Derek's Canadian Quiz

Yet another Canadian Quiz....
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I'm a proud Canadian and while searching the net I have come across many interesting tidbits about Canada, and so I have put most of them up here. I can not take credit for all these questions, I have gathered some of them from other places, such as: Government of Canada and The Canadian Encyclopedia Online

I'll add to it as I go along, but for now, I have 168 questions!

Ok, I have now hidden the answers, well kinda of. They are in black, and are still under the questions, you just have to click and hold your mouse over the area. I'll help you with the first one in case you missed my meaning.

1) What Canadian invented the programming language Java?
a) Pierre Berton
b) Brian Tobin
c) James Gosling
d) Curtis Joseph
Click and hold here -->Answer: c) James Gosling <-- let go here

2) Which animal is an official emblem of Canada?
a) The beaver
b) The moose
c) The polar bear
d) The mosquito
Answer: a) The beaver

2) How many provinces and territories are there in Canada?
a) Eleven
b) Twelve
c) Thirteen
d) Fifty
Answer: c) 10 provinces and 3 territories

3) When did "O Canada" become the national anthem?
a) 1867
b) 1967
c) 1980
d) 1941
Answer: c) "O Canada" was proclaimed Canada's national anthem on July 1, 1980. However, it was first sung over 100 years before, on June 24, 1880.

4) Who composed the music for "O Canada"?
a) William Lyon Mackenzie King
b) Calixa Lavallée
c) Adolphe-Basile Routhier
d) Calixa Lavallée
Answer b) Calixa Lavalée

5) The maple leaf is a prominent Canadian symbol. On what coin does it appear?
a) The penny
b) The nickel
c) The quarter
d) The dollar
Answer: a) The penny - Between 1876 and 1901, it appeared on all Canadian coins. The modern one-cent piece has two maple leaves on a common twig, a design that has gone almost unchanged since 1937.

6) What are Canada's official colours?
a) Blue and red
b) Gold and red
c) White and red
d) Red and white
Answer: d) Red and white

7) What is the origin of the name "Canada"?
a) Inuit
b) Huron-Iroquois
c) Métis
Answer b) "Kanata" was the Huron-Iroquois name for village

8) What are the animal figures that stand on either side of the shield on the Arms of Canada?
a) A lion and an elk
b) A lion and a horse
c) A lion and a unicorn
d) A lion and a moose
Answer: c) The lion on the shield's right holds a gold-pointed silver lance from which flies the Royal Union flag. The unicorn holds a lance flying a banner of royalist France. The banners represent the two principal founding nations that had established Canada's enduring laws and customs.

9) What apple tree has its origins in Canada?
MacIntosh
Delicious
Spartan
Ruby Red
Answer: a) Every single MacIntosh apple tree has a "family tree" that goes back to the very first MacIntosh, discovered by John MacIntosh growing wild on his farm in Dundas County, Ontario. That tree lived for 90 years!

10) What Canadian invented the first pulp paper plant(newsprint)?
a) Charles Fenerty
b) Charles Dickens
c) Charles Grodin
d) Charles Bouvieu
Answer: a) Until the mid-1800s, paper was made from cotton rags. Then Charles Fenerty decided to take a walk in the Nova Scotia woods. Inspired by the wasps ability to build paper-like nests by chewing up wood, he invented the first pulp paper plant. Today 40% of the world's newspapers are printed on Canadian paper

11) What invention by a Canadian is used for children?
a) Baby Stroller
b) Jolly Jumper
c) Play-doe
d) Finger Paints
Answer: b) One in five Canadians grew up bouncing around in a Jolly Jumper. Olivia Poole based her design for the Jumper on "cradle boards" used on the Native reservations where she was raised.

12) What game was invented by two Canadians in the 1970s?
a) Monopoly
b) Scrabble
c) Trivial Pursuit
d) Operation
Answer: c) Trivial Pursuit was invented in 1979 by two friends in Montreal to settle an argument over who was the better board game player. In 1984 alone, fifteen million Trivial Pursuit games were sold.

13) The largest island in Canada at 507,451 sq. km is:
a) Baffin Island
b) Ellesmere Island
c) Newfoundland
d) Manitoulin Island
e) Vancouver Island
Answer: a) Baffin Island

14) During World War One 5,000 Canadians from what country were interned and used as forced labour?
a) Japan
b) France
c) Ukraine
d) China
Answer: c) Ukraine
15) What was the name of the Canadian band that sang "Taking Care of Business"?
a) Trooper
b) Bachman-Turner Overdrive
c) Sloan
d) Rush
Answer: b) Bachman-Turner Overdrive

16) The Battle of Vimy Ridge was fought in what year?
a) 1916
b) 1917
c) 1943
d) 1944
Answer: b) 1917

17) Yousuf Karsh's 1941 photograph of this man became one of the most widely reproduced portraits of all time. Who was he?
a) Winston Churchill
b) Franklin Roosevelt
c) William Mackenzie
d) Mao Tse Tung
Answer: a) Winston Churchill, one of the few times you will ever see WC without his trademark cigar, this picture was taken in Canada.

