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Canada Day Special - 50 canada questions

50 questions about Canada

1. What is the name of the largest lake situated entirely in Canada?

2. What is the name of Canada's tallest peak and where is it?

3. What is B.C.'s tallest peak?

4. Mount Garibaldi was named on July 4 1860 for the 19 th century Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi (who was born on July 4, 1807) by the British naval officer G.H. Richards as he surveyed Howe Sound. What did the Squamish Nation call the peak?

5. How many national parks does Canada have?

6. How many time zones does Canada have? What are they?

7. Which province is Canada's biggest coal producer?

8. Which province has the biggest multiple arch dam in Canada?

9. What year did the British North America Act create the Dominion of Canada?

10. What year was gold discovered in the Fraser Valley?

11. What is the oldest company in North America?

12. What year did Canada adopt its official red and white flag with the maple leaf?

13. This year marks the 250 th anniversary of publication of Canada's first newspaper. What was the name of that newspaper?

14. What year did Henry Hudson discover Hudson Bay?

15. How many provinces and territories does Canada have?

16. How many years in a row did the United Nations Human Development Program rate Canada the best country in the world in which to live?

17. What is the capital of Nunavut, Canada's newest province?

18. How many recipients of the Order of Canada live in the Sea to Sky corridor?

19. Who does the U.S. Congress say invented the telephone, ousting Alexander Graham Bell from his generally accepted place in history?

20. What was the name of the special spy training and communications facility in Ontario used by the Allies during World War II?

21. What is the motto on Canada's coat of arms?

22. In 1927 five Alberta women petitioned the government, asking the Supreme Court to rule on the meaning of what?

23. What was the first province to give women the right to vote in provincial elections and in what year?

24. How many Prime Ministers has Canada had?

25. Who was the first Aboriginal person to be elected to the House of Commons? What year?

26. In the election of 1878 Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservative party won a majority, but Sir John A. himself was defeated in his hometown of Kingston, Ontario. In what city was he elected in a subsequent byelection?

27. Who was the first French-Canadian Prime Minister?

28. How many times, and in what years, has Quebec held referendums on secession from Canada?

29. Which provinces refused to support the Meech Lake Accord?

30. Which was first into space, the Canadarm or astronaut Marc Garneau?

31. Who wrote the music for "O Canada"?

32. How many Canadian novelists have won the Booker Prize?

33. According to Nielsen TV ratings in 2002, which one show took places 2, 3 and 4 in the Top 10 most watched TV programs in Canada?

34. What was the name of the 1996 cult film from director Lynne Stopkewich about a young girl who shows a morbid fascination with dead animals that grows into a relationship with "patients" at the local morgue?

35. What is the name of the song for which The Tragically Hip won the 2000 Juno Award for Best Single?

36. Which Canadian journalist and Maclean's political satirist began his career as a sports journalist in B.C.?

37. Which live album from Neil Young featured a duet with Chrissie Hynde on Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower?

38. Who wrote the novel which Atom Egoyan's film The Sweet Hereafter was based on and which actress starred in the film?

39. Which writer-in-residence at four Canadian universities wrote What the Small Day Cannot Hold: Collected Poems 1970-1985?

40. Which 1995 Alanis Morissette album sold 28 million copies world-wide and won four Grammys, including Best Rock Album?

41. Wayne Gretzky is arguably the greatest Canadian to ever play the game of hockey. What World Hockey Association team gave him his pro start, drafting him in 1977 at the age of 16?

42. On Sept. 28, 1972, Paul Henderson scored the winning goal in a 6-5 Canadian victory over Russia with just 34 seconds left in the third period of game eight. Who was credited with the assist?

43. Who was voted Female Athlete of the Century for Canada by The Canadian Press and Broadcast News, and why?

44. What Canadian has won the most Olympic medals?

45. Since 1967, what university football program has won the most Vanier Cups? Who has lost the most Vanier Cups? Who has made the most Vanier Cup appearances?

46. What Canadian boxer was the first fighter to ever go the distance with Muhammad Ali?

47. What Canadian swimmer won two gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the first swimming gold medals for Canada in 72 years? And in what events did he win them?

48. From 1892, the Stanley Cup was awarded in the sport of hockey every year but one - in what year was there no cup and why? And prior to 1892, for what sport was the Stanley Cup awarded?

49. What was the fate of the first The Bluenose yacht, built in 1921 as part of an international rivalry between Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, and Gloucester, Massachusetts?

50. What Canadian road cyclist tied with mountain biker Alison Sydor for the honour of Top Canadian Cyclist of the Century?



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