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This NBA legend spent most of his career with the Los Angeles Lakers and was known as “Magic.”
Who is Magic Johnson?
This city, once known as Constantinople, sits on both the European and Asian sides of the Bosporus.
What is Istanbul?
This Canadian prime minister was the first to serve as prime minister and was featured on Canada’s $10 bill
Who is Sir John A. Macdonald?
This Canadian singer-songwriter wrote and recorded “If You Could Read My Mind” and “Sundown.”
Who is Gordon Lightfoot?
This 1960s sitcom followed the adventures of a group of castaways stranded on an uncharted island after a three-hour tour went wrong.
What is Gilligan’s Island?
Which '90s basketball legend has his own signature sneaker and is widely regarded as "the greatest of all time"?
Michael Jordan
This Canadian city is known as the “City of Bridges” and is located in Saskatchewan.
What is Saskatoon?
This French military leader crowned himself Emperor of France in 1804 and was defeated at Waterloo in 1815.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This Canadian band, formed in Toronto in the 1960s, had major hits including “American Woman,” “No Time,” and “These Eyes.”
Who are The Guess Who?
What was the name of the horse ridden by Roy Rogers?
What is Trigger?
In 1993, this Toronto Blue Jays star hit a dramatic three-run home run in Game 6 to win Toronto its second straight World Series.
Who is Joe Carter?
This country is home to the ancient city of Timbuktu and has Bamako as its capital.
What is Mali?
This American president issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the American Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This American singer's 1968 album At Folsom Prison was recorded live at the California prison and helped revive his career.
Who is Johnny Cash?
This TV western starred James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon of Dodge City.
What is Gunsmoke?
This golfer famously won the 1960 U.S. Open at Cherry Hills after coming from seven strokes behind in the final round.
Who is Arnold Palmer?
This mountain range forms a natural border between France and Spain.
What are the Pyrenees?
This ancient civilization built Machu Picchu and had its capital at Cusco.
Who were the Incas?
This British band released Dark Side of the Moon in 1973, one of the best-selling albums of all time.
Who are Pink Floyd?
On The Beverly Hillbillies, what was the name of the family who struck oil and moved to Beverly Hills?
Who are the Clampetts?
This Canadian sprinter won gold in the 100 metres at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, becoming the first Canadian to win Olympic gold in that event since 1908.
Who is Donovan Bailey?
This mountain is the highest point in Canada, reaching 5,959 metres above sea level.
What is Mount Logan?
This Canadian prime minister introduced the policy of official bilingualism in the 1960s.
Who is Pierre Trudeau?
He was prime minister when the first federal Official Languages Act was passed in 1969, establishing English and French as Canada's official languages at the federal level.
This Beatles album, released in 1967, features the songs “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” “With a Little Help from My Friends,” and its famous title track.
What is Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?
What was the name of the small town where The Andy Griffith Show was set?
What is Mayberry?
This Toronto Maple Leafs legend wore number 27 and won four Stanley Cups with the team.
Who is Frank Mahovlich?
This Canadian territory has a capital whose name means “place of many fish” in Inuktitut.
What is Nunavut?
(Iqaluit means “place of many fish.”)
This 1215 English document, sealed by King John, became an important symbol of the principle that the monarch is subject to the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
This Canadian singer-songwriter wrote “Me and Bobby McGee,” which became a posthumous No. 1 hit for Janis Joplin in 1971.
Who is Kris Kristofferson?
This actor played three different characters on The Twilight Zone, including the title character in the episode “Nick of Time” and an astronaut in “The Odyssey of Flight 33.”
Who is William Shatner?
This Montreal Canadiens legend won 10 Stanley Cups and was known as “The Pocket Rocket.”
Who is Henri Richard?
This African country was formerly known as Abyssinia and successfully resisted becoming a European colony during the Scramble for Africa.
What is Ethiopia?
This 1931 constitutional statute gave Canada and the other self-governing Dominions much greater legal independence from Britain, although Canada still relied on the British Parliament to amend its Constitution until 1982.
What is the Statute of Westminster?
This Canadian singer-songwriter wrote “Both Sides, Now” and “Woodstock,” but the songs became famous through recordings by other artists before she released her own versions.
Who is Joni Mitchell?
This actor played Lieutenant Columbo, a rumpled detective famous for saying, “Just one more thing.”
Who is Peter Falk?