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Canada Day Quiz answers

History 1. Kanata is the Huron-Iroquois word for village or “a cluster of dwellings”. Jacques Cartier is credited as the first European to recognize this. 2. Neither; both died in the battle. 3. Chuckigh or Cheekye, meaning “dirty snow.” 4. 34 years.

History

1. Kanata is the Huron-Iroquois word for village or “a cluster of dwellings”. Jacques Cartier is credited as the first European to recognize this.

2. Neither; both died in the battle.

3. Chuckigh or Cheekye, meaning “dirty snow.”

4. 34 years. Australia became a commonwealth of the British Empire in 1901. Canada became a self-governing empire in 1867.

5. Simon Fraser.

6. In 1885, just after the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed. Between 1881 and 1884, while the railway was being constructed, more than 15,000 Chinese came to Canada. About 6,500 of these were employed directly by the CPR. The head tax was removed in 1923.

7. Frederick Banting and John J. R. Macleod were given the prize for the discovery of insulin. Banting shared his prize with his assistant Charles Best.

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

9. Franklin D. Roosevelt visited Kingston in 1938.

10. Camp X, on the Oshawa-Whitby border, included Special Training School 103 and Hydra. STS 103 trained allied agents in the techniques of secret warfare for the Special Operations Executive branch of the British Intelligence Service. Hydra network communicated vital messages between Canada, the United States and Great Britain.

11. Lester B. Pearson.

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

13. During the FLQ crisis of 1970, with guns, tanks and soldiers patrolling Parliament Hill, the reporter asked the Prime Minister how far he would go to keep law and order in society, to which he got the famous reply. Two days later the War Measures Act was invoked.

14. That would be Joe Clark, from June 1979 to March 1980 for a total of eight months and 30 days.

15. The Maple Leaf Forever.

16. Newfoundland and Manitoba. Between June 23, 1987 and July 7, 1988 eight provinces — including Newfoundland — and the House of Commons ratified the Meech Lake Accord, but in April 1990 Newfoundland rescinded its support. New Brunswick ratified it two months later but the accord died on June 22, 1990, after the Newfoundland and Manitoba legislatures adjourned without voting on the accord .

17. A third territory called Nunavut was created. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories through the Nunavut Act.

18. After 140,000 nominations and 1.2 million votes, Tommy Douglas was named Greatest Canadian. He is considered Canada’s Father of Medicare.

 

Geography answers

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

20. Quebec City

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

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

23. Turks and Caicos

24. Yukon Territory

25. 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.

26. 9.2 per cent

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

28. 204 years

29. Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

30. France

31. 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.

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

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

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

35. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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

37. The Northumberland Straight

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

 

Politics

39. Sir John A. Macdonald. He resigned in 1873.

40. Lester B. Pearson, who was PM when the flag was inaugurated on Parliament hill on Feb. 15, 1965.

41. The Queen of England. Her powers are ceremonial in Canada.

42. 24 Sussex Drive, in Ottawa. The house was built in 1866 by MP Joseph Merrill Currier. He called the home Gorffwysfa, Welsh for “place of rest”.

43. The tax dropped from 7 to 6 per cent.

44. The NDP, up 10 seats from the 2004 vote.

45. Hockey.

46. Laureen.

47. In Heiligdendamm, Germany. Canada will host the G8 in 2010 in Edmonton.

48. John Baird. No — the Conservatives have abandoned the Kyoto Protocol target of a 6 per cent cut in GHG emissions below 1990 levels by 2012.

49. The popular party of prostitutes is fighting to end all discrimination and hypocrisy in relation to the sex trade and the decriminalization of all sex work, among other things.

50. 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.

51. Joan McIntyre — Liberal.

52. 1975. British Columbians next elect their civic leaders in November 2008.

53. Mayor Ken Melamed and Councillor Nancy Wilhelm-Morden tie with four terms in office each, although Melamed’s terms have been consecutive.

54. Pat Carleton.

 

Sports

55. Five medals. Gold and bronze at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germay in downhill. Bronze at Lenzerheide, Switzerland in super G. Silver at Kvitfjell, Norway in downhill. Silver at Val D’Isere, France in downhill.

56. Jamie Cudmore.

57. Bobsleigh, Luge and Skeleton. T he Whistler Sliding Centre will have a 1,450 metre track with a 175 metre vertical drop, with 16 corners. Top speeds will average 130 km/h, making this track one of the most challenging in the world.

58. Darren Berrecloth.

59. Sochi, Russia; Salzburg, Austria; and PyeongChang, Republic of Korea.

60. Vancouver Whitecaps, Toronto Lynx, and Montreal Impact.

61. The Calgary Flames were defeated by the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2004; the Edmonton Oilers were defeated by the Carolina Hurricanes in 2006; the Ottawa Senators were defeated by the Anaheim Ducks in 2007.

62. Drew Neilson.

63. Men’s and women’s BMX. The UCI BMX World Championships are taking place in Victoria July 26-29 this year.

64. Alex Prochazka landed a double backflip.

65. 1928.

66. The five major regions of the world: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.

67. Spirit in Motion.

68. Snow. It was brought into New York by the truckloads when the cross-country ski trails melted.

69. Jarome Iginla, who played for the Canadian hockey team at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics.

70. Revelstoke.



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