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381 Canada Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated For 2024)
- Puerto Rico and Canada got slammed by a tropical storm that shares what F-word name with Shrek's love and the singer of that '90s hit "Criminal"?
Answer: Fiona
- Founded in Quebec, what is the French name of the private entertainment company which has sold over 100 million tickets for its unique blend of continuous live music and circus-like acrobatics?
Answer: Cirque du Soleil
- Known for polar bears that live there in the fall, what town on Hudson Bay in Manitoba is named after one of the UK's most famous Prime Ministers?
Answer: Churchill
- A small owl that is common in Eastern North America, from Mexico to Canada, is the Eastern ______ Owl. Fill in the one word “S” blank, a loud, harsh cry. It’s also the nickname of the scratchy voiced nerd on “Saved By The Bell.”
Answer: Eastern Screech Owl
- Fin the Whale, an anthropomorphic orca, is the official mascot of what Canadian NHL team?
Answer: Vancouver Canucks
- What white tri-petal woodland flower is the official flower of Ontario?
Answer: trillium
- Canada's "Big Five" banks are all based in Toronto. They are Bank of Montreal (BMO), Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), and what fifth bank?
Answer: Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD)
- The Cadillac Fairview Corporation is owned by the pension plan in Ontario, Canada of what profession?
Answer: Teachers
- Cadillac Fairview owns a shopping mall in Dieppe, New Brunswick, CN, known as CF C______. Fill in the one word blank, also the name of a Lake among the Canada-U.S. border in Quebec and Vermont.
Answer: Champlain
- Cadillac Fairview-sponsored athlete Natalie Spooner won hockey gold with Team Canada during the balmy 2014 Winter Olympics at what Black Sea resort?
Answer: Sochi
- The Alouette 1 refers to a piece of technology famously released by Canada in 1962, making Canada only the third country globally to construct such a device. This historic technology was used to study the ionosphere and while it was deactivated a decade later in 1972, it is expected to remain in existence for 1000 years. What type of device was the Alouette 1?
Answer: satellite
- Canada Goose avoided 2021's supply chain issues by exporting all their goods from what very guessable country that manufactures them?
Answer: Canada
- A century of war between the Haudenosaunee and the French ended in 1701 with the "Great Peace of" what city, way before it had the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve Formula 1 track?
Answer: Montréal
- What Canadian artist released her debut studio album "Let Go" in 2002 which heavily emphasized her skate punk persona? The album's release led to critics and music publications to anoint her as the "Pop Punk Queen."
Answer: Avril Lavigne
- Dan and Eugene Levy created what Canadian sitcom that officially ended its run of six seasons and 80 episodes in April 2020?
Answer: Schitt's Creek
- Although James Naismith was teaching in Massachusetts in the U.S. at the time he invented a popular sport, he was a native Canadian who had only recently moved to the U.S. What sport did Naismith invent in 1891?
Answer: Basketball
- Torrington, Wyoming got the TOR airport code instead of Toronto, because Canadian airport codes all start with what letter?
Answer: Y
- A Cadillac Fairview mall off of the Trans-Canada Highway in Quebec is CF Fairview Pointe ______. Fill in the one word blank, which also finishes the name of the French-British women’s magazine Marie ______.
Answer: CF Fairview Pointe Claire
- CF Market Mall, a Cadillac Fairview property and one of the largest malls in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is located in what “V” Calgary suburban neighborhood? It is a word used to describe main team representing a school in a sport.
Answer: Varsity, Alberta, Canada
- Happy Valley-Goose Bay is the name of the largest town in what region of Canada, which is combined with the island of Newfoundland in the name of one of the country's provinces?
Answer: Labrador
- What is the full name for the bill or rights entrenched in the Constitution of Canada typically referred to simply as "the Charter"?
Answer: Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Justin, soleil, and hockey made a 2021 list of the 200 most-common bad passwords of what country?
Answer: Canada
- Named for the railway company that built it, what 1,815-foot-tall communications and observation edifice is the tallest structure in Toronto?
Answer: CN Tower
- Meaning "The Round" in English, La Ronde is an amusement park whose French name reflects its location in what Canadian province?
Answer: Quebec
- The Wyandot or Wendat are Iroquoian-speaking peoples of North American who emerged as a tribe around the north shore of Lake Ontario. However, they are often referred to by an alternate name which shares its title with a different Great Lake. What is this alternate name?
Answer: Huron
- In 2021, Justin Trudeau announced that what Inuit leader would succeed Julie Payette as governor general of Canada?
Answer: Mary Simon
- According to the Inuit, Nunavut is comprised of three regions: the Qikiqtaaluk Region, the Kivalliq Region and what third region?
Answer: Kitikmeot Region
- At the age of 82, Canadian actor Christopher Plummer was the oldest person to have won an Oscar at the time of his victory in the Best Supporting Actor category in 2012. Plummer had rocketed to fame 47 years earlier for his role as Captain Von Trapp in what musical film?
Answer: The Sound of Music
- Originating in Canada, what pizza notable for its tropical fruit topping was created in the 1960s by Sam Panopoulos?
Answer: Hawaiian
- New Zealand's Black Ferns recently won the 2021 Rugby World Cup, beating England 34-31 in the final. Which European team (who beat Canada 36-0 in the third-place play-off game) did the Black Ferns play in the semi-final?
Answer: France
- Known as Fright Fest at all U.S. locations, but known as Festival de Terror in Mexico, the Halloween-oriented haunt event with attractions and themed "Scare Zones" is an annual staple at what chain of theme parks?
Answer: Six Flags
- The National Sports Act of Canada granted two different sports as the official sports of Canada. One is, unsurprisingly, hockey. What is the other?
Answer: Lacrosse
- From 1921 until the Constitution of Ireland in 1937, Ireland agreed to operate as its own country under British dominion, in an arrangement similar to Canada, an arrangement referred to as the Irish ______ State. Fill in the one word blank, which sought to appease the IRA and other Irish rebels that they had achieved the liberty they sought.
Answer: Irish Free State
- According to the most recent census, approximately 59% of the capital city of Nunavut is indigenous Canadian. What is the name of this city?
Answer: Iqaluit
- Poutine, a favorite dish of Quebec, has what sauce added atop French fries and cheese curds?
Answer: Gravy
- What “S” Park in Vancouver, BC, Canada, part of the Downtown Peninsula, shares its name with the last of the British explorer who claimed to have used the phrase “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” in 19th century Zanzibar?
Answer: Stanley Park
- Expected future semi-residents of Canada, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are better known by what names?
Answer: Harry and Meghan
- In 1683, the Catholic priest and explorer Louis Hennepin published a book titled "A New Discovery" containing his descriptions of what landmark on the U.S.-Canada border?
Answer: Niagara Falls
- Located in Alberta and and established in 1885, what is the oldest national park in Canada?
Answer: Banff
- A Canadian actor began his acting career on the Mickey Mouse Club as a teen in 1993 and transitioned to adult stardom with the massively popular "The Notebook" in 2004 and an Academy Award nomination in 2006 for "Half Nelson." Who is this Ontarian?
