As part of the celebration for our club's 30th birthday on February 23rd, 2005, we had a repeat of our popular 25th Birthday Trivia Quiz. This year's quiz was won by Mad Palazzo, who correctly answered 17 questions to win free admission for the rest of the season. First runner-up, winning a day-timer, was Diane Brown with 9 correct; second runner-up, winning a club clipboard, was Elizabeth Spivak with 8 correct. (Glenn Mosher at 17 and Lisa Kessler at 15 were ineligible for prizes, as they had handled some of the original submissions.)
Can you match the players to the trivia items correctly? See the answer sheet for both the correct answers and everyone's guesses.
| Ani Migirdicyan | A 2003 ticket for going 52 kph over the limit ended my perfect driving record. |
| Brenda Megannety | A horse galloped at me when I was young. I was horrified of them for years. |
| Clare O'Brien | A Texas prisoner started writing to me when two Word Gear labels got stuck. |
| Craig Rowland | Adam Logan went overtime and lost our first game, but has won ever since. |
| Curtis Akomanyi | As a kid, I competed in "8 and under" freestyle and breast stroke, and trained with a kid who went on to swim in the Olympics. |
| Denis Farbstein | As a kid, I once scored 5 goals in a minor league hockey game and made it to the sports pages of the newspaper! |
| Diane Brown | As a staunch Manchester United supporter, I write for a fantasy sports web site. |
| Don Ross | For one year, when I was a student, I cooked dinner every night for two elderly ladies in an elegant home instead of paying them rent. |
| Elizabeth Spivak | I am a great-grandfather. |
| Evan Berofsky | I am pursuing a career in musical theatre. |
| Fern Lindzon | I am trying to perfect my Chaturanga Dandasana. |
| Glenn Dunlop | I chose my career path because my first choice had Saturday classes and I just wasn't willing to give up my weekends. |
| Glenn Mosher | I crossed the world's most northerly international land frontier on bicycle. |
| Heather McCall | I delivered groceries to the childhood home of Platinum Blonde's guitarist. |
| Hugh Currie | I had roommates from Sri Lanka, Turkey, Cape Breton, Deep River and Millhaven Pen. |
| Janet Carrington | I have eaten an entire 12-slice pizza at one sitting on two different occasions. |
| Jeff Rose | I have often been surrounded by barracudas while snorkelling. |
| Jim Caughran | I have often been surrounded by sharks while scuba diving. |
| Jim Wallenberg | I have played in eight National Scrabble Championships (missed Washington). |
| John Chew | I have the same birthday as Nelson Mandela. |
| Joseph Bowman | I love Scrabble so much, I never want a game to end. |
| Karen Falconer | I scored 3 unconverted touchdowns to lose 36-18 to UCC at junior football. |
| Kristen Chew | I simply can't stay afloat in the swimming pool. |
| Libero Paolella | I spent a week in the main police station in Casablanca. |
| Lisa Kessler | I used to teach advanced driving skills on the racetrack for Porsche club. |
| Lynda Wise | I was a contestant on a Canadian television quiz show. |
| Mark Hamilton | I was in a Drink Milk Love Life TV commercial wearing cow tights. |
| Roger Cullman | I was recently dethroned as the Canadian single-game scoring record holder. |
| Sal Desiato | I went through Checkpoint Charlie into East Germany on a tour by myself and saw the Brandenburg Gate. |
| Shirley Drucker | I went to school with the Unabomber. |
| Sinnadurai Vijayakumar | I will visit Africa again in 2005. |
| Stan Jeffay | I won the first Toronto Rubik's Cube Championship. |
| Steve Zeidler | I worked at K-Mart one summer. I modeled clothes, tuned audio equipment and tested toys. What was my official job title? |
| Tim Anglin | In 1998, I got my navel pierced. |
| Tony Leah | I've lived in 21 different places in 11 cities. |
| Vivienne Muhling | My father was born in Leopoldville (now Kinshasa, Dem. Rep. of the Congo) and my mother's father was born in Race Course, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. |
| Zev Kaufman | On consecutive nights in Las Vegas, Don Rickles and Debbie Reynolds insulted me. It might have been my beard and shoulder-length hair. |