All of us are feeling the stress of the Coronavirus crisis. So to lighten things up a bit — and to give you something else to think about — I’m re-running a ski trivia quiz I posted here in 2017 (yes, there are some slight modifications).
So how big of a ski nerd are you? Take the quiz and find out. The answers are at the end, but no peeking (or googling, either).
1) I have a pair of skis that are 124/93/112. What do those numbers mean?
The length of your legs/the circumference of your neck/the length of your arms;
The distance of your eyes from the tip of the ski/the circumference of your neck/your waist size;
Ski tip width/waist width/tail width;
The day of the year in which your skis were made/how many days your skis will last/a code for the skis’ country of origin
2) What does DIN stand for?
Dynamic Individual Number;
Deutsches Institut für Normung;
Des Institutes pour la Neige;
Decimal Incremental Notation
Big Sky, MT
3) You have an IKON pass. At which resort can it be used?
Big Sky, MT;
Okemo, VT;
Whiteface, NY;
Vail, CO;
Whitefish, MT
4) What does ‘shred the gnar’ mean?
To eat on the chairlift with your mouth open;
To excel in challenging conditions;
To rip your ski pants in an embarrassing manner;
To criticize another skier
5) You have a jacket with a tag that says ‘DWR.’ This stands for:
Down Winter Rating;
Durable Water Repellent;
Dirt & Wind Resistance;
Don’t Wear Ripped
Lyndsey Vonn
6) ‘Skinning’ means:
Wearing a ski jacket made out of fur or leather;
Skiing buck naked;
Sticking a synthetic skin to the base of your skis, climbing a mountain, and skiing down;
Skinny-dipping in the hot tub apres ski
7) ‘Negative camber’ means:
Bad Karma;
A ski that’s low on energy;
A ski that has a slight overall convex or U-shape from tail to tip;
A bad attitude
8) What was the first resort served by a ski lift in the US?
Whiteface, NY;
Stowe, VT;
Squaw Valley, CA;
Sun Valley, ID;
Colorado Ski Resorts
9) What ski area has the highest elevation in North America?
Arapahoe Basin, CO;
Jackson Hole, WY;
Mout Hood, OR;
Aleyska, AK
10) Which state has the most ski areas?
Vermont;
Colorado;
Idaho;
New York
11) It’s a powder day! This means:
You took a powder and left work early;
You coated your feet with baby powder so they’d smell better in your ski boots;
You’re doing a line of coke (please, don’t);
It’s snowing
12) Which of the ski resorts below doesn’t allow snowboarding?
(Yes, still.)
Wintergreen, VA;
Mammoth, CA;
Sugarloaf, ME;
Taos, NM;
Mad River Glen, VT
13) Name a celebrity who died after hitting a tree.
14) A shell fit is:
A technique used to determine the size of the body armor you need for ski racing;
A technique that uses the boot shell to determine ski boot fit;
A technique used to determine helmet size.
15) You took a lesson from an L3 PSIA instructor. This means:
She’s taught for at least 3 years;
She’s met the Level 3 requirements set by the PSIA;
She’s taught at at least three different resorts.
Is this skier Fighting a Yeti?
16) What’s the phrase for when a skier loses all his ski equipment during a fall, spreading it all over the slope?
Yard Sale;
Plowing the Field;
Bringing Down the House;
Fighting a Yeti
Answers:
1) Ski tip width/waist width/tail width;
2) Deutsches Institut für Normung;
3) Big Sky, MT;
4) Excel in challenging conditions;
5) Durable Water Repellent;
6) Sticking a synthetic skin to the base of your skis, climbing a mountain, and skiing down;
7) A ski that has an overall convex or U-shape;
8) Sun Valley, ID;
9) Arapahoe Basin, CO;
10) New York;
11) It’s snowing!
12) Mad River Glen, VT;
13) Sonny Bono;
14) A technique that uses the boot shell to determine ski boot fit;
15) She’s met the Level 3 requirements set by the PSIA;
16) Yard Sale.
How’d you do?
