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50 free QMJHL trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The QMJHL has been a launch pad for hockey greats since 1969, and its teams are spread across Quebec and Atlantic Canada, from big-city arenas to small towns where the junior club is the main event. This quiz covers the league's teams past and present: where they play, what their names and logos mean, the franchises that moved or folded, the trophies they chase and the stars who wore their sweaters before reaching the NHL. It is written for junior hockey fans, NHL fans curious about where their favourite players came from, and anyone getting ready for a hockey trivia night.
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Q 01Sidney Crosby starred for which QMJHL team before the Pittsburgh Penguins drafted him first overall in 2005?
Rimouski Océanic
The Rimouski Océanic retired his number 87 in 2019, and the league then took it out of use for every one of its teams. He had scored 135 points for the club as a 16-year-old.
Q 02In December 2023 the QMJHL kept its initials but replaced which word of its full name with "Maritimes"?
Major
Major gave way to Maritimes in the league's name, a nod to the Atlantic Canadian clubs that had been members for almost 30 years. A new logo arrived at the same time.
Q 03Which NHL superstar owned the QMJHL team now known as the Gatineau Olympiques from 1985 until 1992?
Wayne Gretzky
Wayne Gretzky gave the Olympiques their black, silver and white colours, modelled on those of the Los Angeles Kings he joined in 1988. He owned the junior club while still an active player.
Q 04The QMJHL's Halifax Mooseheads take their name from which kind of Maritime company, which paid the team's expansion fee?
A brewery
A brewery, Moosehead, put up the $500,000 fee in 1994 and secured the naming rights. The Mooseheads became the first team from Atlantic Canada to join the league.
Q 05Which Laval Voisins centre set the QMJHL single-season scoring record with 282 points in 1983–84?
Mario Lemieux
Mario Lemieux piled up 133 goals and 149 assists in only 70 games that winter. No junior in any of Canada's three top leagues has matched the total since.
Q 06Which US state was home to a QMJHL team from 2003 to 2011, the only American club to win the league championship?
Maine
Maine had the Lewiston Maineiacs, who went 16–1 in the 2007 playoffs to lift the President's Cup. The league bought and dissolved the franchise four years later.
Q 07Which Hall of Fame goaltender coached the Quebec Remparts to Memorial Cup championships in both 2006 and 2023?
Patrick Roy
Patrick Roy won the 2006 title in his first year behind the Remparts bench and the 2023 title in his last. The second came with a 5–0 shutout of the Seattle Thunderbirds.
Q 08Which animal did the QMJHL's Saint John Sea Dogs choose for their logo when the expansion team launched in 2005?
A harbour seal
A harbour seal fronts the Sea Dogs, who in 2011 became the first team from Atlantic Canada to win the Memorial Cup. They won it again as hosts in 2022.
Q 09Which Halifax Mooseheads star scored a hat-trick in the 2013 Memorial Cup final before going first in the NHL draft?
Nathan MacKinnon
Nathan MacKinnon grew up nearby in a family of Mooseheads season-ticket holders, and the club traded two forwards and three first-round picks to land him. Colorado drafted him weeks after the win.
Q 10The QMJHL is one of three member leagues of the Canadian Hockey League, alongside the OHL and which other?
WHL
WHL, Ontario and QMJHL champions meet each spring, along with a host club, in the four-team Memorial Cup tournament.
Q 11Which QMJHL team is the only one still in the same city, without interruption, since the league's first season in 1969?
Shawinigan Cataractes
The Shawinigan Cataractes started out as the Bruins and spent five seasons as the Dynamos before taking a name that honours the waterfall in their home city.
Q 12Which city became home to the QMJHL's Newfoundland Regiment when the Acadie-Bathurst Titan relocated in 2025?
St. John's
St. John's made the Regiment the easternmost team in the Canadian Hockey League. Their first home game, a 7–5 win in September 2025, drew a sold-out crowd of 6,200.
Q 13The QMJHL's Moncton Wildcats and Saint John Sea Dogs both play their home games in which Canadian province?
New Brunswick
Q 21Which future Canadiens great scored 130 goals for the Quebec Remparts in 1970–71, when they won the Memorial Cup?
Guy Lafleur
Guy Lafleur picked up the nickname Le Turbo de Thurso while with the Remparts, coined by a Radio-Canada broadcaster. The first edition of the club last played in 1985, and the name was revived in 1997.
Q 22Which goaltender, later a three-time Stanley Cup winner, had his number 29 retired by the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles?
Marc-André Fleury
Marc-André Fleury played parts of four seasons in Cape Breton, and Pittsburgh made him the first overall pick of the 2003 NHL draft. The junior club retired his number in 2008.
