Canadian People
The first and only female prime minister of Canada
Who is Kim Campbell?
This is the number of time zones in Canada
What is 6?
The number of bones in the (adult) human body
What is 206?
This chemical causes the burning sensation when you eat chilies
What is capcaicin?
This animal has the largest brain relative to its body size
What is a hummingbird?
P.E.I. author of popular children’s book Anne of Green Gables
Who is Lucy Maud Montgomery?
True or False: Indonesia has a longer coastline than Canada?
What is False?
Canada has the world’s longest coastline, bordered on three sides by three different oceans: the Atlantic, Arctic and Pacific. Canada has 202,080 km while Indonesia, which has 54,716 km of coastline (source: https://www.readersdigest.ca/travel/canada/10-mind-boggling-facts-about-canada/)
The number of bones in the (infant) human body
What is 270?
At atomic weight 1.008, the lightest element
What is hydrogen?
This is the fastest two-legged animal
What is the ostrich?
This Canadian's face is on the 100 dollar bill
Who is Robert Borden?
True or False: Canada’s lowest recorded temperature is as cold as Mars
What is true? A temperature of -63 C (-81.4 F) was recorded in the small village of Snag, Yukon, on Feb. 3, 1947. That’s roughly the same temperature as the surface of Mars (source: https://www.readersdigest.ca/travel/canada/10-mind-boggling-facts-about-canada/)
The rarest blood type, 0.5% in the general Canadian population
What is AB negative?
FeS2, also known as iron pyrite, is more commonly known as this
What is Fool's Gold?
This is the sleepiest animal in the world, sleeping over 22 hours per day
What is a koala?
The originator for the word Canada
a) Jacques Cartier
b) Samuel de Champlain
c) Jean Nicollet
Who is Jacques Cartier?
Kanata was a word used by the St. Lawrence Iroquois people in Quebec. It means village or settlement. When French explorer, Jacques Cartier explored this territory, he misused the word to describe the area and within ten years' time the Europeans were using it to describe the entire region.
This is the the longest street in both Canada and the world
What is Yonge Street?
Yonge Street in Ontario is almost 2000 KM long. It starts in Lake Ontario and runs North through Ontario to the Minnesota boarder.
(Source: https://www.sableinternational.com/blog/20-interesting-facts-about-canada)
This is the hardest substance in the human body
What is tooth enamel?
This is the only known element that is liquid at room temperature
What is mercury?
If cats are feline, then these animals are referred to with the adjective ovine
What are sheep?
The place where Tim Horton set up his first shop
Where is Hamilton, ON? (in April of 1964)
(Source: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/tim-hortons).
This beach, about two hours north of here, is the longest freshwater beach in the world
What is Wasaga beach?
These specialized cells are the longest in the human body
What are neurons?
This element makes an octopus' blood blue
What is copper?
A collection of these brightly coloured animals is called a flamboyance
What are flamingos?