North Branford Rotary Club
Rotary Quiz
Round 6 (Jan 13, 2012 due Jan 31, 2012)
Q1.What is the one RI approved humanitarian program?
Q2.What significant event occurred in 2011 in relation to this program?
Q3.How many members do we have in our club? Can you name all of them?
Q4.What is the significance of the Rotary wheel?
Q5.What is the theme for January?
Answers to Round 5Questions (December 16, 2011 due December 31, 2011):
Q1.What is TRF?
TRF stands for The Rotary Foundation.
Q2.What are (a) EREY, (b) Sustaining Member, (c) Paul Harris Society?
EREY stands for Every Rotarian Every Year – the program that encourages every member to donate $100 to the Annual Fund.
A sustaining member is a member who has donated $100 to the Annual Fund.
The Paul Harris Society is for members who have pledged to donate $1000 per year to the Annual Fund.
Q3.How does one become a Paul Harris Fellow? (Hint: there are 2 approaches)
By donating a cumulative of $1000 to TRF or when a club or another member recognizes an individual through donation of $1000 (or equivalent points) to TRF.
Q4.What is the Rotary theme for December?
December is Family Month.
Q5.Identify an activity in which our club participates to celebrate the theme for December.
We have a fellowship dinner to which we invite our families and friends.
Answers to Round 4 Questions (October 28, 2011; due November 12, 2011):
Q1.What are Interact? Rotaract?Youth Exchange?These are 3 Rotary activities in the Youth/New Generations Avenue of Service. Interact is for children 13-18 years [middle school and high school]; Rotaract is for young adults 21-30 years [college, university, or community]; Youth Exchange is typically for high school students [junior, senior, one year after graduation].
Q2.When wasthe first Interact Club chartered and where?Melbourne, Florida on November 5th, 1962.
Q3.How many Interact Clubs are in our District as of the beginning of this Rotary year?44.
Q4.When didour club sponsor an Interact Club? Bonus: Where is it located and approximately how many students joined it at inception?August/September 2009; North Branford High School; 80 students.
Q5.Who was our Club President at that time?Bonus: Who is our club's liaison to the NBHS-IC? Fran Merola; Jim Dwyer.
Answers to Round 3 (October 8, 2011; due October 22, 2011):
Q1.Name the Avenue of Service upon which Rotarians focus in October 2011. Vocational Service.
Q2.List 3 activities that our club does/could do that would qualify for this Avenue of Service. We had the Chair of the State Ethics Board to speak on ethics, we honored a person in the community (Mary Bigelow) for her lifelong service to improve ethics in public service, we help youth prepare for their careers through participation in career days, mentoring programs, working with Interact students, sponsoring students for RYLA and Next Generations programs, etc, etc.
Q3.What is the theme for Rotary Internationalfor 2011-2012 under RI PresidentKalyanBannerjee? Reach within to embrace humanity.
Q4.What is the theme for RI District 7980 for 2011-2012 under DGKanayoRupwani? Rotarians Do Right (RDR) through taking care of family, profession, and then Rotary through which we can change lives.
Q5.When isWorld Polio Day? Bonus: whatare our club's plans to helperadicate polio?October 24th; we raise funds and donate to Polio Plus; we provide information to the public during club-sponsored events
Answersto Round 2(September 16, 2011; due October 1, 2011):
Q1.What are the names of the RI president and District 7980 Governor? KalyanBannerjee and Kanayo "Rupi" Rupwani.
Q2.All positions in Rotary are for 1 year. True/False False; RI Directors' term is for 2 years.
Q3.What is the Object of Rotary? The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise [acceptable to this point], and, in particular, to encourage and foster: FIRST, The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service; SECOND, High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society; THIRD, The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life; and FOURTH, The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
Q4.Who founded Rotary andin which year? Paul Harris in 1905.
Q5.How many members were at the first meeting? Bonus: Can you name them? There were 4 people at the first meeting convened by Chicago attorney Paul P. Harris on 23 February in Room 711 of the Unity Building in Chicago. Harris envisioned a professional club that brought together men from a variety of vocations. The other 3 who attended were GustavusLoehr, Hiram Shorey, and SilvesterSchiele.
AnswerstoRound 1(August 27, 2011; due September 10, 2011)
Q1. Approximately how many Rotarians are there in the world? 1.2 million.
Q2. What are the avenues of service and whatis the focus of each? 5 avenues: Club Service (strengthening fellowship & effective club function); Vocational Service (service through vocation to practice high ethical standards); Community Service (projects and activities to improve life in the community); International Service (projects and activities to improve life around the world and to promote peace and understanding); New Generations Service (positive change implemented by youth through leadership development, service projects, and exchange programs).
Q3.Whatare our District and Club numbers? District 7980; Club # 6744.
Q4. When was the North Branford Club chartered and which club was our sponsor? February 2, 1967 (firstorganization date)[would have also accepted Febuary 9, 1967 (per District); March 27, 1967 (first official charter date); and June 28, 1967 (per bell and gavel)]; Guilford Club sponsored us.
Q5. What is the preamble to the 4-way test?The preamble is: Of the things we think, say, or do ....