Answer: Ryan Gosling
- As of 2020, Canada has hosted two Winter Olympic Games. Name both cities that hosted.
Answer: Calgary and Vancouver
- Sarah Ann Curzon, Jessie Turnbull, Emily Stowe are all women famously associated with a Canadian movement that had achieved most of its political aims by the 1920s (Quebec was the only exception.) What was the cause championed by these women?
Answer: Women's suffrage
- Screech is an alcohol most closely associated with what Canadian island?
Answer: Newfoundland
- What was the first national park established in Canada? The park is located in Alberta.
Answer: Banff National Park
- Featuring more than 900 varieties of plants and designated a National Historic Site of Canada, Butchart Gardens is a horticultural marvel located on Vancouver Island in what province?
Answer: British Columbia
- Project Atigi is the name of a collaboration of Inuit designers and what high-end parka brand, which aims to combine the garments with traditional Inuit culture and designs?
Answer: Canada Goose
- What economic agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada was enacted in 1994 and replaced by the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) in 2020?
Answer: NAFTA
- Lucy Maud Montgomery is a Canadian author best known for a series of novels published in the early 20th century set in Prince Edward Island featuring young protagonist Anne Shirley. The first, and most famous, novel in the series is titled "Anne of ______ ______." What two G-words fill in the blanks?
Answer: Green Gables
- Pope Francis apologized for abuses in Catholic schools forced on the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis people of what nation?
Answer: Canada
- In December 2018, the U.S. angered China by arranging for the detainment in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, an executive of what telecom company?
Answer: Huawei
- According to Forbes' 2017 rankings, the 2nd most valuable NHL franchise is Canadian (after the New York Rangers at #1). What is this Canadian hockey franchise?
Answer: Toronto Maple Leafs
- Called "the greatest outdoor show on Earth" by its promoters, what is the name of the huge annual rodeo held for ten days every July in Alberta's most populous city?
Answer: Calgary Stampede
- Along with the U.K., U.S.A., Canada and Australia, New Zealand is a member of which intelligence alliance known by a two-word name sometimes abbreviated to FVEY?
Answer: Five Eyes
- What gym chain was founded in 1984 in Irvine, California, by Louis Welch and others? It has branches across the US and Canada, although, based on its name, you might assume it is solely located in the hometown of the WNBA Sparks.
Answer: LA Fitness
- What Canadian city is home to the intersection of the Red and Assiniboine rivers and is located very near the longitudinal centre of North America?
Answer: Winnipeg
- What fort in its namesake Washington city was a 19th-century fur trading post and headquarters for the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Columbia Department? It shares its city name with a large city in British Columbia, Canada.
Answer: Fort Vancouver
- What tough-sounding CFL team has its origins in the Regina Rugby Club, a team that was founded in 1910?
Answer: Saskatchewan Roughriders
- What country has the longest total coastline in the world? We're talking about coastline on the border of a country, not all the internal coastlines that make up lakes and rivers.
Answer: Canada
- What is the name for the Gothic Revival style mansion in midtown Toronto constructed in 1911 for financier Sir Henry Pellatt? The name translates from Spanish to "Hill House."
Answer: Casa Loma
- As of 2018, there are 338 seats in the lower house of Canada's national government which is officially known by what three-word phrase?
Answer: House of Commons
- If you head directly south from San Diego, what border town resort will be the first city you hit in Mexico?
Answer: Tijuana
- "I'm Like a Bird" was a top-ten hit from the 2000 album "Whoa, Nelly," the debut by what Canadian singer-songwriter?
Answer: Nelly Furtado
- This president resided in his mansion at Monticello and was a famed inventor. He controversially enforced the Embargo Act, but also successfully led a raid against Barbary pirates. Who was this president?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
- What billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist attended the University of Pretoria in his native South Africa before moving to Canada to attend Queen's University before finally transferring to the University of Pennsylvania where he earned dual bachelor's degrees in economics and physics?
Answer: Elon Musk
- The Nisga'a are a group of Indigenous people of Canada that reside in which of the nation's provinces? Traditionally. the Nisga'a had a cuisine driven by harvesting "beach food" year round, including razor clams, mussels, oysters, limpets, scallops, abalone, fish, and seaweed.
Answer: British Columbia
- Thistles and a unicorn take up space in Canada's coat of arms repping which U.K. constituent country?
Answer: Scotland
- What is the name for the increasingly-large body of water separating the Alaskan peninsula and the eastern shores of Russia? There was once a land bridge crossing this body of water.
Answer: Bering Strait
- While still playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Mario Lemieux led the national team of what country to Olympic gold in 2002?
Answer: Canada
- What 2007 film written by Diablo Cody stars two teen actors from Canada? The film premiered in Canada, receiving a standing ovation at the Toronto International Film Festival, before later winning an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
Answer: Juno
- What country draws the most American tourists each year? The answer is not the United States, that would be a lame trick question.
Answer: Canada
- Gaining a love for music in the Little Burgundy community of Montréal, Oscar Peterson became a jazz legend known primarily for tickling what instrument?
Answer: Piano
- Made famous by the novels of L.M. Montgomery, Green Gables House is a tourist attraction in what Canadian province?
Answer: Prince Edward Island
- Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery has many brands of popular beer, but only one had a series of commercials that lasted more than a decade and starred Jonathan Goldsmith. Goldsmith's name-less character became iconic enough to be included in many internet memes in the 2000s. Name the beer brand OR the character.
Answer: Dos Equis (Most Interesting Man in the World)
- English is the most-spoken language in Canada. French is second. What language is third?
Answer: Chinese (Mandarin)
- Rising above the Saskatchewan prairie, in what city is the largest provincial legislative building in Canada?
Answer: Regina
- What became Saskatchewan’s official sport in 2001? As of 2018, there have been 60 Men's World Championships for this sport and Canada has won 36 of them, followed by Sweden and Scotland.
Answer: Curling
- In the 1996 film "Fly Away Home," Anna Paquin stars as a young glider pilot leading an abandoned group of geese south from Canada. The film was based on a real "Operation" that went by what guessable M-word?
Answer: Migration
- "Holy," "Yummy," and "Peaches" are three 2020s hit singles from what seemingly inescapable London, Ontario pop star?
Answer: Justin Bieber
- The 2000s robots Dextre and Canadarm were both pieces of technology developed by what federally-funded Canadian agency?
Answer: Canadian Space Agency
- What sport joins ice hockey as one of two national sports of Canada?
Answer: Lacrosse
- Launched in 2021, "Peaches" is a line of cannabis from what Canadian pop star who had a hit 2021 single with the same name?
Answer: Justin Bieber
- The 2010 Winter Olympics gold-medal men's hockey match was the most-watched TV broadcast in Canadian history, in which Canada defeated what nation for the gold?
Answer: United States
- Delta, British Columbia, Canada is home to a successful cannabis farm known as Pure ______farms. Fill in the one word blank, a star that is central to the function of our world.