18) Germany's top World War One ace Baron von Richthofen was shot down by what Canadian pilot?
a) Wop May
b) Billy Bishop
c) Will Barker
d) Roy Brown
Answer: d) Roy Brown

19) Conscription into the armed forces became law in what year?
a) 1914
b) 1917
c) 1939
d) 1941
Answer: b) 1917

20) The Empress of Ireland is famous for what?
a) Sinking in the St. Lawrence killing 1,000
b) Exploding in Halifax harbour
c) Carrying the Queen to safety
d) Replacing the Titanic
Answer: a) Sinking in the St. Lawrence killing 1,000

21) On one side of Canada's official coat of arms is a lion. What animal is on the other side?
a) Beaver
b) Bison
c) Eagle
d) Unicorn
Answer: d) Unicorn

22) Which city is located at the highest elevation above sea level?
a) Lethbridge
b) Whitehorse
c) Regina
d) Calgary
Answer: d) Calgary

23) The most powerful earthquake recorded in Canada, 8.1 on the Richter scale in 1949, occurred where?
a) Baffin Bay
b) Montreal
c) Queen Charlotte Islands
d) Northern Quebec
Answer: c) Queen Charlotte Islands

24) Henderson Lake has the highest average amount of precipitation (rain and snow) in a year. It gets:
a) 3 metres
b) 4.5 metres
c) 6 metres
d) 7 metres
Answer: d) 7 metres (that's 7,000 mm!!)

25) What is the largest lake located wholly in Canada (at 30,764 sq. km)?
a) Great Slave Lake (NWT)
b) Lake Winnipeg (Man.)
c) Lake Athabasca (Sask.)
d) Great Bear Lake (NWT)
Answer: d) Great Bear Lake (NWT)

26) London, Ont., has the highest average number of thunderstorms in a year at:
a) 25
b) 28
c) 36
d) 45
Answer: c) 36

27) You can't get any further east than this place in Canada:
a) St. John's, Nfld.
b) Cape Spear, Nfld.
c) Francis Harbour, Nfld.
d) Bonavista, Nfld.
Answer: b) Cape Spear, Nfld.

28) How many of the world's 24 time zones are in Canada?
a) 4
b) 6
c) 8
d) 3
Answer: b) 6

29) According to 1998 statistics, what is the most popular sport in Canada in terms of participation for people over 15 years of age (both sexes included)?
a) Hockey
b) Golf
c) Swimming
d) Bowling
Answer: b) Golf

30) Canadian peacekeepers have served in war scarred countries around the world for over 50 years. In which country did our peacekeepers first serve?
a) Kashmir
b) Egypt
c) Cyprus
d) Congo
Answer: b) Egypt

31) Approximately what percentage of Canadian workers travel to work via public transit?
a) 6-10%
b) 11-15%
c) 16-20%
d) 21-30%
Answer: b) 11-15%

32) The first Canadian writer to win the French literary prize, Prix Femina, for her novel, The Tin Flute, was:
a) Gabrielle Roy
b) Margaret Atwood
c) Margaret Laurence
d) June Callwood
Answer: a) Gabrielle Roy

33) All of the following are in the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. Which one is in for curling?
a) Ken Dryden b) Don Duguid
c) Sandy Hawley
d) Phil Marchildon
Answer: b) Don Duguid

34) The RCMP is an agency of which federal government ministry?
a) Justice
b) Corrections
c) Solicitor General
d) National Defence
Answer: c) Solicitor General

35) Flag day commemorates the date when our current national flag was inaugurated in 1965. What date is it?
a) Feb. 15
b) July 1
c) May 24
d) Sept. 6
Answer: a) Feb. 15

35) Bryan Adams' record-breaking chart single "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" first appeared on the soundtrack to what film?
a) Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves
b) Dances With Wolves
c) Waterworld
d) Bull Durham
Answer: a) Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves

36) Which famous Canadian artist from British Columbia was also an author who won a Governor General's Award for her writing?
a) Pauline Johnson
b) Antonine Maillet
c) Buffy Ste. Marie
d) Emily Carr
Answer: d) Emily Carr

37) In 1918 a riot broke out when a suspected draft resister was arrested in what city?
a) Chicoutimi
b) Toronto
c) Montreal
d) Quebec City
Answer: d) Quebec City

