Post Quiz: Snow
Created | Updated Feb 24, 2019
Post Quiz: Snow
Snow. About this time of year, most of us hate it. How much do you know about it?
- What word means 'fear of snow'?
- Ornithophobia
- Chionophobia
- Hodophobia
- Ailurophobia
- According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Center, what is snow?
- Frozen water
- A state of mind
- A mineral
- Supercooled plasma
- What causes pink snow?
- Algae
- Spill in the paint factory
- Solar flares
- Crystal formation in the stratosphere
- What record did 7600 Canadians set in Saskatoon on 31 January 2016?
- The most frostbite patients in a hospital at one time.
- The largest snowman on the planet.
- The largest number of winter swimmers in one place.
- The biggest snowball fight in history.
- What measure did the Syracuse, New York council pass in 1992?
- A law against snowboarding inside the city limits.
- A law requiring mufflers on snowblowers.
- A law making snow illegal until Christmas Eve.
- A law requiring police cars to be fitted with snow plough blades.
- What country holds the record for most snow in one day?
- Russia
- Canada
- Norway
- Italy
- What is a snow roller?
- A form of recreational vehicle.
- A person who rolls naked in the snow.
- A rare meteorological phenomenon.
- A member of a winter rock band.
- What is graupel?
- A tool you use to climb snow-covered alps.
- Another name for snow pellets.
- What you do when shovelling ice off a frozen sidewalk.
- An Austrian winter sport.
- What is a major difference between thundersnow and an ordinary rainy thunderstorm?
- Thundersnow is louder.
- Thundersnow is more dangerous.
- Thundersnow always causes groundhogs to come out of their burrows.
- Snow thunder can't be heard as far away as regular thunder.
- Which of these winter songs was recorded by The Walkmen?
- While I Shovel the Snow
- A Hazy Shade of Winter
- The Ice of Boston
- Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow
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