Which McGill campus building has an observatory on its roof?

a) McIntyre Medical Building
b) McCall MacBain Arts Building
c) Burnside Hall
d) Ernest Rutherford Physics Building

What causes the glowing green light in the sky over Montreal?

a) The aurora borealis / northern lights
b) The Desjardins Complex
c) Global warming
d) Aliens

Barbara Althea Jones was a Trinidadian professor at McGill in the 1960s who had what combination of vocations?

a) Physicist and painter
b) Neuroscientist and historian
c) Geneticist and poet
d) Mathematician and philosopher

How many watts are the light bulbs in the spinning beacon on top of the Royal Bank of Canada building in downtown Montreal?

a) 800
b) 1,800
c) 2,500
d) 6,000

Which of the following is a real degree at McGill?

a) Environment, Ecology, and Ethics
b) Sustainability, Science, and Society
c) Climate Change, Culture, and Criticism
d) Global Warming, Geopolitics, and Governance

What unusual material are the wheels of the Montreal Metro made out of?

a) Plastic
b) Carbon fibre
c) Steel
d) Rubber

Which Canadian institution did Maude Abbott, for whom the Maude Abbott Medical Museum is named, receive her medical degree from, after being refused entry to McGill on the basis of her gender?

a) Bishop’s University
b) University of Toronto
c) Queen’s University
d) Royal Victoria College

Which two McGill buildings burned down in unrelated incidents in 1907?

a) The original Burnside Hall and the Redpath Museum
b) Royal Victoria Hospital and Royal Victoria College
c) MacDonald Engineering and the Old Medical Building
d) The Arts Building and MacDonald-Harris

Answers:

d) Ernest Rutherford Physics Building
b) The Desjardins Complex
c) Geneticist and poet
c) 2,500
b) Sustainability, Science, and Society
d) Rubber
a) Bishop’s University
c) MacDonald Engineering and the Old Medical Building