Test Peterborough sports history knowledge with Canada Day quiz
How well do you know Peterborough’s sporting history? Test your knowledge with this annual Canada Day quiz.
A few individuals did the quiz earlier. The board of directors of the Peterborough Sports Hall of Fame combined for a score of 13 out of 20; Coun. Dan McWilliams had 12 correct; the media team of Mike Davies, Pete Dalliday and Scott Arnold scored 15 correct.
1. What honour do local lacrosse greats – Tim Barrie, Shawn Evans and John Grant Sr. – share that no other Peterborough players have achieved?
2. In 1962 the Peterborough peewees won the prestigious Quebec Winter Carnival tournament. Who was the player on the team to go on to play 14 seasons in the NHL?
3. When the Petes won their only Memorial Cup, what eventual Hockey Hall of Famer assisted on the winning goal?
4. The 1974 PCO Peterborough junior A lacrosse team won the Minto Cup. In winning what yet to be beaten record did they establish?
5. In 1955 the Peterborough Orfuns won the Canadian Intermediate football championship. Where was the final game played?
6. In 1960 Lakefield won the Ontario softball championship with Ray Judd pitching. Who was his catcher that scored the only run in the final game?
7. When Queen Elizabeth, then a princess, was married in 1948, what did the city of Peterborough give her as a wedding gift?
8. Bob Gainey (1992) and Dit Clapper (1947) are two Peterborough and area residents inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Who was the early-era Peterborough player inducted in 1962?
9. In 1936 more than 4,000 fans, the largest crowd to watch a Peterborough women’s basketball game in the city, attended at Morrow Park. Who did the local ladies play?
10. On July 7th, 1980 George Street was lined to watch one of Canada’s most famous athletes pass by. Who was he?
11. In 1901 the Peterborough Junior Colts won the Ontario Hockey League championship. Where did they play their home games?
12. Who is the only local player to win three Minto Cups, three Mann Cups, be named a firstteam all-star of the NLL professional lacrosse league, win a gold medal in hockey at the Canada Winter Games and win the scoring title in the International Hockey League?
13. Who are the two former Petes players to be name the Rookie of the Year in the NHL?
14. In what sport did a Peterborough team win a silver medal in the 1955 Pan Am Games in Mexico City?
15. In April of 1999 why were Wayne Gretzky, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and the entire Carolina Hurricanes team in Peterborough?
16. Who are the only two former Petes players to belong to the triple gold club (Won a Stanley Cup, a world championship and an Olympic gold medal)?
Answers: 1. Each was named the MVP of a Minto Cup and a Mann Cup series. 2. Rick MacLeish. 3. Larry Murphy. 4. They were undefeated, winning 46 straight games. 5. Morrow Park.
6. Don (Red) Wasson. 7. A canoe.
8. Fred Whitcroft. 9. Edmonton Grads, World Women’s Champions. 10. Terry Fox. 11. Peterborough Curling Rink. 12. Jim “J.J.” Johnston . 13. Steve Larmer, Dan Grant. 14. Ornamental Swimming Team. 15. Steve Chiasson’s funeral. 16. Chris Pronger and Eric Staal.