Record Staff
Locals who stopped by Square Queen in Lennoxville on Saturday were invited to participate in a maple taste test, but their maple knowledge was also put to the test thanks to a quiz provided by the Easter Townships Resource Centre.
Close to 20 people took the quiz, and many found the questions challenging and were curious about the answers, so The Record thought it best to publish the quiz in full, along with the answers.
While none of the quiz-takers got all 10 questions right, many scored well, and all the participants’ names were put into a draw for a basket of maple treats.
The winner was none other than Jessica Stacey.
Try your hand at the quiz and see how many answers you got right.
Maple Trivia Quiz
- According to the Agricultural Department of the Province of Quebec, what was the approximate reported value of the entire Quebec maple industry in 1914?
- $2,000,000 (today’s value: $51,766,000)
- $1,000,000 (today’s value: $25,883,000)
- $800,000 (today’s value: $20,706,000)
- $750,000 (today’s value: $19,412,500)
- Over several months in 2011 and 2012, nearly $18 million dollars’ worth of maple syrup was stolen from a warehouse located at the northern stretches of the historic Eastern Townships. Where did the “Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist” take place?
- Victoriaville
- Plessisville
- Saint-Louis-de-Blandford
- Princeville
- In August 1963, a two-year-old girl in London, England was diagnosed with “maple syrup disease.” What gave the illness its name?
- The illness was brought on by consuming maple syrup.
- The sufferer smelled like maple syrup.
- The illness originated in maple syrup producers.
- The remedy smelled like maple syrup.
- Canada produced about 11.3 million gallons of maple syrup in 2021; what percentage of that was produced in Quebec?
- 55%
- 72%
- 87%
- 94%
- According to Statistics Canada, there were over 33.6 million maple syrup taps in Canada in 2001. How many taps were there twenty years later, in 2021?
- 38.0 million
- 44.4 million
- 46.9 million
- 54.6 million
- After the United States, which of the following countries imported the most Canadian maple products in 2015?
- Germany, Japan, United Kingdom
- Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia
- United Kingdom, France, Spain
- China, Russia, India
- How many maple enterprises are currently represented in the Estrie region of the Quebec Maple Syrup Producers (Producteurs et productrices acéricoles du Québec)?
- 909
- 274
- 2578
- 688
- How much did one gallon of pure maple syrup cost at Nichol’s store in Lennoxville in April 1969?
- $5.00
- $6.75
- $7.25
- $8.50
- What is the current production value of the Estrie region of the Quebec Maple Syrup Producers (Producteurs et productrices acéricoles du Québec)?
- $84.5 million
- $110.8 million
- $123.6 million
- $156 million
- What percentage of worldwide maple syrup production did Quebec represent in 2022?
- 60%
- 70%
- 75%
- 85%
Special thanks to Mandy Osborne, ETRC Outreach Intern, for her assistance in preparing this quiz.
If you would like to learn more about the ETRC, please visit our website www.etrc.ca.
Answers
- $2,000,000 (today’s value: $51,766,000)
Source: Sherbrooke Daily Record, August 5, 1914, p. 7
- Saint-Louis-de-Blandford
Source: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/great-canadian-maple-syrup-heist
- The remedy smelled like maple syrup.
Source: Sherbrooke Daily Record, August 13, 1963, p. 4
- 87%
Source: https://www.statista.com/topics/2341/maple-syrup-industry/
- 54.6 million
Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/715344/maple-syrup-taps-in-canada/
- Germany, Japan, United Kingdom
Source: https://www.statista.com/chart/8156/to-where-the-maple-syrup-flows/
- 909
Source: https://ppaq.ca/en/maple-producing-regions/quebecs-12-major-maple-producing-regions/
- $6.75
Source: Sherbrooke Daily Record, April 2, 1969, p. 3
- $110.8 million
Source: https://ppaq.ca/en/maple-producing-regions/quebecs-12-major-maple-producing-regions/
- 70%
Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1256446/maple-syrup-regional-production-share-2020/
