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100

Which Rock and Roll star was nicknamed "The King"?

Elvis Presley

100

What is the most popular sport in the world based on audience numbers?

Soccer

100

Named for the railway company that built it, what 1,815-foot-tall communications and observation edifice is the tallest structure in Toronto?

CN Tower

100

The United States bought Alaska from which country?

Russia

100

What do you call the study of weather, climate and the atmosphere?

Meteorology

200
'Ain't No Mountain High Enough' is a song performed by which two singers?

Marvin Gaye & Tami Terrell

200

What color flag is waved in motor racing to indicate the winner?

Checkered

200

What Toronto-based NHL franchise was one of the “Original Six” teams to form the professional hockey league in 1942?

Toronto Maple Leafs

200

Which era marked a switch from agricultural practices to industrial practices?

The Industrial Revolution

200

What do you call a volcano that’s not currently erupting?

Dormant

300

Hello darkness my old friend” is the opening line of which song by Simon & Garfunkel?

The Sound of Silence

300

Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Dabney Colman, and Camilla Sparv starred in this 1969 film about the U.S. Ski Team. Which film was it?

Downhill Racer

300

Toronto is often considered the anchor of what "shiny equine" name for the region surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario?

The Golden Horseshoe

300

In which year was George H.W. Bush elected president?

1988

300

What is the name of the red pigment found in vertebrates that functions in oxygen transport?

Hemoglobin

400

In what year was Elvis Presley’s album ‘Pot Luck’ released?

1962

400

Which tennis great, who was the #1 ranked player from 1966-68, was the first to win 20 career titles (singles, doubles, mixed doubles) at Wimbledon?

Billie Jean King

400

What is the name of the multi-sport event featuring thousands of athletes from the Americas in summer sports that Toronto hosted in 2015?

Pan American Games

400

Who was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

John F. Kennedy

400

Roughly how long does it take for the sun’s light to reach Earth to the nearest minute?

8 minutes

500

What does the ‘E’ stand for in Ben E. King?

Earl

500

Jim Rathmann, Parnelli Jones, and Graham Hill all won which event in the 1960s?

The Indianapolis 500

500

Mies van der Rohe was the internationally renowned architect chosen to design what flagship project for Fairview in the 1960s before the company had merged with Cadillac?

Toronto-Dominion Centre

500

What year did the French Revolution Start?

1789

500

Name 2 of the 4 most common elements in the human body?

Oxygen

Carbon

Hydrogen

Nitrogen