38) Political refugees who fled the U.S. for Canada after the 1776 revolution were called:
a) boat people
b) wetbacks
c) loyalists
d) deportees
Answer: c) loyalists

39) Jacques Cartier kidnapped what Iroquois chief and his sons?
a) Dom Agaya
b) Donnaconna
c) Stadacona
d) Saguenay
Answer: b) Donnaconna
40) The crew of explorer Henry Hudson's ship:
a) Discovered Baffin Island
b) Found the Northwest Passage
c) Mutinied and set Hudson adrift
d) Were eaten by polar bears
Answer: c) Mutinied and set Hudson adrift

41) The Beothuk lived in what area?
a) New France
b) Nova Scotia
c) Newfoundland
d) Labrador
Answer: c) Newfoundland

42) Montreal was founded in?
a) 1553
b) 1642
c) 1698
d) 1703
Answer: b) 1642

43) The first census of New France found 720 single men and how many single women?
a) 634
b) 403
c) 203
d) 45
Answer: d) 45

44) In 1689, during a war with French settlers the Iroquois attacked what village and massacred the residents?
a) Longueil
b) Chambly
c) Lachine
d) Trois Rivieres
Answer: c) Lachine

45) Neil Young and Stephen Stills teamed up with great success in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. What was the name of the group they appeared in prior to that?
a) The Byrds
b) The Eagles
c) Buffalo Springfield
d) Love
Answer: c) Buffalo Springfield

46) Construction of the fortress at Louisbourg started in what year?
a) 1645
b) 1695
c) 1719
d) 1796
Answer: c) 1719

47) Building Louisbourg took how long?
a) Three years
b) Five years
c) 15 years
d) 26 years
Answer: d) 26 years

48) The last battle of the Seven Years' War fought in North America occurred in what area?
a) Quebec
b) Nova Scotia
c) Newfoundland
d) New Brunswick
Answer: c) Newfoundland

49) Which province is known as the "wheat province" and has wheat sheaves on its coast of arms?
a) Saskatchewan
b) Manitoba
c) Alberta
d) Nova Scotia
Answer: a) Saskatchewan

50) Which Canadian city has the most hours of sunshine in summer on average (1,037):
a) Yellowknife, NT
b) St. John's, Nfld.
c) Regina
d) Toronto
Answer: a) Yellowknife, NT

51) Which is the cloudiest and wettest city in Canada, but has the fewest thunderstorms?
a) Prince Rupert, British Columbia
b) Victoria, B.C.
c) Halifax, N.S.
d) St. John's, Nfld.
Answer: a) Prince Rupert, British Columbia

52) Which city is the highest above sea level (1,128 metres)?
a) Kimberley, B.C.
b) Churchill, Man.
c) Dawson, Yukon
d) Lethbridge, Alta.
Answer: a) Kimberley, B.C.

53) The Canadian west coast is home to the tallest and longest living tree in Canada, known in Latin as Pseudotsuga menziesii, and more commonly known as...
a) redwood
b) Douglas Fir
c) giant sequoia
d) white pine
Answer: b) Douglas Fir

54) The most recently active volcanoes in Canada are located in:
a) British Columbia
b) Quebec
c) Nunavut
d) Alberta
Answer: a) British Columbia

55) How long is the border between Canada and the United States?
a) 5,280 km
b) 7,310 km
c) 6,420 km
d) 4,563 km
Answer: The correct answer is 8,891 kilometres, including the Alaska-Yukon border. We will give everyone credit for this question because it wasn't clear that we were referring to the southern border only.

56) Canada's longest bridge (12.9 km) is:
a) Jacques Cartier Bridge (Que.)
b) Confederation Bridge (PEI-N.B.)
c) Lion's Gate Bridge (B.C.)
d) Rainbow Bridge (Ont.)
Answer: b) Confederation Bridge (PEI-N.B.)

57) Approximately how much of Canada has underlying permafrost (ground at or below 0 degrees Celsius for at least two years)?
a) 15-25%
b) 30-40%
c) 40-50%
d) 55-65%
Answer: c) 40-50%

58) This explorer was the first to navigate through the Northwest Passage:
a) John Franklin
b) Roald Amundsen
c) William Parry
d) Martin Frobisher
Answer: b) Roald Amundsen

59) The Memorial Chamber is home to the Books of Remembrance, which list those Canadians who gave their lives during the international conflicts. What poem by Canadian John McCrae has come to symbolize the ultimate sacrifice of war?
a) Lest We Forget
b) Maple Leaf Forever
c) In Flanders Fields
d) Between the Crosses
Answer: c) In Flanders Fields

