The Great Canadian Quiz


History:
  1. Montreal was founded in?
    a) 1553
    b) 1642
    c) 1698
    d) 1703

  2. 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

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

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

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

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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. This explorer was the first to navigate through the Northwest Passage:
    a) John Franklin
    b) Ronald Amundsen
    c) William Parry
    d) Martin Frobisher

  13. 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

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

  15. Jacques Cartier kidnapped what Iroquois chief and his sons?
    a) Dom Agaya
    b) Donnaconna
    c) Stadacona
    d) Saguenay

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

  17. 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

  18. The first person to cross North America, above Mexico was?
    a) Champlain
    b) Alexander Mackenzie
    c) James Cook
    d) John Simcoe

  19. 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

  20. French, English and Mohawk soldiers defeated the Americans in a major battle at this site:
    a) Chrysler’s Farm
    b) Chateauguay
    c) Quebec
    d) Montreal

  21. Construction of the fortress at Louisbourg Nova Scotia, started in what year?
    a) 1645
    b) 1695
    c) 1719
    d) 1796

  22. Building Louisbourg took how long?
    a) Three years
    b) Five years
    c) 15 years
    d) 26 years

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

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

  25. Cook's crew sailed to China and
    a) triggered trade in sea otters
    b) found gunpowder
    c) were killed
    d) discovered gold mines

  26. In August 1814 British forces captured and burned this city
    a) Detroit
    b) Moraviantown
    c) Chippewa
    d) Washington

  27. During World War One, 5,000 Canadians in what country were used as forced labor?
    a) Japan
    b) France
    c) Ukraine
    d) China

  28. 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


Geography:
  1. 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

  2. The First Nations Religion, Beothuk lived in what area?
    a) New France
    b) Nova Scotia
    c) Newfoundland
    d) Labrador

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. The largest island in Canada, at 507,451 sq. km, is:
    a) Baffin
    b) Vancouver
    c) Newfoundland
    d) Prince Edward Island

  6. Which Canadian City is located at the highest elevation above sea level?
    a) Lethbridge
    b) Whitehorse
    c) Regina
    d) Calgary

  7. 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)

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

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

  10. 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

  11. 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

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

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

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

  15. 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

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

  17. 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

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


Canada:
  1. 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

  2. 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

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

  4. 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

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

  6. 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

  7. The RCMP is an agency of which federal government ministry?
    a) Justice
    b) Corrections
    c) Solicitor General
    d) National Defense

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. How long is the border between Canada and the United States, including Alaska-Yukon border?
    a) 5,280 km
    b) 7,310 km
    c) 6,420 km
    d) 8,891 km

  11. 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.)

  12. 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%

  13. 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

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

  15. 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

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

  17. 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

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

  19. Which of these actors was NOT part of the SCTV cast?
    a) Tony Rosato
    b) Dave Broadfoot
    c) Martin Short
    d) Robin Duke

  20. 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



Music:
  1. What was the name of the band Randy Bachman led between The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive?
    a) Trooper
    b) Sweeney Todd
    c) Brave Belt
    d) Union

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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"

  5. "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

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



Bonus:
  1. 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

  2. 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

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

  4. 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

  5. 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

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

  7. Canada's worst offshore drilling disaster occurred in 1982 when hurricane-force winds battered this drilling rig:
    b) Hibernia
    c) Oceania
    d) Ocean Ranger

  8. 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


Canadian Trivia - Answers

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