Canadian Geopub Quiz

[+2happy2gether]

Spuzzum is the slippery substance found on the underneath of wet geo-log books.

[+hamgran]

Spazzum is the "happy dance" one does when one finally finds an elusive cache.

 

Oops, I guess you're looking for Spuzzum.

[+Fish Below The Ice]

Spuzzum, BC... a small town in the Fraser Canyon. Don't blink or you'll miss it. The sign says "Welcome to Spuzzum" on one side and "Thank you for visiting Spuzzum" on the other.

+1 point for getting the right answer, and -1 point for screwing up the joke about the sign.

 

dave

[+Landsharkz]

I guess we blinked too fast and didn't read the sign properly...

 

"Both sides of a one-time sign on the Trans-Canada Highway read "You are now leaving Spuzzum"."

 

OK, next question:

 

What is the northernmost civilian settlement in North America?

[+plumbrokeacres]

Went caching yesterday saw a road sign 6km to Stoner had to turn around and snap a pic it's outside Prince George BC right by red rock. All I could say was "Woahh Dude!"

[danoshimano]

 

What is the northernmost civilian settlement in North America?

 

I was going to say "Alert" but perhaps that is not a civilian settlement.

[+The red-haired witch]

OK, another easy one.

 

What is Spuzzum?

 

dave

 

A mispelling of this cache? SPUZM (Don't ask me what it means... I have no clue)

 

 

For the present question... Eureka?

[+TOMTEC]

What is the northernmost civilian settlement in North America?

I don't have time to come up with a question right now, so I'll just provide a big hint for others: YGZ

 

I was going to say "Alert" but perhaps that is not a civilian settlement.

He he, try the other end of the island...

 

TOMTEC

[QuigleyJones]

I would guess Resolute Bay.

[+Landsharkz]

We're watching and waiting...

[+Yorkshire]

YGZ=Grise Fiord

[+Landsharkz]

Grise Fiord is correct Yorkshire!

 

"Grise Fiord is the northernmost civilian settlement in North America, but was eclipsed by Alert as the world's northernmost community when Environment Canada and the Canadian Forces began to station permanent personnel there".

 

Alert is the most northerly settlement, but not civilian. That was the trick part. "The northernmost settlement in Canada (and in the world) is Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Alert (just north of Alert, Nunavut) on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island – latitude 82.5°N – just 834 kilometres (518 mi) from the North Pole".

 

Just love those Canadian geography facts, eh?!

 

Over to you Yorkshire!

[+Yorkshire]

Wow, Thanks. OK, I always like asking this because people often disagree with the premise of the question ...

"Why is it that the latest sunrise, and earliest sunset, do not occur on shortest day of the year. Conversely, earliest sunrise and latest sunset do not occur on the longest day of the year?"

Looking for one word answer to this phenomenon

[danoshimano]

Precession?

[+Yorkshire]

Precession?

Sorry danoshimano. Precession does effects the eqinox and solstice. I am looking for why the earliest/latest Sunrise does NOT occur at the solstice and equinox.

[+Juicepig]

well i know the answer, just can't sum it up in one word...

[+2happy2gether]

discombobulation!!!!

 

That's the only big word I know.

[+Yorkshire]

discombobulation!!!!

 

That's the only big word I know.

Too Big! ..... btw enjoy caching in Kingston on the w/e

[+Yorkshire]

well i know the answer, just can't sum it up in one word...

OK Juicepig.... I ONLY know the one word, so you explain it and I'll give you the one word.

p.s. always enjoy your responses in this forum

[+2happy2gether]

discombobulation!!!!

 

That's the only big word I know.

Too Big! ..... btw enjoy caching in Kingston on the w/e

 

I don't hear that too often, thank you.

[+Landsharkz]

Too Big! ..... btw enjoy caching in Kingston on the w/e

I don't hear that too often, thank you.

 

Spewed my morning coffee on the 'puter!

[+2happy2gether]

Too Big! ..... btw enjoy caching in Kingston on the w/e

I don't hear that too often, thank you.

 

Spewed my morning coffee on the 'puter!

 

Sorry, my bad!

[+zanadian]

Could it be "obliquity"?

[+shearzone]

Wow, Thanks. OK, I always like asking this because people often disagree with the premise of the question ...

"Why is it that the latest sunrise, and earliest sunset, do not occur on shortest day of the year. Conversely, earliest sunrise and latest sunset do not occur on the longest day of the year?"

Looking for one word answer to this phenomenon

 

Daylight savings time. The shortest day of the year is 23 hours long when we 'spring ahead', the longest day of the year is 25 hours long when we 'fall back'. These days are nowhere near the solicetices in the year.

[+Yorkshire]

Nice try Shearzone

Sunrise to Sunset, shortest and longest day, Our manmade 1 hr time shift occurs overnight and has no effect on length of daylight.

[Tooth_Molar]

don't know the word for it, but something to do with the rotational axis shifting.

