The Great French Ontario Quiz

What the quiz covers

The bank holds one hundred and sixty questions spanning the history of French presence in Ontario, from the earliest explorations of the seventeenth century to today’s language debates. Eleven themes share the set:

• The figures who shaped the Franco-Ontarian community
• Historical milestones and key dates of French Ontario
• Regulation 17 and the school struggles
• The Franco-Ontarian flag, its symbols and emblems
• Indigenous peoples of the region and the treaties
• Places and heritage sites, from trading posts to missions
• Culture, music, theatre and literature
• Language rights and access to French-language services
• Ottawa and Eastern Ontario
• Northern Ontario
• Demographics and francophone immigration

How a game works

Each game draws twelve questions at random, spread over four rounds of three that flow into one another on their own. The first two rounds stay approachable, the third gets harder, and the fourth is built for the devoted and worth double points. You get thirty seconds a question, with a bonus for speed. Because the draw changes every time, no two games are alike.

Verified questions, cited sources

Every answer comes with a short explanation and a link to the source that supports it, available on the spot. The bank draws on public, verifiable documents: the Ontario Heritage Trust, the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages of Canada, Statistics Canada, the Government of Ontario, Radio-Canada, ONFR, the University of Ottawa’s Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française, the Encyclopédie du patrimoine culturel de l’Amérique française, Éditions Prise de parole and the Canadian Museum of History.

The leaderboard and your data

Pick a player name and enter your email. The email is only used to recognize your games from one session to the next: it is never displayed or shared, and the public leaderboard returns nothing but names and scores. Play as often as you like; your best score is the one that counts. The current record stays on screen while you play.

Who it is for

For Franco-Ontarians curious about their own history, for newcomers discovering the community, for teachers looking for a group activity, and for anyone who wants to test what they think they know. The quiz is also available in French.