Answer: Sun
- Deanne Bertsch wrote her play, “New ______,” about native Blackfoot history and tradition in Canada, after a visit to Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park in Alberta. Fill in the one word blank, a visceral and sanguine noun choice.
Answer: New Blood
- What is the History Channel series that has featured adventurous drivers take the wheel while embarking on Alaska's Dalton Highway or Canada's frozen lakes?
Answer: Ice Road Truckers
- As of the early 2000s, what Canadian province has easily the highest number of syrup farms with over 7,000 of these sweet agricultural sites?
Answer: Quebec
- Nick Nurse is the Canadian national team's coach at the 2019 FIBA World Cup hosted in China. What sport is this competition?
Answer: Basketball
- The first First Nations owned-and-operated institution of its kind in Canada, in Alberta's BQFNC the B stands for Blue, the FNC for First Nations College, and the Q for what old-timey writing implement?
Answer: Quills
- In 2017, which "Shark" from TV's "Tank" ran for the leadership of Canada's conservative party?
Answer: Kevin O'Leary
- "Jagged Little Pill" is the international debut album by what Canadian singer born in Ottawa in 1974?
Answer: Alanis Morissette
- A soup from the Iroqouis, that celebrates how the Great Spirit gave the people corn, beans, and squash, is the Three ______ Soup. Fill in the one word blank, a plural familial term, and also the name of a 2015 Tina Fey and Amy Poehler comedy film.
Answer: Three Sisters Soup
- In 2015, Donald Trump announced a personal boycott of what cookie because its manufacturer was closing its factory in Chicago and moving to Mexico?
Answer: Oreos
- Canopy, Supreme, and Aurora are all Canadian companies with a business largely built around what genus of plants?
Answer: Cannabis
- Terrance and Phillip are a fart-obsessed Canadian comedy duo who made their first appearance in season 2 of what Comedy Central animated series?
Answer: South Park
- What "sweet" Canadian actor and comedian rose to fame as a member of the Toronto branch of the Second City, starred in major movies like "Uncle Buck," and died of a heart attack in Mexico at the age of 43?
Answer: John Candy
- What pair of Canadian twins with the last name Quinn are best known as an indie duo named simply after their two first names?
Answer: Tegan and Sara
- What is the name for a manmade stone landmark or cairn built for use by the Inuit, Yupik, or other peoples in the Arctic region of North America? The landmark has sharply increased in popularity as a symbol for Canadian culture in the 21st century, including as the foundation for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics logo.
Answer: Inuksuk
- Featuring an exclamation point in its name, what is the name of the gift card that is redeemable at thousands of shopping, dining, and entertainment destinations in Cadillac Fairview malls across Canada?
Answer: CF Shop!
- Métis leader Louis Riel is often cited as a founder of what province that almost got the name "Assiniboia"?
Answer: Manitoba
- In October 2021, a group of climate lawyers urged the International Criminal Court to bring charges against what President of Brazil, asserting that his Amazon-area policies amount to crimes against humanity?
Answer: Jair Bolsonaro
- Canada's vertical $10 banknote features a portrait of what successful Black businesswoman who was jailed, convicted and fined for defiantly refusing to leave a whites-only area of a movie theatre in 1946?
Answer: Viola Desmond
- What species of goose, which looks like a petite version of the infamous Canada Goose, gets its name from its high-pitched, laugh-like call?
Answer: Cackling Goose
- Associated with an iconic restaurant and cafe chain from this nation, in which COUNTRY could you expect to hear the phrase "Double-Double" as part of a coffee order, meaning two servings of sugar and two servings of cream?
Answer: Canada
- Which wealth management service sounds like it’s just one guy who will help you with your money, but it’s actually a century-old firm headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri that has 19,000 advisors throughout the U.S. and Canada?
Answer: Edward Jones
- The Brooks Range is the northernmost extension of the Rocky Mountains in North America, located in Canada's Yukon Territory and also in what U.S. state?
Answer: Alaska
- Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell, and Jean Chrétien each served during some part of the 1990s as Prime Minister of what country?
Answer: Canada
- Moraine Lake is a lake in Alberta fed by glaciers and located more than a mile above sea level. Famous for its bright blue shade, in what national park will you find Moraine Lake?
Answer: Banff
- What is the name of the multi-sport event featuring thousands of athletes from the Americas in summer sports that Toronto hosted in 2015?
Answer: Pan American Games
- "From Florida With Love" is a track from "Dark Lane Demo Tapes," a 2020 album by what rapper more often associated with Canada than with Florida?
Answer: Drake
- What singer earned third place in the fifth season of Canadian Idol? Her first performance on the show was an original song named "Sweet Talker" and she rocketed to international fame with a song regarding a possible phone transmission four years later.
Answer: Carly Rae Jepsen
- In 1999, Nunavut became the third and most-recent territory on the Canadian political map. Prior to that, the last major addition was the 1949 acceptance of what province?
Answer: Newfoundland
- "Where's the beef?" is a catchphrase in the United States and Canada introduced in 1984 by what fast food chain? The phrase eventually entered popular culture as a multipurpose phrase questioning the substance of an idea.
Answer: Wendy's
- In March 2021, what Canadian actor and star of "Juno" and "Inception" became the first openly trans man to appear on the cover of Time magazine?
Answer: Elliot Page
- What actress, who was the wife of Liam Neeson, tragically died from a head injury sustain during a ski trip in Canada?
Answer: Natasha Richardson
- What four-word phrase spoken by Ronald Reagan in Europe in 1987 received relatively little media coverage at the time but exploded into ubiquity two years later when the phrase became reality? The phrase eventually became shorthand for an entire speech and foreign policy achievement.
Answer: Tear down this wall
- For 30 years, the main conference organized by TED was hosted in Long Beach, California. However, since 2014, the conference has been hosted in what Canadian city?
Answer: Vancouver
- One of the most commonly-spoken languages in Canada outside of the nation's two mother tongues (English and French), Filipino is the officially standardized form of what 7-letter Austonesian language?
Answer: Tagalog
- In 1980, what athlete and Canadian hero, who was equipped with a prosthetic right leg, ran more than 5,000 kilometers across the country to raise money for cancer research in his "Marathon of Hope"?
Answer: Terry Fox
- What 21-year-old woman swimmer is both Canada's youngest athlete ever to win an Olympic gold medal, as well as the country's most decorated Olympian with seven total medals from the 2016 and 2020 games?
Answer: Penny Oleksiak
- Baffin, Victoria, and Ellesmere, three of the ten largest islands in the world, can all be found in what country?
Answer: Canada
- In a specific genus of large cats, one of the four species is the Canadian variety, and the animal's name references a Latin word for light because of the creature's bright, luminescent eyes. What is this wild cat that feeds almost exclusively on snowshoe hares?
Answer: Lynx
- Crown Royal whiskey is produced in what country with QE2 on their $20 bill?
Answer: Canada
- Oneida actor Graham Greene's career took off with an Oscar nod for his role as Kicking Bird in what 1990 Kevin Costner film?