60) In 1950, this RCMP vessel became the first ship to sail around North America:
a) Nelson Eddy
b) St. Lawrence
c) Bluenose
d) St. Roch
Answer: d) St. Roch

61) Name the humanitarian who set out on a personal and life-long crusade to help the world's less fortunate through the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada, the organization she founded in 1945.
a) Dr. Lotta Hitschmanova
b) Charlotte Whitton
c) Marie-Christine Barbeau
d) Elizabeth McGill
Answer: a) Dr. Lotta Hitschmanova

62) Name the song from Joni Mitchell's classic album "Blue" that was later covered by Scottish hard-rock band Nazareth.
a) "California"
b) "My Old Man"
c) "A Case Of You"
d) "This Flight Tonight"
Answer: d) "This Flight Tonight"

63) Name the commander of Britain's Iroquois allies during the American Revolutionary War who went on to translate part of the Bible into Mohawk.
a) Sitting Bull
b) Joseph Brant
c) Grey Owl
d) Little Bear
Answer: b) Joseph Brant

64) In 1928, this man received the highest score in his Department of External Affairs entrance exams. He went on to become Canada's 14th prime minister. Name him:
a) John Diefenbaker
b) Pierre Trudeau
c) Lester B. Pearson
d) Louis St. Laurent
Answer: c) Lester B. Pearson

65) Name the Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist who had an asteroid named for him in 1987.
a) Gerhard Herzberg
b) John Polanyi
c) Bertram Brockhouse
d) Frederick Banting
Answer: a) Gerhard Herzberg
66) In terms of size, where does Canada (at 9,970,610 square km) rank in the world?
a) First
b) Second
c) Third
d) Fourth
Answer: b) Second

67) What was the name of the dog that starred in The Littlest Hobo TV series?
a) London
b) Toto
c) Thunder
d) Austin
Answer: a) London

68) Canada's worst offshore drilling disaster occurred in 1982 when hurricane-force winds battered this drilling rig:
a) Exxon Valdez
b) Hibernia
c) Oceania
d) Ocean Ranger
Answer: d) Ocean Ranger

69) Avid geography fans already know Mt. Logan in the Yukon is Canada's highest mountain at 5,959 metres. What's the second highest at 5,489?
a) Mt. Steele
b) Mt. Lucania
c) Mt. Wood
d) Mt. St. Elias
Answer: d) Mt. St. Elias

70) The longest river in Canada, at 4,241 km, is:
a) St. Lawrence
b) Yukon
c) Mackenzie
d) Peace
Answer: c) Mackenzie

71) "Chelsea Hotel" is a musical memoir about Leonard Cohen's liaison with what doomed '60s female rock singer?
a) Grace Slick
b) Janis Joplin
c) Melanie
d) Laura Nyro
Answer: b) Janis Joplin

72) What was Canada's first provincial park, established in 1893?
a) Red Point (PEI)
b) Algonquin (Ontario)
c) Mount Robson (B.C)
d) Mount Assiniboine (B.C.)
Answer: b) Algonquin (Ontario)

73) Which fish is the number one catch of recreational fishing in Canada?
a) Bass
b) Walleye
c) Perch
d) Trout
Answer:d) Trout

74) There are plenty of Christmas themes in Canadian geography. Where would you find North Pole Mountain?
a) Quebec
b) Yukon
c) B.C.
d) New Brunswick
Answer: d) New Brunswick

75) This provincial capital's name is derived from an Indian word that translates as "dirty water."
a) Toronto
b) Winnipeg
c) Quebec
d) Edmonton
Answer: b) Winnipeg

76) This explorer and mapmaker was the first to provide a comprehensive map of western Canada in 1814:
a) David Thompson
b) Samuel de Champlain
c) James Cook
d) Simon Fraser
Answer: a) David Thompson

77) After the United States, what is the most popular country for Canadians to visit?
a) Mexico
b) France
c) United Kingdom
d) Italy
Answer: c) United Kingdom

78) Who became Canada's first woman astronaut when the space shuttle "Discovery" began its eight days in orbit around the earth in 1992?
a) Sylvie Frechette
b) Julie Payette c) Beverly McLachlin
d) Roberta Bondar
Answer: d) Roberta Bondar

79) Name the celebrated First World War flying ace, credited with 72 "kills", who became the first Canadian airman to receive the Victoria Cross.
a) W.G. Barker
b) Raymond Collishaw
c) William A. Bishop
d) A.A. McLeod
Answer: c) William A. Bishop

