Canadian Animals
True or False: There are sharks in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick.
True
If you go to Ontario, you can visit all the Great Lakes except for this one:
A) Lake Erie
B) Lake Huron
C) Lake Michigan
D) Lake Ontario
E) Lake Superior
C) Lake Michigan
What is Newfoundland and Labrador's capital?
A) Saint John
B) St. John's
B) St. John's
Which soft drink once contained cocaine as one of its original ingredients?
Coca-Cola!
Where was coffee invented, according to most researchers as well as a popular legend about a goat herder?
Ethiopia
Which Canadian animal is the only species of deer where males and females can both grow antlers?
A) Caribou
B) Moose
C) Whitetail Deer
D) Mule Deer
A) Caribou
How many oceans does Canada touch?
A) two oceans
B) three oceans
C) four oceans
B) three oceans
A million letters are delivered every year to Santa Claus at his address at the "North Pole, Canada." He even has his own personal postal code. What is it?
A) TW1 NKL
B) H0H 0H0
B) SN0 SN0
B) H0H 0H0
Who, in 1903, was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie
Which country was the birthplace of the Renaissance?
Italy
What animal is on the Canadian 25-cent coin?
A) Moose
B) Caribou
C) Elk
B) Caribou
One of Canada's provinces has mostly straight lines (or "borders") all the way around. Which of the following is it?
A) Alberta
B) Ontario
C) Saskatchewan
C) Saskatchewan
What are the people who are from Nunavut called?
A) Nunavutians
B) Nunavummiut
C) Nunavians
B) Nunavummiut
The Hawaiian Islands archipelago is made up of what number of major islands?
A) 2
B) 4
C) 6
D) 8
E) 10
D) 8
Which event marked the beginning of World War II?
A) Assassination of France Duke Ferdinand
B) 911
C) Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939
D) Boer Wars
C) Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939
Manitoba's provincial animal is this large herbivore (an animal that eats plants) that used to live in Manitoba's open plains.
A) Bison
B) Moose
C) Wolverine
A) Bison
Each province and territory has its capital city, the home of the government. Which province has a capital city named Charlottetown?
A) Nova Scotia
B) New Brunswick
C) Prince Edward Island
C) Prince Edward Island
When you think of Quebec, you probably think of poutine. But did you know that a lot of other things were invented here? Which of these was also invented in Quebec?
A) Mobile snowblower
B) Headphones
C) Stapler
D) Crayons
A) Mobile snowblower
Correct! Inventor Arthur Sicard is considered to have invented the mobile snowblower in 1925. It was basically a truck with a snow thrower chute that could throw the snow 27 metres. It wasn't the type of snowblower you could use at home.
Which bird can fly backward?
A) puffins
B) finches
C) hummingbirds
D) pelicans
E) blue jays
C) hummingbird
Which ancient city was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD?
Pompeii
Prince Edward Island has a lot of interesting animals. There are some that live on the island today that are not from there, but were introduced by humans. Which one of these animals was brought to the island?
A) Beaver
B) Stripped skunk
C) Red squirrel
D) Snowshoe hare
B) Stripped skunk
The Northwest Territories is home to Canada's largest national park — Wood Buffalo National Park. It's so big, that it stretches from the Northwest Territories into which other neighbouring province or territory?
A) Alberta
B) Nunavut
C) Yukon
D) British Columbia
A) Alberta
British Columbia has a lot of legends of mythical monsters and hairy beasts. Which of these is a famous BC monster?
A) Sasquatch
B) Ogopogo
C) Jack-a-lope
D) All of the above
D) All of the above
Sasquatch is said to be a large hairy man who lives in the forest. Ogopogo is a lake monster. The Jack-a-lope is a horned rabbit-antelope mix.
What is the only food that does not spoil?
Honey
True or False: The world’s oldest continuously inhabited city is Damascus.
True