Trivia

2003 Trivia Quiz

1. Which perspicacious grade 9 student invented BOMDAS, and what did it stand for?
   
   
2. What size were Ken Jones’ basketball shoes? How tall was Too Tall Jones? What position did Ken play on the basketball team?
   
   
3. What did Bob Hughes and Barry Bryant do on Highway 11 one Halloween that caused cars to brake suddenly and nearly go in the ditch?
   
   
4. Which student traveled to school daily with Barry Bryant and his father?
   
   
5. Who were our Head Boy and Head Girl in 1960-1961?
   
   
6. What did the guys forget to buy for the Spring Prom in 1961, and who had the foresight to take care of it for them?
   
   
7. Who was our Class Valedictorian? What was the main theme of the address?
   
   
8. Who drew up and read the Class Will? What was left to whom?
   
   
9. Which student hosted the after the Spring Prom party at her house?
   
   
10. Which basketball player, Captain of the Hull High School Boys Provincial Championship Team, went on to become Captain the Carleton University men’s basketball team?
    
    
11. What was the famous sweet that Mrs. Weir used to sell in the cafeteria at morning break?

Following questions relate to Mr. Saint-Pierre

12. Where was Mr. Saint-Pierre from originally? What was his nickname? What was his real first name? Where was he educated as a French teacher?
    
    
13. What is the official motto of Québec?
    
    
14. Who was the first farmer in New France?
    
    
15. Who was the first nurse in New France?
    
    
16. On good days he taught French. On bad days what did he do? Name at least five things he did.
    
    
17. What did Mr. Saint-Pierre have to say about students who played pool?

Following questions were inspired by Mrs. Christie’s love of Canadian history:

18. What port in France did Jacques Cartier sail from? Which year did he first arrive in New France? Where did he land? What famous act took place there?
    
    
19. What port in France did Samuel de Champlain sail from? Which year did he first arrive in New France? What famous establishment did he create and where?
    
    
20. What does the aboriginal word Kanata mean?
    
    
21. What does the aboriginal word Kebec mean?
    
    
22. What does the aboriginal word Toronto mean?
    
    
23. What does the aboriginal word Winnipeg mean?
    
    
24. What does Ottawa actually mean in which two aboriginal languages, as pronounced Odawa and Outouais?
    
    
25. What were the names of the first nations’ villages that the French explorers found? What do these names mean?
    
    
26. What was the original name given to the city of Montréal by the French explorers?
    
    
27. Who was the first Governor of New France?
    
    
28. Two groups were known as fur traders. One was legal and the other was illegal. What were their names in French?
    
    
29. What did the Governor of New France reply to the British Admiral who visited him in Québec and invited him to surrender New France to the British?
    
    
30. What was the full name of the farmer who owned the Plains of Abraham?
    
    
31. In what year did the Battle of the Plains of Abraham take place? How long did the Battle actually last? Which General died on the Plains of Abraham, and which General died the next day inside the walls of Québec City?
    
    
32. In what year did a French General subsequently defeat the English army near Québec City? What was the French General’s name? What was the name of the battle? For how long did the French actually take back control of Québec? What events subsequently shifted power back to the English?
    
    
33. Which piece of legislation created the rights of Quebec under the new English rule? What were the four key elements?
    
    
34. Which Province that hosted a pre-Confederation conference did not join Confederation in 1867? Why not?
    
    
35. hristie would be proud of you if you could answer all of these questions!
    
    
36. Which HHS teacher got a 100% mark in two of her final high school examinations in Québec and in which subjects?
    
    
37. Which teacher drove “the pregnant roller skate”?
    
    
38. Which teacher drove the ’53 Studebaker with the torpedo nose?
    
    
39. Which teacher owned two late model convertibles and which models were they?
    
    
40. Can you name the four (4) main pool halls where we played poll? Which pool hall had the cheapest rates for a game? Which pool hall made the best hot dogs?
    
    
41. Which teacher enjoyed an occasional draft of cool beer on a hot day at which local establishment?
    
    
42. Which jovial church minister used to act as a supply teacher and particularly enjoyed teaching Latin and geometry? What were his sons’ names?
    
    
43. Which other church minister served in the arctic, and had to bring back which object with him on his dog sled, and had to bring this object into his tent every night and sleep next to it, so that the dogs and wolves would not eat it?
    
