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History answers

1. Jacques Cartier, who claimed the region for France.

2. Kanata is the Huron-Iroquois word for village.

3. Simon Fraser.

4. Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

5. Craigellachie, at the western entrance to Eagle Pass, near Revelstoke, B.C.

6. Riel was hanged for treason.

7. The Klondike Gold Rush.

8. Signal Hill, Newfoundland.

9. In 1910, 62 railway workers were buried in Rogers Pass by a sudden avalanche which created snowbanks of 21 feet on either side of the tracks. As a result a tunnel was built through the pass for increased safety.

10. He wrote the poem In Flanders Fields.

11. The Halifax Explosion. Two ships collided in the Halifax Harbour. One ship was full of explosives and ammunition. The disaster levelled a section of the city, killing thousands in its path.

12. The British Privy Council overturned the Supreme Court decision the following year.

13. Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Kingston in 1938.

14. Canada entered World War II in 1939, remaining neutral for one week after the British declaration of war. Mackenzie King was Prime Minister at the time.

15. Newfoundland and Labrador was the last to join in 1949. Premier Joey Smallwood, who held office for almost 25 years, was key to bringing the province into Confederation.

16. The Alouette 1 was launched in 1962, bringing Canada into the space age.

17. French President Charles De Gaulle said this, effectively galvanizing the Quebec separatists.

18. He evoked the War Measures Act, banning the FLQ and arresting roughly 500 people.

19. The Maple Leaf Forever.

20. École Polytechneque – the engineering school at the University of Montreal.

Politics answers

21. Yukon has one elected representative in each of the House of Commons and the Senate.

22. Prime Minister Paul Martin was first elected federally in 1988 in the Montreal riding of LaSalle-Émiard. His father, Paul Martin senior, served in Liberal cabinets under Prime Ministers William Lyon Mackenzie King, Louis St. Laurent, Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau.

23. The Canadian Parliament includes Queen Elizabeth as head of state, the Senate and the House of Commons.

24. Sir Charles and Lady Frances Tupper were married for 66 years and had three boys and three girls. Lady Tupper died in 1912 and Sir Charles, who was lauded as one of the fathers of confederation and a close friend of Canada’s first Prime Minister John A. Macdonald, died three years later in England, but was buried in Halifax.

25. The Supreme Court is the highest court in Canada and there must be three judges on the panel from the Quebec Bar. Federal judges are appointed by the Governor General on the advice of Cabinet.

26. At 75

27. William Miller (Liberal-Conservatives) from Nova Scotia was 32 years old when he was appointed to the Senate in 1867.

28. Mila Mulroney (Pivnicki) was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in 1953.

29. Alexander Mackenzie of Sarnia, Ontario.

30. Ethel Dorothy Blondin-Andrew was appointed as the Liberal Secretary of State (Training and Youth) in 1993.

31. Manitoba, in January 1916.

32. In 1988 NDP candidate Raymond Skelly won in the Comox-Powell River riding, which is now mostly part of the West Vancouver Sunshine Coast riding.

33. NDP candidate Rollie Keith.

34. Siefken sells marijuana seeds in Vancouver and is an x-ray technologist in Chilliwack.

35. Elections Canada banned the Absolutely Absurd Party from running in this election. This short history of how the party began was taken directly from www.absolutelyabsurdparty.ca .

King Absurd The 1st aka "get off the couch you lazy bastard", being a mild mannered do nothing all the time type of guy, who just could not motivate himself to ever work at all, one day had an epiphany of sorts. Being struck on the head by a blunt object he finally realized the true meaning of his life.

"I am born a Leader, a True Leader of all People. I need to start my own Political Party".

After much deliberation and painstaking analysis of public opinion King Absurd The 1st realized no one party out there represents the common Canadian. King Absurd needed to act and act slowly he did. The Absolutely Absurd Party of Canada was created and King Absurd wants you to join the Party (Bring your own booze and dope though.) Tell me what you think, if it is absurd enough it will become law, if something ticks you off tell me about it and it will be abolished. Are we right wing, left wing, or anything in between, no we are Absurd. It is called Direct Democracy.

36. Goldsmith and her roommates called their house the "Lighthouse" because they all felt it was better than calling it "Andrea’s house".

37. Seven children and nine grandchildren.

38. From 1914 to 1919 the Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon riding was known as the Westminster District.

39. Ridings are redrawn after every census to reflect population changes. Elections Canada is in charge of facilitating these changes.