80) Canada was joined from east to west by the Canadian Pacific Railway. Where in British Columbia was the last spike of the railway driven on Nov. 7, 1885?
a) Revelstoke
b) Vancouver
c) Penticton
d) Craigellachie
Answer: d) Craigellachie

81) How many Canadian soldiers died taking Vimy Ridge?
a) 2,333
b) 3,600
c) 1,250
d) 5,000
Answer: b) 3,600

82) In 1918 French Canadian soldiers fought fiercely to:
a) escape the army
b) break through the Hindenburg Line
c) capture Vimy Ridge
d) escape Flanders Fields
Answer: b) break through the Hindenburg Line

83) The recording of a Bach prelude and fugue by a Canadian musician is among the artifacts on two Voyager space craft launched by NASA in the 1970's. Name the musician.
a) David Foster
b) Oscar Peterson
c) Glenn Gould
d) Percy Faith
Answer: c) Glenn Gould

84) Which of these actors was NOT part of the SCTV cast?
a) Rick Moranis
b) Dave Broadfoot
c) Martin Short
d) Catherine O'Hara
Answer: b) Dave Broadfoot

85) What book written by Lucy Maud Montgomery in 1908 became the most popular Canadian book ever?
a) Sunshine Sketches
b) Anne of Green Gables c) Roughing it in the Bush
d) The Stone Angel
Answer: b) Anne of Green Gables

86) This writer's first Governor General's Literary Award for fiction came in 1992; the second in 2000 along with a 'ghost':
a) Margaret Atwood
b) Michael Ondaatje
c) Timothy Findlay
d) Austin Clarke
Answer: b) Michael Ondaatje

87) In 1778 Captain James Cook:
a) discovered Hawaii
b) explored Australia
c) toured the St. Lawrence
d) charted Vancouver Island
Answer: d) charted Vancouver Island

88) Cook's crew sailed to China and:
a) triggered trade in sea otters
b) found gun powder
c) were killed
d) discovered gold mines
Answer: a) triggered trade in sea otters

89) The first person to cross North America, above Mexico was:
a) Champlain
b) Alexander Mackenzie
c) James Cook
d) John Simcoe
Answer: b) Alexander Mackenzie

90) Roger Sheaffe was accused of cowardice because he:
a) refused to sail in the Arctic
b) fled York when the U.S. attacked
c) returned to Britain
d) was defeated in Detroit
Answer: b) fled York when the U.S. attacked

91) French, English and Mohawk soldiers defeated the Americans in a major battle at this site:
a) Crysler's Farm
b) Chateauguay
c) Quebec
d) Montreal
Answer: b) Chateauguay

92) In August 1814 British forces captured and burned this city:
a) Detroit
b) Moraviantown
c) Chippewa
d) Washington
Answer: d) Washington
93) Name the commander of Britain's Iroquois allies during the American Revolutionary War who went on to translate part of the Bible into Mohawk.
a) Sitting Bull
b) Joseph Brant
c) Grey Owl
d) Little Bear
Answer: b) Joseph Brant

94) Bert Pearl, Bob Farnon, Kay Stokes and Blain Mathe made up the cast of this Canadian troupe that earned fame as:
a) Kids in the Hall
b) Fraggle Rock
c) The Happy Gang
d) Degrassi Street
Answer: c) The Happy Gang

95) The first place in North America to ban slavery was:
a) Nova Scotia
b) Massachusetts
c) Lower Canada
d) Upper Canada
Answer: d) Upper Canada

96) Gordon Lightfoot and Rush each recorded early live albums at this storied Toronto venue:
a) Maple Leaf Gardens
b) The Hummingbird Centre
c) Massey Hall
d) Exhibition Stadium
Answer: c) Massey Hall

97) What song from The Tragically Hip's "Fully Completely" album is dedicated to Canadian novelist Hugh MacLennan?
a) "50 Mission Cap"
b) "Wheat Kings"
c) "Courage"
d) "At The 100th Meridien"
Answer: c) "Courage"

98) General Isaac Brock was helped by what Indian chief defeat the Americans?
a) Sitting Bull
b) Tecumseh
c) Grey Owl
d) Donnaconna
Answer: b) Tecumseh

99) Which founding people is not represented on the shield on Canada's coat of arms?
a) French
b) Irish
c) Scottish
d) Aboriginal
Answer: d) Aboriginal

100) In 1497 Giovanni Caboto landed somewhere in Canada, probably Cape Breton or Newfoundland, and claimed the land for what country?
a) Italy
b) Spain
c) Portugal
d) England
Answer: d) England

101) In 1666, Canada's first census counted how many non-native inhabitants in New France?
a) 15,616
b) 30,456
c) 3,215
d) 987
Answer: c) 3,215

