QUIZ: TRUE PATRIOT LORE.
1 Which province is the only officially bilingual province?
2 Who is the Queen’s representative in Canada?
3 What is Canada’s official summer sport?
4 Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best are best known for their discovery of what?
5 Due to a shortage of coins in New France in the 17th century, settlers used which nontraditional form of currency?
6 In the 1940s, a group of pioneering modern abstract artists emerged from Quebec. What were they known as?
7 Michaëlle Jean, the first black Governor General of Canada, was born in which country?
8 What three oceans border Canada?
9 Which baseball player hit his first professional home run at Hanlan’s Point in Toronto?
10 What is Canada’s approximate population?
11 In which province or territory will you find the highest mountain peak in Canada?
12 Who was the Canadian silent film actress known as “America’s Sweetheart” during her career in Hollywood?
13 Which Canadian population was the last to be granted the vote in 1960?
14 The remains of a Viking settlement have been found at what site in Newfoundland?
15 In what year did Alberta and Saskatchewan join Confederation?
16 What is the name of the monster that allegedly lives in B.C.’s Lake Okanagan?
17 Which province was the first to grant voting rights for women?
18 What three Canadian cities have hosted the Olympics?
19 More than 26,000 Canadians served in this conflict, often called “The Forgotten War.”
20 O Canada was proclaimed Canada’s National Anthem in 1980. When was it first performed?
21 Who is credited with establishing the first permanent European settlement in what became Canada?
22 What Canadian team won the first Olympic gold medal in ice hockey in 1920?
23 What is the name of Canada’s national police force?
24 The Canadian Coat of Arms and motto is “A Mari Usque Ad Mare.” This means what?
25 Which Inuk artist is best known for her print The Enchanted Owl? 26 Which city was home to Canada’s first parliament?
27 Who was Canada’s first woman MP, elected in 1921?
28 Who is the author of the acclaimed novel The Book of Negroes?
29 What is Canada’s largest national park?
30 From 1867 to 1982, Canada Day was known as what?