Trivia Time!

Posted by Tom Breen

on Oct 02, 2013

As you know from reading this newsletter, DG Ellen Hughes was scheduled to present to us today. Or at least that's what we thought. She will be with us at our club assembly October 30 at Parkwood Heights, however. So, what do you do when you're the club president, and you don't have a speaker for the meeting? Well, if you're clever like Pam Dean, you come up with something fun and interesting and spring it on the members. That's how we found ourselves racking our brains trying to answer as many trivia questions as we could, from Rotary history to sports to Reader's Digest Wordpower. If you missed it, here are this week's trivia questions.

1.         How many people attended the first Rotary meeting on Thursday evening,
            February 23, 1905?
2.         What was the first Rotary Club community project?
            a) bus shelter in Chicago        b) comfort station in Chicago             c) food cupboard.
3.         Youth Exchange is one of Rotary’s most popular and successful programs. When and
            where was the first exchange?
4.         Where and when did RYLA begin?
            a) London, England 1975    b) Queensland, Australia 1959    c) Oakland, California 1960
5.         Who did Jim Boeheim replace as head coach for Syracuse basketball?
            a) Fred Lewis               b) Roy Danforth          c) Dick MacPherson
6.         Who took the Rotary banner into orbit around the moon?
7.         Prior to 1989, the wives of Rotary members were called what?
8.         What does GSE stand for?
9.         Name the principle motto of Rotary.
10.       How tall is the flagpole on Main Street in Palmyra?
            a) 125’             b) 75’               c) 99’
11.       What is the capital of Hungary?
            a) Debrecen    b) Budapest     c) Gyor
12.       What month is Rotary Foundation month?
13.       How often is there a Rotary Council of Legislation?
            a) yearly          b) every 3 years          c) every 5 years
14.       What Indian tribe called Macedon, New York home?
            a) Iroquois       b) Navajo         c) Seneca
15.       What football player is the all time rushing leader for the Buffalo Bills?
            a) Thurman Thomas   b) Steve Tasker           c) O.J. Simpson
16.       Who was Buffalo’s head coach in their fourth Super Bowl appearances?
17.       In what year was the Palmyra Rotary Club chartered?
            a) 1957            b) 1950            c) 1949
18.       Who is a charter member of the Palmyra Rotary Club?
            a) Roger Powers         b) Anson Johnson, Sr.              c) Hart Pierce, Jr.
19.       What colors make up the flag of Hungary?
            a) red and white         b) white and blue        c) red, white and green
20.       Mercurial (adj.) means:       a) running errands      b) obscured               c) quick to change
21.       Campestral (adj.) means:    a) of open fields         b) toward evening       c) buggy
22.       How many miles are in the town of Palmyra including the village streets and the
            county roads?            a) 57        b) 98    c) 83

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