What championship do teams in the Canadian Football League compete for?

Discover Canada records this in one direct sentence. The guide writes: Canadian football is a popular game that differs in a number of ways from American football. Professional teams in the Canadian Football League (CFL) compete for the championship Grey Cup, donated by Lord Grey, the Governor General, in 1909. The trophy the test wants is therefore the Grey Cup.

The trophy is named after a Governor General. Discover Canada credits the Grey Cup to "Lord Grey, the Governor General", who donated it in 1909. So the cup is more than a sports trophy — it is also a piece of Canadian constitutional history, named after the Sovereign's representative in early-20th-century Canada.

Canadian football differs from the U.S. game. Discover Canada notes that Canadian football "differs in a number of ways from American football," and is "a popular game." The professional CFL has its own rules, field dimensions, and traditions distinct from the U.S. football league. So the Grey Cup is a uniquely Canadian championship, awarded inside a uniquely Canadian sport.

Football is the second most popular spectator sport. Discover Canada identifies hockey as "Canada's most popular spectator sport" and Canadian football as "the second most popular sport". So the Grey Cup is the trophy of Canada's second-most-popular sport. Other major Canadian sports trophies in the guide include the Stanley Cup (NHL hockey, donated by Lord Stanley, the Governor General, in 1892) and the Clarkson Cup (women's hockey, established in 2005 by Adrienne Clarkson, the 26th Governor General). All three trophies share a Governor-General donor pattern — making the Crown's representative in Canada a recurring source of the country's championship trophies.

The question is testing whether new citizens know the championship trophy of the Canadian Football League. Discover Canada commits to one cup: the Grey Cup. The right test answer matches that.

The wrong answer choices each pick a different sports trophy. The Stanley Cup is the NHL's championship — for hockey, not football. The World Series is American baseball. The Super Bowl is the U.S. football league's championship — different from the Canadian league. Only the Grey Cup is the CFL's championship trophy.