    
44. Which pair of teachers worked as a chaperone tag team for school dances?
    
    
45. Which teacher used to patrol the bushes behind the school at the school dances to try to catch students necking and chase them back into the gym?
    
    
46. Where were the submarine races held?
    
    
47. Which students re-landscaped the front lawn at HHS one hot spring night? How did they do it? How did they fix it afterwards?
    
    
48. Which two students went hunting every fall and then brought sandwiches for lunch made of bear meat, moose meat, and venison?
    
    
49. Where did we occasionally stop for an ice cream cone or a milkshake on the way home from school?
    
    
50. Which famous restaurant did we go to after Friday evening basketball games or school dances and what was a popular late-evening snack?
    
    
51. Who was the famous basketball coach of the provincial championship boys and girls teams?
    
    
52. What were the other three high schools that HHS played against in our high school basketball league?
    
    
53. What were the official colours for HHS?
    
    
54. Which student was the scorekeeper for the basketball games?
    
    
55. Can you name the captains and co-captains of the girls and the boys provincial championship basketball teams?
    
    
56. Which two brothers played on the boys basketball team?
    
    
57. Can you name several of the cheerleaders?
    
    
58. Can you name several of the couples who “went steady” at HHS?
    
    
59. What famous local hockey club had some of its players attend school at HHS? Can you name one of these hockey players who was also a student at HHS? <
    
    
60. What famous restaurant in Wrightville, where we occasionally ate, had great Chinese food?
    
    
61. Which group of students from outside the city limits rode their bicycles together to school regularly? What were their names?
    
    
62. Which farmer’s field did we occasionally get together at on Friday evenings in the fall for a game of pick-up football? Who threw “cow pies” at other football players?
    
    
63. Where did we gather in summer months for a swim, and swing out over the water on a long rope attached to an overhanging tree, and drop in?
    
    
64. Which student wrote an essay entitled, “Man’s Inhumanity to Man”?
    
    
65. What kind of animal came into the schoolyard while we were writing our Grade 11 final examinations? Which Church Minister, acting as examination invigilator at the time, wrote a poetic verse on the chalk board, and what was that verse? What happened to the animal?
    
    
66. Which female grade 10 student had a Russian boyfriend?
    
    
67. Which student went on a successful career in Switzerland? What did she do?
    
    
68. Which student went on to write a book about biology and become a famous author?
    
    
69. Which student went on to become a chartered accountant and a specialist in fraud examinations?
    
    
70. Which student has had a successful 25-year career in real estate on the Atlantic seaboard?
    
    
71. Which student went on to become a mayor of a Canadian city and later a lawyer?
    
    
72. Which student went on to become a distinguished Canadian Ambassador?
    
    
73. Which student now plays with trains and planes for a living all over the world?
    
    
74. Which grade 9 student nearly graduated several years ahead of schedule when he offered to take which teacher home after school? Who saved his bacon and how?
    
    
75. Which teacher attempted to give which student a disciplinary swat on the seat of the pants and accidentally stuck his fingers through the student’s trousers?
    
    
76. Which future aeronautical engineer climbed up onto the school roof to drop and time the fall of an object in order to test Isaac Newton’s theory?
    
    
77. Which aspiring future chemist made which noxious gas in the school laboratory one sunny morning, and gave the entire school the day off?
    
    
78. Which distinguished and erudite young scholar leaned accidentally, but very authoritatively, on a big brass wall button in the principal’s office, set off the fire alarm, and brought a whole fleet of city fire trucks racing to the school?
    
    
79. Which student carried what object on a belt around his waist, that prompted Mr. Saint-Pierre to bellow, “_________! Are we going to a lynching?”
    
    
80. Which famous basketball player had a close shave in the boy’s locker room? Who administered the close shave?
    
    
81. What was the name of our school nurse?

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2006 Trivia Quiz

New 100 Question Hull High School Trivia Quiz, 2006 Version from Philippe:

1. During which years did the school at 2 Millar Street operate as Hull High School?
   
   
2. What was the name of the prior school in downtown Hull, corner of Wright Street and St-Redempteur Street? What was the name of the succeeding school in the north end of Hull, off Cameron Road, near Hammond’s farm?
   