40. John Turner became Prime Minister in 1984. He was born in Surrey, England.

Geography answers

41. Found on Baffin Island, the capital of Nunavut is Iqaluit

42. Quebec City

43. The Northwest Territories’ Great Slave Lake, at 614 metres deep

44. St. John’s Newfoundland, has an average of 217 wet days per year; Vancouver, by comparison, has an average of 164.

45. Turks and Caicos

46) Yukon Territory

47. The three tallest waterfalls in Canada, Della Falls (440 metre vertical drop), Takakkaw Falls (254 metres), and Hunlen Falls (253 metres), are all found in British Columbia.

48. 9.2 per cent

49. The Hudson Bay Lowlands, at 300,000 square kilometres

50. 204 years

51) Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

52. France

53. The Netherlands, so that Princess Juliana’s daughter, Margriet Francisca could be born "on Dutch soil." Juliana sought refuge in Canada after the Netherlands fell to Nazi Germany in 1940. As a sign of their appreciation, the Netherlands annually donates 10,000 tulip bulbs to Ottawa.

54. Lake Huron, with 36,000 square kilometres on the Canadian side of the boundary.

55. The Dempster Highway, which runs from Dawson, Yukon to Inuvik, Northwest Territories.

56. Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, at 31,328 square kilometres

57. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

58. The Mackenzie River, at 4,241 kilometres long.

59. The Northumberland Straight

60. Hoodoos are rock formations found in the Badland region of Southern Alberta.

Arts and Entertainment answers

61. The Rolling Stones.

62. He steals shopping carts, fixes them up and re-sells them to other malls.

63. Jacob Two-Two

64. The Buicks

65. Elvis Costello

66. Road to Avonlea

67. Fine Young Cannibals

68. Tekwar

69. Fort MacLeod

70. The Friendly Giant

71. A cameraman zoomed in on her while she was in the audience at a B.C. Lions football game and put her up on the jumbo screen.

72. Winnipeg

73. Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy

74. American Beauty

75. The Fighting Fighters

76. Dick Pound

77. Cynthia Dale

78. Sook-Yin Lee

79. The Decline of the American Empire

80. Alex Zivojinovich

Olympics answers

81. Munich

82. American Mildred "Babe" Didriksen at the 1932 Olympics

83. 1984 Los Angeles Games

84. The 1900 Paris Games.

85. Emil Zatopek of Chechoslovakia

86. Mexico City, Mexico in 1968.

87. British Equestrian, Lorna Johnstone was 70 years and 5 days old when she rode at the 1972 Games, making her the oldest woman ever to compete at an Olympic Games.

88. Silver. Those in second place got bronze medals.

89. Avery Brundage took part in track and field in Stockholm in 1912.

90. Baron Pierre de Coubertin. He was also the longest serving IOC president. He served from 1896 to 1925. IOC presidents can now serve for a maximum of 12 years.

91. Up until 1994, the Summer and Winter Games were held during the same year in different cities. Since then they've been held alternately every two years.

92. 1924. Canada has traditionally done well at the Olympic Winter Games, finishing in the top 10 (in the country medal count) 13 times.

93. Europe has hosted the Olympic Winter Games 12 times in total. North America has hosted five times

94. Canada's first ski club was formed in 1891, in Revelstoke, B.C. The club's initial membership was six men.

95. Luge made its Olympic debut in 1964. It features athletes sliding down a track on their backs, feet first, using a fibreglass and steel sled.

96 Skeleton returned to the 2002 Olympic program in Salt Lake City. It was the first time since 1948 that Skeleton had been part of the Games.

97. The Paralympics date back to 1948 when Sir Ludwig Guttman staged the International Wheelchair Games to coincide with the 1948 London Olympic Summer Games.

98. The Paralympic Winter Games program includes alpine skiing, Nordic skiing (both biathlon and cross-country), sledge hockey and the most recent addition, wheelchair curling, which will make its debut at the 2006 Paralympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy.

99. Canada has participated in every Paralympic Games since 1968.

100. Steve Podborski, in the downhill. He also placed eighth in the downhill at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympic Games.

Sports answers

101. The Vancouver Canucks in 1994. The Montreal Canadiens were the last Canadian team to win the cup, in 1993.

102. St. Louis won the Hart Trophy for the League’s Most Valuable Player; the Lester B. Pearson Award for the League MVP as voted by the players; and the Art Ross Trophy for winning the regular season scoring title. Richards won the Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship and the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoff MVP.

