Quiz

1) No one knows the exact origin of hockey. In North America, it evolved from stick and ball games played by: *

Settlers from Upper and Lower Canada
Inuits
Indigenous People and European settlers
Youth during the Great Depression

2) In hockey’s earliest days, who used crooked knives to make hockey sticks from the roots of young trees?*

Mi’kmaq of Eastern Canada
Huron of Western Canada
Iroquois of Western Canada
Settlers of Eastern Canada

3) Early hockey players used balls, slices of wood, frozen clumps of dung, potatoes or even rocks as pucks. Later, vulcanized rubber became hockey’s material of choice for pucks. In what year was it invented?*

1901
1820
1839
1892

4) In 1865, a company revolutionized hockey by offering a blade that could attach securely to a skating boot. What was the name of this company?*

Starr Manufacturing Company
Gordon Manufacturing Company
CCM
BAUER

5) In 1892, which Governor General of Canada announced that he would donate a cup to the best amateur hockey team in the country?*

Ben Stanley
The Earl of Aberdeen
Sir John Stanley
Lord Stanley

6) There are three Stanley Cups: the original from 1892, the Presentation Cup created in 1963 and the ____________ created in 1993.*

Showcase Cup
Memorial Cup
New Cup
Replica Cup

7) The Stanley Cup has been awarded exclusively to NHL teams since when?*

1919
1926
1956
1937

8) In its entire history, the Stanley Cup has not been awarded only on two occasions. The last time was during the 2005 NHL lockout. When was the other?*

1957 (Asian flu virus)
1919 (Spanish flu)
1968 (Hong Kong flu)
1900 (Bubonic plague)

9) For most of hockey history, players did not wear specialized headgear. When did wearing helmets become mandatory in the NHL?*

1979
1962
1971
1950

10) Since 1980, what important process for the NHL has gone from a closed internal event to a mainstream public event?*

Referee selection
Entry draft
Coach selection
All-star game

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