AFTER HOURS

CAN YOU NAME THE SONG

A MUSICAL TRIVIA GAME

Music is defined as vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion. We all have one or two special songs that can transport us to a special place and time. Put your headphones on. We are looking for the full song title, the song’s lyrics composer(s) and one of the recording artists for the following eight partial lyrics that belong to eight great songs or themes: 1.“So you think that you’ve got troubles?

Well, trouble’s a bubble, so tell old Mr.

Trouble to get lost!” 2.“Didn’t mean to make you cry. If I’m not back again this time tomorrow, carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters...” 3.“Don’t carry the world upon your shoulders. For well you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool by making his world a little colder…” 4.“She who always seems so happy in a crowd, whose eyes can be so private and so proud...” 5.“Once in every life, there comes a time we walk out all alone and into the light…” 6.“Love can touch us one time and last for a lifetime and never let go

‘til we’re gone...” 7.“Well the names have all changed since you hung around, but those dreams have remained and they’ve turned around...” 8.“And now I’m glad I didn’t know, the way it all would end, the way it all would go...” Please send your answers to Myrna Buttner by April 28, 2022 at mbuttner@cpask.ca. The first 10 members who send the correct answers by the deadline will receive a CPA Journal, a CPA gym towel and a CPA mask. Keep singing!

THE SYZYGY ALIGNMENT

On May 16, 2022, a total lunar eclipse will be visible from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and parts of Asia. It will last for over three hours and be visible at different times in the different regions of the world. A total lunar eclipse takes place when the Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon and its shadow covers the Moon. Eclipse watchers can see the moon turn red when the eclipse reaches totality. Total eclipses of the moon happen at Full Moon when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned to form a line. The astronomical term for this type of alignment is syzygy, which comes from the Greek word for being paired together.

33 STARTERS IN 11 ROWS OF THREE

The Indianapolis 500, also known as the Indy 500, is the annual motorcar race held the last weekend in May, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The race involves a 2.5 mile oval track where drivers make 200 counterclockwise laps. Practices and time trials are held two weeks prior to the race. Typically, the race begins with 33 starters aligned in a grid of eleven rows of three. A formula level, single-seat, open wheel, open cockpit, style car, known as the “Indy car” is used. With four corners banked at 9 degrees, 12 minutes, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway drives more like a road course than an oval. But each of the corners is different, with weather influencing the car’s characteristics. The first race began in 1911 and was won by Ray Harroun. Since then, the race has celebrated its centennial anniversary with the 100th held in 2016. This year is the 106th Running of the Indianapolis 500, scheduled for Sunday, May 29. The winner of this event receives prizemoney of over $2.5 million USD.

SHEEP WITH SHARP EYESIGHT

A small flock in Australia spent three months last year with bionic, artificial eyes, surgically implanted behind their retinas. These sheep were part of a medical trial that aims to ultimately help people with some types of blindness to be able to see. The specific goal of the sheep test was to see if the device in question, the Phoenix 99, caused any adverse physical reactions – the bionic eye was said to have been well tolerated by the animals. As a result, an application has now been made to start testing in human patients. The project is led by a team of researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales. The Phoenix 99 is wirelessly linked to a small camera attached to a pair of glasses and it works by stimulating a user’s retina, the layer of light-sensitive cells at the back of the eye that convert light into electrical messages, sent to the brain via the optic nerve, and processed into what we see.

DO YOU KNOW A DISSECTOLOGIST

If you think traveling is more fun than arriving at your destination, then you probably enjoy doing a jigsaw puzzle now and again. Experts say that challenging puzzles activate new parts of our brain to help solve them. The term that is used to call someone who plays and enjoys jigsaw puzzles is a “Dissectologist.“ The very first jigsaw puzzle is credited to London engraver and mapmaker John Spilsbury in 1767. Today, the largest puzzle in the world is said to be made by German game company Ravensburger. It is a Disney puzzle, dubbed “Memorable Disney Moments,” which has 40,320 pieces.

THE EDGE BETWEEN DAY AND NIGHT

The first day of spring is called the vernal equinox. The term vernal is Latin for “spring” and equinox is Latin for “equal night.” The vernal equinox is the moment that the sun crosses the equator from south to north, in March. It is reversed in the autumnal equinox which happens in September. The equinox is the only time when the edge between day and night runs perpendicular to the equator, equally illuminating both the southern hemisphere and northern hemisphere. Enjoy your spring!