Famous Canadians Actors
This famous comedian turned actor was born in Newmarket, Ontario. They are well known for their wide array of facial expressions and physical performances. They've played a variety of roles; including a furry green creature, a quirky detective, a mysterious green-suited villain, and most recently a mad scientist.
Who is Jim Carrey?
This name means settlement or village in Huron-Iroquoian. It is believed to have been one of the first things heard by the first explorers to Canada.
What is a Canada? (Kanata)
This iconic shaped leaf, named from a tree, can be found on the now-defunct 1¢ coin.
What is a Maple Leaf?
Canada has the largest population of this species, known for their large size and distinct protruding head-features.
What is a Moose?
This controversial pizza flavor was invented by a Greek immigrant in Chatham, Ontario in 1962.
What is Hawaiian Pizza?
This actor was born in Scarborough, Toronto. While known for a few live-action roles, this actor's biggest and by far most popular role is completely vocal. They ended up recording the dialog for their most popular film twice by their own request, but with a different accent that is now commonly associated with their most famous character. Their animated film series now spans nearly 5 entries, with the 5th on its way, found in the fantasy genre.
Who is Mike Myers?
This medication has saved over hundreds of millions of lives, and was invented in the University of Toronto is 1921. Before its discovery, a type 1 diagnosis in the disease associated with it was a death-sentence. It is now commonly treated and available all across North-America.
What is Insulin?
This furry rodent, belonging to the castoridae family, can be found on the 5¢ coin.
What is a Beaver?
Every year, the Dutch send this 20,000 of this particular flower to Canada in commemoration of when the Queen of Netherland fled to Ottawa in the early years of WW2, and gave birth to a daughter, afterwards returning and sending a gift of 100,000 of this flower as a thank you. These flowers are used to make a floral display around the grounds of the Parliament Buildings every spring.
What is a tulip?
The national name given to the $1 and $2 coins.
What is Loonie and Toonie?
This actor was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Their breakout hit which also happens to be the name of their character is about an anti-hero. Since they have gained popularity, they have also voiced multiple characters in animated movies such as Turbo, The Croods, and Detective Pikachu.
Ryan Reynolds
This Canadian invention has impacted billions of lives, and there are purportedly over 5.8 billion people who are using it in the modern world today.
+100 Points if you can figure out whether this invention existed before the home refrigerator or came after.
What is the Telephone?
The official names given to the $1 and $2 coins respectively. The $1 coin is named after the specific icon on the coin.
What is Loonie and Toonie?
Due to the cold climate, Canada is home to the capital of this particular large animal.
What are polar bears?
This province produces roughly 75% of the entire world's maple syrup supply.
What is Quebec?
This actor, though not originally born in Canada, spent most of their life living in Canada and eventually citizenship altogether. They are known for multiple roles spanning across early 2000s until more recently today. Their breakout hit spanned across a sci-fi trilogy that pushed the limits on computer generated effects. Their 2nd most popular series spans across 4 action-packed revenge movies, with a 5th on the way. They made between $1-2 in the first entry of these films by only speaking a little over 100 lines of dialog, equating to a little less than 1 line per minute of film.
Who is Keanu Reeves?
Canadians consume 55% more of this fromage dish than Americans do. It is starchy and gooey and is considered a Canadian thing to put ketchup on it.
What is Mac & Cheese?
There exists a rumor that $100 Canadian Bills have this particular sweet odor to them.
What is the smell of Maple-Syrup?
Canada is the 2nd largest in the world, only rivalled by Russia.
What is Country?
What is Donuts?
This actor was born in Edmonton, Alberta. They are best known for their breakout role in a hugely successful trilogy of sci-fi films released in the mid-to-late 80s.
+100 Bonus Points if you can guess what household appliance almost replaced the iconic vehicle found in the series.
Who is Michael J. Fox?
Canada is home to two official sports, one for the summer and one for the winter.
What is Lacrosse and Hockey?
Since 2011, Canadian Bills have forgone paper for this synthetic plastic material, which is printed in blue ($5), purple ($10), green ($20), red ($50) and golden brown. ($100)
+100 Bonus points if you can guess what color the long-discontinued $1000 was.
What is Polymer?
Canada holds 62% of these on the entire surface of the Earth, containing more than all other countries combined.
What is lakes?
During WW2, the Germans gave Canadian Soldiers a nickname, due to their high-success rate and ferocity, that they later took on themselves to name a particular soldier unit. This unit also shares the name of a famous unit found in the most popular sci-fi franchise in history.
What is Stormtroopers?