Summer 2006: Week 5, Round 10

Challenge: Toronto

Everything that you wanted to know about TO

[ A: Toronto teams ] [ B: Toronto streets: Name the person for whom we have named a street. ] [ C: Toronto parks ] [ D: Toronto cops ] [ E: Toronto papers ] [ F: Toronto Jazz: We are very lucky to have our own jazz radio station in Toronto. These questions are about Jazz FM ]

A. Toronto teams

1. What is the name of the Toronto team in the Intercounty Baseball League?

A: Toronto Maple Leafs

2. What is the team name for all of the teams representing the University of Toronto

A: The Blues or Varsity Blues

B. Toronto streets: Name the person for whom we have named a street.

1. There is a short street running from the Lakeshore to Front Street in front of the Music Garden on the waterfront. It is named for which classical musician

A: YoYo Ma

2. A few blocks west, just past Bathurst is a street named for a major figure in the fight against apartheid

A: Bishop Desmond Tutu

C. Toronto parks

1. One of the parks along the waterfront is named for the first person to swim Lake Ontario

A: Marilyn Bell

2. Another waterfront park is named for this Russian engineer who became Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and whose great-grandson was a famous Canadian broadcaster.

A: Sir Cazimir Gzowski

D. Toronto cops

1. Who is the Police Chief for Toronto

A: Bill Blair

2. Who was the previous head of the Toronto Police Union who proposed stickering cars that had given money to the police union with the implied promise that drivers with the stickers would get preferential treatment?

A: Craig Bromell

E. Toronto papers

1. Who is the restaurant critic for the Globe and Mail?

A: Joanne Kates

2. Who is the restaurant critic for Toronto Life?

A: James Chatto

F. Toronto Jazz: We are very lucky to have our own jazz radio station in Toronto. These questions are about Jazz FM

1. Which famous rock and blues guitarist hosts a program every Monday night where he plays his own collection of 78s from the 1920s and 30s

A: Jeff Healey

2. Which ex CBC star hosts the morning show every week day

A: Ralph Benmergui