102) Canada's first newspaper, the Halifax Gazette, appeared in:
a) 1689
b) 1752
c) 1792
d) 1802
Answer: b) 1752

103) Alexander Mackenzie travelled down his river to the Beaufort Sea in :
a) 1695
b) 1745
c) 1789
d) 1803
Answer: c) 1789

104) In 1775 the Americans captured which city?
a) Halifax
b) Quebec
c) Montreal
d) York
Answer: c) Montreal

105) The first mayor of Toronto was:
a) Egerton Ryerson
b) William Lyon Mackenzie
c) Francis Bond Head
d) Mel Lastman
Answer: b) William Lyon Mackenzie

106) Ottawa was named the capital of Canada by Queen Victoria in what year?
a) 1845
b) 1857
c) 1867
d) 1870
Answer: b) 1857

107) The cornerstone of the Parliament Buildings was laid in what year?
a) 1850
b) 1860
c) 1867
d) 1870
Answer: b) 1860

108) Emily Stowe (the first female to practice medicine in Canada) practised medicine in Toronto after graduating in 1867 in:
a) Montreal
b) London
c) New York
d) Boston
Answer: c) New York (no Canadian school would teach females at the time)

109) Sir John A. Macdonald died in 1891 and was replaced as prime minister by:
a) Sir John Thompson
b) Sir John Abbott
c) Sir Mackenzie Bowell
d) Wilfrid Laurier
Answer: b) Sir John Abbott

110) In 1897 the first woman admitted to the bar in Ontario was:
a) Kit Coleman
b) Clara Brett Martin
c) Sarah Tory
d) Emily Stowe
Answer: b) Clara Brett Martin

111) In 1923 Dr. Frederick Banting shared the Nobel Prize for medicine for the discovery of insulin with:
a) William McDonald
b) J.J.R. Macleod
c) Charles Best
d) Maude Abbott
Answer: b) J.J.R. Macleod

112) Who usually reads the Speech from the Throne in Canada's Parliament outlining the government's agenda?
a) Prime Minister
b) Speaker of the House
c) Governor General
d) Queen
Answer: c) Governor General

113) Standard time was invented in 1878 by:
a) Alexander Graham Bell
b) William McDonald
c) Sir Sandford Fleming
d) James Wilson
Answer: c) Sir Sandford Fleming

114) The first radio broadcast was made by:
a) Ted Rogers
b) William Coldwell
c) Reginald Fessenden
d) Wallace Turnbull
Answer: c) Reginald Fessenden

115) The first electronic music synthesizer was developed by:
a) Howard Cable
b) Guy Lombardo
c) Hugh Le Caine
d) Ted Rogers
Answer: c) Hugh Le Caine

116) In 1918-19 an influenza epidemic killed 50,000 Canadians. What was it called?
a) Hong Kong flu
b) Spanish flu
c) Black death
d) London flu
Answer: b) Spanish flu

117) The Canadarm was first used on the Space Shuttle Columbia in what year?
a) 1978
b) 1981
c) 1984
d) 1989
Answer: b) 1981

118) The first public appearance of O Canada occurred in what city in 1880?
a) Ottawa
b) Toronto
c) Quebec City
d) Montreal
Answer: c) Quebec City

119) The closest locale to the geographic centre of Canada is:
a) Winnipeg
b) Thunder Bay
c) Churchill Falls
d) Arviat, N.W.T.
Answer: d) Arviat, N.W.T.

120) In eastern Canada, damage has been caused to by emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from factories and power plants. What is the common name for this type of pollution?
a) ozone layer
b) acid rain
c) greenhouse effect
d) hurricane
Answer: b) acid rain

121) A National Marine Park in the Saguenay River of Quebec is proposed, in part, to protect what kind of whale?
a) blue whale
b) great white shark
c) humpback whale
d) beluga whale
Answer: d) beluga whale

122) What is the largest land animal native to Canada?
a) polar bear
b) moose
c) bison
d) African elephant
Answer: c) bison

123) Saskatchewan has more than a third of all the farmland in Canada, with more than a quarter million square km. Which province, with only 335 square km, has the least farmland of any province?
a) Prince Edward Island
b) Ontario
c) Alberta
d) Newfoundland
Answer: d) Newfoundland

124) What is the largest lake that is entirely within Canada?
a) Lake Michigan
b) Great Bear Lake
c) Lake Simcoe
d) Okanagan Lake
Answer: b) Great Bear Lake

125) What is the official tree of Ontario?
a) paper birch
b) white pine
c) sugar maple
d) weeping willow
Answer: b) white pine

126) Which province has the largest total forest land (839,000 sq. km.)?
a) Quebec
b) B.C.
c) NWT
d) Ontario
Answer:a) Quebec

