The type of warfare that was widespread during WWI (ex. tanks, airplanes, submarines).
What is Mechanized Warfare?
100
Foster Hewitt thrilled radio listeners with his play-by-play description of a hockey game. This wen on to be one of the most known radio/television shows in Canada.
What is Hockey Night in Canada?
100
The first Canadian woman to receive a degree in electrical engineering and a master's degree in aeronautical engineering. She also designed the Maple Leaf II trainer.
Who is Elsie Gregory MacGill?
100
How long a person lives. It significantly increased in Canada during this era.
What is life expectancy?
100
The process of manipulating biological processes to create new products like foods and antibiotics.
What is biotechnology?
200
The Geneva Convention in 1925 banned the use of these during war.
What are chemical weapons or poison gasses?
200
The man who discovered insulin and later used it to treat patients with diabetes.
Who is Frederick Banting?
200
The highway that connects the US to Alaska that went through Canada.
What is the Alaska Highway?
200
Cheese! The company that produced the first Instamatic camera.
What is Kodak?
200
Armed with a QWERTY keyboard, this invention is one of the most popular on the market.
What is the Blackberry?
300
Bulldozers and snowmobiles are relatives of this weapon first used by the British in WWI.
What is a tank?
300
The most popular car on the newly paved Canadian roads in the 1920's and 1930's. In 1925 it only cost $424.
What is the Ford Model T.
300
The first nuclear generator to create electrical power.
What is CANDU?
300
A procedure developed by Wilder Penfield in the 1950's that sent mild electrical shocks through the brain to treat epilepsy.
What is the Montreal Procedure?
300
Invented in 1980 it connected the world and has become an important part of everyday life. This Jeopardy quiz wouldn't exist without it.
What is the World Wide Web or Internet?
400
This man was a radio and sonar pioneer. His echo-sounding device was used to find German submarines in WWI.
Who is Reginald Fessenden?
400
In 1937, the Canadian government created Trans-Canada Airlines to provide national passenger service. Today this company has a different name
What is Air Canada?
400
The first camp to train spies. It was the first of its kind in North America.
What is Camp X?
400
It has accompanied every shuttle NASA has launched since its invention.
What is the Canadarm.
400
The man who invented the Java programming language in 1994.
Who is James Gosling?
500
A relatively new technology that was used for reconnaissance missions during WWI.
What is the airplane?
500
Because people were now becoming interested in nutrition and how it affeced heath, Theodore Drake and Alan Brown developed it in 1930 to feed babies.
What is Pablum?
500
A revolutionary technology that gave an advantage to the Allied forces as they were able to detect enemies without seeing them. This technology had many peace time uses as well.
What is Radar?
500
All major circuits in a computer are etched onto one of these.
What is the Silicon Chip?
500
A controversial form of research that could potentially treat many diseases. Scientists Ernest A. McCulloch and James E. Till laid the groundwork for it in the 1960's.