Science
It takes this many days for the moon to orbit the Earth.
What is 28?
This person, at the age of 39, became Canada's youngest prime minister at the time.
Who is Joe Clark?
Shuswap Lake is located in which province?
What is BC?
This duo sing one of my favorite Christmas songs, "Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth".
Who are Bing Crosby and David Bowie.
This musical artist's song, Never Surrender, was named single of the year in 1985.
Who is Corey Hart?
The job name for a person who learns about the past by unearthing and studying objects from former times.
What is an archaeologist?
True or false: Snowflakes are not the only form of snow.
What is "True"?
This woman has so far been Canada's only female prime minister.
Bonus points if you can remember the year she was PM.
Who is Kim Cambell?
She was PM in 1993.
The longest river in Canada.
What is the MacKenzie?
People argue over whether this movie, starring Bruce Willis, is a Christmas movie or not.
What is Die Hard?
This actor's films included "Planes, Trains & Automobiles", and "The Great Outdoors."
Who was John Candy?
The biggest human structure ever built. Contrary to popular belief, it is NOT visible from space.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This Canadian province holds the record for the most snow angels ever made simultaneously in multiple locations.
What is Nova Scotia?
In 2011, 22,022 Nova Scotia residents in 130 separate locations all plopped down in the snow to make snow angels.
Family allowance and Unemployment Insurance were established in Canada during this war.
What is WWII?
This is the river that flows through Calgary.
What is the Bow River?
This man is known for a couple of things, and one of them is that he brought the tradition of an indoor Christmas tree to England, and started an ongoing custom in Canada and the US.
The other thing he is famous for is not really a Christmas thing, so we'll just leave it aside for now ;)
Who is Prince Albert?
This iconic rock band's albums include "Fully Completely", and "Road Apples."
Bonus points if you can name the lead singer.
Who are the Tragically Hip?
Gord Downey.
This scientist is famous for his theory of evolution.
Bonus points if you can name the title of his book on the topic correctly.
Who was Charles Darwin?
On the Origin of Species.
On Dec. 21 of this year, these two planets made their closest approach to each other in the last 800 years.
What are Jupiter and Saturn?
This boat sank off the shores of NFLD in 1912.
What is the Titanic?
Oak Island belongs to this picturesque province.
What is Nova Scotia?
This Christmas song, sung by many a wonderful musician through the years, pretty much describes where ALL of us will be this year ;)
What is "(I'll be) Home for Christmas" ?
This Canadian television drama was filmed in Gibsons, BC.
Bonus points if you can name the character played by Robert Clothier.
What is The Beachcombers?
Relic.
According to the Ancient Egyptians, this was the name of the god of the sun.
Who/What was Ra?
The tail of a comet always points towards the Sun, true or false?
Bonus points if you can correctly explain your answer.
What is false?
Because of solar wind, the tail is blown off the 'back' of the comet as it passes or circles the sun.
BC Premier W.A.C. Bennet was leader of this political party.
What is the SoCred or Social Credit party?
How many of the highest 20 mountain peaks in Canada are located in BC: 15, 10, 5, or 1.5?
What is 1.5? Weirdly enough, we share one of our tallest peaks with Alaska, apparently. We really only have one whole mountain to claim in the top 20, and it isn't Mt. Robson (that's #21). It's called Mt. Waddington.
Elvis Presley isn't going to have a White Christmas, but rather this colour.
What is Blue? A blue Christmas.
This theatrical comedy troupe was founded at the Old Firehall Theatre in Toronto, in 1973.
What is Second City Revue?
This famed British explorer was killed in Hawai'i, after he tried to kidnap a king.
Who was Captain James Cook?
According to this aerospace organization, Santa travels 317,000,000 miles, at a speed of 1,800 miles per second, visiting 390,000 homes every minute! That’s 6,500 homes every second to deliver presents to all who are getting them ;)
What is NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command) ?
North America's first YMCA was built in this city.
What is Montreal?
The longest river in Canada that does not flow into salt water is: The Ottawa, the Pearce, or the Saskatchewan?
What is the Saskatchewan?
This is the name of George Bailey’s guardian angel in "It’s A Wonderful Life."
What is Clarence Odbody ?
This musical artist hosted the CBC's Rita & Friends.
Who was Rita MacNeil?
This was the first Canadian woman to go into space. She traveled on the Discovery shuttle in 1992.
Who is Roberta Bondar?