127) What is the highest waterfall in Canada?
a) Grand Falls, Exploits River, Newfoundland
b) Niagara Falls, Niagara River, Ontario
c) Della Falls, Della Lake, British Columbia
d) Twin Falls, Yoho National Park, British Columbia
Answer: c) Della Falls, Della Lake, British Columbia

128) What Canadian singer, who achieved multi-platinum success in the mid-'90s, enjoyed an early-'90s dance-pop hit titled "Too Hot"?
a) Alannah Myles
b) Patsy Gallant
c) Sarah McLachlan
d) Alanis Morissette
Answer: d) Alanis Morissette

129) What singer became the first Canadian female to score a gold single in the U.S.?
a) Alannah Myles
b) Alanis Morissette
c) Anne Murray
d) Rita Macneil
Answer: c) Anne Murray

130) This Ottawa-born entertainer was briefly an investor in the upstart Ottawa Senators hockey franchise.
a) Rich Little
b) Paul Anka
c) Alanis Morissette
d) The members of Five Man Electrical Band
Answer: b) Paul Anka

131) The only time the Cannes Film Festival ever handed out a special award for "audacity" was for this Canadian director's movie "Crash".
a) Atom Egoyan
b) David Cronenberg
c) Norman Jewison
d) James Cameron
Answer: b) David Cronenberg

132) The late Al Waxman, star of CBC's "King Of Kensington", was a regular cast member of this U.S. cop show.
a) "Starsky And Hutch"
b) "SWAT"
c) "Columbo"
d) "Cagney And Lacey"
Answer: d) "Cagney And Lacey"

133) What Canadian singer leapt on stage in a wedding dress to accept a Juno Award?
a) KD Lang
b) Celine Dion
c) Sarah McLachlan
d) Joni Mitchell
Answer: a) KD Lang

134) What Hamilton, Ont.-bred musician has produced albums by U2, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, Willie Nelson, and Emmylou Harris.
a) Bob Rock
b) Daniel Lanois
c) Jack Richardso
d) David Foster
Answer: b) Daniel Lanois

135) What was the name of the U.S. TV series that spawned both Jennifer Lopez and Toronto funnyman Jim Carrey?
a) "Duck Factory"
b) "On The 6"
c) "Saturday Night Live"
d) "In Living Color"
Answer: d) "In Living Color"

136) Which province has the longest total coastline?
a) Quebec
b) British Columbia
c) Newfoundland
d) Alberta
Answer: c) Newfoundland

137) What is the smallest provincial capital by population, according to the 1996 census?
a) Regina, Sask.
b) St. John's, Nfld
c) Charlottetown, PEI
d) Fredericton, N.B.
Answer: c) Charlottetown, PEI

138) The official bird of the Yukon is:
a) Snowy Owl
b) Raven
c) Blue Jay
d) Falcon
Answer: b) Raven

139) Which Canadian provincial capital city has the highest annual snowfall (338.7 cm)?
a) Quebec City
b) Charlottetown
c) Edmonton
d) St. John's
Answer: b) Charlottetown

140) Which of these cities is closest to St. John's, Nfld. (as the crow flies)?
a) Victoria, B.C.
b) Mexico City
c) Stockholm, Sweden
d) Whitehorse, Yukon
Answer: c) Stockholm, Sweden

141) How many time zones cross the Nunavut territory?
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
Answer: d) 4

142) Which province has the warmest average annual temperature (10.7 C.)?
a) Ontario
b) British Columbia
c) Alberta
d) PEI
Answer: b) British Columbia

143) The deepest lake in Canada (614 metres) is:
a) Lake Superior
b) Lake Louise
c) Great Slave Lake
d) Lake Athabasca
Answer: c) Great Slave Lake

144) Which of the following sports was created in Canada?
a) Ice Hockey
b) Football
c) Five Pin Bowling
d) Basketball
e) All of these
Answer: e) All of these
Soldiers in both Kingston and Halifax claimed to have invented ice hockey in the 1850s. Canadians tinkered with British rugger to come up with the football now played by the Canadian Football League. Thomas Ryan of Toronto invented the uniquely Canadian sport known as five-pin bowling. And we'd be remiss if we didn't mention Dr. James Naismith, who was the inventor of basketball.

