramural teams?
3. What names were the intramural teams later given?
4. Who was the Roman Catholic Priest who worked at CVR in the seventies?
5. Who was the United Church Minister who worked at CVR in the seventies?
6. Name the five nuns who taught at CVR.
7. Who are the three teachers whose photos are found in the main lobby and what did
they teach?
8. Who served the longest time as principal at CVR?
9. Who served the shortest time as principal at CVR?
10. Name three security guards that worked at CVR in the seventies.
11. Name the English teacher who spent his final years at CVR repairing audio-visual
equipment.
12. The CVR yearbook cover has always been some shade of blue or white except for
two years.
Name the two years and the color that was used.
13. What language course was taught in 1967-68 that is not taught at CVR today?
14. What is the school motto and what does it mean?
15. In 1982, there was a fire at CVR.
a) What event had taken place during the day?
b) In what part of the building did the fire start?
c) What did that area become in the early nineties?
d) What is that area today?
16. Name the equipment that would have been found in the following rooms in
earlier years at CVR.
a) The dance studio
b) Room 213 and 214
c) The mediation station
d) Student services
e) The west gym balcony
f) Room 230
17. Room 102 is now a computer room.
a) What equipment did it originally contain?
b) What technical equipment did it contain in the late eighties?
18. What was in the cupboard in a jar in room 228 that everyone wanted to see?
19. What teacher was known for smoking a pipe, driving a dodge dart and singing “Blue
Suede Shoes”?
20. For what group of students was Ruth Graham the advisor?
21. Name the CVR principals who first served as a vice-principal at CVR.
22. What was missing at CVR in 67-68 that has been there every year since?
23. Where were CVR’s first physical education classes held?
24. Why was the original gym floor replaced?
25. The CVR yearbook had many different names before adopting the name Spirit.
Name as many as you can.
26. In 1973, a proposed name change for CVR caused a student protest. What name
was proposed to replace Chateauguay Valley Regional?
27. Why is there no room 202?
28. What was unusual about the start of school in the fall of 2001?
29. What was the name of the horse riding club at CVR?
30. In what year did CVR become part of the New Frontiers School Board?
31. In the early years at CVR, Mr. Keeler taught a course that was not offered in most
high schools and no longer offered at CVR. What was it?
32. In what year did Talentfest begin?
33. What was the first play performed by the Performing Arts Department at CVR?
34. What successful rock group came to CVR?
35. In what year did the mediation station open for the first time?
36. Which teacher (who made the big bucks) wore a hat whenever he was giving a test?
37. Which teacher was famous for drawing the perfect circle freehand?
38. CVR students have taken part in two academic competitions.
Name the competition that took place in the seventies.
Name the competition that took place in the nineties.
39. In what year did the CVR sports team first use the name Spartans?
40. What name was chosen for the Provincial Student Leadership Conference that was
held at CVR
a) in November 2003?
b) in October 2014?
41. What is the name of the fund raising event that takes place in the spring that
causes students to feel empty?
42. For what teacher was the outdoor education area at CVR named?
43. Before Patricia Dagg was principal and before she was a student union advisor,
what after school group did she lead?
44. Which principal was a keen rugby player and football coach?
45. Which principal was responsible for the construction of the outdoor basketball
courts?
46. What was the name of the enriched program that was offered to students in the
nineties?
47. What was “The Edge” at CVR?
48. Name the parent-child combinations that have taught at CVR, not necessarily at the
same time.
49. What did field hockey players hate to hear most?
50. Why did a CVR administrator walk into the gym with a football helmet chained to his
head?
1. Name the first administrators at CVR.
2. What were the names of the original intramural teams?
3. What names were the intramural teams later given?
4. Who was the Roman Catholic Priest who worked at CVR in the seventies?
5. Who was the United Church Minister who worked at CVR in the seventies?
6. Name the five nuns who taught at CVR.
7. Who are the three teachers whose photos are found in the main lobby and what did
they teach?
8. Who served the longest time as principal at CVR?
9. Who served the shortest time as principal at CVR?
10. Name three security guards that worked at CVR in the seventies.
11. Name the English teacher who spent his final years at CVR repairing audio-visual
equipment.
12. The CVR yearbook cover has always been some shade of blue or white except for
two years.
Name the two years and the color that was used.