   
3. Who were the Principals from opening of Hull High to its closing as a school? Think of KH, DRM, WM, etc.
   
   
4. He prowled the halls, he peered through classroom door windows, he was a holy terror to the students, and he loved to use the public address system? Who was he?
   
   
5. Can you name some of the pairs of Head Boys and Head Girls during the 1950s and 1960s? For example, Barry Bryant and Ray Hetherington, David Lee and Sandra McClelland, Dorothy Cameron and Graham McLaurin, Glenn Guilbault and Judy Radmore….can you name some other pairs?
   
   
6. Can you name some couples who “went steady” at Hull High? For example, Bob Delaney and Anne French, Eddy Van Zant and Diana Christie, Phil Roy and June Carnahan….can you name some other couples?
   
   
7. Who were the ministers from St. James Anglican Church who also served as supply teachers during the 1950s and 1960s? One minister had two sons who attended Hull High School with us….what were their names?
   
   
8. Can you name some of the basketball coaches during the 1950s and 1960s at Hull High? Ruth Bates and Bill McQuarrie of course….were there others?
   
   
9. Who were some of the basketball team captains, men’s teams and women’s teams, during the 1950s and 1960s? For example, Vivian Charron and Beverley Bagley, Rodger Brunet and Skip Lebrun…..can you name some other team captains?
   
   
10. Three brothers served as captain or co-captain of the Hull High Men’s Basketball team over the years. Who were they?
    
    
11. Which male team member had the largest running shoes? Which size were they?
    
    
12. How tall was “Too Tall Jones” in grade 9?
    
    
13. Which basketball trophies did the school teams win and in which year(s)?
    
    
14. Can you name the school cheerleaders? Micki Kaminska, Kitty Smith…..can you name some others?
    
    
15. Which teacher drove two (2) 1950s convertibles, what models and years were they?
    
    
16. Which teacher drove the 1953 Torpedo Nose Studebaker? Who drove the MG sedan? Who drove the black “pregnant roller skate”? Who drove the cream Mercury convertible?
    
    
17. Which teacher who used to prowl the pool halls in Hull to look for delinquent students, said “If I catch you in the pool hall, your marks will go down the side pocket with the eight ball!”? Who did he catch and in which pool hall?
    
    
18. Can you name the four (4) main pool halls within walking distance of the school? Which one made the best hot dogs?
    
    
19. Which teacher liked to drop into the Ottawa House for a cool draft of beer at lunch hour?
    
    
20. Which aspiring engineer got up on top of the roof of the school and tested Newton’s Laws of Physics (gravity) with a stop watch, and with the help of which Physics teacher, a genuine scientific experiment?
    
    
21. Which budding chemist(s) mixed up a batch of which components to produce which noxious gas that filled the school and gave us the day off school? There were actually two (2) separate incidents, so can you name both students and the materials and gases in each case?
    
    
22. Who found a road kill cat and brought it to school and stuffed it in a jar of formaldehyde for later dissection in Biology class? What did he call the dead cat? We have lost track of him, but with his love of formaldehyde, he could well be a funeral director or embalmer somewhere…..or possibly a taxidermist!
    
    
23. The class became unruly, began throwing books, they broke the aquarium and the fish spilled all over the floor in her class? Whose class was it?
    
    
24. Which student was talking to the Principal in his office, and then accidentally leaned against the wall and set off the fire alarm, and brought the Hull Fire Chief and a fleet of fire engines rushing to school, with all the students watching the action from the school yard?
    
    
25. Which men’s basketball player was treated to some hot red pepper in his shorts one day by some of the other men’s basketball players?
    
    
26. In grade seven he was her boyfriend and he gave her her first flowers. She never forgot him. What were their names?
    
    
27. He was a dapper, good looking young fella, and he spun the records, “45s”, for dances in the school gym? Mr. Saint Pierre called him “Pretty Boy”. Who was he?
    
    
28. He was sixteen and she was thirteen. They both went to Hull High, they went out together, and attended the school dances. Her mother was concerned. They were very happy. Who were they?
    
    
29. Which teachers acted as chaperones at the Friday night school dances? Which teacher, with a very pretty young daughter going steady with a senior guy, kept putting the lights up at the dances in the gym? Which teacher used to go out and shake the bushes behind the school searching for young lovers and would bring them back inside?
    