145) How many Aboriginal languages are there in Canada?
a) 1
b) 13
c) 101
d) 53
Answer: 53

145) What is typically called a mickey in Canada?
a) a little mouse
b) 13 ounces of liquor
c) a vegetable
d) a really bad blizzard
Answer: b) 13 ounces of liquor

146) What famous Canadian is responsible for movies such as Terminator, True Lies, Aliens, and Titanic?
a) James Cameron
b) Alex Trebek
c) Darryl Sittler
d) Celine Dion
Answer: a) James Cameron

147) What is Poutine?
a) a female pig
b) a type of snowmachine
c) a knife used for carving snow
d) French fries, gravy and cheese curds
Answer: d) French fries, gravy and cheese curds

148) Approximately how long is Canada's coastline (the longest in the world!)
a) 243,792 km
b) 123,433 km
c) 432,987 km
d) 121,235 km
Answer: a) 243,792 km

149) Who invented the snowmachine in 1937?
a) Joseph-Armand Bombardier
b) Lee Yamaha
c) George Peppard
d) Jacques Plante
Answer: a) Joseph-Armand Bombardier

150) Canada's National highway, the trans-Canada highway is the longest in the world at what length?
a) 4,342 km
b) 8,932 km
c) 7,821 km
d) 1,324 km
Answer: c) 7,821 km

151) Which nickname has not been applied to Toronto?
a) The Good
b) The Windy City
c) Hogtown
d) Muddy York
Answer: b) The Windy City

152) Which of the following is not in Newfoundland?

a) Black Liar's Head
b) Tickle Bay
c) Lourdes
d) Blow Me Down Bluff

Answer: a) Black Liar's Head

153) The first Chinese Community in Canada was founded in:
a) Barkerville
b) Victoria
c) Vancouver
d) Kamloops

Answer: a) Barkerville

154) What two places were named for this 4th daughter of Queen Victoria?
a) Bonnyville and Camrose
b) Alberta and Lake Louise
c) Hanna and Lac Ste Anne
d) Claresholm and Irvine
Answer: b) Alberta and Lake Louise

155) Name the Canadian Astronomer who has 5 comets named for him
a) Rolf Meier
b) Calvin Gotlieb
c) David Levy
d) Marc Garneau
Answer: a) Rolf Meier (David Levy had to share with Shoemaker)

156) The name of the advanced fighter developed by A.V.Roe but cancelled by John Diefenbaker.
a) Arrow
b) Killer Bee
c) Canuck
d) Voodoo
Answer: a) Arrow

157) In Newfoundland, a growler refers to
a) sudden gale
b) grumpy terrier
c) fishing boat
d) small iceberg
Answer: d) small iceberg

158) The islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon off Newfoundland's south shore belong to
a) Portugal
b) France
c) Belguim
d) Quebec
Answer: b) France

159) The world's largest aluminium production centre is at
a) Sudbury, Ontario
b) Jonquiere-Chicoutimi, Quebec
c) Baie-Comeau, Quebec
d) Kitimat, British Columbia
Answer: b) Jonquiere-Chicoutimi, Quebec

160) What is Canada's most dense province by population?
a) Nova Scotia
b) Ontario
c) Alberta
d) Prince Edward Island
Answer: d) Prince Edward Island

161) The world's most famous mystery ship found on open water, without a trace of its crew was
a) Bluenose
b) William Lawrence
c) Mary Celeste
d) Edmund Fitzgerald
Answer: c) Mary Celeste, shipped out of Nova Scotia, full family and crew aboard when she left

162) Ouimet Canyon is a natural wonder caused by
a) a fault in the Canadian Shield
b) the impact of a meteorite
c) the erosion of the Kaministiquia River
d) volcanic action
Answer: a) a fault in the Canadian Shield

163) Dieppe is famous in Canadian history as
a) Pierre Trudeau's birthplace
b) The site of an Iroquois confrontation with Quebec police
c) The site of a raid by Canadian troops in WWII
d) Jacques Cartier's birthplace
Answer: c) The site of a raid by Canadian troops in WWII

164) Wawa, the northern Ontario city, is the Algonkin name for
a) grandmother
b) goose
c) goodbye
d) a baby crying
Answer: b) goose

165) Name the world's most northern, permanent settlement
a) Alert, N.W.T.
b) Yellowknife, N.W.T.
c) Frobisher Bay, N.W.T.
d) Grise Fiord, N.W.T.
Answer: a) Alert, N.W.T.

166) The town "Pile o' Bones" became
a) Medicine Hat, Sask.
b) Regina, Sask
c) Swift Current, Sask
d) Saskatoon, Sask.
Answer: b) Regina, Sask.

167) What is the busiest port in Canada?
a) Halifax
b) Sault Ste. Marie
c) Thunder Bay
d) Vancouver
e) Montreal
Answer: d) Vancouver

168) The Canadian nickname for the 5 cent piece in Canada is:
a) Nickel
b) Beaver
c) Two bits
d) Queenie
Answer: a) Nickel