Who is known as the “Father of the BlackBerry”?
a) Mike Lazaridis
b) Elon Musk
c) Mark Zuckerberg
d) Jeff Bezos
Answer: a) Mike Lazaridis
Which Canadian entrepreneur co-founded Shopify?
a) Alex Karp
b) Tobias Lütke
c) Stewart Butterfield
d) John Chen
Answer: b) Tobias Lütke
Which Canadian engineer designed the Canadarm robotic system used on the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station?
a) Chris Hadfield
b) Roberta Bondar
c) Marc Garneau
d) Garry C. Smith
Answer: d) Garry C. Smith
Who is the co-founder of the AI research lab Vector Institute?
a) Andrew Ng
b) Yoshua Bengio
c) Geoffrey Hinton
d) Richard Sutton
Answer: c) Geoffrey Hinton
Which Canadian computer scientist is known for his work on artificial intelligence and deep learning?
a) Fei-Fei Li
b) Yann LeCun
c) Daphne Koller
d) Yoshua Bengio
Answer: d) Yoshua Bengio
Who was the co-founder and CEO of Nortel Networks, a major telecommunications company?
a) Michael Cowpland
b) Terry Matthews
c) Jim Balsillie
d) Frank Hasenfratz
Answer: b) Terry Matthews
Which Canadian scientist and engineer developed the first cardiac pacemaker?
a) Wilfred Bigelow
b) John Hopps
c) Roberta Bondar
d) Brenda Milner
Answer: b) John Hopps
Who co-founded Hootsuite, a social media management platform?
a) Ryan Holmes
b) Dan Martell
c) Tobias Lütke
d) Stewart Butterfield
Answer: a) Ryan Holmes
Which Canadian entrepreneur and venture capitalist co-founded Flickr and Hunch?
a) Stewart Butterfield
b) Caterina Fake
c) Dan Martell
d) Alex Karp
Answer: b) Caterina Fake
Who developed the K-WIC text-editing system, one of the earliest computer software for text editing?
a) Michael Cowpland
b) Bill Buxton
c) Calvin Gotlieb
d) Jim Balsillie
Answer: c) Calvin Gotlieb
Which Canadian mathematician and computer scientist is known for his work on quantum computing algorithms?
a) Richard Sutton
b) Geoffrey Hinton
c) Scott Aaronson
d) Yoshua Bengio
Answer: c) Scott Aaronson
Who is the co-founder and CEO of Thalmic Labs, the company behind the Myo armband?
a) Dan Martell
b) Stephen Lake
c) Ryan Holmes
d) Stewart Butterfield
Answer: b) Stephen Lake
Which Canadian scientist and astronaut became the first Canadian to walk in space?
a) Chris Hadfield
b) Marc Garneau
c) Roberta Bondar
d) Julie Payette
Answer: b) Marc Garneau
Who co-founded Wattpad, a platform for writers to share their stories?
a) Mike Lazaridis
b) Ivan Yuen
c) Allen Lau
d) Ryan Holmes
Answer: c) Allen Lau
Which Canadian entrepreneur and investor is the co-founder of the Creative Destruction Lab?
a) Jim Balsillie
b) Dan Martell
c) Ted Livingston
d) Ajay Agrawal
Answer: a) Jim Balsillie
Who is known for inventing the concept of virtual reality and developing the Sensorama machine?
a) Michael Cowpland
b) Steve Mann
c) Ivan Sutherland
d) Bill Buxton
Answer: c) Ivan Sutherland
Which Canadian tech entrepreneur co-founded Kik Interactive, a messaging app?
a) Dan Martell
b) Ted Livingston
c) Stewart Butterfield
d) Jim Balsillie
Answer: b) Ted Livingston
Who is the co-founder of Real Ventures, a Canadian early-stage venture capital firm?
a) Dan Martell
b) Janet Bannister
c) Ryan Holmes
d) Stephen Lake
Answer: b) Janet Bannister
Which Canadian computer scientist developed the widely used RapidMiner data mining software?
a) Usama Fayyad
b) Ron Dembo
c) Geoff Gordon
d) Ingo Mierswa
Answer: d) Ingo Mierswa
Who co-founded Lightspeed POS, a point-of-sale and e-commerce software company?
a) Ryan Holmes
b) Dax Dasilva
c) Ted Livingston
d) Stewart Butterfield
Answer: b) Dax Dasilva
Who is a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence and developed the A* search algorithm?
a) Richard Sutton
b) Geoffrey Hinton
c) Michael Bowling
d) John McCarthy
Answer: d) John McCarthy
Which Canadian entrepreneur co-founded DragonWave, a wireless communications equipment provider?
a) Terry Matthews
b) Alex Karp
c) Dan Martell
d) Mike Lazaridis
Answer: a) Terry Matthews
Who is known for co-founding Borealis AI, an artificial intelligence research institute?
a) Richard Sutton
b) Yoshua Bengio
c) Geoffrey Hinton
d) Foteini Agrafioti
Answer: d) Foteini Agrafioti
Which Canadian computer scientist is recognized for his work in quantum information theory?
a) Stephen Lake
b) Alain Tapp
c) Gilles Brassard
d) John Hopps
Answer: c) Gilles Brassard
Who co-founded Clearpath Robotics, a company specializing in unmanned vehicle systems?
a) Ryan Holmes
b) Andrew Ng
c) Stephen Lake
d) Matt Rendall
Answer: d) Matt Rendall
Which Canadian inventor developed the snowmobile?
