Our Startup Festival Scavenger Hunt, co hosted by Twilio, went off wtihout a hitch yesterday and was a ton of fun. Many of you were curious to get the answers to our awesome riddles, so without further ado, here they are!
1- Find the electric buttocks. Have a beer. Take a pic. - 5 points
The answer to this was a pic of the awesome Foufounes Electriques, a punk bar here in Montreal. Bonus points went to Edgar Barba who picked up a t-shirt while he was there!
2 – This commie doctor is kind of a hero in these parts. Make sure you grab his statue a coffee from Timmy’s across the street, snap his pic and say hi to the pigeons. - 10 points
The answer to this was the statue of the famous Dr. Norman Bethune located on Guy and de Maisonneuve.
3 – Ask any native Montrealer… when returning from travel by train, what is the one sign that reminds them they are home? Stop and smell it. Five times. Then take a pic. - 10 points
We had a few participants struggle with this one. The answer was the Farine Five Roses sign! A native Montrealer’s landmark!
4 - Where can your find Mahler, Berlioz, Brahms and Honegger under one roof? Snap a pic. - 10 points
The answer to this one was the lovely new hall at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
5 – This mug can be found at the former home of Localmind and current home of ContextIO. On it is the logo of a VERY exclusive conference organized by @acroll. Some call it summer camp for geeks. Snap a pic of yourself consuming a tasty beverage from it. - 15 points
This was a BitNorth mug at the RPM Startup Center, of course!
6 – A piece of Berlin history in Montreal - 15 points
Did you know there’s a piece of the Berlin wall in Montreal? Well, there is!
7 – Suspend this guy and get a vintage riot. Find his statue and take a pic.- 15 points
This was the statue of Maurice Richard at the Bell Center.
Here are the 7 other clues and answers that we had locked behind our API challenge:
1 - There is a tradition that continues in Montreal and takes a ton of tourist money and involves an antiquated form of transportation. Find an example of this and take a pic! - 5 points
These are the horrible horse and buggy rides you can find throughout Old Montreal!
2 - Every Sunday, hippies come together in Montreal and hang around someone who once (scandalously) said “an inhabitant of Lower Canada (Quebec) is an Englishman who speaks French”. Snap a pic of his statue! – 10 points
Those who snapped a pic of the Mt. Royal Monument of George-Étienne Cartier, the locus of the Sunday tamtam jam, got this one!
3 - Find this surreal garden overlooking a highway. But try not to take a seat, it’s kinda dangerous up there. - 15 points
This was the sculpture garden across the street from the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
4 - Yellow and blue on the outside… oohs and aahs on the inside. - 10 points
This is right next to Startup Festival… the bigtops over at the Cirque du Soleil!
5 - From base to top, the tallest building in Montreal. - 10 points
This was a bit of a trick question… the tallest building in Montreal from street level to top, is Place Ville Marie, but from basement to top, it’s 1000 de la Gauchetiere.
6 – See someone wearing a Context.IO shirt? Snap a pic! Boom! – 15 points
No riddle there!
7 – See someone wearing a Twilio shirt? Snap a pic! Boom! – 15 points
No riddle there, either!
Our big winner was Emil Lazar, visiting Montreal from New Brunswick! Congrats Emil!
Emil poses with our Founder Bruno and his sweet iTunes gift cards! Winning!