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100
Totem poles are large upright wooden carvings common to the First Nations of this Canadian province.
What is British Columbia?
100
The discovery of this hormone, which is under-produced in people with diabetes, was the reason for Canada's first Nobel Prize, awarded in 1923 to Dr. Frederick Banting and John Macleod.
What is insulin?
100
This animal, which appears on the Canadian five-cent coin, is commonly thought to be hard-working.
What is a beaver?
100
Rather than provinces, Canada's north is made up of three of these administrative regions.
What are territories?
100
This watery liquid is extracted from maple trees and repeatedly boiled to make maple syrup.
What is sap?
200
The name "Canada" comes from the the word "kanata" which is common across the Huron-Iroquois language family and means this.
What is "village?"
200
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Alice Munro for being the "master" of this form of literature as shown through her anthologies such as "Lives of Girls and Women."
What is the short story?
What are short stories?
200
This national police force is also considered a national symbol of Canada due to their distinct broad-brimmed hats and red coats.
Who are the Royal Canadian Mountain Police (RCMP)?
Who at the Mounties?
200
This word refers to the first nations of the far North of Canada.
Who are the Inuit?
200
Maple toffee was originally made by boiling maple syrup followed by quickly pouring it into this material.
What is snow?
300
This compulsory school system designed to assimilate Indigenous Canadians to European culture is considered one of the darkest parts of Canadian history due to its levels of child abuse and cultural erasure.
What are the residential schools?
300
Donna Strickland won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for "chirped pulse amplification," a technique for increasing the power density of this scientific instrument.
What are lasers?
300
Although Canada does not have an official national bird, many consider this bird, who appears on the Canadian one-dollar coin, a national symbol.
What is a loon?
300
This location, a meterological and scientific station, is the most Northern continuously inhabited location in the word.
What is Alert, Nunavut?
300
The blue maple leaf is the symbol of this city's hockey team.
What are the Toronto Maple Leafs?
400
This term is used in English to refer to people identifying with traditional third-genders specific to many specific First Nations cultures.
What is "two-spirited"?
Who are two-spirited people?
400
This Canadian Prime Minister was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1957 for the organisation of the UN Emergency Force and the resolution of the Suez Crisis. Canada's largest airport was named after him in 1984.
Who is Lester B. Pearson?
400
This fabric named after the maple leaf makes up the only officially recognised national dress of Canada.
What is the Maple Leaf Tartan?
400
Most historians think that Helluland, the "land of flat rocks" from the Viking sagas about their brief settlement of Canada, corresponds to this island, the largest in Canada.
What is Baffin Island?
400
This maple-flavoured meat is used as a garnish for both savoury meals and sweet desserts such as doughnuts.
What is maple bacon?
500
After the American Revolution, members of this indigenous confederacy who supported the British were relocated to the region surrounding the Grand River in Southern Ontario.
Who are the Six Nations?
Who are the Iroquois?
500
Although associated with the University of Toronto, Arthur McDonald, who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for the confirmation of neutrino observations, performs his research in an abandoned nickel mine below this Canadian city.
What is Sudbury, Ontario?
500
This sport is the national summer sport of Canada and was invented by the indigenous people of Canada long before European settlement.
What is lacrosse?
500
Taking place between 1896 and 1899, the name of this gold rush in the Yukon Territory is also a variant of the card game Solitaire.
What is the Klondike?
500
The Maple Leaf Forever was once considered a potential national anthem for Canada and includes the phrase "the thistle, shamrock, rose entwined" (or "lily, thistle, rose entwined" in certain versions), plants that represent these countries.
What are France (lily), Scotland (thistle), Ireland (shamrock), and England (rose)?