Answer: Dances With Wolves
- Which two Canadian cities made their NBA franchise debuts in 1995? We need BOTH answers here.
Answer: Toronto and Vancouver
- Of Canada's 10 provinces, which has the lowest population as of 2017?
Answer: Price Edward Island
- On the eve of the 2018 World Cup, FIFA announced that the US would be hosting an upcoming rendition of the global tournament in partnership with Canada and Mexico. During what year will this trio host the World Cup?
Answer: 2026
- What Canadian retail business, now a department store owner in modern day Canada, was a largely fur trading company that traded with Indigenous Canadians starting in the 17th century? It was named for a large bay that touches four provinces, discovered by Sir Henry in 1610.
Answer: Hudson's Bay Company
- Often considered the largest collection of Victorian-era industrial architecture in North America, what is the name of the "spirited" and alliterative 13-acre area in Toronto located east of downtown?
Answer: Distillery District
- What Canadian cannabis brand, which operates out of a former chocolate factory, has a punny name that can also mean a fabric from which sport coats are made?
Answer: Tweed
- Offred often dreams of escaping to Canada from the dystopian republic of Gilead in what 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood?
Answer: The Handmaid's Tale
- What Canadian island accounts for ~19% of Nova Scotia's total area, is home to ~130,000 Canadians, and is home to one of the world's larger salt lakes, Bras d'Or, in the center of the island?
Answer: Cape Breton
- Among the Cadillac Fairview-sponsored athletes repping Team Canada at the Tokyo Olympics is Skylar Park, a Manitoban competing in what event that roughly translates to "art of kick punch"?
Answer: Taekwondo
- Canada's three largest brewers (Molson, Labatt, and Sleeman) have all been acquired or merged with multinational corporations in the 2000s. As a result, what mammalian-named company is the largest fully Canadian-owned brewer as of 2015? The brand has 4% market share nationwide.
Answer: Moosehead
- In 1763, George III issued the ______ Proclamation, describing how colonial territories in places like Canada should be handled by the British? Fill in the blank with this “R” Proclamation that slowed land sales to non-British colonizers.
Answer: Royal
- Globo and Call It Spring are subsidiaries of what international footwear-and-accessories company headquartered in Montreal, whose four-letter name is the first name of its founder?
Answer: Aldo
- Hot on the heels of First Nations treaty changes in an omnibus bill, the Idle No More protest movement started in 2012 during the tenure of what prime minister?
Answer: Stephen Harper
- What Somalian-born one-named supermodel served as host and head judge on the short-lived Canadian version of "Project Runway?"
Answer: Iman
- Named for a large type of ungulate, what is the name of Edmonton's Canadian Football League team?
Answer: Elks
- As of 2016, the most populous Canadian province has more than 38% of the entire country's population. Which province is this?
Answer: Ontario
- Known as a "transport" in Canada, an "articulated lorry" in the UK, and a "single" in Australia, what number is often included in the name of this vehicle when it is described in the United States?
Answer: 18 (18 wheeler)
- What is the largest lake in Manitoba, which is also one of the largest inland bodies of fresh water in the world?
Answer: Lake Winnipeg
- "I Am Canadian" was the slogan for what beer brand from 1994 until 1998 and between 2000 and 2005? The campaign was retired shortly after a merger with Coors in 2005.
Answer: Molson Canadian
- Born and raised in Toronto as the sixth of seven, who is the actress, comedian, and writer that famously starred as the mother of Kevin McAllister in "Home Alone" and more recently became an Emmy-winning star of "Schitt's Creek"?
Answer: Catherine O'Hara
- Bruce Nolan, Lloyd, and Peter Appleton are all characters played by what Canadian-born actor?
Answer: Jim Carrey
- Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta are known collectively by what "flat" nickname, reflecting their location in the northern Great Plains?
Answer: Prairie Provinces
- With a restaurant helmed by Calgary chef Judy Wood, the Lougheed House is one of the most famous former private estates in which Canadian province?
Answer: Alberta
- Which of the great lakes does not share a border with Canada?
Answer: Lake Michigan
- What 2010 action-comedy film based on a graphic novel series starred Michael Cera and was both set and filmed in Toronto? The film was considered a massive failure at the box office, recouping less than half of the production budget. The film includes a first and last name in its title.
Answer: Scott Pilgrim vs the World
- What Western Conference team did the Toronto Raptors defeat in the 2019 NBA finals to become league champions?
Answer: Golden State Warriors
- With a name that references a neighborhood in New York City, what drag queen is the head judge of "Canada's Drag Race," the Canadian adaptation of "RuPaul's Drag Race?"
Answer: Brooke Lynn Hytes
- Manitoban actor Adam Beach played U.S. Marine Corporal Ira Hayes in "Flags of Our Fathers," about the World War II men photographed raising a flag over what hard-fought island?
Answer: Iwo Jima
- A white owl is featured prominently on the cover of "Fly By Night," a 1975 album from what Canadian progressive-rock band?
Answer: Rush
- Montana shares a northern border with 3 Canadian provinces. Name 2 of the 3.
Answer: British Columbia Alberta and Saskatchewan
- The three most common tree varieties from which maple syrup is made? Acer saccharum, Acer rubrum, and Acer nigrum. Give the English name for at least one of these tree varieties.
Answer: Sugar maple and red maple and black maple
- Donovan Bailey is a Canadian sprinter who won the gold medal in the 100m dash at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Bailey immigrated to Canada at age 13, coming from what other North American nation?
Answer: Jamaica
- Mattel and Hasbro both own the trademark of what branded board game that was originally designed as a variation of Alfred Butts' prior game named Lexiko? Mattel owns this trademark in most of the world but Hasbro owns it in the United States and Canada.
Answer: Scrabble
- In 1974, 16 days before the band's first U.S. tour, a famous Canadian rock group added drummer Neil Peart to their lineup and the newly-minted trio soon became one of the top-selling rock bands in history. Who is this "speedy" group?
Answer: Rush
- In 1923, Cayuga Chief Deskaheh petitioned what UN-precursor to recognize the Six Nations of the Grand River as a sovereign nation?
Answer: League of Nations / Société des Nations
- Before publishing her first book "Split Tooth," Tanya Tagaq gained acclaim as a musician of katajjaq, otherwise known as Inuit WHAT singing?
Answer: Throat
- Transvaal was the English name for a Boer republic from 1856-1902 which is now part of what country? In one of the first wars involving this land and European powers, Canada sent more than 7,000 troops to aid the British cause.
Answer: South Africa
- Owned by The Woodbridge Company of Toronto, what Monday-to-Saturday newspaper with two nouns in its title is the most popular in Canada?
Answer: The Globe and Mail
- What Canadian actor and comedian was born in Vancouver in 1982, made his acting debut in the TV show "Freaks and Geeks" and later voiced a character in "Horton Hears a Who!"?
