NSS Facts
Northern is currently at THIS placement on the list of largest high schools by enrolled students, currently sitting at about 1800 total students.
What is third/3rd place?
What is Pizzaiolo?
A punctuation mark used to indicate possession or as a contraction.
What is apostrophe?
This winner of the best actor playing Spiderman poll from the 2024-2025 Yearbook.
Who is Tom Holland? (41.2%)
The first Prime Minister of Canada.
Who is John A. MacDonald?
[DOUBLE POINTS]
This 2013 horror film based on a Stephen King novel was mostly filmed at Northern!
A Korean restaurant located on Eglinton Avenue East with daily lunch specials and delicious bagels!
What is Joanne's Deli?
The correctly phrased sentence:
"Faisal failed the test; he thought he was too clever for studying."
"Faisal failed the test, he thought he was too clever for studying."
What is "Faisal failed the test; he thought he was too clever for studying"?
Tied with Joanne's Deli, the 2023-2024 Yearbook voters said that this "Canadian to the Crust" pizza restaurant on Eglinton and Redpath was their favourite lunch spot!
The primary ingredient in Mexico's mole (mol-AY) poblano sauce.
What is chocolate?
This alumni led the music program at Northern for 40 years before her retirement in 2018--the auditorium and a $500 NSS Foundation scholarship is now named after her.
Who is Ene Lomp?
The cafe located 200 metres north of the school.
What is L'Amour Cafe & Pastry?
This nonstandard punctuation mark is a combination of the exclamation mark and question mark.
What is interrobang!?
Approximately this percentage of Northern students who voted in the 2025-2026 Yearbook stated that they have 500+ unread emails in their inbox.
What is 47%? (Accept within 5%)
This literary family's members authored The Mask of Anarchy and The Modern Prometheus, commonly known as Frankenstein.
Who is Shelley?
This Canadian-American singer and rapper was a Northern graduate in 2011, and currently sponsors a creative writing scholarship on the NSS Foundation.
Who is Grandson?
What is Isabella's?
This group of words containing a subject and a verb which cannot stand alone as a sentence, often contrasted with an independent clause.
What is subordinate clause?
Talk about interesting preferences... some staff members who responded in the 2024-2025 Yearbook stated that this unlikely coffeehouse chain was THE ideal spot for a field trip. Thankfully, it was the least popular response.
What is Starbucks?
[DOUBLE POINTS]
Located in Venezuela, this is the tallest waterfall in the world.
What is Angel Falls?
This movie based on a popular video game franchise became the lowest-rated of its adaptations on Rotten Tomatoes, with a score of 18%, and was also partly filmed inside Northern.
What is Resident Evil: Apocalypse?
This bubble tea shop on Mount Pleasant Road and Manor Road East is popular for their cake mousse and Oreo Milk Tea!
What is It's Tea?
What is against? (Rage Against the Machine)
The NARROW winner of this iconic poll from the 2023-2024 Yearbook, out of these options:
"Florida Man Tries To Evade Arrest By Cartwheeling Away From Cops"
"Florida Man Charged With Assault With A Deadly Weapon After Throwing Alligator Through Wendy's Drive-Thru Window"
"Florida Man Disguises Himself in Bull Costume As He Tries To Burn Down Former Lover's House With Pasta Sauce"
What is "Florida Man Charged With Assault With A Deadly Weapon After Throwing Alligator Through Wendy's Drive-Thru Window"?
The Flemish court painter who created The Arnolfini Portrait in 1434.
Who is Jan Van Eyck?