13. What language course was taught in 1967-68 that is not taught at CVR today?
14. What is the school motto and what does it mean?
15. In 1982, there was a fire at CVR.
a) What event had taken place during the day?
b) In what part of the building did the fire start?
c) What did that area become in the early nineties?
d) What is that area today?
16. Name the equipment that would have been found in the following rooms in
earlier years at CVR.
a) The dance studio
b) Room 213 and 214
c) The mediation station
d) Student services
e) The west gym balcony
f) Room 230
17. Room 102 is now a computer room.
a) What equipment did it originally contain?
b) What technical equipment did it contain in the late eighties?
18. What was in the cupboard in a jar in room 228 that everyone wanted to see?
19. What teacher was known for smoking a pipe, driving a dodge dart and singing “Blue
Suede Shoes”?
20. For what group of students was Ruth Graham the advisor?
21. Name the CVR principals who first served as a vice-principal at CVR.
22. What was missing at CVR in 67-68 that has been there every year since?
23. Where were CVR’s first physical education classes held?
24. Why was the original gym floor replaced?
25. The CVR yearbook had many different names before adopting the name Spirit.
Name as many as you can.
26. In 1973, a proposed name change for CVR caused a student protest. What name
was proposed to replace Chateauguay Valley Regional?
27. Why is there no room 202?
28. What was unusual about the start of school in the fall of 2001?
29. What was the name of the horse riding club at CVR?
30. In what year did CVR become part of the New Frontiers School Board?
31. In the early years at CVR, Mr. Keeler taught a course that was not offered in most
high schools and no longer offered at CVR. What was it?
32. In what year did Talentfest begin?
33. What was the first play performed by the Performing Arts Department at CVR?
34. What successful rock group came to CVR?
35. In what year did the mediation station open for the first time?
36. Which teacher (who made the big bucks) wore a hat whenever he was giving a test?
37. Which teacher was famous for drawing the perfect circle freehand?
38. CVR students have taken part in two academic competitions.
Name the competition that took place in the seventies.
Name the competition that took place in the nineties.
39. In what year did the CVR sports team first use the name Spartans?
40. What name was chosen for the Provincial Student Leadership Conference that was
held at CVR
a) in November 2003?
b) in October 2014?
41. What is the name of the fund raising event that takes place in the spring that
causes students to feel empty?
42. For what teacher was the outdoor education area at CVR named?
43. Before Patricia Dagg was principal and before she was a student union advisor,
what after school group did she lead?
44. Which principal was a keen rugby player and football coach?
45. Which principal was responsible for the construction of the outdoor basketball
courts?
46. What was the name of the enriched program that was offered to students in the
nineties?
47. What was “The Edge” at CVR?
48. Name the parent-child combinations that have taught at CVR, not necessarily at the
same time.
49. What did field hockey players hate to hear most?
50. Why did a CVR administrator walk into the gym with a football helmet chained to his
head?
See Answers Below
50th Trivia Answers:
Fifty Years - Fifty answers
1. Mr. Earle Templeton, Mr. Fraser Matheson, Mr. John Murray
2. Micmac, Sioux, Huron, Mohawk
3. Jupiter, Shiva, Thor, Zeus
4. Father Gareau
5. Reverend Herbert Gould
6. Sisters Allmand, Guilline, Sisk, Cullen and Doiron
7. Marion Brown (English), Dave Aikman (Woodworking), Derek Tilley (Art)
8. Lloyd Adamson (1973 – 1983)
9. Ian Rennie (1992 – 1995)
10. Gerald McCaffrey (Cannon), John Dunlop (Barnaby), Betty Bourassa, Doug McGerrigle
11. Vernon Pope
12. Silver in 1992 (25 years) and Black in 2000 (doomsday predictions for Jan. 1, 2000)
13. Latin
14. Ad Intelligendum translates as “For the purpose of learning” or “for understanding”.
15. a) Winter Carnival Trip Day
b) The French department office
c) The yearbook office
d) It is part of science room 232.
16. a) Welding equipment (metals shop)
b) Typewriters
c) Woodworking tools
d) Drafting tables (Technical drawing room)
e) Weight training equipment
f) The French language lab
17. a) sewing machines
b) Photo developers and enlargers (yearbook office and darkroom)
18. The one headed two bodied pig
19. Robert (Bob) Killam
20. The Candy Stripers
21. Patricia Dagg, Patricia Peter, Brigitte Barrette-Frost
22. The grade 7 class
23. At the Ormstown Fairgrounds
24. A flood caused the wooden floor to become uneven.
25. 4th dimension, Axis, Retrospect, Labyrinth, Reflection, Pendulum, Horizons, Imprints
26. D.C. Munro High School
27. Rooms 202 and 203 were separated by a sliding partition. The partition was removed
to make one room. The door to room 202 is still there but locked shut.
