Technology
This Canadian co-founded OpenAI and studied under Geoffrey Hinton.
Ilya Sutskever
This Canadian’s “Golden Goal” secured Olympic gold in 2010.
Who is Sidney Crosby?
This Canadian astronaut commanded the International Space Station — and played guitar in space.
Who is Chris Hadfield?
This route ended in Canada and helped thousands of enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This Toronto rapper made “The 6ix” a household name.
Who is Drake?
This Burnaby-based company built the world’s first commercial quantum computer.
What is D-Wave Systems?
This Canadian holds the all-time world record for international soccer goals.
Who is Christine Sinclair?
This Canadian invention became an essential robotic arm for NASA’s space program.
What is the Canadarm?
This Canadian hero ran across the country on one leg to raise money for cancer research.
Who is Terry Fox?
This singer from Quebec became one of the best-selling artists of all time.
Who is Celine Dion?
This Montreal-based AI pioneer founded Element AI, one of Canada’s most famous AI startups before being acquired by ServiceNow.
Who is Yoshua Bengio?
He became the fastest man in the world in 1996 with a 9.84-second 100m sprint.
Who is Donovan Bailey?
She won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing ultra-short laser pulses.
Who is Donna Strickland?
Canada’s defining World War I moment, when all divisions fought together for the first time.
What is the Battle of Vimy Ridge?
This pop star from Stratford, Ontario was discovered on YouTube at age 13 and went on to become one of the best-selling artists of all time.
Who is Justin Bieber?
This Canadian VC attended the University of Waterloo before becoming a senior exec at Meta.
Who is Chamath Palihapitiya?
This Canadian invented basketball in 1891.
Who is James Naismith?
Located deep underground in Sudbury, this lab studies dark matter and neutrinos.
What is SNOLAB?
The first transatlantic wireless signal was received here in 1901.
What is Newfoundland?
This comedic legend from Newmarket, Ontario, went from homelessness to Hollywood fame.
Who is Jim Carrey?
This Canadian-born venture capitalist is a partner at Index Ventures, known for early investments in Dropbox, Discord, and Figma.
Who is Danny Rimer?
This fearless Formula 1 driver inspired a racetrack in Montreal to bear his name.
Who is Gilles Villeneuve?
These two Canadians discovered insulin, saving millions of lives.
Who are Frederick Banting and Charles Best?
This Canadian aircraft, canceled in 1959, was one of the most advanced fighter jets of its time.
What is the Avro Arrow?
This Canadian actor co-owns Aviation Gin, Mint Mobile, and Wrexham FC.
Who is Ryan Reynolds?