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The "Win An Adspot" Contest

Written by on April 9, 2008 – 4:41 pm17 Comments | 239 Read this

Think Hard! It’s con­test time!

Just like in Feb­ru­ary, I’m orga­niz­ing a new con­test to give you a chance to dis­play your ad on my blog. Last time, Theresa (“The Rain In Spain”), Saskboy (“Aban­doned Stuff”) and Wapen­take (“Wapen­take”) each won an adspot, while Ghosty (“Agents Don’t Do House­work”) won a blog review.

This time, the “tricky ques­tions” theme will be… Canada!

The first three per­sons to have all (or most) of the answers cor­rect will get one month ad spot on my blog (each ad will be 100×100 or 125×125).

I’ll also ran­domly pick a fourth per­son among the con­tes­tants and he/she will get a one month blogroll link with a short blog review, the day the win­ners will be announced. This blog is a PR4 — it worth it!

The con­test runs from April 9th to April 21th, when the win­ners will be announced. The com­ments will be mod­er­ated and I won’t say a word about whether the answers are cor­rect or not before that date, so keep on playing!

I’m also offer­ing you two wild cards: if you don’t know an answer, just use one of them or both, and I’ll count this answer as cor­rect! These are your wildcards:

Remem­ber: you don’t have to answer cor­rectly to all of the ques­tions. Just get as many right as you can, and make a good use of your wild cards!

The Ques­tions

  1. Soci­ol­ogy: Name three Cana­dian addictions.
  2. Vocab­u­lary: Give the mean­ing of these words/ expres­sions:
    – Homo milk
    – A toque
    – Block heaters
    – A servi­ette
  3. Geog­ra­phy: Canada is said to have two sea­sons: win­ter and ______ ?
  4. Gen­eral knowl­edge: What’s an inuksuk?
  5. Bonus ques­tion (not Canada related): what’s the com­mon point between a lot of my blog posts’ titles?

Good luck and… have fun! If you think this “test” is hard, remem­ber I’m a teacher and feel sorry for my stu­dents :mrgreen:

Related arti­cles:

  1. The Tricky Ques­tions Con­test — Win Free Advertising!
  2. “Your Best Blog­ging Advice” Contest!
  3. The Ad-Spot Con­test Win­ners… Announced!
  4. And The Win­ners Are…
  5. The “Feel Good” Contest

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  • Ghosty says:

    Soci­ol­ogy: Name three Cana­dian addictions.

    - Hockey, beer and diss­ing Quebec.

    Vocab­u­lary: Give the mean­ing of these words/ expres­sions:
    – Homo milk
    Homog­e­nized milk. Or, pos­si­bly, what one gets should Gor­don Stew­art Ander­son find her­self pregnant.

    – A toque
    A hat that’s only respectable in Canada, but can be worn all year there.

    – Block heaters
    It’s so cold, entire city blocks must be warmed at once to con­serve energy. The Cana­dian par­ala­ment has con­sid­ered lin­ing up the con­ser­v­a­tive party out­doors in such weather, due to the amounts of hot air generated.

    – A servi­ette
    The sort of wife I’d like to have someday.

    Geog­ra­phy: Canada is said to have two sea­sons: win­ter and ______ ?

    - Con­struc­tion.

    Gen­eral knowl­edge: What’s an inuk­suk?
    – Wht you get from an eskimo prostitute.

    Bonus ques­tion (not Canada related): what’s the com­mon point between a lot of my blog posts’ titles?

    - Point? There’s a point? :P

    (OK, this wasn’t really an entry. LOL)

    Ghosty’s last blog post..Farewell, Charlton

  • Ghosty says:

    P.S.: I hereby apol­o­gize to Gor­don Stew­art Ander­son. Not only did I mis-type and pro­claim him a ‘she’ instead of a ‘he’ in the midst of a rather taste­less joke, but it wasn’t his fault he ended up Cana­dian. BTW, I rec­om­mend “The Toronto You Are Leav­ing” heartily (the source of the ill-worded humor).

    Ghosty’s last blog post..Farewell, Charlton

  • Aiglee says:

    Always hard ques­tions :p I think the only one I know is the sta­tions with win­ter and almost win­ter, no? :)

    Aiglee’s last blog post..Toronto vs Boston

  • Scarlet says:

    I’ll take 7 wild cards, please. Inuk­suk is a land­mark, eh?

    Scarlet’s last blog post..a mas­ter of suspense

  • Jé Maverick says:

    Ok…here we go.

    1. Alco­hol, cannabis, tobacco.
    2. — Homo milk = homogenised milk.
    — A toque is a hat.
    — Block heaters are heaters that are used to warm car
    engines, mak­ing it eas­ier to start them.
    — A servi­ette is a cloth or paper nap­kin.
    3. Win­ter and almiost win­ter.
    4. An inuk­suk is a mon­u­ment built from rocks.
    5. I don’t know that I’ve been read­ing long enough, but I’m
    going to say world citizenry.

    Jé Maverick’s last blog post..Just A Note — Brief Blog Postponement

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