Eastern Townships Trivia Quiz #5: Famous Townshippers
(November 19, 2002)

Matthew Farfan

1. Megantic Outlaw Donald Morrison was guilty of what crime?
a) Shooting and killing a special constable sent to arrest him
b) Robbing a bank and shooting a teller
c) Holding up a stagecoach at gunpoint

2. A member of the British royal family visited Lake Memphremagog in 1870. Who was it?
a) Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught
b) Prince Edward, the future King Edward VII
c) Queen Victoria

3. Where was skidoo inventor Joseph Armand Bombardier born and raised?
a) Granby
b) Farnham
c) Valcourt

4. Judge Robert Stanley Weir is famous for what?
a) Settling the Quebec-Vermont boundary dispute of 1842
b) Writing the English lyrics for "O Canada"
c) Building the first observatory on Mount Megantic

5. After whom is the town Racine named?
a) Antoine Racine, the bishop of Sherbrooke
b) Jean Racine, the archbishop of Quebec
c) Jacques Racine, the cardinal of Montreal

6. How many Canadian Prime Ministers have resided in the Eastern Townships?
a) One
b) Two
c) Three

7. Alexander Galt was…?
a) A pioneering reformer of the education system
b) A politician and railway promoter
c) The founder of Lennoxville

8. What Canadian Governor General toured the Townships in 1878, leaving in his wake a number of streets and other sites named in his honour?
a) Charles Stanley Monck
b) John Coape Sherbrooke
c) Frederick Temple Hamilton Blackwood

9. Who was Bartholomew Conrad Augustus Gugy?
a) A businessman who opened Canada's first chocolate factory in Granby in 1889
b) A Sherbrooke Member of the provincial parliament from 1831 to 1838
c) A militia colonel who was killed in the Rebellions of 1837-1838

10.The village of Knowlton is named after…?
a) Paul Holland Knowlton
b) Samuel W. Knowlton
c) A county in England

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