Answer: Seth Rogen
- What Canadian author, poet, and environmentalist with a "forested" name reached new levels of fame in 2017 after her award-winning 1985 dystopian political novel was released as a smash-hit television series on Hulu?
Answer: Margaret Atwood
- Belonging to Canada, what is the fifth-largest island in the world? (hint: it's got a double letter in it)
Answer: Baffin
- Regina is the provincial capital of the Saskatchewan province in western Canada. What other provincial capital is closest in distance to Regina?
Answer: Winnipeg
- Lake Hillier in Australia and Dusty Rose Lake in Canada are notable examples of lakes that have what color water?
Answer: Pink
- In Cochin, Saskatchewan a surprising structure rests on top a hill surrounded by prairies. This structure is the only one of its kind in the province, and is almost always placed near more aqueous terrain. What type of structure is this?
Answer: Lighthouse
- What 9-letter type of brandy is from a Croatian word for plum?
Answer: Slivovitz
- Dan Harron was awarded the Order of Canada for playing a reporter at what "Hee Haw" radio station?
Answer: KORN
- The official Canadian national motto is a Latin phrase that comes from the Bible. What does "A Mari Usque Ad Mare" translate to in English?
Answer: From Sea to Sea
- International Falls is a Minnesota city that is, unsurprisingly, on the border of another nation (Canada). It is also nicknamed "Icebox of the Nation” because it averages more than 100 days per year with a high temperature below 32 °F (0 °C). What is the name of the Canadian city directly across the river from International Falls?
Answer: Fort Frances
- Poutine, often referred to as Canada's national dish, consists of french fries, gravy, and which other ingredient?
Answer: Cheese curds
- Poutine, often referred to as Canada's national dish, consists of french fries, gravy, and which other ingredient?
Answer: Cheese curds
- Meals on ______ is an international organization operating in the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom which delivers meals to the doorstep of individuals who are homebound or otherwise unable to purchase or prepare their own meals. What rhyming word fills in the blank to the organization's name?
Answer: Wheels
- In the 1970s, a specimen of allegedly human-worked mammoth bone was found in three small caves in the Yukon, a few dozen miles southwest of the Vuntut Gwichin community of Old Crow. What is the colorful, piscine name for these caves?
Answer: Bluefish Caves
- Which Canadian territory has a name meaning "our land" in the language that is spoken by the mother tongue of more than 60% of its residents?
Answer: Nunavut
- Chief Dan George, OC was a chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation and was also a multi-talented actor, musician, poet and author. His acting career peaked when he portrayed Old Lodge Skins in a 1970 film for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. What was this movie in which Chief Dan George was acting?
Answer: Little Big Man
- Lacking the "fluting" found in Clovis and Folsom points, the flaked stone projectiles such as Alberta points, Cody points, Frederick points, and Eden points are often referred to collectively as what alliterative group?
Answer: Plano points
- The Official Languages Act in the Northwest Territories declared that there are 11 officially-recognized languages: Chipewyan, Cree, English, French, Gwich'in, ______, ______, ______, North Slavey, South Slavey, and Tlicho. Each of those blanks is a language that begins with the letter "I" (i). With one guess, name any of them.
Answer: Inuinnaqtun, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun
- National Indigenous Peoples Day has been celebrated as a national holiday in Canada on June 21 since a 1996 proclamation by the nation's Governor General. In part, this date was chosen because it is the date of what annual celestial event?
Answer: Summer Solstice
- Although it was not a single culture or society, it is often referred to as the ______ tradition or the ______ culture when describing the common traits of Native American culture found along the shoes of Lake Ontario and nearby areas. Trade routes connected these many different tribes for hundreds of years and the network was first actively researched in the 1890s. What word fills the blank?
Answer: Hopewell
- What Canadian politician is Cree and a former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations? This man was elected president of Manitoba's New Democratic Party in 2015.
Answer: Ovide William Mercredi
- What was the sixth nation to join the Six Nations or Haudenosaunee, after the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca nations?
Answer: Tuscarora
- In 2018, what country changed a line in its national anthem from "true patriot love in all thy sons command" to the more inclusive "true patriot love in all of us command?"
Answer: Canada
- What is the "C" name of the Dene Indigenous Canadian peoples from the Athabaskan language family? This group comes from what is now Western Canada, were historically allied with the southerly Cree, and had ~25,000 registered members of the First Nation in 2016.
Answer: Chipewyan
- "Flight Stop," a sculpture in Cadillac Fairview's Toronto Eaton Centre, depicts 60 of what birds in flight?
Answer: Canada goose
- The "2+" sometimes used in the acronym "LGBTQ2+" stands for what phrase used to describe a traditional third-gender role in some Indigenous Canadian ceremonies?
Answer: two-spirit
- The French word for “mixed blood”, what “m” word was the term for Native Canadians who are a mix of Aboriginal and European (largely French) ancestry?
Answer: Metis
- A trilateral trade bloc between Canada, Mexico, and the United States was formed by what agreement in 1994?
Answer: NAFTA
- Portland sits on what largest river in the Pacific Northwest of North America? It rises in the Rocky Mountains of BC, Canada, and it shares its name with the third largest major film studio in the world.
Answer: Columbia River
- A 1997 episode of Heritage Minutes has the title which shares its name with an institution of higher learning. Wikipedia summarizes the episode as "______ ______ educates those away from the urban centres." What is the name of this school/episode?
Answer: Frontier College
- A national park located in Skagit County, Washington, and contains the Ross Lake Recreational Area, is the North ______ National Park. Fill in the blank, also a “C” mountain range in Canada and the Western US, that contains Mount Rainier.
Answer: North Cascades National Park
- In the Kyuquot and Checleseht oral tradition, the creator of the first families in the world is Thlaathluktiinlth, a creature whose name means they have 200 of what body part?
Answer: Mouth
- A 9-meter-high replica of a 1951 nickel stands on the grounds of Greater Sudbury's Dynamic Earth science museum in what Canadian province?
Answer: Ontario
- One of the six First Nations of indigenous Canadians lived in the basin of what “M” Canadian River, which flows through the Yukon and Northwest Territories?
Answer: Mackenzie River
- What “C” indigenous tribe based in British Columbia, Canada, gets its name from Athabascan for “people of the river?” Their chief Klatsassin was hanged after their namesake war of 1864.
Answer: Chilcotin
- Toronto is home to the largest and most visited museum in all of Canada, the ______ Ontario Museum. Fill in the one word “R” blank, which implies that Canada’s British dominion approves of the museum.
Answer: Royal Ontario Museum
- Selling more than 2 million copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 15 days of publication, what is the one-word title of Michelle Obama's 2018 memoir?
Answer: Becoming
- What “W” word refers to the indigenous tribe of First Nations native Canadians who lived in the boreal forests in Eastern Canada? It’s appropriately a word for land covered with trees.
Answer: Woodland First Nations
- An organization that formed in the late 1970s, where each chief of the individual Canadian First Nations would be represented by their chiefs, is the _______ Of First Nations. Fill in the word blank, a word for a group of people gathered for a shared purpose, sometimes to hear an elementary principal speak to their students.
