This new technology accounted for the most deaths in the First World War.
What is the machine gun?
100
This prime minister insisted that Canada be permitted to send an independent delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1918.
Who is Sir Robert Borden?
100
This organic compound, known to cause ozone depletion in the upper atmosphere, was commonly used in household items such as aerosols or refrigerants.
What are chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
100
This is an economic system in which private individuals and business firms carry on the production and exchange of goods and services through network markets.
What is capitalism?
100
This state-sponsored branch of the Holy Office enforced religious orthodoxy on the Iberian peninsula after the Reconquest.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
200
The British could see German bomber squadrons while they were still over the Channel thanks to this technology in the Second World War.
What is radar?
200
Bill C-15, an initiative to allow greater public access to government records, was implemented under this short-lived prime minister in 1979.
Who is Joe Clark?
200
This technology invented by the Americans, was used during the Second World War to detect German U-Boats and submarines.
What is sonar?
200
This governemental programme from the 1930s has certain similarities to the modern welfare system.
What is pogey?
200
The German-speaking states of the Middle Ages and Renaissance were almost all contained in this loose political-feudal association.
What is the Holy Roman Empire (of the German Nation)?
300
The German strategy used to subdue France and Poland in the Second World War, by which aerial and artillery bombardment immediately precede an infantry assault.
What is Blitzkrieg?
300
The Canadian government sent ‘Team Canada’ trade delegations around the world to build Canada’s economic prospects in the twenty-first century under this prime minister.
Who is Jean Chrétien?
300
The Sun emits this type of radiation whic, when this it reaches the earth’s surface, becomes long-wave radiation and is retained in the atmosphere by greenhouse gases.
What is short-wave radiation?
300
These are three phenomena that contributed to the Great Depression.
What is ... 1. Overproduction 2. Canada’s Reliance on Exporting Staple Products 3. Canada’s dependence on the USA 4. The stock market crash 5. Economic protectionism and tariffs 6. International dept of the First World War?
300
This missile weapon hampered the ability of the French knights and helped the English to win at Agincourt.
What is a longbow?
400
The Allies were able to decipher secret German messages in the Second World War when the British broke the code of this machine.
What is the enigma machine?
400
The first Canadian law protecting human rights, the Bill of Rights, was enacted under this prime minister in 1960.
What is John Diefenbaker?
400
This keystone species’ survival rate has dropped 33% in British Columbia owing to rising ocean temperatures.
What are salmon?
400
These were three elements of Bennett’s New Deal.
What is ... 1. Progressive taxation 2. Maximum work hours per week 3. Introduction on minimum wage 4. Stronger Regulation of working condition 5. Unemployment insurance 6. Health and accident insurance 7. Revied old age pension plan 8. Agricultural support 9. A marketing board to regulate wheat prices
400
This twelfth-century woman ruled most of southern France and married two kings over the course of her life.
Who is Eleanor of Aquitaine?
500
This new technology not only revolutionised war but also travel.
What is the airplane?
500
Lester B. Pearson helped to diffuse the Suez Crisis while serving as minister of foreign affairs under this prime minister in 1960.
Who is Louis St-Laurent?
500
This is the top of the saturated layer of porous rock, and is also called the static line.
What is the water table?
500
This is the concept that helps to explain the pricing structure in a market economy.
What is supply and demand?
500
Central Italy was ruled by this unusual monarch from the early Middle Ages until the unification of Italy in 1861.