I Live Here - I Should Know
These crops have been planted in Nova Scotia since the 1600s
a) potatoes
b) haskap berries
c) wine grapes
d) barley
c) Wine grapes. It’s the oldest wine region in Canada.
Alert, Nunavut - Canada’s newest province, only accessible by air and sea.
a) Where did dog sleds originate
b) What is the world’s coldest place
c) What is the world’s northernmost settlement
d) Where in Canada is the largest per capita consumption of diesel fuel
c) Nunavut is the world's Northernmost Settlement (at 817 km from the North Pole at the North Tip of Ellesmere Island) - mainly a temporary home to military and scientific personnel
A Canadian pharmacist invented this spreadable.
a) Cheese Whiz
b) Margarine
c) Marmalade
d) Peanut Butter
d) Marcellus Gilmore Edson patented a method to turn roasted peanuts into peanut butter in 1884.
This Canadian singer’s 1997 album Come on Over is the all-time bestselling record by a female artist.
a) Celine Dion
b) Shania Twain
c) Avril Lavigne
d) Alanis Morisette
b) Shania Twain. It’s also the bestselling country album of all time
This property of water, due to it's content of salt, adds mass (ie more weight to the water) making it denser and allowing more objects to float on the surface that would sink in fresh water.
a) what is oceanic
b) what is saline
c) what is bouyancy
d) what is briney
c) What is Bouyancy
The world’s oldest water was found at this type of are in Northern Ontario
a) mine
b) boreal forest
c) Canadian Shield
d) lakeland
a) Kidd Mine, an (underground) base metal mine north of Timmins. A pool of two billion-year-old water was discovered in one of the underground tunnels in 2016
Canada Has more of these than the rest of the world combined
a) Maple Trees
b) Beavers
c) Lakes
d) Aquifers
c) Lakes. Some nine per cent of Canada’s surface area is covered by fresh water.
This type of pizza was created by Sam Panapoulos in London, Ontario, in 1962.
a) Deluxe
b) Margherita
c) Hawaiian
d) Stuffed Crust
c) Hawaiian pizza. He had a hunch that the sweet pineapple and savoury ham would go well together. And it does
Drake still gets royalties from his appearance on this teen drama
a) Degrassi: The Next Generation
b) Glee
c) One Tree Hill
d) Gossip Girl
Degrassi: The Next Generation (2000) . He posted a photo of a cheque for $8.25 on his Instagram in 2017
This Guelph, ON resident has written more than 40 books, with total sales of more than 30 million copies and is the best selling Canadian author of all time.
a) Who is Robert Munsch
b) Who is Margaret Atwood
c) Who is Lucy Maud Montgomery
d) Who is Ernest Hemingway
a) Who is Robert Munsch
“Pile-of-Bones” was the original name for this Canadian provincial capital.
a) Edmonton
b) Halifax
c) Whitehorse
d) Regina
d) Regina - Pileof-Bones was its anglicized Cree moniker, named for buffalo remains
On the world stage - Canada boasts having the second largest:
a) exports of LNG
b) rate of population growth
c) dualistic economy
d) land area
d) land area - at 9.98 million sq miles (largest is Russia)
Quebec is the world’s top producer of this condiment
a) Maple Syrup
b) Dijon Mustard
c) Wasabi
d) Ketchup
a) Maple syrup. The province makes about 73 per cent of the global supply.
Canadian engineer Wally Floody was the principal architect of the real-life tunnels that inspired this classic 1963 war film
a) The Devil's Brigade
b) The Longest Day
c) The Dirty Dozen
d) The Great Escape
d) The Great Escape. He helped orchestrate a POW breakout from Poland’s Stalag Luft 3 in 1944. In the movie, Charles Bronson played a character based on him.
Disney animator Charles Thorsen apparently based this character on a waitress he met in Winnipeg
a) Rapunzel
b) Cindarella
c) Belle
d) Snow White
d) Snow White. The server in question worked at a diner called the Weevil Café
To this day, this province has a town called Swastika.
a) British Columbia
b) Manitoba
c) Ontario
d) Alberta
c) Ontario. The former (gold) mining town was named in 1906 after what is, in some cultures, considered a good-luck symbol.
The word Canada originates from:
a) The French Language
b) A Celtic Language
c) An Indigenous Lanuage
d) A Scandinavian Language
c) An Indigenous word
The word kanata means “settlement” or “village” in the language of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians. Sadly, these indigenous people disappeared in the 16th century, during wars with the Mohawk who wanted a monopoly on trade with Europeans at the time.
Some 90 per cent of Canadians live within 160 kilometres of this
a) a fresh water body
b) a unique geographic area
c) a forest
d) the US border
d) The U.S. border. Vast swaths of the country north of this point are undeveloped.
This folk singer was discovered by the same talent agent who signed Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.
a) Joni Mitchell
b) Gordon Lightfoot
c) Leonard Cohen
d) Buffy Sainte-Marie
c) Leonard Cohen. John Hammond of Columbia Records became a fan of Cohen after seeing him perform at a folk festival
Where the world’s smallest desert (the Carross which measures only 2.6 square kilometers) can be found.
a) Alberta
b) Saskatchewan
c) New Brunswick
d) Yukon
d) the Yukon
People in Churchill, MB leave their cars unlocked for people escaping these:
a) record low temperatures
b) mosquitoes
c) arctic blasts
d) polar bears
d) Polar bears. It’s one of several local strategies designed to mitigate attacks
This area in Canada is the Geographical center of North America, at 50°26' and 104°37'
a) what is Winnipeg, MN
b) what is Regina, SK
c) what is Thunder Bay, ON
d) what is Kenora, ON
b) What is Regina, SK
Latitude and Longitude are measurements of the distance North or South of the Equator. These are what the symbols °, ' and " represent.
a) what are degrees, seconds and minutes
b) what are degrees, inches and feet
c) what are degrees, mm and cm
d) what are degrees, bits and bobs
a) what are degrees, seconds and minutes
This Whitish Creme colored bear is a subspecies of the American Black Bear. It's color is caused by a double recessive gene, unique to the subspecies
a) What is a Spirit Bear
b) What is a Polar Bear
c) What is an Albino Bear
d) What is an Andean Bear
a) What is a Spirit Bear (aka Kermode Bear)
In 1958, the Canadian government destroyed this underwater mountain with explosives.
a) Hopewell Rock
b) Balancing Rock
c) Ripple Rock
d) The Dungeon
c) Ripple Rock, near the Campbell River in British Columbia. The hidden peak was causing hundreds of boating accidents each year.