TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Jamie Bradburn offers up another Toronto quiz. See how much you know about your city
1.
As Ontario Minister of Education, the late Bill Davis established the province’s community college system. Which of the following was the first to open, welcoming its first students in 1966?
a) Centennial b) George Brown c) Humber d) Seneca
2.
During a public referendum in August 1893, what did Torontonians vote against by a slim margin of 913 votes?
a) Evening shopping b) Liquor sales c) Sunday streetcar service d) Women’s suffrage
3.
The CNE has been cancelled for the second year in a row due to the pandemic. What is the only other major event in the fair’s history to have caused its cancellation?
a) First World War b) Great Fire of 1904 c) Second World War d) Transit Strike of 1974
4.
Prior to the official formation of the Canadian Football League in 1958, which league did the Argonauts play in?
a) Canadian Conference of Football Clubs b) Interprovincial Rugby Football Union c) Maple Leaf Football League d) Ontario-Quebec Football Association
5.
Which 2000s graphic novel series was set in Toronto?
a) “Essex County” b) “Love and Rockets” c) “Prisoners of Gravity” d) “Scott Pilgrim”
6.
After World Youth Day festivities in 2002, which North York furniture store discovered it was flooded with sewage pumped from portable toilets in Downsview Park?
a) Bad Boy b) Idomo c) Ikea d) The Brick
7.
Before he fell down the steps leading to a platform at a Liberal federal election rally at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1957, what did a teenage heckler do to Prime Minister Louis
St. Laurent?
a) Ripped up a small St. Laurent placard in front of him b) Spat on him c) Threw a cup of coffee at him d) Tried to hand him a John Diefenbaker leaflet
8.
The Christie Pits Riot, which occurred on Aug. 16, 1933, pitted Jewish and Italian baseball players against local troublemakers displaying a banner featuring which symbol?
a) Confederate flag b) Fasces c) Iron Cross d) Swastika
9.
Who was the first conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra when it debuted in 1923?
a) Edward Johnson b) Ernest MacMillan c) Luigi von Kunits d) Healey Willan
10.
The 19th-century lighthouse located on Fleet Street just east of the Princes’ Gates originally serviced which long-gone part of Toronto Harbour?
a) Gooderham’s Wharf b) King’s Wharf c) Merchant’s Wharf d) Queen’s Wharf