Canada Day

0:03 Calaroga Shark Media. Hi, I'm Mark Ellison and today's theme is Canada Day, Canadian culture, hockey legends and things the world borrowed from Canada. Question one, Canada Day wasn't always called that? In which year did Parliament officially change the holiday's name from Dominion Day to Canada Day, marking a shift toward a modern national identity. Question two, known as the Great One, which NHL legend holds the all time record for most career points with a staggering twenty eight hundred and fifty seven and transformed offensive play in hockey.

0:47 Question three after taking a puck to the face in nineteen fifty nine, which Montreal, Canadian's goaltender, pioneered the regular use of the goalie mask in NHL games, reshaping player safety forever. Question four, what life saving hormone was first successfully isolated by Canadian researchers at the University of Toronto in nineteen twenty one, turning a once fatal disease into a manageable condition. Question five, which global system for telling time dividing the world into standard time zones? Was proposed in the eighteen seventies by Canadian engineer Sir Sandford Fleming and later adopted around the world. We'll be right back with these answers after this break. Welcome back. Question one.

1:47 In what year was Dominion Day renamed Canada Day? Answer nineteen eighty two. The name change was passed in nineteen eighty two, the same year Canada patriated its constitution. The first July first celebrated under the new name was in nineteen eighty three. Question two. Who holds the NHL record with two thousand, eight hundred and fifty seven career points? Answer Wayne Gretzky. Gretzky's eight hundred and ninety four goals and one thousand, nine hundred and sixty three assists set records that still stand even without his goals. His assists alone outpace any other player's total points. Question three, Which HAB's goalie popularized the mask in nineteen fifty nine? Answer Jacques Plant. Plant returned to the ice wearing a fiberglass mask and refused to play without it thereafter. His innovation normalized protective masks for goalies at all levels. Question four, Which hormone did Canadians first isolate in nineteen twenty one?

2:44 Answer insulin, Frederick Banting and Charles Best led the breakthrough, later refined with James Collop Banting and JJ R. MacLeod received the nineteen twenty three Nobel Prize. Insulin therapy revolutionized diabetes treatment worldwide. Question five, What time keeping system did Sir Sandford Fleming propose? Answer? Standard time zones. Fleming advocated a twenty four hour longitudinal time zone framework to solve railroad scheduling chaos. His ideas influenced international adoption. Following the eighteen eighty four Meridian Conference that concludes Today's five Daily Trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions were crafted with the help of AI technology. See you tomorrow.