SickKids
What is the month and year SickKids was founded?
March 1875
“What, like it's hard?”
Legally Blonde
Figure in Greek mythology flew too close to the sun, causing his wax wings to melt and leading to his fall into the sea.
Icarus
Who composed the "Moonlight Sonata"?
Ludwig van Beethoven
What has an eye but cannot see?
A needle
In 1892, SickKids moved into a purpose-built hospital at the corner of College & Elizabeth Streets, known by this name.
Victoria Hospital
"You jump, I jump, right?"
Titanic
This anti-apartheid revolutionary was imprisoned for 27 years before becoming South Africa's first democratically elected president in 1994.
Nelson Mandela
The Great Barrier Reef is located off the coast of which country?
Australia
What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge
During the 1937 polio epidemic, SickKids assembled more than 30 of these devices from its basement parts.
Iron lungs
"I feel the need — the need for speed!"
Top Gun
What was the name of the secret program during World War II that developed the first atomic bombs?
The Manhattan Project
Who wrote the 1925 novel The Great Gatsby?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow
In 1971, SickKids made history by performing Canada’s first successful separation of these.
Conjoined twins
"I made my family disappear."
Home Alone
What specific event in 1914 is considered the immediate cause of the outbreak of World War I?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What is the chemical symbol for lead?
Pb
What can you keep but cannot share and once you share it, you can’t keep it anymore?
A secret
In 1989, SickKids researchers led by Dr. Lap-Chee Tsui discovered this gene responsible for cystic fibrosis.
CFTR gene
"We’re not in Kansas anymore."
Avatar
What was the name of the intellectual and cultural movement in the 18th century that emphasized reason and individualism rather than tradition?
The Enlightenment
Which is the only planet in our solar system that rotates clockwise?
Venus
When I take five and add six, I get eleven, but when I take six and add seven, I get one. What am I?
A clock