Q 01/05

Three Montagnais girls who joined Samuel de Champlain's household in 1627–28 were known by which trio of names?

A) Faith, Hope and Charity

B) Patience, Grace and Joy

C) Mary, Martha and Anne

D) Mercy, Ruth and Esther

Answer · why

A) Faith, Hope and Charity

Faith, Hope and Charity came to live with a man who had no children of his own. When the English took Quebec in 1629, two of the girls stayed behind w...

Q 02/05

A toothy fish Samuel de Champlain described in 1609 is often retold as the first sighting of what?

A) A sea serpent

B) A lake monster

C) A giant octopus

D) A mermaid

Answer · why

B) A lake monster

A lake monster called Champ is the legend, with hundreds of reported sightings. The claim that Champlain saw it dates only from a 1970 magazine articl...

Q 03/05

For a few weeks in 1998, US law added Lake Champlain, Samuel de Champlain's namesake, to which famous group?

A) The Finger Lakes

B) The National Parks

C) The Thousand Islands

D) The Great Lakes

Answer · why

D) The Great Lakes

The Great Lakes gained a sixth member through one line in a 1998 funding bill. The uproar was loud enough that the status was withdrawn eighteen days ...

Q 04/05

Samuel de Champlain kept the Algonquin name Kébec for his 1608 settlement; what does the word mean?

A) Land of tall cliffs

B) Meeting of great waters

C) Where the river narrows

D) Place of many beavers

Answer · why

C) Where the river narrows

Where the river narrows describes the spot exactly: the St. Lawrence squeezes past Cape Diamond there. Champlain built his first houses at the foot of...

Q 05/05

A statue of Samuel de Champlain in Canada's capital famously holds which navigator's instrument upside down?

A) An astrolabe

B) A cross-staff

C) A compass

D) A spyglass

Answer · why

A) An astrolabe

An astrolabe measured the height of the sun or stars to fix latitude. One dated 1603, dug up by a farm boy in 1867, was long said to be Champlain's ow...