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"I'm Like a Bird" was a top-ten hit from the 2000 album "Whoa, Nelly," the debut by what Canadian singer-songwriter?
Who is Nelly Furtado?
English is the most-spoken language in Canada. French is second. What language is third?
What is Mandarin?
Métis leader Louis Riel is often cited as a founder of what province that almost got the name "Assiniboia"?
What is Manitoba?
Located in Alberta and and established in 1885, what is the oldest national park in Canada?
What is Banff?
The National Sports Act of Canada granted two different sports as the official sports of Canada. One is, unsurprisingly, hockey. What is the other?
What is lacrosse?
A Canadian actor began his acting career on the Mickey Mouse Club as a teen in 1993 and transitioned to adult stardom with the massively popular "The Notebook" in 2004 and an Academy Award nomination in 2006 for "Half Nelson." Who is this Ontarian?
Who is Ryan Gosling?
What is the History Channel series that has featured adventurous drivers take the wheel while embarking on Alaska's Dalton Highway or Canada's frozen lakes?
What are Ice Road Truckers?
Canada's vertical $10 banknote features a portrait of what successful Black businesswoman who was jailed, convicted and fined for defiantly refusing to leave a whites-only area of a movie theatre in 1946?
Who is Viola Desmond?
According to the most recent census, approximately 59% of the capital city of Nunavut is indigenous Canadian. What is the name of this city?
What is Iqaluit (uh·kaa·loo·uht)?
According to Forbes' 2017 rankings, the 2nd most valuable NHL franchise is Canadian (after the New York Rangers at #1). What is this Canadian hockey franchise?
What is the Toronto Maple Leafs?
In 2017, which "Shark" from TV's "Tank" ran for the leadership of Canada's conservative party?
Kevin O'Leary
In a specific genus of large cats, one of the four species is the Canadian variety, and the animal's name references a Latin word for light because of the creature's bright, luminescent eyes. This wild cat feeds almost exclusively on snowshoe hares.
What is a lynx?
Sarah Ann Curzon, Jessie Turnbull, Emily Stowe are all women famously associated with a Canadian movement that had achieved most of its political aims by the 1920s (Quebec was the only exception.) What was the cause championed by these women?
What is Women's Suffrage?
What fort in its namesake Washington city was a 19th-century fur trading post and headquarters for the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Columbia Department? It shares its city name with a large city in British Columbia.
What is Fort Vancouver?
What became Saskatchewan’s official sport in 2001? As of 2018, there have been 60 Men's World Championships for this sport and Canada has won 36 of them, followed by Sweden and Scotland.
What is Curling?
What 2007 film written by Diablo Cody stars two teen actors from Canada? The film premiered in Canada, receiving a standing ovation at the Toronto International Film Festival, before later winning an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
What is Juno?
"Where's the beef?" is a catchphrase in the United States and Canada introduced in 1984 by what fast food chain? The phrase eventually entered popular culture as a multipurpose phrase questioning the substance of an idea.
What is Wendy's?
Thistles and a unicorn take up space in Canada's coat of arms repping which U.K. constituent country?
What is Scotland?
Rising above the prairie, in what city is the largest provincial legislative building in Canada?
What is Regina?
What tough-sounding CFL team has its origins in the Regina Rugby Club, a team that was founded in 1910?
What are the Saskatchewan Roughriders?
At the age of 82, Canadian actor Christopher Plummer was the oldest person to have won an Oscar at the time of his victory in the Best Supporting Actor category in 2012. Plummer had rocketed to fame 47 years earlier for his role as Captain Von Trapp in what musical film?
Owned by The Woodbridge Company of Toronto, what Monday-to-Saturday newspaper with two nouns in its title is the most popular in Canada?
What is the Globe and Mail?
The names of Canada's Prime Ministers during the 1990s.
Who are Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell, and Jean Chrétien?
In 1999, Nunavut became the third and most-recent territory on the Canadian political map. Prior to that, the last major addition was the 1949 acceptance of what province?
What is Newfoundland?
Nick Nurse is the Canadian national team's coach at the 2019 FIBA World Cup hosted in China. What sport is this competition?
What is Basketball?