What is often referred to as 'the goal heard around the world'?

Discover Canada records this in one direct sentence. The guide writes: In 1972, Paul Henderson scored the winning goal for Canada in the Canada-Soviet Summit Series. This goal is often referred to as "the goal heard around the world" and is still remembered today as an important event in both sports and cultural history. The goal the test wants is therefore Paul Henderson's winning goal in the 1972 Summit Series.

The 1972 Canada-Soviet Summit Series was a Cold War flashpoint in sport. Discover Canada places Henderson's goal in 1972, in the heat of the Cold War — when Canadian and Soviet teams faced off in a hockey series that carried far more than sporting weight. Henderson's winning goal sealed Canada's victory and became the moment Canadians point to as their hockey-on-the-world-stage benchmark.

The phrase carries cultural weight. Discover Canada commits the phrase "the goal heard around the world" directly to Henderson's 1972 goal. The guide notes the goal is "still remembered today as an important event in both sports and cultural history" — meaning Canadians treat it not just as athletic memory but as a national-identity moment, alongside other defining events.

Hockey's central place in Canadian identity makes the goal iconic. Discover Canada writes that "hockey is Canada's most popular spectator sport and is considered to be the national winter sport. Ice hockey was developed in Canada in the 1800s." The National Hockey League plays for the Stanley Cup, donated by Lord Stanley, the Governor General, in 1892. So Henderson's goal entered a sport already deeply Canadian — winning a Cold War-era series against the Soviet Union became one of the most memorable Canadian moments in the country's national winter sport.

The question is testing whether new citizens know the goal often called "the goal heard around the world." Discover Canada commits to one event: Paul Henderson's winning goal in the 1972 Summit Series. The right test answer matches that.

The wrong answer choices each pick a different hockey moment. The first, third, and fourth options describe other notable Canadian hockey moments — but Discover Canada reserves the phrase "the goal heard around the world" specifically for Henderson's 1972 winning goal in the Canada-Soviet Summit Series.