Q 01/05

The team that moved to Winnipeg in 2011 and became the Jets had played under what name?

A) Atlanta Thrashers

B) Atlanta Flames

C) Hartford Whalers

D) Manitoba Moose

Answer · why

A) Atlanta Thrashers

Atlanta Thrashers reached the playoffs once in Georgia and lost all four games; in 2026 the NHL folded their records and the original Jets' into a sin...

Q 02/05

Which league granted Winnipeg a founding franchise in December 1971?

A) World Hockey Association

B) American Hockey League

C) Western Hockey League

D) International Hockey League

Answer · why

A) World Hockey Association

World Hockey Association teams lured dozens of NHL players with bigger salaries; when the rebel league folded in 1979, the Jets were one of four clubs...

Q 03/05

Whose giant portrait hung from the rafters above the original Jets at Winnipeg Arena?

A) Pierre Trudeau

B) Louis Riel

C) Queen Elizabeth II

D) Sir John A. Macdonald

Answer · why

C) Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II looked down from a painting so large it made a target: Jets players were known to fire pucks at it in practice, and it came down ah...

Q 04/05

Which NHL star jumped to the Jets in June 1972 with a record $1 million signing bonus?

A) Bernie Parent

B) Bobby Hull

C) Derek Sanderson

D) Gordie Howe

Answer · why

B) Bobby Hull

Bobby Hull's bonus was partly paid by the WHA's other teams, because landing the NHL's leading active goal-scorer gave the whole league instant credib...

Q 05/05

Which two Swedes joined the Golden Jet on the Winnipeg Jets' famous 'Hot Line'?

A) Borje Salming and Inge Hammarstrom

B) Kent Nilsson and Willy Lindstrom

C) Lars-Erik Sjoberg and Thomas Steen

D) Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson

Answer · why

D) Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson

Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nilsson arrived from Sweden in 1974 and dazzled for four seasons, until the New York Rangers signed both of them away together ...