Getting around: quiz tests knowledge of Transit Windsor

The wheels on the bus go round and round, and if you get around, you should be able to answer the questions in today’s DailyNews quiz.

Up for grabs is a swanky mini-portfolio provided by the Alumni Office. Covered in faux leather embossed with the Alumni logo, it features a zippered closure and internal organizer with business card pockets, clear ID window, pen loop and a 5.5" x 8" lined writing pad.

The winner will be randomly selected from all correct responses received by 4 p.m. Tuesday, September 6. To be eligible, select the most correct answer to each of the following questions:

  1. Windsor was home to Canada’s first electric street railway, with streetcars on tracks powered by overhead wires. In what year did it begin operation?
    a) 1886
    b) 1896
    c) 1906
    d) 1916
  2. Transit Windsor adopted that name in 1977. What had been the name of Windsor’s public transit company up to that point?
    a) Border Cities Bus Line
    b) Sandwich, Windsor & Amherstburg Railway
    c) Windsor Bus Services
    d) Windsor Passenger & Freight Conveyance
  3. Which of these Transit Windsor bus lines stop adjacent to the UWindsor main campus?
    a) Transway 1C
    b) Crosstown 2
    c) South Windsor 7
    d) Walkerville 8

Contest is open to all readers of the DailyNews. Send an e-mail with your responses to uofwnews@uwindsor.ca. One entry per contestant, please. Note: the decision of the judge in determining the most correct response is inviolable.