News quiz

1. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau caused a diplomatic row, accusing what country of involvement in a Canadian activist's fatal shooting in British Columbia?

2. A record wildfire season in Canada burned more than 18 million hectares. That’s roughly the size of what?

3. London Health Sciences Centre came under the spotlight in 2023 over what?

4. Hackers demanded what ransom from a five-hospital group in Southwestern Ontario before they started publishing stolen patient files on the dark web?

5. What former governor general, after months of controversy, resigned as special rapporteur on foreign interference in Canada?

6. As backyard fireworks came under fire in many cities, London expanded when they're allowed here by adding what events?

7. A suspected Chinese spy balloon that drifted across North America last winter was finally shot down where?

8. London city hall cracked down on what in 2023, amid calls for greater consumer protection and public safety?

9. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith made waves by proposing her province break away from what?

10. Ontario expanded special mayoral powers to more cities in 2023, as it pushed to get more housing built. What are those powers called?

11. This year was the centennial of what famous Londoner's Nobel Prize?

12. If the feds get their way, sales of what will be phased out in Canada by 2035?

13. London-born astronaut Jeremy Hansen was chosen for a coming NASA lunar orbital mission called what?

14. By a margin of how many votes did London city council decide to close problem-plagued Thames pool for good

15. How many ballots did it take for Rep. Kevin McCarthy to get elected as a short-lived Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives?

16. New red traffic lanes in London are for use by what?

17. Surprising many, and angering some, Western University moved this year to absorb what?

18. Billionaire Elon Musk paid US $44 billion for Twitter and renamed it what?

19. What's notable, for a monarch, about the new likeness of King Charles III for Canadian coins?

20. Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster, in a bow to AI and misinformation, declared what its 2023 word of the year?

Business quiz

1. The tallest of two towers in a new York Developments complex planned at the forks of the Thames will be what record height for London?

2. What Ontario agency or ministry is moving its provincial headquarters to London from Toronto?

3. Westdell Development Corp. of London bought what shopping mall in the city in 2023?

4. Found guilty of fraud and money laundering, Samuel Bankman-Fried, once dubbed the "King of Crypto," ran what cryptocurrency exchange?

5. Mastermind Toys, a specialty Canadian retailer that was granted credit protection late in 2023, began when?

6. What travel option for Londoners was discontinued in 2023?

7. Auto giant Volkswagen is building a massive electric vehicle battery plant in St. Thomas. In football fields, how large an area will it cover?

8. Ottawa's decision not to apply the carbon tax to home heating oil for three years will cost it how much from Atlantic Canada, the area most reliant on it?

9. The Budapest, a landmark Hungarian restaurant in London, closed in 2023 after nearly how many decades in business?

10. Gold bars and cash, shipped from Switzerland, vanished in a heist at Toronto's Pearson International Airport worth how much?

11. Doug Ford's government reversed course on plans to withdraw land for development from what protected area in southern Ontario?

12. Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led the mercenary group Wagner in Russia's war against Ukraine, died how in August?

13. Former Ontario labour minister Monte McNaughton went to work for whom after resigning as a London-area MPP in 2023?

14. The Beef Baron, London’s oldest strip club, was rebranded as what?

15. Four giant brewing tanks for a major Labatt plant expansion in London were trucked through the city after being shipped from where?

16. The late Archie Verspeeten, founder of Verspeeten Cartage, left a record donation to the cancer clinic at London Health Sciences Centre. How much was it?

17. Taxpayers, through the federal and Ontario governments, will subsidize a $165-million medical glove factory coming to London to the tune of how much?

18. A green bin household collection program, rolling out in London in 2024, will divert how many tonnes of kitchen waste from the city's landfill each year?

19. Ontario announced plans to scrap mandatory post-secondary education in a bid to boost new recruits in what field?

20. Food giant Maple Leaf Foods will be able to process how many chickens a year at a massive new London plant it opened in 2023?

Sports quiz

1. Who was picked off at second base by pitcher Sonny Gray in a key moment in the Toronto Blue Jays' wild-card series loss to Minnesota?

2. Who was the leading point-getter in the 2023 Stanley Cup playoffs?

3. Who was the MVP of this year's Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles?

4. Which of the Toronto Maple Leafs Core Four forwards had the most points in the 2022-23 season?

5. The Denver Nuggets won their first NBA championship against the Miami Heat. Who was the finals MVP?

6. Argentinian star Lionel Messi is being paid $54 million to play for which Major League Soccer team?

7. The Montreal Alouettes won the Grey Cup and regained the Canadian Football League championship for the first time since when?

8. The Western Mustangs beat what school to win the Ontario university football championship, with a record 35th Yates Cup victory?

9. Which Londoner was the Ontario university football player of the year?

10. What team did Londoner Michael Simpson backstop to the Ontario Hockey League title, before joining the London Knights?

11. Reigning title holder Max Verstappen of the Red Bull Racing team has won how many Formula One championships in a row?

12. What skip won the Canadian men's curling championship, the Brier tournament held in London in March?

13. St. Thomas teacher Jake Higgs and his rink made Brier history, with the first win for what northern territory?

14. The London Lightning won another NBL Canada championship, making how many league titles for the Bolts since they began in 2011?

15. Who was this year's NASCAR Pinty’s Series champion, crowned in the Fall Brawl at Delaware Speedway?

16. London twins Chase and Sydney Brown, who played football for the University of Illinois, went pro in the NFL draft. Which AFC team chose Chase?

17. And which NFC team chose his brother, Sydney?

18. London native Shaedon Sharpe, of the Portland Trail Blazers, became only the fourth teenager in NBA history to score 30 points in a game, out-doing what star?

19. Ingersoll’s Ella Shelton was chosen fourth overall in the first draft by the Professional Women's Hockey League. For what team will the Canadian Olympian play?

20. How many gold medals did swimming sensation Maggie Mac Neil of London win at the Pan Am Games in Santiago, Chile?

Entertainment quiz

1. What music legend, with a special tie to London, was painted onto Budweiser Gardens in a giant mural in 2023?

2. Canada's music industry mourned the loss of whom in 2023?

3. What long-running London cultural event, battling tough times, nixed its 2024 edition?

4. What veteran Canadian actor played King Lear in the Stratford Festival's 2023 production of the Shakespeare classic?

5. "Swifties" are fans of whom?

6. Still recording after 60 years, the Rolling Stones released a new album called what?

7. Name the only Canadian city the Stones will play on their 2024 tour.

8. Elton John ended his 330-show, global farewell tour where this year?

9. Who won Canada's richest literature award, the Giller Prize, in 2023?

10. Who began a Las Vegas residency late this year?

11. What Canadian was the 2023 recipient of the U.S. Library of Congress's Gershwin Prize?

12. Who figured prominently in a critically acclaimed 2023 documentary by London film maker Robert McCallum?

13. The longest show run in Broadway history ended when the Phantom of the Opera closed after 35 years and how many performances?

14. London's Grand Theatre did not perform which of the following in 2023?

15. What actor who died in 2023 was a one-time Golden Gloves boxer?

16. What iconic Canadian band or singer will play Rock the Park's 20th edition in London next year?

17. What 1990s Canadian rockers ended a long hiatus with a new album and a London-launched tour in 2023?

18. Who was not among the singers who performed at a public concert for King Charles III's coronation?

19. Who won the Juno Award for album of the year in 2023?

20. The best picture Oscar for 2023 went to what film?

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