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50 free Quebec trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Quebec is Canada's largest province and the heart of French-speaking North America, a place with its own language laws, legal tradition, cuisine and sense of humour. Its story runs from Indigenous nations and early explorers through battles between empires to modern debates about independence. This quiz covers the whole province: the geography of the St. Lawrence valley and the far north, the founding of Quebec City and Montreal, landmark political moments, and the food, music, sport and inventions the province has given the world. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you learn something even when you miss. It is pitched for curious visitors, students of Canadian history and proud Quebecers alike, with a mix of easy openers and tougher questions for people who know the province well.
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Q 01Thieves siphoned nearly 3,000 tonnes of what from a Quebec strategic reserve in 2011 and 2012?
Maple syrup
Maple syrup worth about C$18.7 million vanished in the heist, drained barrel by barrel over several months. Quebec producers supply roughly three-quarters of the world's syrup.
Q 02Which Quebec dish, born in rural 1950s snack bars, tops French fries with cheese curds and gravy?
Poutine
Poutine was created in the Centre-du-Québec region, where the towns of Warwick and Drummondville each claim the restaurant that served it first.
Q 03Which circus company was founded by two street performers in Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec, in 1984?
Cirque du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil grew out of a troupe of stilt walkers. One founder once walked 90 km to Quebec City on stilts to win government funding for an early show.
Q 04Which singer, the youngest of 14 children, grew up in the small Quebec town of Charlemagne?
Céline Dion
Céline Dion was a teen star in Quebec long before the wider world noticed. She then won the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest singing for Switzerland.
Q 05Which Beatle recorded Give Peace a Chance in a Montreal hotel room during a 1969 bed-in?
John Lennon
John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent a week in bed at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, inviting reporters and famous guests who joined in on the recording.
Q 06Which escape artist took stomach punches in a Montreal dressing room days before dying in 1926?
Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini died nine days later of peritonitis. Whether the blows he took at the Princess Theatre caused it has been argued over ever since.
Q 07Who starred for the Montreal Royals in 1946, a year before breaking baseball's colour barrier?
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson won the Junior World Series with the Royals that season, and exultant Montreal fans chased him down the street after the final game.
Q 08Which stylised flower appears four times around the white cross on Quebec's blue provincial flag?
Fleur-de-lis
The fleur-de-lis gives the flag its French name, the Fleurdelisé. Unveiled in 1948, it was the first provincial flag officially adopted in Canada.
Q 09Which Quebec City hotel, opened by a railway in 1893, is called the most photographed in the world?
Château Frontenac
Château Frontenac is one of the grand hotels the Canadian Pacific Railway built across Canada, and during the Second World War it housed secret Allied planning talks.
Q 10Which American general, who later joined the British, was shot in the leg attacking Quebec City?
Benedict Arnold
Benedict Arnold attacked in a blinding New Year's Eve snowstorm. The assault failed, and his fellow commander, General Montgomery, was killed.
Q 11Which whale lives year-round in Quebec's St. Lawrence estuary, far south of its Arctic relatives?
Beluga
Beluga whales are nicknamed sea canaries for their squeaks, clucks and whistles, and the St. Lawrence group is one of the few that never migrates.
Q 12Old Quebec's ramparts make Quebec City the only walled city in North America north of which country?
Mexico
Mexico marks the line: no other city in the United States or Canada still has its fortified walls. The ramparts helped make Old Quebec a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985.
Q 13Quebec is Canada's second most populous province, behind which neighbour on its western border?
Ontario
Ontario and Quebec were governed together as the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1867, with the capital moving between cities in both halves.
Q 21Which French explorer, remembered as the Father of New France, founded Quebec City in 1608?
Samuel de Champlain
Samuel de Champlain crossed the Atlantic more than 20 times in his career, and a long lake on the New York–Vermont border still carries his name.
Q 22Which explorer from Saint-Malo sailed up the St. Lawrence in 1535 and gave Canada its name?
Jacques Cartier
Jacques Cartier heard the Iroquoian word kanata, meaning village, from people living near present-day Quebec City, and applied it to the whole region.
Q 23On which plateau outside Quebec City's walls did British troops defeat the French in a 1759 battle?
Plains of Abraham
Q 14What generates over 90 percent of Quebec's electricity, much of it in the remote James Bay region?
Hydropower
Hydropower from the James Bay rivers also runs south on a dedicated line to help power the Boston area. Quebec generates more hydroelectricity than any other Canadian province.
Q 15Which winter vehicle did Quebec mechanic Joseph-Armand Bombardier pioneer in his Valcourt workshop?
Snowmobile
Snowmobile sales took off with the 1959 Ski-Doo, which was meant to be called the Ski-Dog until a printing error changed the name.
Q 16Winston Churchill met which US president at two secret wartime conferences held in Quebec City?
Roosevelt
Roosevelt and Churchill used the first meeting, in August 1943, to agree to start planning Operation Overlord, the invasion of France that became D-Day.
Q 17Which 14-year-old gymnast scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic history at the 1976 Montreal Games?
Nadia Comaneci
Nadia Comaneci broke the scoreboard's logic: it had not been programmed to show a 10, so her perfect mark appeared as 1.00.
Q 18Which French president cheered on Quebec independence from a Montreal city hall balcony in 1967?
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle cut his state visit short amid the uproar and flew home without keeping his appointment with the prime minister in Ottawa.
Q 19Which Montreal-born poet and singer wrote Hallelujah, a song covered by hundreds of other artists?
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen was born in Westmount, an English-speaking enclave of the city, and first released the song on his 1984 album Various Positions.
Q 20Which Montreal-born actor studied commerce at McGill before playing Captain Kirk in Star Trek?
William Shatner
William Shatner was born in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood, and McGill later awarded him an honorary doctorate of letters.
The Plains of Abraham take their name from Abraham Martin, a farmer who once owned the land. Both commanding generals were mortally wounded in the fighting.
Q 24Which waterfall just outside Quebec City stands about 30 metres taller than Niagara Falls?
Montmorency
Montmorency Falls drops 83 metres over a cliff into the St. Lawrence River, opposite the western end of the Île d'Orléans.
Q 25Quebec's motto Je me souviens, on every licence plate since 1978, translates into English as what?
I remember
I remember is the literal meaning. The architect who had the motto carved on the parliament building in 1883 appears to have left no account of what should be remembered.
Q 26Which Quebec town, named for the mineral it mined, voted in 2020 to become Val-des-Sources?
Asbestos
Asbestos grew up around the Jeffrey Mine, once the world's largest source of the mineral, and dropped the name because of its negative connotations.
Q 27Unlike the rest of Quebec, the island of Montreal bans drivers from doing what at a red light?
Turning right
Turning right on a red was illegal across the province until a 2003 pilot study found it caused few extra accidents. Montreal, like New York City, kept its ban.
Q 28Montreal's Metro trains, modelled on a Paris design, run on what instead of ordinary steel wheels?
Rubber tires
Rubber tires let the trains climb steeper grades and accelerate faster than steel wheels would, which is why the engineers copied the idea from the Paris Métro.
Q 29Montreal-style bagels are boiled in water sweetened with what before going into a wood-fired oven?
Honey
Honey in the water helps make the bagels sweeter, and they come out smaller, thinner and denser than the New York kind, with a larger hole.
Q 30Which 1998 disaster felled over 1,000 transmission towers and left millions in Quebec without power?
An ice storm
An ice storm coated power lines until they snapped under the weight. The relief effort became Canada's largest military deployment since the Korean War.