We are not amused? Try your hand at some trivia to get you in the Victoria Day mood.
May 15th, 2020
Did the Victoria Day long weekend sneak up on you this year? The holiday falls on May 18 this year, the earliest possible date.
DailyNews will not publish an edition Monday and will resume publication Tuesday, May 19. In the meantime, here are a few trivia questions related to the monarch, celebrated in Canada as “the mother of Confederation.”
- What was Victoria’s given name?
- Which famous piece of White House furniture was a gift from Victoria to U.S. president Rutherford B. Hayes?
- Victoria was the last British monarch to belong to which royal house?
- Which Canadian provincial capital is named in honour of Queen Victoria?
- In the 1974 Monty Python sketch, who finishes first in the Queen Victoria Handicap race at Epsom?