WWI
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
100
Credited with killing 378 Germans and capturing 300 more, Francis Pegahmagabow is considered as one of the deadliest THESE in history.
What is a sniper?
100
In 1920s slang, a "jalopy" is one of these useful things.
What is a car?
100
This was a term used during the Great Depression to describe a car that had its engine removed and was pulled by horses.
What is a Bennett Buggy.
100
True or false. The Nazis came to power legally.
What is true?
100
THIS was called the temporary increase in the birth rate after World War II.
What is the Baby Boom?
200
Canadian troops had to contend with the first gas attack in modern history at the second battle of this Belgian city.
What is Ypres?
200
Loud and syncopated. This type of music defined the Roaring Twenties.
What is Jazz!
200
"A Bennett blanket" is what unfortunate folks slept under during the Depression - and you could read them as well.
What is a newspaper?
200
This Italian dictator who invented fascism was eventually killed by an angry mob in Milan for his efforts.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
200
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union, which had its own organization named after a Polish city.
What is Warsaw?
300
True or False. Kaiser Wilhelm II, King George V, and Tsar Nicolas II were all brothers.
False, they were first cousins.
300
In 1920s slang, going "on a toot," meant imbibing excessive amounts of this spirituous substance.
What is alcohol?
300
Named after a dirty container. This was a period of severe ecological and agricultural devastation that occurred in the Canadian Prairies during the 1930s, particularly in southern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta.
What was the Dust Bowl
300
True or False. Only about 10% of the Germans who worked at Auschwitz were ever put on trial.
What is true?
300
This is a genre of popular music that emerged in the United States in the mid-1950s, evolving from rhythm and blues and country music. Elvis liked to sing it...
What is rock and roll?
400
After the war, the “Big Four” leaders of the US, Britain, France, and this Boot-Shaped country were in charge of the peace negotiations at Versallies. Germany was not there. Neither was Russia, which had fought on the Allied side until 1917 when its new government made peace with Germany.
What is Italy?
400
These were young women who embraced a more liberated and fashionable lifestyle.
Who are flapppers?
400
During the Great Depression, the federal government sanctioned the creation of a system of unemployment relief camps, where in exchange for room-and-board, single men did this...
What is work?
400
This infamous raid occurred on August 19, 1942. Known as Operation Jubilee, it involved more than 6,000 men, including almost 5,000 Canadians. In total, 916 Canadians died during the ill-fated raid.
What is the Dieppe Raid?
400
THIS was a conflict between communist and non-communist countries that lasted from 1945 to 1991.
What is the Cold War?
500
The explosions in France during the Battle of the Somme were so loud, they were said to be heard in this capital of the UK.
What is London?
500
In 1929, this crashed marked the end of the "Roaring Twenties"
What is the stock market?
500
After public protest and agitation in Vancouver due to the poor conditions of work relief camps, strikers then set forth on a Trek to THIS city, to bring their demands to Parliament. The strikers failed to convince Bennett's government to change its camps policy, and they eventually retreated to Regina, where their protest ended in violence during the Regina Riot of 1 July.
What is Ottawa?
500
THIS was the code name used for a 10 km stretch of French coastline assaulted by Canadian soldiers on D-Day, 6 June 1944.
What is Juno beach?
500
This Quebec politician started the Quiet Revolution.
Who is Rene Levesque?