In 1989, Alan Emtage, a graduate and system administrator at McGill, created the first Internet search engine, which present-day search engines still rely on. What did he call his search engine?

a) WebCrawler
b) Yahoo
c) Archie
d) ChatGPT

As of Fall 2025, which faculty had the largest number of students enrolled?

a) Arts
b) Medicine and Health Sciences
c) Science
d) Engineering

Two of the three ‘Godfathers’ of Artificial Intelligence are Canadians. Who are they?

a) Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio
b) Ray Solomonoff and Arthur Samuel
c) Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio
d) Yann LeCun and Alan Turing

Which of these CEGEPs was named after a McGill alumnus?

a) LaSalle College
b) Dawson College
c) Marianopolis College
d) Vanier College

In what year did Carrie Derrick become Canada’s first female professor, having been appointed as a Professor of Morphological Botany at McGill?

a) 1912
b) 1950
c) 1963
d) 1934

McGill was the first Canadian university to award a degree in which discipline?

a) Medicine 
b) Arts
c) Engineering 
d) Religious Studies

The first McGill psychology course was taught in 1850, but psychology did not become its own department at the university until 1922. Under which department did psychology originate?

a) Sociology
b) Philosophy
c) Biology
d) Anthropology

Who was the second Canadian woman to go to space and the first to board the International Space Station, all while holding a degree from McGill?

a) Valentina Tereshkova
b) Katy Perry
c) Roberta Bondar
d) Julie Payette

Answers:
c) Archie
a) Arts
c) Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio
b) Dawson College
a) 1912
a) Medicine
b) Philosophy
d) Julie Payette