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100

The name of the Canadian Football League Team

Winnipeg Blue Bombers

100

The Father of Manitoba

Louis Riel

100

This cartoon character is named for Winnipeg

Winnie the Pooh

100

This grand, historic hotel is said to be haunted.

The Fort Garry Hotel

100

Where you can see live polar bears

Assiniboine Park

200

The name of the National Hockey League team

Winnipeg Jets

200

How many years ago where the first Indigenous groups active at The Forks?

6000 years

200
The famous cartoon show that has a connection to Winnipeg.

The Simpsons

200

Winnipeg was the first city in North America to use which emergency number?

911

this is now used across North America


200

Where the 2 rivers in Winnipeg meet

The Forks

300

The name of the professional soccer team

Valour FC

300

These 2 European groups were some of the first European settlers

French and Scottish

300

The name of the oldest dance company in Canada

Royal Winnipeg Ballet (1939)

300

This is the only bridge in North America that has restaurant.

Esplanade Riel

300

Where you can see the Golden Boy

Manitoba Legislative Building

400

The name of the professional basketball team

Winnipeg Sea Bears

400

The indigenous people traded animal furs with which company?

Hudson's Bay Company

400
Where coins are made in Winnipeg

The Royal Canadian Mint "The Mint"

It produces money for more than 55 countries around the world.

400

This is the only French language university in Western Canada.

St. Boniface University / Universite de Saint-Boniface

400

The architects of Grand Central Station in New York built which building in Winnipeg?

Union Station 

Train station at The Forks.

500

The name of the professional baseball team

Winnipeg Goldeyes

500

After World War I (1919), 35,000 workers in Winnipeg stopped working. It is the largest strike in Canadian History. What is this event known as?

Winnipeg General Strike

Created more unions and activism and eventually helped workers gain more rights. Monument - streetcar sculpture Main Street and Market Avenue by Pantages Playhouse Theatre 

500

Where can you find the biggest collection of contemporary Inuit art in the world?

The Winnipeg Art Gallery.

500

This is the largest winter festival in Western Canada celebrating French Canadian culture.

Festival du Voyageur

500

This is the first new national museum opened in over 40 years outside of Ottawa.

Canadian Museum for Human Rights

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