Canadian Facts
How old is Canada?
158 years old, founded July 1, 1867.
Who directed the Wolf of Wall Street?
Martin Scorsese
The more you take, the more you leave behind.
Footsteps
What year was P&G Founded?
1837
This Netflix series helped F1 become super popular.
Drive to Survive
Who was the first prime minister of Canada?
Sir John A Macdonald with 2 terms 1867-1873 and 1878-1891
In the movie, Everything Everywhere All At Once which breakfast item presented one of the main characters nihilistic worldview and included everything from the multiverse, dreams, hopes, and even personal ads?
The Everything Bagel
I am a three-digit number. Tens digit is five more than my ones digit. My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit.
194
What was the name of the line of snack foods that P&G launched in the early 1990s that was shortly discontinued?
Gamble
What is the term for 0 points in tennis?
Love
Canada is the ____ largest country by total land area.
2nd before Russia
Which actor has won the most Academy Awards for Best Actor?
Daniel Day-Lewis
You’re in a dark room with a match. There’s an oil lamp, a candle, and a fireplace. What do you light first?
The match
What was the name of the vegetable shortening brand that P&G launched in 1911?
Crisco
The only country to have played in every FIFA world cup.
Brazil
What is the longest river in Canada?
The Mackenzie river – spans from great slace lake in the NWT all the way to the arctic ocean.
Which film includes the following quote “What’s the most you ever lost in a coin toss?”
No Country for Old Men
Sideways, I am everything. Cut in half, I am nothing, What am i?
8
How was the term “soap opera” created?
When P&G began sponsoring radio dramas aimed at housewives, first with Ivory Soap
What are the 5 colours of the Olympic rings?
blue,yellow,black,green,red
Name the 3 times Canada has hosted the olympics. Give the year and the city and whether it was Winter or Summer.
Montreal 1976 Summer, Calgary 1988 Winter, Vancouver 2010 Winter
The 1950 film Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa follows various people who describe how a samurai was murdered. This film pioneered the Rashomon effect in cinema. What is the Rashomon effect?
unreliability of narrators/eyewitnesses
What four letter word can be written forward, backward, upside down and still be read from left to right?
NOON
In the late 1920s P&G hired the “father of public relations” who had led WW1s recruitment campaign and big tobaccos campaign to build a campaign for ivory soap. What was this self-proclaimed “propogandists” name?
Edward Bernays
Name all 7 Canadian NHL teams.
Montreal Canadiens, Toronto maple leafs, Ottawa senators, Winnipeg Jets, Calgary flames, Edmonton oilers, Vancouver Canucks