CANADIAN HISTORY & CULTURE
What year did Canada officially adopt its current red-and-white flag?
1965
What is the name of the large island off the east coast that contains the city of St. John’s?
Answer: What is Newfoundland?
Which ancient structure in China stretches over 20,000 km?
Answer: What is the Great Wall of China?
What bird is famous for its long migrations and the distinctive “V” formation in the sky?
Answer: What are geese?
Which actress played Mary Poppins in the 1964 film?
Answer:
Who is Julie Andrews?
What is the oldest city in Canada, founded in 1608?
Québec City
Canada’s longest river shares its name with a famous European explorer.
Answer: What is the Mackenzie River?
Which Italian city is famous for its canals and gondolas?
Answer: What is Venice?
Which large African animal is known for having the strongest bite force of any land animal?
Answer: What is the hippopotamus?
What TV series featured the characters Lucy and Ricky Ricardo?
Answer: What is I Love Lucy?
Which Canadian province was the last to join Confederation in 1949?
Answer: What is Newfoundland and Labrador?
This Canadian lake is the deepest in North America.
Answer: What is Great Slave Lake?
Christ the Redeemer is a famous statue overlooking which city?
Answer: What is Rio de Janeiro?
Which Arctic bird can dive more than 200 feet underwater and makes a haunting call?
Answer: What is the loon?
Which Canadian singer is known for her 1970s hit “Snowbird”?
Answer: Who is Anne Murray?
Which Canadian woman is featured on the $10 bill for her role in civil rights?
Answer: Who is Viola Desmond?
Which Canadian territory is home to Auyuittuq National Park, known for its dramatic glaciers and peaks?
Answer: What is Nunavut?
The ancient city of Petra, carved into rose-colored rock, is located in what country?
Answer: What is Jordan?
This Arctic whale is known for its long spiraled tusk.
Answer: What is a narwhal?
What 1965 musical film featured the songs “My Favorite Things” and “Do-Re-Mi”?
Answer: What is The Sound of Music?
This Indigenous group is known as the original inhabitants of the Arctic regions of Canada.
Answer: Who are the Inuit?
This Canadian mountain is the second-highest peak in North America.
Answer: What is Mount Logan?
Which African mountain is the highest free-standing mountain in the world?
Answer: What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
What large flightless bird is native to Australia and is second in height only to the ostrich?
Answer: What is the emu?
Which famous band originally sang “California Dreamin’” in 1965?
Answer: Who are The Mamas and the Papas?