103. Calgary had 18 Canucks to the Lightning’s 15.

104. Kim St-Pierre.

105. Cross-country skier Beckie Scott. She originally won the bronze in the women’s five-kilometre pursuit but was upgraded to gold when it was discovered that Russia’s Olga Danilova and Larissa Lazutina were doping.

106. Todd MacCulloch, formerly of the New Jersey Nets and Philadelphia 76ers (currently injured); Rick Fox of the L.A. Lakers, and Jamal Magloire of the New Orleans Hornets.

107. Trick question. Canada failed to qualify a men’s basketball team for the Olympics this summer.

108. Forsythe Championship Racing. His personal sponsor is Indeck.

109. 35. Two athletes, mogul skier Jennifer Heil and aerialist Steve Omischl, also won World Cup titles.

110. Whistler’s own Rob Boyd.

111. Jasey-Jay Anderson of Mont Tremblant.

112. Sixth with $4,918,910.

113. 2003 — Edmonton Eskimos; 2002 — Montreal Alouettes; 2001 — Calgary Stampeders.

114. A Game Roster can only have 39 players, of which more than 17 can’t be classified as ‘Imports". So teams must have at least 22 Canadian players on their rosters.

115. Fourth place. They lost 3-1 to the U.S. in the consolation final.

116. Gold medal winning triathlete Simon Whitfield.

117. The Vancouver Indy and the Montreal Grand Prix.

118. Calgary’s Owen Hargreaves.

119. Victoria’s Lori Bowden and Peter Reid.

120. Fredreic Niemeyer of Deauville, Quebec. They are now 4-0 as partners in Davis Cup doubles play.

Canadians answers

121. In 1990 Manitoba MLA Elijah Harper withheld his consent for Manitoba’s Legislature to vote on ratification of the Meech Lake Accord. The Accord would have amended the Constitution to address Quebec’s concerns. Harper opposed the Accord because it did not guarantee rights to Aboriginal people. Harper’s refusal to accept the Accord led to Manitoba being unable to approve it, and eventually to its defeat.

122. Mary Pickford, in 1916.

123. Nancy Greene Raine was one of 14 British Columbians to receive the honour on June 16. Other awards the 1968 Olympic giant slalom champion has received include being named Canada’s Female Athlete of the 20 th Century, the Order of Canada and induction into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame and the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame.

124. Lester Pearson. He was awarded the Nobel for his work in sending UN peacekeeping troops to the Suez Canal area and diffusing the crisis there in 1956.

125. Maude Barlow. The Council of Canadians was founded in 1985 by a group of Canadians concerned with the policy directions of the Brian Mulroney government, including the dismantling of the Foreign Investment Review Agency, the free trade agreement with the United States and the erosion of cultural sovereignty.

126. William Patrick Kinsella, who wrote Shoeless Joe, which was published in 1982.

127. Louis B. Mayer (1885-1957) founded his own production company in Los Angeles in 1916. Through a series of mergers the company became Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer n 1924. Mayer served as production chief from 1924-1951.

Jack Warner (1892-1978) started a production company with his brothers Harry, Albert and Sam in 1912, which later became Warner Brothers. Jack was production chief.

128. Joe Shuster (1914-1992) created Superman with American Jerome Siegel. Shuster – a cousin of comedian Frank Shuster – and Siegel sold their rights to Superman for a meagre sum to DC Comics in 1940. In the 1970s Shuster and Siegel started receiving a pension from DC Comics.

129. James Gosling, who is now CTO of Sun’s Developer Products group.

130. Emily Carr.

131. Wilfred Laurier, who served from July 11, 1896 to Oct. 6, 1911.

132. John Molson.

133. George Bowering.

134. The Vancouver Canucks took their name from Johnny Canuck, cartoonist Leo Bachle’s Nazi fighter. In 1975 comic-book artist Richard Cromely created Captain Canuck. His Quebecois counterpart was Capitaine Kébec.

135. Grey Owl. Belaney looked like and passed himself off as an Ojibway during most of his life.

136. General Romeo Dallaire who, despite early warnings to UN officials, could not convince the Security Council to devote enough attention and troops to prevent the massacre of nearly 1 million people in 1994.

137. Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. The show, which began on radio in 1947 and ran until 1955, was created by George W. Trendle, who also created The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet. The actor who played Sgt. Preston, Richard Simmons, was discovered by studio mogul Louis B. Mayer.



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