Q 23Which future Vancouver Canucks captain won back-to-back QMJHL titles in goal for Val-d'Or and Acadie-Bathurst?
New Brunswick also had the Titan of Bathurst until 2025. Bathurst was the smallest market in the whole Canadian Hockey League.
Q 14The QMJHL's Cape Breton Eagles play their home games at Centre 200 in which Nova Scotia community?
Sydney
Sydney welcomed the franchise in 1997, a year after losing the Cape Breton Oilers of the American Hockey League. The junior team was called the Screaming Eagles until 2019.
Q 15The QMJHL's Charlottetown Islanders began in 1999 as a Montreal team named in honour of which Canadiens great?
Maurice Richard
Maurice Richard, the Rocket, gave the Montreal Rocket its name and its crest, where the smoke trail formed his number 9. The team moved to Prince Edward Island in 2003.
Q 16The QMJHL's Drummondville Voltigeurs are named after a Quebec-based regiment that fought in which conflict?
The War of 1812
The War of 1812 was fought in part by the Canadian Voltigeurs, light infantry raised in what is now Quebec to face the United States. Drummondville's team has carried the name since 1982.
Q 17What is a drakkar, the object that gives its name to the QMJHL team based in Baie-Comeau, Quebec?
A longship
A longship gives the Baie-Comeau Drakkar their name. Marius Fortier, who had co-founded the Quebec Nordiques, helped start the team for the 1997–98 season.
Q 18The name of the QMJHL's Val-d'Or Foreurs honours workers in which industry of northwestern Quebec?
Mining
Mining is the trade behind the name: Foreurs means drillers, and exploration drilling is a leading source of work around Val-d'Or, whose own name means Valley of Gold.
Q 19Which QMJHL team, based about 100 kilometres to the west, is the natural regional rival of the Val-d'Or Foreurs?
Rouyn-Noranda Huskies
The Rouyn-Noranda Huskies arrived in 1996, and games between the two Abitibi-Témiscamingue clubs draw far bigger crowds than usual. The Huskies won the Memorial Cup in 2019.
Q 20The QMJHL's Chicoutimi Saguenéens play in an arena named after which Montreal Canadiens goaltender, born in the city?
Georges Vézina
Georges Vézina was nicknamed the Chicoutimi Cucumber for his calm in goal. The team's name, borrowed from an early club he played for, means people from the Saguenay.
Roberto Luongo
Roberto Luongo became the first NHL goaltender to serve as a team captain since Bill Durnan in 1947–48, even though league rules bar goalies from the role.
Q 24Which New York Islanders legend scored a junior-record 309 goals for the QMJHL's Laval National in the 1970s?
Mike Bossy
Mike Bossy was still passed over by twelve teams in the 1977 NHL draft, because scouts thought he was not rugged enough. He had averaged 77 goals a season in junior.
Q 25Which American-born centre scored 234 points for the Verdun Juniors in 1982–83, his only QMJHL season?
Pat LaFontaine
Pat LaFontaine had 104 goals and 130 assists that year, took the league scoring title and went third overall to the New York Islanders in the 1983 NHL draft.
Q 26Which goaltender became the first woman to play in the QMJHL, appearing for the Trois-Rivières Draveurs in 1991–92?
Manon Rhéaume
Manon Rhéaume signed with the NHL's Tampa Bay Lightning a year later and played in preseason games, another first for a woman. She also won Olympic silver with Canada.
Q 27The QMJHL's championship trophy, long called the President's Cup, was renamed in 2023 for which retiring commissioner?
Gilles Courteau
Gilles Courteau had led the league since 1986, the years in which it spread from Quebec into Atlantic Canada. Earlier he was general manager of the original Remparts.
Q 28The QMJHL trophy that carries Sidney Crosby's name is presented each season to which award winner?
Rookie of the year
Rookie of the year has carried Crosby's name only since 2025. For almost three decades before that the award was the RDS Cup, sponsored by a French-language sports network.
Q 29The QMJHL's Jean Béliveau Trophy, named after a Hall of Famer from Quebec, goes each regular season to which player?
The top scorer
The top scorer has received the award since the league's first season in 1969–70. Béliveau, who starred for the Montreal Canadiens, died in 2014 at the age of 83.
Q 30The QMJHL's regular-season trophy is named after Jean Rougeau, a league president best known as a star of which sport?
Wrestling
Wrestling made him a Quebec star under the ring name Johnny Rougeau, and his nephews later performed in the WWF as the Fabulous Rougeau Brothers. He led the league from 1981 to 1983.