Answer: Assembly Of First Nations
- Because of Canada’s imposed travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Toronto Raptors temporarily relocated their home games for the 2020-21 NBA season to Amalie Arena in what Floridian city?
Answer: Tampa
- Measuring 12 acres in area in front of Toronto City Hall, Canada’s largest city square is named for what politician who served as the city’s major from 1955 to 1962?
Answer: Nathan Phillips
- Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa were instrumental in protecting Canada from American invasion during what war that ended with the Treaty of Ghent?
Answer: War of 1812
- “The Great One” Wayne Gretzky spent most of his NHL career playing for what Canadian-based team for nine years from 1979 to 1988?
Answer: Edmonton Oilers
- In October 1973, many members of OPEC placed an oil embargo on the United States, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom due to their support for Israel in what Middle Eastern conflict?
Answer: Yom Kippur War
- What member of the Gwawa’enuk Nation in British Columbia wrote the 2018 book “21 Things You May Not Know About The Indian Act,” about how the 1876 law oppresses native Canadians, and how Indigenous peoples can rise above it?
Answer: Bob Joseph
- Indigenous musician Jayli Wolf grew up in a doomsday cult, which may have come in handy for a part on what theocracy-run-wild TV drama based on a 1985 Margaret Atwood novel?
Answer: The Handmaid's Tale
- In response to a 1969 federal White Paper on Indian Affairs, Cree chief Harold Cardinal called for recognition of Indigenous peoples in his "WHAT Paper"?
Answer: Red
- Tanya Talaga’s 2017 book, about the systemic racism in Ontario after the death of an indigenous child in the 1960s, and failed attempts to prevent similar deaths in the 2000s, is “Seven Fallen ______.” Fill in the one word blank, flat appendages that form a bird’s plumage.
Answer: Seven Fallen Feathers
- In 2025, Cadillac Fairview plans to finish construction on a downtown neighborhood in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, known as ______ Windsor. Fill in the one word blank, a four-letter shorthand for a four-sided figure.
Answer: Quad Windsor
- The history of indigenous peoples in Canada is explored in the book “A Short History Of Canada”, written by “M” Canadian historian? His last name is the same as a Chicago, IL, US based salt company which features a yellow girl with an umbrella.
Answer: Desmond Morton
- In 1821, William Hart dug the first well in the United States to specifically produce natural gas along the banks of the Canadaway Creek in the town of Fredonia in what state?
Answer: New York
- “First Peoples In Canada”, a 2004 book about the aboriginal population of Canada, was co-written by Alan McMillan and what archaeologist and professor of Indigenous Studies at Simon Fraser University?
Answer: Eldon Yellowhorn
- What is the start-of-the-alphabet name of Canada's largest telecom company, aptly named for a famous industry inventor?
Answer: Bell
- A lifestyle centre-type shopping center, located off of Lawrence Avenue East in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is CF Shops at Don ______. Fill in the one word blank, also the plural of a building with machinery to grind grain into flour.
Answer: CF Shops At Don Mills
- A Cadillac Fairview shopping mall in downtown Vancouver, BC, Canada, is the CF ______ Centre. Fill in the one word blank, an ocean off of the west coast of Canada.
Answer: CF Pacific Centre
- What 1997 drama film centers around the aftermath of a devastating school bus accident in a small town in British Columbia, and stars Ian Holm as a lawyer who pursues a class-action lawsuit on the victims' behalf?
Answer: The Sweet Hereafter
- New Zealand actress, Ana Paquin, was actually born in what country?
Answer: Canada
- The largest mall complex in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada is the Cadillac Fairview property CF ______ Ridge. Fill in the one word blank, also a green citrus fruit.
Answer: CF Lime Ridge
- What directionally named carrier has the second-largest fleet of any airline in Canada, behind only Air Canada itself in size?
Answer: WestJet
- At the intersection of Highway 7 East and McCowan Road in ______ham, Ontario is a shopping centre known as CF ______ville. Fill in the one word “M” blank, also the name of 19th century American author Twain.
Answer: Mark
- In “Candide,” Voltaire famously reduced Canada to being no more than “a few acres of ______?”
Answer: Snow
- Which triple-named author is famous in Prince Edward Island—and beyond—for penning “Anne of Green Gables?”
Answer: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- In 1996 Lockheed Martin began its sponsorship of the Fincastle Maintenance Trophy, an award that is competed for by aircrew from the Royal Air Forces of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and which other country?
Answer: New Zealand
- The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that created a trilateral trade bloc in North America from 1994 until 2020. What is the name or 5-letter initials of the agreement that superseded it on July 1st, 2020?
Answer: United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) or Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement (CUSMA)
- Argentina's Valley of the Moon, Canada's Dinosaur Provincial Park, and New Zealand's Putangirua Pinnacles are some examples of what geographical feature marked by the erosion of soft, clay-rich soils into colorful cliffs and ravines? The best known example is probably a U.S. National Park.
Answer: Badlands
- Pictureseque Icefields Parkway traces the Continental Divide through the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, Canada. Going from south to north, the parkway travels through Banff National Park to what other national park of Canada, which shares a name with the town at the highway's northern end?
Answer: Jasper National Park
- The Peace Arch, a monument to peaceful relations built in 1921, sits on the longest international land border in the world. What TWO countries share this border?
Answer: Canada and the United States
- Owner of more than 600 properties around the world, most of which are in North America, Brookfield is a real estate corporation headquartered in what country?
Answer: Canada
- Which variation of French is spoken throughout Canada, northern Maine, and the Magdalen Islands?
Answer: Acadian
- Which actress best known as Cristina Yang from “Grey’s Anatomy” made headlines when she attended the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II as an Officer of the Order of Canada (which she was awarded by the Queen in June).
Answer: Sandra Oh
- There are several bridges you can take to get from Michigan to Canada. Which bridge that connects Detroit to Windsor, Ontario is the busiest such international crossing in North America?
Answer: Ambassador
- What territory of Canada (and traditional Inuit homeland) was officially established in 1999, after being carved out of the extensive Northwest Territories?
Answer: Nunavut
- The earliest of these were constructed from stitched seal stretched over a wood or whalebone-skeleton frame and were originally developed by the Inuit, Yup'ik, and Aleut. What are they? A quick hint: the answer is a palindrome and they are quite the arm workout.
Answer: Kayaks
- Architect and native son Frank Gehry led the redevelopment of a Canadian institution in the 2000s, a particularly challenging feat as the building was considered a "hodgepodge" from six previous expansions dating back to the 1920s. What was the building Gehry revitalized?
Answer: Art Gallery of Ontario
- The article of clothing known as a "bunnyhug" in Saskatchewan is typically known by what other name throughout the rest of Canada and the US?
Answer: Hoodie
- The name Canada is generally accepted as coming from the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word kanata, meaning what?
Answer: Village or settlement
- Which Canadian city had a professional hockey team named The Millionaires from 1911 to 1926? Today the team's name is a slang term.
