A Canadian Quiz, eh! Answers
Taken from the Owen Sound Sun Times
by Jeff Holubitsky
Don't feel too bad if you didn't get them all - these are tough questions!
Geography
2. Rabbit Creek, renamed Bonanza Creek.
3. As well as being Canada's outhernmost mainland point, it's further south than the northern boundary of California. The point of land jutting south into Lake Erie is a mecca for bird watchers and tourists.
4. Quebec, Canada's largest provincewith 1.5 million square kilometres.
5. British Columbia.
6. The ice-worm is usually a piece of spaghetti served to gullible greenhorns inYukon.
7. The St. Lawrence is second in North America only to the Mississippi, which is 75 per cent larger. The Mackenzie is a close third.
8.The Sam Kee building, built in 1913, is six-feet wide and houses an insurance office in Vancouver's Old Chinatown.
9. Hartland has the world's longest covered bridge at 1,282 feet.
10. Windsor, which sits south of Detroit.
11. Professor Josiah Flintabbetey Flonatin fromthe obscure tale The Sunless City.
12. The Canada/U.S. border, including the Alaska portion.
Crime
13. 701. The last hanging was Dec. 11, 1962 (My birthday, incidentally) and involved two murderers. Capital punishment was officially abolished in 1976.
14. Death by hanging.
15. Patrick Whelan in 1869 for the murder of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, an MP and Father of Confederation.
16. There never was an Arthur Ellis. The name was used as an alias for Canada's hangman who travelled the country performing his trade.
Business
17. They're the nicknames of New Brunswick's wealthiest sons James, John and Arthur Irving. Their father, K.C. Irving founded the Irving Oil Co., in 1924.
18. Malcolm Bricklin, who was an American from Phoenix, Ariz.
19. Eatons
Politics
20. Pierre Elliot Trudeau after a Regina child threw grain at him.
21. John Diefenbaker
22. Wilfrid Laurier
23. Lester B. Pearson in his 1957 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speach.
24. Saskatchewan under the leadership of Tommy Douglas.
25. Newfoundland on March 31, 1949.
26. Louis Riel
Accomplishments
27. The zipper, invented by Gideon Sundback in 1913.
28. Pablum was developed by three doctors at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children in the late 1920's and the hospital foundation still receives royalties from the infant cereal.
29. Lavallee composed O Canada in 1880.
30. B, a wireless phot transmitter, created in partnership with T. Thorne Baker.
31. A doctor.
32. Former University of Alberta graduate student Murray Campbell helped design IBM's Deep Blue, which beat Garry Kasparov in 1995.
33. He jogged 5,373 kilometres from Newfoundland to the Thunder Bay area, eventually raising $24 million.
Culture
34. Yahtzee, originally called the Yacht Game, was invented in the late 1800's.
35. Four.
36. The Collectors, Sparrow, Chad Allen and the Expressions, The Hawks.
37. The West Edmonton Mall has four, designed to carry 24 tourists at a time on an underwater tour. Canada's navy has three, plus a harbour training sub.
38. d: a deep dish blueberry pie.
39. 20 million.
40. The birth of the Dionne quintuplets.
41. Emily Carr.
42. Fay Wray of King Kong fame was born on a ranch at Cardston and singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is from Fort Macleod.
43. Bryan Adams with 1984's Reckless.
44. Barometre Rising. More than 2,000 people died and 9,000 were injured in the Dec. 6, 1917, explosion that was the largest man-made blast to that date.
45. The Tin Flute
46. Roger Lemelin
47. c: maple syrup
48. 36 years. It was first flown on Parliament Hill on Feb. 15, 1965.
49. The Union Jack from Confederation to 1945 and the Canadian Red Ensign from 1945 to 1965.
Sports
50. Jackie Parker.
51. Wayne Gretzky. Stan Weir was the centre on the first line.
52. Ferguson Jenkins.
53. maurice "Rocket" Richard.
54. Who knows? The PARTICIPaction commercial wasn't based on any research.
55. c: Edmonton Eskimoo Johnny Bright won in 1959
56. Hockey, lacrosse, basketball, football.
57. Barbara Ann Scott.
58. Ben Johnson was once clocked at 43 km/hr. and Bobby Hull at 47.7 km/hr.
59. Kurt Browning.
60. In 1964, the thoroughbred was the first Canadian-bred horse to win the prestigious Kentucky Derby.
Vital Statistics
61. 23 per cent in 1991, compared with 17 per cent in 1985.
62. 80 per cent.
63. (For the life of me I couldn't find this question but the answer is there - printer's mistake? Here it is for information's sake)
According to Statistics Canada men put in about 40.4 hours a week on the job and women about 35.2 hours.
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