This device, also known as the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System, is a major Canadian contribution to the Space Shuttle program.
What is the Canadarm?
100
This Metis leader led a rebellion against the Canadian government in what is now Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Who is Louis Riel?
100
This Canadian hockey team has not won a Stanley Cup since 1967.
What are the Toronto Maple Leafs?
100
This story of a boy and a tiger won the Man Booker prize in 2002 and was later adapted into a movie.
What is Life of Pi?
100
This group of Canadian artists included such painters as A.Y. Jackson, Lawren Harris and Arthur Lismer.
What is the Group of Seven?
200
This Canadian scientist working at the University of Toronto is well known for the discovery of Insulin.
Who is Frederick Banting?
200
This British Major-General successfully defended against an American invasion at Queenston Heights, but died in the fighting.
Who is Isaac Brock?
200
In 1972, the Canadian hockey team played an intense eight-game series against this country, in which they ultimately won.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
200
This Canadian writer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 for her work in short stories.
Who is Alice Munro?
200
Soapstone Carving is a common technique in the art of this people.
What are the Inuit?
300
Launching into space aboard the 'Challenger' on October 5, 1984, this man was the first Canadian in space.
Who is Marc Garneau?
300
This Quebec Minister of Labour was kidnapped and later assassinated by the FLQ during the October Crisis.
Who is Pierre Laporte?
300
Canadian James Naismith is credited with inventing this sport while teaching at Springfield College, Massachusetts.
What is Basketball?
300
This Canadian author is most famous for his trilogies of books set in Canadian locales, notably including the Deptford Trilogy.
Who is Robertson Davies?
300
This artist from Victoria, British Columbia is well-known for her paintings of the Pacific Coast and Indigenous culture.
Who is Emily Carr?
400
This Scottish-Canadian inventor and engineer is known for proposing worldwide time zones and for engineering much of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Who is Sir Sandford Fleming?
400
In 1990 a violent standoff occurred between Mohawk activists and Canadian forces in this Quebec town.
What is Oka?
400
This baseball team was previously known as the Montreal Expos before it moved to the US in 2004.
What are the Washington Nationals?
400
It was said in 1911 that this Canadian comedy writer, known for such books as 'Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town', was known to more people than knew of Canada itself.
Who is Stephen Leacock?
400
This Dutch-born artist is well known for his numerous paintings of life in rural Quebec.
Who is Cornelius Krieghoff?
500
Although Gideon Sundback was Swedish-American, the company he set up to start distribution of this invention was located in St. Catherine's, Ontario.
What is the Zipper?
500
This Irish supporter of Confederation was assassinated in 1868 by an anti-British Irish rebel.
Who is Thomas D'Arcy McGee?
500
Founded in 1873, this sports team is the oldest professional team in North America still using its original name.
What are the Toronto Argonauts?
500
This book by Scottish author and Governor General of Canada John Buchan was later made into one of Alfred Hitchcock's first films.
What is 'The Thirty-Nine Steps'?
500
Famous Canadian artist Tom Thomson, well known for paintings of Algonquin Park, Ontario, died while going on a trip to this lake.