Answer: Vancouver
- The “Three Sisters” have been three of the main staple crops of many North American native tribes for thousands of years. They are planted together and believed to provide a balanced diet. One of these is corn. With one guess, name either of the other two.
Answer: Beans and squash
- Only one part of the former New France remains legally part of France. This small archipelago named Saint Pierre is home to ~6,000 citizens and is located off the coast of what Canadian province?
Answer: Newfoundland and Labrador
- Warner Bros. Pictures Canada once set up a 12-foot-high voodoo doll of a corporate manager in Montreal, to promote what 2011 Jennifer Aniston comedy?
Answer: Horrible Bosses
- Canada is the second largest country in the world by area. Russia is the first largest. What country is third? As a technical note, we're using the areas which exclude territorial and coastal waters.
Answer: China
- Cree, Ojibway, and Innu/Montagnais are just some of the languages belonging to WHAT Indigenous language family that is Canada's largest?
Answer: Algonquian
- Let’s go Wildcats! Along with the Eurasian, Canadian, and Iberian species, bobcats are a part of what genus of felines known for the luminescence of their reflective eyes?
Answer: arctic lynx
- Starting in 2011, new currency issued by the Bank of Canada was made of a synthetic polymer. What fiber was the primary material for notes issued prior to 2011?
Answer: Cotton
- Established in 1873 by Prime Minister Sir John Macdonald to maintain order in the North-West Territories, what is the name of the frequently-red-wearing Canadian group acronymed by the letters NWMP?
Answer: North-West Mounted Police
- Which U.S. state shares the longest border with Canada? The total comes in at over 1,500 miles.
Answer: Alaska
- What Toronto-born actor and producer famously holds the role of BoJack Horseman in the animated TV series of the same name and George Oscar Bluth II in the critically acclaimed TV show Arrested Development?
Answer: Will Arnett
- What Canadian company was founded "accidentally" by Tobias Lütke in 2004 while he was building an online shopping platform for snowboarding gear? For a period of time in 2020, the tech-based ecommerce platform was the most valuable public Canadian company by market capitalization.
Answer: Shopify
- Formed in Calgary in 1979, what rock band is responsible for such hit songs as "Workin' for the Weekend" and "Turn Me Loose?"
Answer: Loverboy
- In 1497, John Cabot discovered territory in what modern country, claiming it on behalf of the British Empire? He mistakenly believed it to be in Asia.
Answer: Canada
- In ~1000 AD, the Norse built a small settlement which only lasted a few years at the L'Anse aux Meadows in what now-province?
Answer: Newfoundland
- Besides Mexico and Mexico City, which two other countries of the Americas have capitals that follow the formula of Country_Name + "City"?
Answer: Panama, Guatemala
- What town in southeastern Alberta gets its name from the English translation of a Blackfoot word for the headdress worn by a traditional healer?
Answer: Medicine Hat
- What is the two-word, alliterative phrase for the tragic practice of taking Indigenous children in Canada from their families for placement in foster homes or adoption? More than 20,000 children were taken in this way from the late 1950s into the 1980s.
Answer: Sixties Scoop
- How many Canadian provinces border the US state of Montana?
Answer: Three (British Columbia
- On Bloor St in West Toronto, there is a retail establishment named The Monkey Paw with a customized vending machine. When a customer inserts a token, rather than receive a snack or beverage, they receive what edifying object?
Answer: A book
- When ranking the Canadian provinces and territories by water area, the same entity leads the list as when ranking by land area. What province/territory is this?
Answer: Quebec
- The first film written and acted in the Inuktitut language, "Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner" premiered at what Euro film festival where it was awarded the Camera d'Or?
Answer: Cannes Film Festival
- A Canadian produced 2021 film about an indigenous girl being held in a state-run institution, directed by Danis Goulet, is Night ______. Fill in the one word blank, also the the term used to describe people “of The Lost Ark” in a 1980s action classic.
Answer: Night Raiders
- Orcas Island is the largest of what group of islands that lie between mainland Washington state and Vancouver Island, Canada?
Answer: San Juan Islands
- The first Indigenous athletes to rep Canada at the Olympics, Sharon and Shirley Firth competed in what attention span-defying, quad-busting ski event?
Answer: Cross-country skiing
- One Canadian has won the National Basketball Association's MVP award. Who is it?
Answer: Steve Nash
- What is the four-word phrase that completes this passage from Article Two of the U.S. Constitution? "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other ____________."
Answer: High Crimes and Misdemeanors
- The condiment typically known as thousand island dressing and occasionally referred to on fast food menus as "special sauce" is in fact named for the Thousand Islands region which exists along the border of what TWO countries?
Answer: US and Canada
- Haida Gwaii is a remote archipelago with ancient village sites located off the northernmost coast of what Canadian province?
Answer: British Columbia
- The Scotties Tournament of Hearts is Canada's national women's championship in what sport?
Answer: Curling
- Treaty Day is celebrated on October 1 to honor the treaties signed between the Mi'kmaq people and the British Empire. In what province is this annual celebration?
Answer: Nova Scotia
- Microbiologists were hired by Warner Bros. Pictures Canada to create a billboard made of growing bacteria in Petri dishes, which spelled the name of what 2011 pandemic-themed movie directed by Steven Soderbergh?
Answer: Contagion
- Inspired by Alanis Morissette's 1995 album of the same name, what Broadway show closed on December 17, 2021 after winning both two Tony Awards and the 2021 Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album?
Answer: Jagged Little Pill
- Canada Day is an annual holiday celebrated on July 1st each year to commemorate the nation's birth as an independent state. Prior to 1982, what was the name of this holiday?
Answer: Dominion Day
- In 2018, what two words of "O Canada" were officially changed to "of us," so that the second line of the anthem now goes, "true patriot love in all OF US command?"
Answer: Thy sons
- Justin Trudeau has a bachelor of arts degree in literature from what school?
Answer: McGill University
- The name “Canada” comes from the word “Kanata” which was a word used by what native American tribe who lived in Quebec in the 1500s?
Answer: Iroquois
- As of 2019, what Canadian city has the highest population density at 5,493/sq. km.?
Answer: Vancouver
- In what year were the first Olympic Games hosted in Canada?
Answer: 1976 (Montreal)
- Thanksgiving in the USA is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, but when is Canada’s Thanksgiving?
Answer: The second Monday of October
- The Inuit people officially gained the right to vote in 1950, but effectively didn't have suffrage until 1962 because of a lack of what pretty important thing for voting?
Answer: Ballot boxes
- Sisters Amy and Louise Fleming live on their Alberta ranch with their father, grandfather, and a hired hand named Ty Borden, on what long-running CBC series that first aired in 2007?
Answer: Heartland
- A 1999 comedy film stars Brendan Fraser in the title role of what fictional member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, whose first appearance was in the 1960s on "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show?"
Answer: Dudley Do-Right
- Plains ______, Woods ______, Moose ______, and Western Swampy ______ are four of the dialects of a certain language that was once widely spoken in Canada. What is the one word that fills all four of those blanks?