    
30. He first appeared on the Tommy Dorsey Show, and later on the Ed Sullivan Show. He ushered in the era of rock and roll. And he could shake, rattle and roll. What was his full name including middle name? What was his nickname?
    
    
31. He was from Ottawa, fell in love with his baby sitter, but she ignored him, so he wrote a song about her for her and it became a major hit. What has his name? What was her name? What was the song?
    
    
32. Two local artists had big single hits, one was the tune “Walk on By” to a western rhythm, and the other was “Rock Doll Baby”, to a rock and roll rhythm. Who were the two local artists?
    
    
33. What three rock and roll stars died in a plane crash in a blizzard in 1959? Can you name one famous song that each star sang?
    
    
34. Can you name a major hit song by each of the following musical artists: Bill Hayley, Gerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Jimmy Rogers, the Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Del Shannon, Duane Eddy, Roy Orbison, the Beach Boys? You may have danced to some of these songs at a dance in the school gym.
    
    
35. “A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation” about a spring prom and a bit of blues about it was his first hit song. Who sang it?
    
    
36. Western songs were quite popular among students. “Young Love” was a great hit. Who sang it?
    
    
37. This American rock and roll group and its strong guitar rhythms inspired the Beatles to name their group and to play a similar style of guitar music. What was the original American rock and roll group called?
    
    
38. Which restaurant did we go to in downtown Hull after the Friday night School dances? What was a favourite dish that everyone ordered? Hint: It was on Montcalm Street.
    
    
39. Which restaurant in Wrightville did we go to for great Chinese food? Hint: It was on Fortier Street.
    
    
40. Where did we occasionally go to roller skate in the summer months?
    
    
41. Where did we gather for a nice cool swim in the summer months, where there was a big old tree overhanging the banks with a rope in it which we would swing out on and drop into the river? Whose farm was this wonderful swimming hole located on? We used to go up the river, swim out, grab one and ride it down the river. What were they and which river was it?
    
    
42. Where did the boys meet on a Friday evenings in the fall to play football? Who threw the cow pies?
    
    
43. She was as sweet as Anne of Green Gables, with curly red hair, and she could tap dance up a storm. Who would ever have guessed that this sweet child could grow up to sing a fine rendition of North Atlantic Squadron? Who was she?
    
    
44. Where did the submarine races take place? If you can name two or three spots, you really got around!
    
    
45. Which upstairs dancing spot did we occasionally visit at an Aylmer shopping centre on a Friday night? Can you sing the chorus of each of “The Wayward Wind” and “Freight Train”?
    
    
46. Which hotels / bars did we visit on the Aylmer Road for a little dancing and a cool beer illegally when we were underage? Who was the infamous bouncer at one of these places? Hint: both spots had golf courses during the day time.
    
    
47. What establishments were known as the A, B, C in Aylmer? Who sang at the C establishment? What kind of music did he sing?
    
    
48. Who was the founder of Wrightville? Where did he come from? What industry did he start? What did he use to transport his product to which market and where?
    
    
49. What was the name of the Wright family stone farm house located at the corner of St. Joseph Blvd. and Gamelin Blvd.? Which family lived there sent their children to Hull High School?
    
    
50. Where is Philemon Wright buried (close to Hull High)?
    
    
51. What was the name of the musical that Mr. Saint Pierre helped to organize at Hull High School? Can you name some of the students who starred in this musical?
    
    
52. According to Mr. Saint Pierre, what is the motto of Québec? Who was the first Governor of Québec? The first farmer? The first nurse?
    
    
53. According to Mrs. Christie, what did the Governor of Québec reply to the British Admiral who visited Quebec City and invited the Governor to give up?
    
    
54. According to Mr. Saint Pierre, what was the name of the farmer whose field was used for which great battle in 1759? Who led the forces on both sides of this battle?
    
    
55. According to Mr. Saint Pierre, what famous novel about Québec rural life did we have to read (in short form) in French, and then talk about in French, and who was the author?
    
    
56. According to Mrs. Christie, how many conferences did they hold before they finally created a nation? Where did these conferences take place and in which years? What was the outcome and when?
    
    
57. According to Mrs. Christie, there were two (2) kinds of early French fur traders, one a legal group, and the other an illegal group….what were the names of each group?
    
    
58. What was Mr. Saint Pierre’s first name? Which part of the country did he come from originally? Where did he attend university / teacher’s college?
    
