Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario Quiz

Answer: 1842

1839: The Church of Scotland chooses Kingston as the site for its Canadian training branch. 1854: Summerhill is purchased as Queen's first permanent home. 1869: Queen's opens its English classes to women.

Answer: Deported to an internment camp in Canada

Dr. Bader enrolled at Queen's in 1941 after being released from a internment camp in Quebec. After his graduation in chemical engineering went on to found the Aldrich Chemical Company which would become the 80th largest company in the US. Discovered by Dr. Bader in the real estate pages in 1992, the construction of Herstmonceux began in 1441, and today it is one of the oldest notable brick buildings standing in England.

Answer: Goodes

Until it was designated as the new site of the School of Business, the Victoria School had housed the Registrar's office for almost a decade. Dring construction an honour roll dating to 1934 was uncovered on one of the original school notice boards.

Answer: "Queen's College Colours"

The well-known chorus of "Queen's College Colours" "Oil thigh na Banrighinn a'Banrighinn gu brath" translates to "The College of the Queen forever", and was written in 1898 by student Alfred Lavell. In 1985 one the lyrics was changed from 'boys' to 'Gaels' to include Queen's female atheltes.

Answer: Robertson Davies

Davies began his undergraduate studies in 1932 at Queen's, but in 1935 transferred to Oxford, which did not have any math pre-requisites for graduation. The fictional town of "Salterton" in Davies's first trilogy was modelled on Kingston, and its fictional "Waverly University" was modelled on Queen's.

Answer: A sub-atomic paritcle accelerator

Built with funds from the provincial governemnt (hence the name Ontario Hall), the basement of this building was fitted with a thick layer of concrete to contain radiation from the accelerator. Ontario Hall's most recent use has been the home of the Fine Arts Department, which shares the building with the Art History Offices, the Art History Library and a number of Film Studies classrooms.

Answer: The Union Gallery

The Union Gallery is Queen's student run gallery which predominently features exhibits by current BFA students, including an end of year First Year BFA class show. The Agnes Etherington is located at the south end of University Avenue, The Queen's Pub is located in the JDUC, and Ban Righ Cafeteria is located in Ban Righ Hall, an all female dorm located at the south end of campus.

Answer: blue

The Tricolour was chosen as the University colours in 1884. Red was later chosen by the Faculty of Arts and Science, and gold by the Faculty of Engineering - though to look at their jackets one might be more inclined to think purple to have been the engineers' choice!

Answer: Steam Shovel

Established in 1873, the "Queen's Journal" is the more serious of the two newspapers and is published twice weekly during the regular school year. "Golden Words" appears mid-week, and has often gotten into hot water over its humour.

Answer: John Stirling

The original marching band lasted only two years due to its unpopularity. Reappearing in 1920 the marching band was followed by a pipe band in 1925, the highland dancers in 1938, and finally the cheerleaders for a total of four Queen's Bands. John Stirling was the Chancellor from 1960 - 1974, and Stirling Hall which houses the Department of Physics was named for him. John Cook was Queen's first Chancellor from 1877 - 1879, Charles Dunning was the Chancellor from 1940-1958, and Peter Lougheed presided from 1996 - 2002.

All my dates and nitty gritty info were double checked at: www.queensu.ca