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Canada
Day quiz
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Think you know
it all, eh? Well, with Canada's birthday
it's time to put your skills to the
test.
1.
Fill in the blank in the following
Stompin' Tom song title:
A
_____ Saturday Night
2.
On the kids’ TV show Friendly Giant,
what was the rooster’s name?
A:
Rusty
B: Jimmy
C: Red
3.
How many times per year does the average
sexually active Canadian make love?
A:
52
B: 20
C: 150
4.
In Toronto, we’ve had our share of
colourful mayors. Who once said
"It’s hard to make predictions,
especially about the future."?
A:
Mel Lastman
B: Allan Lamport
C: John Sewell
5.
Which paper’s real-life newsroom stood
in for The Daily Planet in the Superman
movies?
6.
Which of the following provinces are
officially bilingual?
A:
Quebec
B: Ontario
C: New Brunswick
7.
Joe Batt’s Arm is:
A:
A town in Newfoundland
B: A pub
C: A short story by Mordechai Richler
8.
Which city had the first privately owned
TV station in Canada?
A:
Montreal
B: Toronto
C: Sudbury
9.
Igor Gouzenko was:
A:
A Soviet defector
B: The Montreal Canadiens’ 3rd round
pick in 1998
C: The founder of a restaurant chain
10.
What is British Columbia’s
second-biggest industry?
A:
Fishing
B: Marijuana growing
C: Fruit and vegetable growing
11.
Which Prime Minister once told an
anti-alcohol campaigner "Madam, you
smell of water."?
A:
Sir John A. MacDonald
B: Robert Borden
C: Joe Clark
12.
What warm Western Canada wind shares a
name with a kind of fish?
13.
Of the following three cities, which has
the greatest population?
A:
Vancouver
B: Montreal
C: Edmonton
14.
The first Canadian census was performed
in:
A:
1759
B: 1867
C: 1666
15.
Muktuk is a traditional Inuit dish made
from fermented _____.
16.
What’s a BeaverTail?
A:
Children’s nature book
B: Deep-fried dough
C: A bawdy store
17.
What doctor’s birthplace in
Gravenhurst displays gifts from its many
Chinese visitors?
18.
Oreilles de Christ, French for
"Christ’s Ears," is a Quebec
term for:
A:
Confessionals
B: A Christian rock group
C: Deep fried pork rinds
19.
Name the classic Canadian song and band
covered by rock superstar Lenny Kravitz
in 1998.
20.
Which Prime Minister once told an
American audience "Living next to
you is in some ways like sleeping with
an elephant."?
A:
Brian Mulroney
B: Pierre Trudeau
C: Louis St. Laurent
21.
What bait did a Stokes Bay, Ont.
bakery’s owners use to capture a bear
who was stealing their goods?
22.
Which province exports the most seafood?
A:
British Columbia
B: Newfoundland
C: Nova Scotia
23.
A visitor is expected to kiss the _____
in order to become an honourary
Newfoundlander during the ceremony known
as "screeching in."
24.
Moe Kauffman’s Curried Soul is
better known as the theme song for the
venerable CBC program _____?
25.
The easternmost point of land in North
America is in which province?
A:
New Brunswick
B: Newfoundland
C: Prince Edward Island
26.
What geographic feature almost had its
name changed to honour Pierre Trudeau,
but was left as is after an outcry by
relatives of the person it was
originally named for?
27.
Which political leader once said
"We Canadians are extreme
moderates."
A:
Preston Manning
B: Bill Davis
C: Jean Chretien
28.
How much beer does the average Canadian
drink in a year?
A:
105.2 litres
B: 45 litres
C: 68.57 litres
29.
Bob and Doug McKenzie would open their
show by saying "Good day, eh. And
welcome to _____ _____ _____."
30.
Which province’s beer drinkers down
the most suds per capita?
A:
Newfoundland
B: Nova Scotia
C: Quebec
31.
Who said "I don’t even know what
street Canada’s on."?
A:
Al Capone
B: George W. Bush
C: Woody Allen
32.
Which is the warmest province?
A:
Ontario
B: British Columbia
C: Nova Scotia
33.
Which is the coldest province?
A:
Manitoba
B: Saskatchewan
C: Quebec
34.
In 1957, Quebec restaurant owner Fernand
Lachance made Canadian culinary by
creating _____, a gooey, greasy, cheesy
creation?
35.
According to Lieutenant-Governor John
Graves Simcoe, the 1792 establishment of
a _____ would "improve
morals."
36.
Who has the most Winter Olympic gold
medals in Canadian history?
A:
speedskater Gaetan Boucher
B: speedskater Marc Gagnon
C: speedskater Catriona Lemay Doan
Answers:
1.
Sudbury
2. A: Rusty
3. C: 150
4. B: Allan Lamport
5. The Toronto Star
6. C: New Brunswick
7. A: A town in Newfoundland
8. C: Sudbury
9. A: A Soviet defector
10. B: Marijuana growing
11. A: Sir John A. MacDonald
12. Chinook
13. B: Montreal
14. C: 1666
15. Narwhal skin and blubber
16. B: Deep-fried dough
17. Norman Bethune
18. C: Deep fried pork rinds
19. American Woman, by The Guess
Who
20. B: Pierre Trudeau
21. Donuts
22. C: Nova Scotia
23. Cod or puffin
24. As it Happens
25. B: Newfoundland
26. Mount Logan
27. A: Preston Manning
28. C: 68.57 litres
29. Great White North
30. C: Quebec
31. A: Al Capone
32. C: Nova Scotia
33. C: Quebec
34. Poutine
35. Brewery
36. B: speedskater Marc Gagnon
HOW'D
YOU DO?
30-36
correct:
Congratulations, Captain Canuck. Your
knowledge of the true north, strong and
free, is truly remarkable. Our
beaver-skin cap is off to you.
20-29 correct: While many were
sleeping during Grade 7 geography and
history, you were obviously wide awake.
So your memory has slipped a little, but
who's hasn't. Just try and spend a
couple of hours curled up with some old
textbooks before next year's
celebrations.
10-19 correct: You show a lot of
potential. Maybe your Canadian pursuits
run to the more physical: hockey, snow
shoeing or figure skating? But the next
time you open the paper, leave the
Sports for a bit and start out on the
National pages.
5-9 correct: This obviously
wasn't your day. Try to spend some time
eating back bacon while watching Beachcombers
reruns and listening to Neil Young
albums. That may do the trick.
0-4 correct: We're going to have
to ask you to turn in any Canadian
memorabilia you may have in your
possession. When travelling in foreign
lands, please do not display the Maple
Leaf, lest you be asked by the natives
to answer skill-testing questions and
ruin it for the rest of us.
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