[danoshimano]

Is it related to sidereal(sp?) time? In the time it takes the earth to rotate around its axis, it has moved slightly further along in its orbit. Therefore, the shortest/longest days don't match up with the earliest/latest sunsets. It's offset enough that it is the next/previous day.

[+zanadian]

ellipticity ?

[danoshimano]

don't know the word for it, but something to do with the rotational axis shifting.

 

That's "precession" (like a wobbling top).

[+Landsharkz]

Milankovitch??

[+Yorkshire]

I think this one has "Timed Out"

One word that I was looking for is "Analemma"

I pass on to Zanadian who was on the right track with obliquity, which does effect the Analemma....i think.

Anyway.........take it away Zanadian

[danoshimano]

An analemma is that figure-eight shaped scale on a globe. (Most globes.) It shows the sun's declination for each day of the year, and can be used to calculate the time of each day.

 

But I still want to know the answer to the original question: why is it so? Something gives the analemma its structure. What is it?

[+Yorkshire]

Way beyond my capabilities to explain this phenom.

Lots more information can be found here:-

http://www.analemma.com/Pages/framesPage.html

 

Over to you Zanadian.

[+zanadian]

Good, but tough question Yorkshire.

Next question - tell me the name of this Canadian;

[+Girls Phind Squirrels]

Crap shoot in the dark.

 

Steve Podborski?

[+greywynd]

David Beckham?

[QuigleyJones]

Todd Bertuzzi

 

[+Fish Below The Ice]

Terry David Mulligan.

[+Couparangus]

Hmmm..... well if he ain't involved in:

 

- Geocaching

- Navigation

- Weather

- Wildlife

- A funny thing happened on my way to the cache

- Geomatics/graphy/physics etc

- The Canadian hiking experience

- Cycling, Canoeing, Kayaking or any other means of arriving at a cache.

- Camping

 

You'd better ask another question.

 

Cheers!

C-A

[+zanadian]

How about a hint.

He's a Canadian winter olympian.

[+Couparangus]

Unless he's a Geocacher please ask another question. (I don't see the tie-in between his sport and our hobby)

 

C-A

[+greywynd]

Jeremy Wotherspoon?

[+zanadian]

He is a four time olympian, gold and silver medalist, also has seven world championship medals - Canadian Bobsledder Pierre Lueders. Unfortunately, nobody bobsleds to geocaches, so lets try sombody more appropiate.

 

Name this Canadian who's sport could be used while geocaching.

 

As an added incentive - The winner will receive a free pair of wallet sized, laminated Canadian Geocacher Permits

[+TOMTEC]

Name this Canadian who's sport could be used while geocaching.

You're really reaching with these questions... Anyways, that's Adam van Koeverden and he went to McMaster University... I don't really foresee anyone actually attempting to reach a cache in a K1 boat though, they are far too fragile, not to mention expensive!

 

TOMTEC

[+zanadian]

Well done TOMTEC . Canadian kayaker Adam van Koeverden is correct, over to you.

PM me your address if you'd like the Geocaching permits.

[+TOMTEC]

Alrighty then...

It's been said that Canada has more lakes than all the rest of the world combined. (Over 2 Million!)

 

Part 1: What is the LARGEST lake in Canada?

Part 2: What is the DEEPEST lake in Canada?

 

Winner is first person to answer both parts correctly.

 

TOMTEC

[+Fish Below The Ice]

Alrighty then...

It's been said that Canada has more lakes than all the rest of the world combined. (Over 2 Million!)

 

Part 1: What is the LARGEST lake in Canada?

Part 2: What is the DEEPEST lake in Canada?

 

Winner is first person to answer both parts correctly.

 

TOMTEC

1. Superior 2. Superior.

 

dave

[+JDandDD]

Had this one a few times over the years. If you are asking about entirely within Canada then its:

 

Largest is Great Bear Lake in NWT

Deepest is Great Slave Lake in NWT

 

JD

[+TOMTEC]

1. Superior 2. Superior.

Last I checked, Lake Superior is not located entirely inside Canada, as it also shares most of its border with the USA. (Gee, that should also rule out most of the other Great Lakes) It's also not the deepest, at only 406m. Though even if we counted just the Canadian portion of Lake Superior, the Canadian portion of Lake Huron is still larger!

 

Had this one a few times over the years. If you are asking about entirely within Canada then its:

 

Largest is Great Bear Lake in NWT

Deepest is Great Slave Lake in NWT

 

JD

 

That's better... Great Bear Lake is the largest at 31,328 square km, and Great Slave Lake is the deepest at 614m. Now if we were to include the lakes that were not located entirely IN Canada, the order from largest down would now be Lake Huron, Great Bear Lake, Lake Superior, Great Slave Lake, Lake Winnipeg, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario...

 

Over to you JD

 

TOMTEC

[+JDandDD]

Sorry folks. Haven't been online too much today. Anyway, lets stay with lakes, and two questions to this one as well.

 

1. What is the largest lake in the world?

2. What is the largest lake completely contained within a single city?

 

JD