28. The administration offices were found in trailers in the front of the school.
29. The Boots and Saddle Club
30. 1998 -1999
31. Agricultural Science
32. 1985 (other talent shows were held before that with different names)
33. Fame (previous musicals and plays were performed by music or drama clubs)
34. April Wine
35. 2004 - 2005
36. Les Sorg
37. Shan Tsao
38. Reach for the Top in the seventies, Intellectual Olympics in the nineties
39. 1975 -1976
40. a) Laugh It Up In The Valley
b) No Limits
41. The 30 hour famine
42. Bruce Adams
43. The Choir
44. Gary Tennant
45. Brigitte Barrette-Frost
46. The Adventure Class
47. A girls group in the 2000’s
48. Dave and Kim Hardy, Norm and Brian Woods, Tony and Lisa Evans,
Randy and Erica Rennie, Teresa and Allyson Caza, Sheila and Dave Reddick
49. “On the line, ladies” or “Guess what I found on the field after practice”
50. Ted Sparks had agreed to participate in the Shave to Save fundraising campaign.
He was about to have his head shaved.
1. Mr. Earle Templeton, Mr. Fraser Matheson, Mr. John Murray
2. Micmac, Sioux, Huron, Mohawk
3. Jupiter, Shiva, Thor, Zeus
4. Father Gareau
5. Reverend Herbert Gould
6. Sisters Allmand, Guilline, Sisk, Cullen and Doiron
7. Marion Brown (English), Dave Aikman (Woodworking), Derek Tilley (Art)
8. Lloyd Adamson (1973 – 1983)
9. Ian Rennie (1992 – 1995)
10. Gerald McCaffrey (Cannon), John Dunlop (Barnaby), Betty Bourassa, Doug McGerrigle
11. Vernon Pope
12. Silver in 1992 (25 years) and Black in 2000 (doomsday predictions for Jan. 1, 2000)
13. Latin
14. Ad Intelligendum translates as “For the purpose of learning” or “for understanding”.
15. a) Winter Carnival Trip Day
b) The French department office
c) The yearbook office
d) It is part of science room 232.
16. a) Welding equipment (metals shop)
b) Typewriters
c) Woodworking tools
d) Drafting tables (Technical drawing room)
e) Weight training equipment
f) The French language lab
17. a) sewing machines
b) Photo developers and enlargers (yearbook office and darkroom)
18. The one headed two bodied pig
19. Robert (Bob) Killam
20. The Candy Stripers
21. Patricia Dagg, Patricia Peter, Brigitte Barrette-Frost
22. The grade 7 class
23. At the Ormstown Fairgrounds
24. A flood caused the wooden floor to become uneven.
25. 4th dimension, Axis, Retrospect, Labyrinth, Reflection, Pendulum, Horizons, Imprints
26. D.C. Munro High School
27. Rooms 202 and 203 were separated by a sliding partition. The partition was removed
to make one room. The door to room 202 is still there but locked shut.
28. The administration offices were found in trailers in the front of the school.
29. The Boots and Saddle Club
30. 1998 -1999
31. Agricultural Science
32. 1985 (other talent shows were held before that with different names)
33. Fame (previous musicals and plays were performed by music or drama clubs)
34. April Wine
35. 2004 - 2005
36. Les Sorg
37. Shan Tsao
38. Reach for the Top in the seventies, Intellectual Olympics in the nineties
39. 1975 -1976
40. a) Laugh It Up In The Valley
b) No Limits
41. The 30 hour famine
42. Bruce Adams
43. The Choir
44. Gary Tennant
45. Brigitte Barrette-Frost
46. The Adventure Class
47. A girls group in the 2000’s
48. Dave and Kim Hardy, Norm and Brian Woods, Tony and Lisa Evans,
Randy and Erica Rennie, Teresa and Allyson Caza, Sheila and Dave Reddick
49. “On the line, ladies” or “Guess what I found on the field after practice”
50. Ted Sparks had agreed to participate in the Shave to Save fundraising campaign.
He was about to have his head shaved.