Author: Slavi Grozev

July 2017 Recap – Random Trivia Generator by the Numbers

Hello dear readers and fans of the Random Trivia Generator and welcome to another monthly update.

Hello dear readers and fans of the Random Trivia Generator and welcome to another monthly update. The purpose of these posts is to provide a peek behind the curtain and all the action that takes place to bring the tens to thousands of trivia questions to users.

New Questions

This month we added 235 new questions to the main Random Trivia Generator website. As of this post, we are sitting at 18,723 trivia questions.

I want to thank everyone who sent in questions. I haven’t processed them all, but this month I added more than 50 user-submited questions! There are about another 30 in the queue from this month, which I will get to over the next month.

New Quizzes and Rounds

I have been slacking off on this, but I did publish a quiz commemorating Canada’s 150th birthday and one for July 4th.

Stay tuned for even more questions next month.

Fourth of July Trivia Round – 2017 Edition

What other country, besides the US, celebrates its Independence Day on July 4th with a holiday known as “Republic Day”…and more questions to celebrate 241 years of Independence!

We haven’t forgotten our neighbours south of the border. Happy July 4th and have a crack at this trivia round below. And since this is the first such quiz on the blog, some of the questions are fairly basic…you just wait until next year!

  1. Which two cross-border neighbouring cities jointly celebrate July 1 and July 4 holidays with the International Freedom Festival? – Windsor and Detroit
  2. On July 4th of what year was the Declaration of Independence adopted? – 1776
  3. Which “Committee of Five” member was the only one to sign all four of the US state papers? – Roger Sherman
  4. What is the oldest, continuous Independence Day celebration in the US? – Bristol Fourth of July Parade
  5. Which country, that ceased to be a US territory in 1946, celebrates July 4 as its “Republic Day”? – The Philippines
  6. Which two signers of the “Declaration of Independence” who later became US Presidents, died on July 4, 1826? – John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
  7. How many years after the 1990’s movie “Independence Day”, was sequel “Independence Day: Resurgence” released? – 20 years
  8. Which “Committee of Five” member was the 2nd President of the United States? – John Adams
  9. What beer brand shares a name with one of the Founding Father of the United States? – Samuel Adams
  10. What popular destination helped popularize hot dogs in the US in the 19th century? – Coney Island

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June 2017 Recap – Random Trivia Generator by the Numbers

Hello dear readers and fans of the Random Trivia Generator and welcome to another monthly update…

Hello dear readers and fans of the Random Trivia Generator and welcome to another monthly update…is what I would have said if I didn’t miss the last few months. Sorries. The purpose of these posts is to provide a peek behind the curtain and all the action that takes place to bring the tens to thousands of trivia questions to users.

New Questions

This month we added 258 new questions to the main Random Trivia Generator website…in addition to the other 724 added over the past few months I didn’t publish any of these updates. As of this post, we are sitting at 18,488 trivia questions.

I want to thank everyone who sent in questions. I haven’t processed them all, but this month I added more than 70 user-submited questions! There are about another 100 in the queue from this month, which I will get to over the next week.

New Quizzes and Rounds

 

I have been slacking off on this, but I did publish a quiz commemorating Canada’s 150th birthday.

New Developments

Hosting has been migrated to a new server with more processing power and better connection in the hopes of improving performance. We also added a loading screen to brighten up the white page you would normally get while the site is loading.

Stay tuned for even more questions next month.

Canada Day 150 Trivia Quiz

If Canada is 5 times older than Drake, then how much older is the Hudson’s Bay Company? And much more to celebrate Canada’s 150 this week!

Canada has been around for 150 years now and I wonder if this site will ever reach that mature old age. But I do know one thing – some of the trivia questions below will definitely stump you. Enjoy our country’s 150th and this trivia quiz!

Round 1 – The Basics

  1. On what day does Canada celebrate its birthday? – July 1
  2. Which Quebec city does Canada’s capital border? – Gatineau
  3. What is the name of the highway that travels through all ten Canadian provinces? – Trans-Canada Highway, or Route Transcanadienne
  4. What river separates the cities of Detroit and Windsor? – The Detroit River
  5. What are Canada’s two official sports? – Ice hockey and lacrosse
  6. Which city is home to the Blue Jays baseball team? – Toronto
  7. What is Canada’s $1 coin commonly referred to as? – Loonie
  8. What is the name of the robotic arm used on some of NASA’s Space Shuttle flights? – Canadarm
  9. Musician Drake first gained popularity appearing on which teen TV show? – Degrassi: The Next Generation
  10. Which Toronto street was once thought to be the world’s longest street? – Yonge Street

Round 2 – Something More Advanced

  1. What is Canada’s motto? – From Sea to Sea
  2. For what period of time is the Governor General of Canada appointed? – Unfixed
  3. What was the last Province or Territory that joined Canada? – Nunavut
  4. What year did the last Province or Territory join Canada? – 1999
  5. What does the Calgary Stampede bills itself as? – The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth
  6. In which Canadian city would you find the largest mall in North America? – Edmonton
  7. Which region of Canada would you find Canada’s Technology Triangle? – Waterloo Region
  8. In what decade did Toronto surpass Montreal as the most populous city in Canada? – 1970s
  9. What are the names of the “Trailer Park Boys”? – Ricky, Julian and Bubbles
  10. What is Toronto’s Pearson International Airport code? – YYZ

Round 3 – The Hard Stuff

  1. What three provinces requested a single Dominion be formed in 1867, thus beginning to shape modern Canada? – New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the Province of Canada
  2. What type of interchange, that is widely used in North America and in some parts of Europe, did the Ontario Ministry of Transportation invent? – Partial cloverleaf interchange, or Parclo
  3. Which event was Canada’s anthem, “O Canada”, originally commissioned for? – The 1880 St. Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony
  4. What year were the Juno Awards first awarded? 1970
  5. What distiller and entrepreneur founded the town of Walkerville, which is now a heritage neighborhood of Windsor, Ontario? – Hiram Walker
  6. Which large Canadian city is named after a fruit-bearing shrub native to western Canada, Alaska and northern United States? – Saskatoon
  7. What year was Hudson’s Bay Company founded? – 1670
  8. Which city became the first capital of the Province of Canada in 1841? – Kingston, Ontario
  9. Which popular musician did artist Feist, share a Queen West apartment with in the late 1990s? – Peaches
  10. What island is the most populous in Canada? – Island of Montreal

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