Q1 Rotary Trivia How many hours have Guelph Rotarians volunteered in the last 100 years? a 50,000 - NET
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Rotary Trivia
Q1
How many hours have Guelph Rotarians
volunteered in the last 100 years?
a) 50,000
b) 500,000
c) 1 Million
d) 2 MIllion
DI D Y O U KNO W ? Guelph Rotarians have volunteered n early 2 Million hou rs in th e last 100 years.
DI D Y O U KNO W ?
Guelph Rotarians have
volunteered on average,
20,000 hours per year
since 1920.
Rotary Trivia
Q2
What was the very first Rotary Club Community
Project ever?
a) A rest station for the suffragettes
b) Food provision for an orphanage
c) Public toilets
d) A community crop collection to help farmers
DI D Y O U KNO W ?
The first Rotary Club community
project was a “comfort station” in
downtown Chicago. Public
restrooms were typically found
only in saloons at that time, and
unaccompanied women were not
permitted to enter saloons.
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Rotary Trivia
Q3
How many people have attended Canada Day
celebrations in the park since 1992?
a) 2 Million
b) 1 Million
c) 500,000
d) 250,000
DI D Y O U KNO W ? Since 1992, nearly 500,000 people have attended Canada Day in the Park .
Rotary Trivia
Q4
When and where was Rotary’s first ever
Youth Exchange?
a) 1921 Nuuk, Greenland
b) 1921 Copenhagen, Denmark
c) 1931 Paris, France
d) 1934 Sao Paulo, Brazil
DI D Y O U KNO W ?
The first youth
exchange ever was
when the Rotary Club
of Copenhagen
(Denmark) arranged
to host several
American boys in
1921.Rotary Trivia
Q5
True or False?
The Rotary Club of Birmingham, Alabama
remained a “whites only club” until 1982.DI D Y O U KNO W ?
May 1982 - The Rotary Club of Birmingham, Alabama
whose membership of about 360 includes many of the
most powerful men in the state, voted this month to retain
a rule restricting membership to white men. It is one
of only a few of the 19,600 Rotary clubs in the nation with
such a policy against black men. The race issue surfaced
nationally when the editor of The Birmingham Post-
Herald proposed changing his Rotary club’s explicitly
whites-only charter. In a secret vote, the Birmingham club
voted 120-90 to continue the ban. The editor resigned in
protest. W h e n the news got out, RI acted promptly,
declaring that “racial discrimination has no place in
Rotary” and banning “any club from limiting membership
in the club on the basis of race, colour, creed or national
origin.”
https://portal.clubrunner.ca/10783/Stories/racial-diversity-in-rotaryRotary Trivia
Q6
True or False?
Women have been allowed to join Rotary
since 1964.DI D Y O U KNO W ?
37 years after the first proposal to allow female
members into Rotary, on May 4, 1987, the US Supreme
Court ruled that Rotary Clubs could no longer exclude
women from membership on the basis of gender.
That same year the Rotary Club of Duarte elected the
first female club president.
With women being welcomed into Rotary Clubs
around the world, by 1990 there were approximately
20,200 female Rotarians, worldwide.Rotary Trivia
Q7
True or False?
In some countries, Rotarians are assigned
humorous nicknames when they join a club.DI D Y O U KNO W ?
In mainly Asian countries, the practice is to assign each
new Rotarian a humorous nickname relating to a
personal characteristic or a descriptor of the member's
bu sin ess or profession . A m em ber n ickn am ed "Oxygen "
is the manufacturer of chemical gas products. "Trees" is
the nickname for the Rotarian in the lumber business,
"Building" is the contractor, "Paper" is the office supply
retailer. Other members might carry nicknames like
"Muscles," "Foghorn" or "Smiles" as commentaries on
their physical features.
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