Les Alouettes de Montreal Multiple Choice Quiz | Canadian Football

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1. Montreal is considered by some to be the birthplace of modern Canadian football. In what year did the Alouettes join the Canadian Football League?

Answer: 1946

The original Montreal club was founded in April 1872. The original club was renamed as the Alouettes in 1946 and joined the CFL in the same season.

2. In what year did the Alouettes (by name) win their first league championship?

Answer: 1949

The Alouettes won their first Grey Cup trophy in 1949. The Montreal football club, then known as the AAA Winged Wheelers, won the Grey Cup in 1931. The Baltimore Stallions who became the second generation of the Alouettes, were the first American team to win the cup in 1995.

3. The Alouettes have called several stadiums home over the years, Where did the team play their home games during the 2010 season?

Answer: Percival Molson Stadium

The Al's played their home games at Percival Molson Stadium in 2010. They sometimes play playoff championship final games at the larger seating capacity Olympic Stadium but Molson Stadium is their official home. The Sky Dome is in Toronto and is where their rivals, the Toronto Argonauts, play their home games.

The Forum was the old home arena for the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens.

4. One of the Alouette's most successful decades was during the 1970s. Do you know how many times the Al's won the Grey Cup championship game during that decade.

Answer: 3

The Al's won the Grey Cup 1970, 1974, and 1977 during that decade, and had a total of six appearances in the the CFL Finals Grey Cup game, losing in 1975, 1978, and 1979.

5. What is the English translation of the the French word, Alouette?

Answer: Lark

The name Alouette is French for Skylark, or Lark, probably from the popular French Canadian people's working and school children's song, "Alouette, gentile Alouette...".

6. The Montreal Alouettes team folded in 1981. In 1982, a local businessman (Charles Bronfman) tried to resurrect CFL football in Montreal and put together a new team that played in the CFL until 1987, but then this team folded as well. Can you name the resurrected Montreal CFL franchise that played from 1982 to 1987.

Answer: Concordes

Charles Bronfman put together the Montreal Concordes, and the team represented the City of Montreal in the CFL for five uneventful seasons. The Phoenix is a mythical bird that is said to have risen from it's own ashes, would have been a more fitting name, although the Concorde jet liner would also eventually find the same ironical fate as the team.

The Machine was Montreal's World Football League team during the league's first two seasons. The Nordiques were Quebec City's NHL ice hockey franchise that moved to Colorado and became the Avalanche 1995.

7. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, several NFL players crossed the border to play for the Alouettes in the CFL, thanks to a very flamboyant owner. Who was this flamboyant sports-loving business man?

Answer: Nelson Skalbania

Nelson Skalbania purchased the franchise from Sam Berger in 1981. He spent enormous amounts of money and brought in the likes of Vince Ferragamo, Tom Cousineau, and David Overstreet among others. However, they did not help much. We all know who 'The Donald' is. Ted Turner is the owner of the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball. Peter Pocklington was the owner of the National Hockey League's Edmonton Oilers, and was famous for trading Wayne Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings.

8. The Alouettes re-emerged when a remnant team of the failed CFLs US expansion experience, Baltimore, was relocated to Montreal by the owner and re-took the old name of the Alouettes. What was the nickname of the Baltimore CFL team that moved to Montreal in time for the 1996 season?

Answer: Stallions

Nick Speros had heard rumours the Art Modell was attempting to move the NFLs Brown's from Cleveland to Baltimore, and as an astute business man, new he could not compete with the NFL in the same city and moved the team to Montreal. He sold the team the following year to local Montreal business interests. Fortunately for the citizen's of Montreal, the Baltimore franchise was a very successful football team, having gone to the Grey Cup final game in both 1994 and 1995, winning it all in 1995.

9. During the first decade of the 2000s, the Alouettes fielded very impressive teams. How many Eastern Conference regular season championships did they win during that period?

Answer: 7

The Al's won them in 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2009.

10. Which four-time NFL Super Bowl game coach earned his professional coaching stripes, in addition to learning the no-huddle offense, with the Montreal Alouettes?

Answer: Marv Levy

Marv Levy coached the Alouettes from 1973 to 1977, going to the Grey Cup Championship three times and winning it twice. He was even named Coach of the Year in the CFL in 1974.

Source: Author GuyLafleur10

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Les Alouettes de Montreal Trivia Quiz

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