    
59. What was Mrs. Christie’s first name? Which part of the country did she come from originally? Where did she attend university / teacher’s college?
    
    
60. What do the two aboriginal names for Ottawa mean: Outaouais and Odawa? What location on the Gatineau River above Chelsea has an aboriginal name and what does it mean? Can you name three (3) provincial capitals that have aboriginal names, and what do they mean in each case?
    
    
61. The Rideau River runs into the Ottawa River at the Rideau Falls. Why were these falls called the Rideau Falls? Who would hide behind these falls and what would they do?
    
    
62. The First Nations from different tribes north, west and east of Ottawa used to come to trade on the full moon in the summer months, and their descendants say that their ghosts can be felt at this location. Where did the First Nations tribes meet to trade?
    
    
63. He built the Rideau Canal, and lent his name to the original city of Ottawa. Who was he and what was his correct military rank?
    
    
64. Can you name at least three (3) famous families who were involved as leaders in the local lumber trade from historical times forward? Which family built the house that eventually became the Prime Minister’s Residence?
    
    
65. Which infamous, rabble rousing, giant of an lumberman was a legend in early Bytown? He liked to dance in local bars and taverns. Which hotel and bar, and what did he like to kick? He went on to hold a public office….which office?
    
    
66. Can you name several aboriginal words that are used in our Canadian English and French vocabulary? Think of dried buffalo meat and berries, red berries, birch bark storage container for traveling, winter transportation device, bullfrog, etc.
    
    
67. Which two young men at Hull High went hunting for deer, moose, bear every fall, and brought sandwiches of dear, moose, bear meat to school during the week?
    
    
68. On Friday nights this group of four or five Hull High students from the Chelsea area met at Camp Fortune to ski. Who were they?
    
    
69. Two ladies made wonderful soup and sandwiches for us at lunch at Hull High, and sold great butter tarts at morning break. What were their names?
    
    
70. Nearly everyone took a course with her at Hull High, and many students got their High School Diploma thanks to a credit in this course, including one very distinguished Canadian diplomat. What was the course, and who was the teacher?
    
    
71. He was a great math and science teacher, later became coach of successful basketball teams, went on to become principal of one of the largest student body schools in Western Quebec. Who was he?
    
    
72. They rode their bicycles to and from Hull High in a group from Ironsides north of Hull. How many were in this group and what were their names?
    
    
73. He was Head Boy, a canoeist, a ski instructor, and later rode a motorcycle across the top of the African continent. In Centennial Year he canoed across Canada with a group of other canoeists retracing the historical voyageur canoe routes. Who was he?
    
    
74. She was Head Girl, a biologist, a lawyer, a mayor of a Canadian city. Who was she?
    
    
75. He was articulate, a good pool player, Class Historian and Reader of the Will, and liked Dave Brubek’s impressionist jazz, including “Take Five”. His nom de plume was Shalto, and he planned a career as a creative writer. But instead he traveled the world for forty years, lived in Australia, married an Australian. He met Fidel Castro, Jimmy Carter, and the Pope. He was an Ambassador, and later a Chief of Protocol. Who was he?
    
    
76. She was intelligent, charming, played the piano and the base violin. She met her husband at Carleton University and they traveled the world together to serve inter-faith and humanitarian causes. Who was she?
    
    
77. He excelled at math, physics, chemistry, electronics. He co-attended Hull High in English and Hull Tech in French, and graduated from both. He liked to play with trains and planes. In fact, he made a career out of it, at many locations in North America, as a project manager / engineer with Bombardier. Who was he?
    
    
78. Valedictorian, scholarship winner at Carleton University, Chartered Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, Chartered Financial Planner. She excelled at whatever she put her mind to. Who was she?
    
    
79. He came from Chelsea, played the guitar, and sang songs on stage during lunch hour, particularly songs by Jim Reeves. Which song in particular, and what was the student’s name?
    
    
80. She was very pretty, had long flowing black hair, big expressive eyes and a gorgeous smile. And Paddy McCable liked her too. Who was she?
    
    
81. She was very pretty and had a beautiful voice, and formed a band in which she was the lead singer. Later on she appeared in a television show which involved gourmet cooking. Who was she?
    
