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70 Questions About Canada

CULTURE What was invented by Chris Haney and Scott Abbott in Montreal in 1979? Where was the original Bluenose schooner built? Who won best new artist at the 2003 Juno Awards? What year did Maple Leaf forward Bill Barilko disappear and what year was

CULTURE

What was invented by Chris Haney and Scott Abbott in Montreal in 1979?

Where was the original Bluenose schooner built?

Who won best new artist at the 2003 Juno Awards?

What year did Maple Leaf forward Bill Barilko disappear and what year was he found? According to the Tragically Hip song 50 Mission Cap, what else happened in both those years?

Who sings the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?

What year did the Edmund Fitzgerald sink in Lake Superior?

What Canadian actor has played an idiot, a lawyer, god, the star of a reality TV show and a detective?

In the movie Strange Brew, what beer company did Bob and Doug McKenzie work for? BONUS: What’s the name of their dog?

The world’s first documentary film was shot in Canada in 1922 by filmmaker Robert Flaherty. What was the name of that film?

What is the national animal of Canada?

What animal is on the back of the Toonie?

The "spirit bear" lives in the rainforests of B.C. What is the proper name of the spirit bear and how is this bear different from black bears?

What is the name of the red-haired orphan from Prince Edward Island made famous by Lucy Maude Montgomery?

Canadian author Yann Martel won the Booker Prize in 2002 for his story of a boy from India who journeys to Canada. What’s the name of the book?

Who wrote the Deptford Trilogy (Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders)?

What Canadian art-rock band recently released an album with a song titled "Satan is the Whistler"?

What Robert Service ballad told of a queer sight on the marge of Lake Lebarge?

What Canadian entertainer won a recent battle with testicle cancer, then invited his cameras along on his search for a prosthetic?

What Vancouver songwriter wished he had a rocket launcher?

Under CanCon regulations, the CRTC sets a minimum for radio stations regarding the amount of Canadian Content they must include in their programming. Is it 20 %? 25%? 30 %? Or 35%?

GEOGRAPHY

What is Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik Lake’s claim to fame?

Where is the RCMP Museum and Barracks?

One of Canada’s heroes, young Terry Fox, started a westward run across Canada from St. John’s to Victoria to support cancer research. Where did Fox stop running after the cancer appeared in his lungs? BONUS: What was the run called?

What is Alberta’s top tourist attraction with over 22 million guests annually?

The largest park in Canada spans more than 44,000 square kilometres through Alberta and the Northwest Territories. What is the name of that park?

Canada’s oldest National Park was created in 1885. Name that park.

Canada has the highest tides in the world, rising and falling between 20 and 40 feet in some places. Where can you find them?

If it’s noon in Victoria, what time is it in St. John’s, Newfoundland?

What’s the principal ingredient of a very famous drink that you can only order at the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Yukon?

What is the name of Canada’s oldest company?

What is the name of Canada’s biggest island?

What percentage of the world’s lakes are within Canada’s borders: a) more than 25 per cent b) more than 50 per cent c) more than 70 per cent?

According to the 2001 Census the nation’s population continues to concentrate in four broad urban regions: the Golden Horseshoe of southern Ontario, Montreal and its surrounding regions, the Lower Mainland and southern Vancouver Island, and the Calgary-Edmonton corridor. What percentage of Canadians live within these four areas: a) 36 per cent b) 43 per cent c) 47 per cent d) 51 per cent?

What is the tallest peak entirely within British Columbia?

What is Canada’s most northern island?

Down to the east.

Where in Canada is Dinosaur Valley, the site of our richest fossil finds?

POLITICS & HISTORY

Who is Canada’s only female Prime Minister?

Who is Canada’s Father of Confederation?

How many provinces were part of Confederation in 1867?

How much older is Canada than Australia?

Where was Prime Minister Jean Chretien born?

Who is Canada’s Governor General?

What was the last province to join Confederation? BONUS: In what year?

What is the official residence of the Prime Minister of Canada?

Q: Name one of the two men who were awarded Canada’s first Nobel prize in Physiology/Medicine in 1923?

What was Pierre Elliott Trudeau referring to when he said to a CBC TV reporter "Just watch me."

In 1974, where was Trudeau when he gave the finger to a group of striking government protestors?

What former Prime Minister said: "I would rather have played for the Leafs than be prime minister of Canada." HINT: He also won a Nobel Peace Prize.

What leader of the Metis people was hanged for treason in Regina on November 16, 1885?

Whose birthday do Canadians celebrate on May 24 weekend?

What’s the name of Canada’s groundhog who predicts the coming of Spring on Feb 2?

In 1759 the British, led by General Wolfe, defeated the French, led by General Montcalm, in battle on the Plains of Abraham. Which general celebrated?

SPORTS & OLYMPICS

What is the national sport of Canada?

Toronto lost its bid for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. What city will host them instead? BONUS: Who else was in the running?

Where is Canada’s only bobsleigh and luge track?

Who provided a bit of comic relief in the 1988 Olympic Winter Games at Calgary in the sport of ski jumping?

Who is the first Canadian to don the green jacket at the Augusta National Golf Club?

Sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal and world record for drug use at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. What event was he competing in?

What Whistler resident raised $1 million for spinal cord research after crossing Canada on a hand-peddled bike?

What did Canada contribute to the 1932 Lake Placid Winter Games when the weather wouldn’t cooperate?

In which event did Etienne Desmarteau win Canada’s first Olympic gold medal in 1904?

What Alberta event first took place in 1912?

Skier Anne Heggtveit won the Olympic gold in slalom in 1960. Where were those Games held?

Who was the first black Canadian athlete to win a gold medal at the winter Olympics?

Myriam Bedard won two gold medals in biathlon at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, but her second victory – in the 7.5 km race – was made more difficult by what technical problem?

Which B.C. town formed Canada’s first ski club?

On Nov. 21, 1998 members of the Canadian Olympic Association gathered in Toronto to vote on which city – Vancouver, Calgary or Quebec – would represent Canada’s bid for the 2010 Winter Olympics. But results of the voting weren’t counted and released until Dec. 1, 1998. Why?

What was buried in the ice at Salt Lake City Olympic Games where both the Canadian men’s and women’s hockey team took the gold medal from the U.S.?

What professional heavyweight boxer won the gold medal for Canada in the 1988 Seoul Olympic?



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