Quiz Me

I’m a recovering quiz addict. Back in the day I would rock out that Cosmo Quiz like nobody’s business.  In subsequent months, adding up all my a’s, b’s and mostly c’s, I learned I was ‘the girl next door’, ‘not enough of a bad girl’ and ‘Charlotte’.  Obviously, these quizzes were rather derivative but I didn’t care – I circled and added and calculated my score and read my self-illuminating paragraph with anxious anticipation.  Wow.  What a loser. 

Anyway, I’ve seen the dim-witted light of these Cosmo Quizzes now (I mean, is a quiz the best place to learn you are a good kisser?!) and have moved on to meatier fare, like testing my 80s pop culture know-how in Entertainment Weekly.  Progress.

I’m thinking it’s now time to turn a new quiz leaf and actually do quizzes that test my intellect.  Or maybe even quizzes where I can win something.  How about that? How do we do that?

Well, look no further than the friendly folks at gpsmycity.com!  Win three city walk iPhone applications to cities of your choice, courtesy of http://www.gpsmycity.com/ . Correctly answer all ten questions about Toronto below and e-mail them to quiz@gpsmycity.com for your chance to win. It's that simple. Good luck!

Sounds way more productive than the requisite “are you a social butterfly or wallflower” one, right?

 Toronto Fun Facts Quiz:

1. Within a 160 km radius of Toronto lives _____ of Canada's population.

A. Half

B. One third

C. One quarter

2. On what building can one find a giant neon weather station?

A. Canada Life Building

B. National Trust Tower

C. First

Canadian Place

3. How many languages are estimated to be spoken throughout the city?

A. 50+

B. 100+

C. 200+

4. Which one of these movie stars was not born in the city of Toronto?

A. Christopher Plummer

B. Mia Kirshner

C. Jim Carrey

5. The CN Tower held its record of the world's tallest building for 34 years, until the Burj Khalifa and Canton Tower were built. It now remains the tallest free-standing structure in:

A. North America

B. the Americas

C. the Western Hemisphere

6. A serious ____ occurred in 1995. It was the worst day in Toronto history.

A. Subway crash

B. Fire

C. Storm

7. What do Bloor Street, Danforth Avenue and McCowan Road have in common?

A. They are all the same street

B. They run diagonal

C. They all run west-east

8. In 2006, City Hall told which group of people to leave and never come back?

A. Charlie's Angels

B. Guardian Angels

C. Black Angels

9. Which of these cities is not officially part of the Greater Toronto Area, but is still considered by some as "part of Toronto"?

A. Oakville

B. Hamilton

C. Pickering

10. Toronto has had many city-nicknames along the years. How was Toronto never called ?

A. Hogtown

B. the City that Sleeps

C. The Big Smoke

That was pretty easy, right?  Now e-mail your answers to quiz@gpsmycity.com and you could win some pretty cool iPhone apps.  (So cool, I can’t even get them …).