Forgotten Corners of Canada
Music You Grew Up With
Strange World Geography
Canadian Moments You Might Have Forgotten
Animals Canadians should know
100
This province touches two U.S. states: Maine and New Hampshire. This province touches two U.S. states: Maine and New Hampshire.
What is Quebec?
100
This Nova Scotian singer made “Snowbird” a global hit in 1970
Who is Anne Murray?
100
This African desert is the oldest on Earth, older than the Sahara.
What is the Namib Desert?
100
The first Canadian astronaut in space
Who is Marc Garneau?
100
The only bear species found in Manitoba’s Wapusk National Park.
What is the polar bear?
200
This Great Lake is the only one entirely within the United States.
What is Lake Michigan?
200
This Canadian band asked us all, “Has anybody seen the rain?” in their 1970s cover years before CCR.
Who are The Guess Who?
200
This country has more islands than Canada — over 260,000.
What is Sweden?
200
The Canadian chef who invented Hawaiian pizza
Who is Sam Panopoulos?
200
This rodent became the national symbol of Canada in 1975.
What is the beaver?
300
Canada’s oldest National Park east of the Rockies.
What is Banff?
(Trick — Banff is actually in the Rockies, but it is the oldest overall.)
300
He was the first Canadian inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (1986)
Who is Neil Young?
300
The only country that borders both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.
What is Saudi Arabia?
300
The Halifax Explosion happened in this decade.
What is the 1910s?
300
The whale known for “singing” underwater.
What is the humpback whale?
400
The only Canadian provincial capital named after a British monarch
What is Victoria?
400
She was known as “Canada’s First Lady of the Blues.
Who is Salome Bey?
400
This European city has more canals than Venice and Amsterdam combined
What is Hamburg?
400
The first Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup after the Original Six era ended (1967+).
Who are the Montreal Canadiens (1968–69)?
400
This animal changes predators by turning pure white for winter.
What is the snowshoe hare?
500
This western city has more annual sunshine hours than Victoria and Halifax combined
What is Medicine Hat?
500
This Canadian pianist won a Grammy at 12 years old.
Who is Glenn Gould?
500
The only country that is also a continent and a tectonic plate.
What is Australia?
it rests on the indo- Australian plate, which is one of Earths major, rigid tectonic plates
500
Canada’s first broadcast television station.
What is CBFT Montreal?
500
North America’s fastest land mammal (hint: it’s not a cheetah).
What is the pronghorn?