    
82. He was a star athlete at Hull High, and later at Carleton University, went on to earn a Master’s degree in the USA, then taught school and coached sports. Who was he?
    
    
83. She came from far away. When she got frustrated she would let out her epithet, “Caramba” or “Santa Maria”. She now lives in Switzerland. Who was she?
    
    
84. He worked for several telecom companies in Canada and the USA, and went back to complete a Chemistry degree in his 40s! Who was he?
    
    
85. He taught modern history with the insight of a Canadian who had seen military service in a world war and had seen political and military conflict up close and personally, yet understood the rule of law and history in perspective. He captivated students with his insights. Who was he?
    
    
86. She came from a bright family in Chelsea, loved to ski at Camp Fortune with Gwen, Dave and Bob, went to Carleton University after Hull High, became a biologist, wrote books, and traveled the world, settled in wine country to raise a family with her husband who is a top drawer geophysicist / engineer. Who is she?
    
    
87. He studied agriculture at university and became a professional agronomist, later joined the Québec Department of Agriculture, and worked in French, proof positive that the French teaching at Hull High actually worked! Who was he?
    
    
88. She settled in Calgary, worked in the business world, now has a small former logging company outbuilding for a cabin in the back country on someone’s ranch. She helps with round-up, branding, has been known to eat a prairie oyster or two, bucks her own firewood, sings with a Celtic band, enjoys the wild animals and birds, howls with the wolves, and likes a pint of Guinness under the starry summer skies on the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains. Who is she?
    
    
89. Which male student who lived in Val Tetreau, had his clothes stolen off his clothes line by an escapee from the Hull Jail?
    
    
90. He liked to go out for a few beers with the boys, but was terrified when they drove wild up the Mountain Road, and made the boys promise that if he was killed in an accident that they would get a priest to say the last rites for him right away.
    
    
91. She had blue hair and got perfect marks (100%) in her departmental final exams in Latin and Geometry. Who was she?
    
    
92. He worked in the national parks, camped, canoed, skied, hiked, rode horseback. He skied La Haute Route which runs across the roof of the Alps from Chamonix, France to Zermatt, Switzerland. He worked across Canada and internationally as a management consultant. Who was he?
    
    
93. She had a ski hill on her parents’ farm, north of Hull. Who was she? What was the ski hill called?
    
    
94. Wolfman Gordy, tall as a fire hydrant, happier than a dog with two tails, bought a jar of this stuff, boiled it down to 2 oz, and then wolfed it down in one swift drink. Who was he and what was it?
    
    
95. It was a famous Canadian drink invented by a Calgarian in the 1960s, now enjoyed world wide. What was the drink called, and what is the essential differentiating ingredient between it and a near comparator?
    
    
96. He belonged to the Sea Scouts, and he used to wear a rope hanging from his belt on one side and a metal whistle hanging on the other side. One day in class, a teacher screamed at him in a bellicose manner, “_________!! Are we going to a lynching?” Who was the teacher? Who was the student?
    
    
97. He was posted to the Yukon Territory, and was given a dogsled and team to get around his territory with. On one winter trip he had to pick up a dead body and bring it back with him, in the dog sled. For a week on the trail, he had to bring the dead body into his tent and keep it next to him at night while he slept, so the wolves would not get it. Who was he and what business was he in?
    
    
98. One Saturday afternoon, after a few cool ones at the Chateau Diotte in Wakefield, he came out of the hotel, revved up his car, shoved the gear shift into reverse and popped the clutch, roared backwards out of the parking lot, across the main street, past the general store, across the railway tracks, and into the Gatineau River, where he was surprisingly refreshed by the cool water, and was subsequently hauled out. Who was he?
    
    
99. He was a quiet and unassuming young man at Hull High. He became a member of the infamous Stop Watch Gang, the widely reported gold bar heist and bank robbery gang. Who was he? What was he famous for in this particular gang? How much time did he get in the crowbar hotel?
    
    
100. On a good day he taught French……in his own way. He helped the students organize a musical, Showboat. He also helped the students to start the first school year book. He took final year students on tours of Carleton University to encourage them to continue their education. He advised students to reach for the stars with great ambition and though they might fall short they would be sure to achieve something significant with their lives. However, on a bad day he could rave on, scare the hell out of students, intimidate, keep totally silent, or do other things. What other things did he do? Can you name five other things that he did?