CANADA DAY QUIZ
Who called Toronto ‘the most perfect city in the Western Hemisphere?’ — and other questions to ponder on the holiday
Land of immigrants 1. Canada was founded by an immigrant. John Alexander Macdonald was born in a. Edinburgh b. Glasgow c. Aberdeen 2. Which of Macdonald’s 32 fellow “Fathers of Confederation” below was not an immigrant to Canada. a. Thomas D’Arcy McGee b. George Brown c. John Hamilton Gray d. George-Étienne Cartier 3. In 2016, the latest year for which statistics are available, Canada welcomed immigrants from how many countries? a. 63 b. 87 c. 190 4. In the past three years, the largest source country of Canadian immigrants has been a. India b. China c. Philippines
5. Germany and Sweden have granted refugee status to 300,000 and approximately 45,000 Syrian refugees, respectively, while other countries have been less accommodating, including the U.S. (18,534), Britain (5,102) and Russia ( just 1 Syrian national). By January 2017, the latest figure available, Canada had settled how many Syrian refugees? a. 10,907 b. 20,489 c. 40,081 6. With an annual addition of approximately 150,000 immigrants each year, the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) grows by the total population of a. London, Ont. b. Calgary c. Saint John, N.B. every seven years from immigration alone. 7. With its large and growing immigrant population, the Toronto ex-urb of Brampton (population 600,000) now exceeds in size the cities, though not the greater metropolitan areas, of a. Miami b. Kansas City c. Atlanta d. each of the above The Land
8. The sun first rises on North America at a. Portland, Me. b. St. Lucia, West Indies c. St. John’s, N.L. 9. With 243,797 km of ocean coastline, which country leads the world in saltwater coastline? a. Russia b. Canada c. Australia 10. Manitoba is known as a. “the land of 10,000 lakes” b. “the land of 50,000 lakes” c. “the land of 100,000 lakes” 11. What portion of Canada’s surface is covered by its estimated 31,750 lakes? a. 1 per cent b. 3 per cent c. 9 per cent 12. Founder of the first North West Co. trading posts in what is now central B.C., this explorer described the mighty, turbulent river he discovered, now named for him, as a place “where no human beings should venture.” a. David Thompson b. Samuel de Champlain c. Simon Fraser Wildlife wonders
13. Most of Canada’s 30 billion honeybees, of critical importance in pollination of crops, and whose prodigious output makes Canada one of the world’s top five honey producers, are located in a. Quebec b. the Prairies c. the Okanagan Valley 14. The world’s largest population of healthy beluga whales is located near a. Alert, Nunavut b. Bic, Que. c. Churchill, Man. 15. The world’s largest herd of freeroaming bison is found in a. Jasper National Park b. Wood Buffalo National Park c. Kootenay National Park
The Sporting Life
Match the country with its standing in the total medal count at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
16. Germany
17. U.S.
18. Netherlands
19. Canada
20. Norway a. 1st b. 2nd c. 3rd d. 4th e. 5th 21. The 2018 Games were Canada’s most successful, with a total of 29 medals, topping the 26 medals Canada earned at the 2010 Games in a. Sochi, Russia b. Vancouver c. Turin, Italy 22. The Canadian Football League club with the most Grey Cup championships, at 11, is the a. Calgary Stampeders b. Edmonton Eskimos c. Winnipeg Blue Bombers 23. The Toronto Argonauts’ victory in the most recent Grey Cup game is the club’s a. 5th b. 6th c. 7th CFL championship. 24. North America’s oldest annual sporting event, dating from 1816, is the a. English Bay (Vancouver) Polar Bear Swim b. Highland Games (Fergus, Ont.) c. Highland Games (Cape Breton, N.S.) d. Royal St. John’s Regatta 25. In 2017, which Major League Soccer club set the all-time regular season record for total points, at 69? a. L.A. Galaxy b. Seattle Sounders FC c. Toronto FC 26. In 2017, for the first time in its a. 9 b. 11 c. 13 seasons, Toronto FC won the MLS Cup championship. Landmarks Match the landmark with its location.
27. Burrard Street Bridge
28. Château Frontenac hotel (now operated as the Fairmont Le Château Frontenac)
29. Mount Royal Park
30. Scotiabank Saddledome
31. Citadel Hill fortress complex
32. Cabot Tower, Signal Hill
33. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts a. St. John’s b. Calgary c. Toronto d. Vancouver e. Quebec City f. Montreal g. Halifax 34. The largest hydraulic boat lift in the world at the time of its 1904 opening is located at a. Severn Falls, Ont. b. Kirkfield, Ont. c. Peterborough, Ont. 35. The Forks in Winnipeg, at the confluence of the Red River and the Assiniboine River, was a meeting place for early aboriginal peoples for at least a. 400 years b. 1,700 years c. 6,000 years Match the province with its licenceplate motto.
36. Nova Scotia
37. Alberta
38. Ontario a. Wildrose Country b. Yours to Discover c. Canada’s Ocean Playground 39. Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, the world’s second-largest pediatric research hospital, after Boston Children’s Hospital; and Mount Sinai Hospital, a world-leading medical-research centre, were each a. financed with a property-taxes surtax b. 50-bed hospitals when they first opened c. founded by women Who said what? Match the comment with the speaker.
40. “Women have to be twice as smart as men to prove they’re half as good. Fortunately, that’s not hard to do.”
41. “You can’t call yourself an entrepreneur until you’ve mortgaged your house to the business.”
42. “We are all immigrants to this place even if we were born here. The country is too big for anyone to inhabit completely, and in the parts unknown to us we move in fear, exiles and invaders.” 43. “Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it’s doing in the Maritimes.”
44. “I deny the allegation, and I defy the alligators.” a. Ottawa-born novelist Margaret Atwood b. Broadcasting pioneer Edward (Ted) Rogers c. Ottawa mayor Charlotte Whitton d. Toronto mayor Allan Lamport e. Medicare founder T.C. (Tommy) Douglas, former premier of Saskatchewan Regarding Canada: Views from abroad Match the view of Canada from abroad with the commenter.
45. On the mountains of Alberta and B.C.: “I have seen my dream mountains. Most boys never do.”
46. On the Niagara Parkway: “The prettiest Sunday afternoon drive in the world.”
47. On Montreal: “Built around an extinct volcano, (it) sits majestically on its island in the St. Lawrence … There is great cultural vitality and a joie de vivre unknown elsewhere in North America.”
48. On Toronto: “The most perfect city in the Western Hemisphere.”
49.“Canada is a place of infinite promise (because) the hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.”
50. “Saskatchewan is much like Texas — except it’s more friendly to the United States.” a. American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury b. British economist John Maynard Keynes c. British mystery writer Arthur Conan Doyle d. The Michelin Guide e. U.S. statesman Adlai Stevenson f. British statesman Winston Churchill