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Worth Repeating: Winner's Circle: Canadian Game Show Quiz

By Kevin J. Siu (from CBC.ca/Arts, Feb. 28, 2005)
Often educational, reliably entertaining and, most important, cheap to produce, the home-grown game show was a Canadian television staple for decades. In its heyday, Front Page Challenge drew as many as two million viewers an episode. Such celebrated Canuck hosts as Alex Trebek and Monty Hall became bingo-calling legends across the border. And hundreds of lucky contestants won Schaeffer pen sets, EZ-Brick wallpaper and huge cash prizes of $1,000. Here’s your chance to join the winner’s circle: Test your knowledge of Canadian game shows, courtesy of CBC.ca/arts. 

1. Prior to his current job hosting Jeopardy, Alex Trebek was the quizmaster for what long-running Canadian game show?
Reach For The Top
Headline Hunters
Jackpot
Beat The Clock
Bowling For Dollars
2. What was the final competition on Just Like Mom?
A spelling bee
A three-legged race
A talent contest
A bake-off
A current-affairs debate
3. The theme song to Definition, Quincy Jones’s 1962 instrumental Soul Bossa Nova, was cheekily revived in Mike Myers’ Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. It was also sampled on a single by this Canadian rap group:
Simply Majestic
Organized Rhyme
The Dream Warriors
Rascalz
Swollen Members
4. Who of the following was a member of the inaugural Front Page Challenge panel?
Gordon Sinclair
Pierre Berton
Betty Kennedy
Alan Fotheringham
Jack Webster
5. In 1969, panelist Gordon Sinclair provoked a national outcry on Front Page Challenge — even prompting a discussion in the House of Commons — when he asked Olympic swimmer Elaine Tanner this:
Whether the voting age should be lowered to 17
Whether she used performance-enhancing drugs
Whether menstruation interfered with her athletics
Whether The Guess Who was bigger than Jesus
Quien es mas macho: Lester B. Pearson or Pierre Elliott Trudeau
6. Which of the following bits was not featured on MuchMusic’s first and only game show, Test Pattern (Grand prize: a two-slice toaster)?
Pablo’s Hands
Kiss Aunt Elia’s Mole
Party In My Mouth
The Hairy-Back Brothers
Things Americans Don’t Know
7. On the CBC’s This Is the Law, a panel was challenged to guess the by-law being broken in a sketch acted out by Paul Soles, a.k.a. The Lawbreaker. What was one of Soles's previous gigs?
He was a kicker for the B.C. Lions
He was the host of Cross-Canada Hit Parade
He was the voice of Spider-Man on The Amazing Spider-Man
He was a police officer
He was a convicted felon
8. Which of the following is not a real Canadian game show?
Bumper Stumpers (Decipher vanity license plates!)
Read 'Em and Weep (Match literary wits with Canadian authors!)
Cooking For Love (The Dating Game with a culinary twist!)
The Mad Dash (Run for cash around a giant life-sized game board!)
Beyond Reason (Front Page Challenge meets the Psychic Friends Network!)
9. In his appearance on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Canadian Edition, video-game designer Francois Dominic Laramee walked away with the largest-ever cash prize in Canadian game-show history. How much did he win?
$16,000
$64,000
$250,000
$500,000
$1,000,000
10. Acting Crazy was one of a bevy of Vancouver-filmed game shows in the late ’80s that featured a motley crew of Canadian personalities, soap stars, aging musicians and Hollywood has-beens. Who of the following did not appear on the show?
Jackson Davies (Constable John Constable on The Beachcombers)
Jimmie Walker (J.J. on Good Times)
Jenilee Harrison (Cousin Cindy on Three’s Company)
Todd Bridges (Willis on Diff’rent Strokes)
Billy Davis Jr. (lead singer of The Fifth Dimension)

More Quizzes

Newsworld Quiz (May 1997)
The National Quiz (April 1998)
CBC4Kids Quiz (Aug. 2000)
Archives Quiz (July 2004)
Arts Quiz (Feb. 2005)