Feb 27th, 2023
The Black History – Black Futures planning committee has prepared quizzes to run through the month of February, offering as a prize a poster created by alumnus Robert Small (BA 1993) — an Officer of the Order of Canada — from his Legacy Collexion.
To enter today’s contest — the fourth and last in the series — just send your answers to the following trivia questions. A winner will be selected at random from all correct responses received by 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28.
- Detroit’s code name on the Underground Railroad was “Midnight.” What was Windsor’s?
a) Canaan
b) Emancipation
c) Freedom
d) North Star
- Which university was the first in Canada to divest from South Africa in the apartheid era?
a) University of Toronto
b) Western University
c) University of Windsor
d) York University
- Prior to the Windsor’s program of urban renewal, the McDougall Street Corridor, the city’s historically Black neighbourhood, was home to which of these establishments?
a) a Black-owned credit union
b) offices of Black doctors and dentists
c) a Black-owned hotel
d) all of the above
Contest is open to all readers of the DailyNews. Send an e-mail with your responses to AROC@uwindsor.ca. One entry per contestant, please.