a) Joseph-Armand Bombardier
b) Alexander Graham Bell
c) Guglielmo Marconi
d) John Molson
Answer: a) Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Who co-founded 1Password, a password manager software?
a) Dan Martell
b) Dave Teare
c) Stewart Butterfield
d) Tobias Lütke
Answer: b) Dave Teare
Which Canadian engineer and astronaut became the first Canadian to command the International Space Station?
a) Roberta Bondar
b) Chris Hadfield
c) Marc Garneau
d) Julie Payette
Answer: b) Chris Hadfield
Who is known for co-founding Vision Critical, a customer intelligence software company?
a) Dax Dasilva
b) Ryan Holmes
c) Alex Karp
d) Janet Bannister
Answer: a) Dax Dasilva
Which Canadian scientist and engineer developed the Snowflake fractal-generating software?
a) Michael Cowpland
b) Bill Buxton
c) Dan Martell
d) Michael Barnsley
Answer: d) Michael Barnsley
Who co-founded Maluuba, a natural language processing startup acquired by Microsoft?
a) Yoshua Bengio
b) Richard Sutton
c) Sam Pasupalak
d) Geoff Gordon
Answer: c) Sam Pasupalak
Which Canadian scientist is known for his pioneering work in deep learning and artificial neural networks?
a) Geoffrey Hinton
b) Yoshua Bengio
c) Dax Dasilva
d) Stephen Lake
Answer: a) Geoffrey Hinton
Who co-founded Kobo Inc., a company that produces e-readers and e-books?
a) Daniel Debow
b) Heather Reisman
c) Mike Serbinis
d) Tobias Lütke
Answer: c) Mike Serbinis
Which Canadian entrepreneur co-founded League, a digital health platform?
a) Dan Martell
b) Michael Serbinis
c) Ted Livingston
d) Stewart Butterfield
Answer: b) Michael Serbinis
Who is known for his contributions to the development of optical character recognition (OCR) technology?
a) Michael Cowpland
b) Ray Tomlinson
c) M. A. Pittman
d) Frank Hasenfratz
Answer: c) M. A. Pittman
Which Canadian entrepreneur is known for founding the social media platform Gab.ai?
a) Andrew Torba
b) Stewart Butterfield
c) Ted Livingston
d) Jim Balsillie
Answer: a) Andrew Torba
Who is the co-founder of Breather, a company that provides on-demand meeting and workspace rentals?
a) Stephen Lake
b) Dan Martell
c) Julien Smith
d) Stewart Butterfield
Answer: c) Julien Smith
Which Canadian technologist and entrepreneur co-founded Delrina, a software company known for its WinFax product?
a) Mark Evans
b) Dennis Bennie
c) Kim Fennell
d) Kevin O’Leary
Answer: b) Dennis Bennie
Who co-founded the Canadian technology company OpenText Corporation?
a) Ryan Holmes
b) Tom Jenkins
c) Michael Cowpland
d) Stephen Lake
Answer: c) Michael Cowpland
Which Canadian computer scientist developed the Quill natural language generation software?
a) Roberta Bondar
b) Raymond Kurzweil
c) Stephen Lake
d) Ehud Reiter
Answer: d) Ehud Reiter
Who is known for co-founding Nuance Communications, a company specializing in speech recognition technology?
a) Stephen Lake
b) Janet Bannister
c) Mike Cowpland
d) Ray Kurzweil
Answer: d) Ray Kurzweil
Which Canadian technologist co-founded Quiet Revolution, a company that produces noise-reducing technology?
a) Roberta Bondar
b) Stephen Lake
c) David Berstein
d) Mayim Bialik
Answer: c) David Berstein
Who is known for his work on the development of the BlackBerry wireless handheld device?
a) Terry Matthews
b) Mike Lazaridis
c) Ted Livingston
d) Jim Balsillie
Answer: b) Mike Lazaridis
Which Canadian entrepreneur and investor is known for co-founding and leading 500px?
a) Stewart Butterfield
b) Oleg Tscheltzoff
c) Ted Livingston
d) Stephen Lake
Answer: b) Oleg Tscheltzoff
Who is known for founding Cognos Incorporated, a company specializing in business intelligence and performance management software?
a) Terry Matthews
b) Dan Martell
c) Roberta Bondar
d) Stephen Lake
Answer: a) Terry Matthews
Which Canadian entrepreneur and inventor co-founded Chirp, a data-over-sound technology company?
a) James Gosling
b) Dan Martell
c) Mark Ruddock
d) David Marples
Answer: c) Mark Ruddock
Who is known for his contributions to the development of the iPod, iPhone, and iPad as a senior executive at Apple Inc.?
a) Stephen Lake
b) Tony Fadell
c) Alex Karp
d) Geoffrey Hinton
Answer: b) Tony Fadell
Which Canadian entrepreneur is known for founding D-Wave Systems, a quantum computing company?
a) Geordie Rose
b) Dan Martell
c) Roberta Bondar
d) Stephen Lake
Answer: a) Geordie Rose
Who is known for founding the software company Aeryon Labs, which produces small unmanned aerial systems (UAS)?
a) David Arthurs
b) Stephen Lake
c) Tom Jackson
d) Dave Kroetsch
Answer: d) Dave Kroetsch
Which Canadian inventor and businessman co-founded Canadair, a pioneering aircraft manufacturer?
a) Jim Balsillie
b) John Molson
c) Bill Buxton
d) J. Gordon Rennie
Answer: d) J. Gordon Rennie
