Radio Quiz Question and Answer:
Question 1:
In what year did traffic start rolling over the Garden City Skyway?
Answer:
Traffic Started Rolling over the Garden City Skyway in the year 1963.
Question 2:
Who Played the first hockey game at the Garden City Arena in 1938?
Answer:
Chicago Black Hawks V.S. Toronto Maple Leafs
Question 3:
What was the name of the GM PLANT on Ontario Street before it was named GM?
Answer:
GM Ontario Street plant was previously named
McKINNONS
Question 4:
In What YEARS did the St. Catharines Athletics Lacrosse Team
Win the Mann Cup?
Answer:
St. Catharines Athletics Lacrosse team won the
Mann Cup in the years:
1938, 1940, 1941, 1944, 1946
1938 – the Athletics win their first Mann Cup by defeating the New Westminster Adanacs 3 games to 0 in matches played at Maple Leaf Gardens. 12,000 fans greet the Mann Cup champion A's upon their 1 am return from Toronto on a cool, damp October weeknight. A's radio announcer Rex Stimers becomes an impromptu M. C. at a gathering in front of radio station CKTB after a parade through downtown St. Catharines. Population of St. Catharines in 1938: 25,000.
1940 – Athletics win second Mann Cup, beating the Vancouver Burrards in four games.
1941 – Athletics win third Mann Cup, beating the Richmond Farmers 3 games to 2 in B.C. In the deciding game, centre Joe Cheevers fills in for injured goaltender Bill Whittaker in the Athletics net.
1944 – depleted Athletics team win fourth Mann Cup, beating the New Westminster Salmonbellies 3 games to 2.
1946 - Athletics win fifth Mann Cup, beating the New Westminster Salmonbellies 3 games to 0. Goaltender Doug Favell Sr is named Mann Cup MVP
Question 5
What year did the Queen Last Visit St. Catharines?
Answer
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, last visited
St. Catharines, on June 28, 1973
Question 6
What Year did we last see the STREET CAR in St. Catharines?
Answer
St. Catharines last saw the
Street car in 1950
Question 7
What St. Catharines Junior "A" Team won the Memorial Cup in
1953 & 1959 and who was the coach?
Answer
In 1953 and 1959, the St. Catharines
Junior "A" Team that won the Memorial Cup was the Tee Pee's
and the coach was Rudy Pilous.
Question 8
When Was Thorold Incorporated
as a city?
Answer
The earliest communities in what is now Thorold emerged at Beaverdams, Decew Falls, and St. Johns, after the opening of he first Weland Canal in 1829, they were superseded by a new canal villages of Thorold, Allanburg, and Port Robinson. Thorol soon became dominant and was incorporatedas a village in 1850, as a town in 1870 and finaly as a city in 1975!