Answer: Cree
- Doug Ford, whom Toronto's Globe and Mail newspaper recently accused of "firing a shot through the heart of democracy," is the premier of which Canadian province?
Answer: Ontario
- What large body of water on the southern end of Canada's Hudson Bay shares its name with a musician best-known for his 2014 hit single, "Hold Back the River"?
Answer: James Bay
- Gastown was the original name of what Canadian city that now has the highest population density in the country?
Answer: Vancouver
- Winning the 1984 federal election in a landslide, Brian Mulroney served as the 18th prime minister of what country? Technically, Brian was his middle name as he was born Martin Brian Mulroney.
Answer: Canada
- By 1940 all Canadian provinces had passed their own laws granting voting equality for women and men, however the vast majority of provinces had done this between 1916 and 1922. Which province was the final one to grant women equal suffrage rights on April 25, 1940?
Answer: Quebec
- How many standard times zones are within Canadian borders?
Answer: Six
- What is the largest Canadian city (by population) located on an island?
Answer: Montreal
- A mix of Gaelic, French, Cree, and Ojibwe created what Red River Métis Creole dialect that sounds like it was named by bridge-jumping adrenaline junkies?
Answer: Bungee
- Chocolate, peanut butter, and nougat are the main ingredients of what quick-eatin' Reese's bar that's called a Hershey Sidekick in Canada?
Answer: Fast Break
- In the early 1900s, the relationship between Canada and the U.S. was tense, with Canadian manufacturers concerned about larger American factories controlling Canadian markets if trade protections were not in place. This led to the popular phrase in Canada: "No truck or trade with the _____." What word fills in the blank?
Answer: Yankees
- An Algonquin or Ojibwe word meaning "where the river narrows" became the name of what province where the Saint Lawrence does actually narrow?
Answer: Québec
- The Oka Crisis was a land dispute between the town of Oka in Quebec and a group from what First Nations tribe? The incident began on July 11, 1990 and lasted for 78 days, resulting in two deaths.
Answer: Mohawk
- Thutade Lake is the source of Canada's longest river; what river is this?
Answer: Mackenzie River
- Number 8 Fire Station and Tom's Place are two of the well-known landmarks and its approximate borders are College St, Spadina Ave, Dundas St W, and Bathurst St. What is this Toronto neighborhood?
Answer: Kensington Market
- Named for a city in British Columbia, what no-bake dessert includes a base of wafers, nuts, and coconut, custard icing in the middle, and a layer of chocolate ganache on top?
Answer: Nanaimo Bar
- "Come from Away" is an award-winning Canadian musical set in the week following the September 11 attacks, telling the true story of when 38 planes were unexpectedly re-rerouted to the small town of Gander in what Canadian province?
Answer: Newfoundland and Labrador
- What is the English-adaptation name fo the Athabaskan-speaking First Nations people who typically live in the Northwest Territories, Canada? This group's name comes from their fable descent from a supernatural canine-human.
Answer: Dogrib (Tlicho)
- What is the six-letter name of the Heritage Minutes episode that shares its name (and story) with the genesis behind a beloved children's character?
Answer: Winnie
- Indigenous women and their allies founded the Native Women's Association of Canada, and Ralph Steinhauer became the first Indigenous person to hold vice-regal office in Canada. Within one, that was what busy year of the 1970s?
Answer: 1974
- The Assembly of First Nations, established in 1982, was preceded by which organization known by a three-letter acronym that dissolved in the 1970s?
Answer: National Indian Brotherhood
- What Canadian crime comedy-drama aired from 1994 to 1999 and starred Paul Gross as a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer who has a deaf wolf as a pet and helps the Chicago police department?
Answer: Due South
- What’s the nickname for the University of Toronto’s sports program (as well as the title of a 1999 football flick)?
Answer: Varsity Blues
- Since 1984, the Canada Health Act has provided the basis for a publicly funded universal health care system that is delivered through 13 provincial and territorial systems. What two-word phrase describes this form of healthcare in which taxes cover the costs of essential healthcare for all residents, with sole public system?
Answer: Single Payer
- What is the name of the island that comprises the northeastern portion of Nova Scotia and is separated from the rest of the province by the Canso Causeway?
Answer: Cape Breton Island
- As of 2017, what Canadian city of at least 50,000 people had the highest rate of college degrees per capita at nearly 32%?
Answer: Ottawa
- At over 5,400 people per square kilometer, what Canadian city has the nation's highest population density? The city ranks 5th on the same metric in North America.
Answer: Vancouver
- Ryan Malcolm and Kalan Porter were the first two winners of what Canadian reality television program?
Answer: Canadian Idol
- If you sum the total box offices sales of all of the movies made by each Canadian film director in history, which Canadian director has the highest total?
Answer: James Cameron
- Brazil is the world's largest coffee bean producer and has been for over 150 years. Many other top coffee-producing nations are in South America and Central America, but what Southeast Asia country is actually the second largest producer?
Answer: Vietnam
- Located in the New Edinburgh neighbourhood of Ottawa, what is the official address of the residence of the Prime Minister of Canada?
Answer: 24 Sussex Dr
- When ranking the world's nations by amounts of oil reserves, what country is the highest on the list (at 3rd place) that is *not* a member of OPEC?
Answer: Canada
- Current Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is famously the son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. The younger Trudeau has two full (non-half) siblings. With one guess, name either of them.
Answer: Michel or Alexandre
- In December 2020, Cadillac Fairview announced more than $800,000 in charitable donations to local and national non-profits throughout Canada. What is the one word that is missing from two of these recipient organizations? Hamilton Philharmonic ______ Orchestra, The Be______ Empowerment Project.
Answer: Youth
- The oldest city in Canada was founded only one year after Jamestown, Virginia, which is considered the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. What is this primordial Canadian city?
Answer: Quebec
- How many members are on the Supreme Court of Canada?
Answer: Nine
- Known in part for painting their houses, canoes, weapons, and even bodies with red ochre, the The Beothuk was a group of indigenous people declared extinct in 1829, as European colonization led to their starvation. In which of today's provinces were the Beothuk located?
Answer: Newfoundland and Labrador
- In 2008 Canada officially established a TRC with the purpose of documenting the history and lasting impacts of the Canadian Indian residential school system on indigenous students and their families. Other well-known TRCs include post-apartheid South Africa and multiple in Latin America. What does TRC stand for?
Answer: Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- The C______ Act was legislation passed by the Parliament of Canada in 2000 that established the conditions under which the Canadian government and a province would agree to terms of secession from the nation. What word fills in the blank?
Answer: Clarity
- The war known in the US as the French and Indian War is known by what temporally-accurate name in Canada?
Answer: Seven Years War
- The Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica operates under what "Hollywood"-esque name in much of Latin America, including Argentina, Mexico, and Costa Rica?
Answer: Movistar
- Rob, who is a puppet, angrily denies that he is gay by singing the song "My Girlfriend Who Lives in Canada" in what Broadway musical named after a thoroughfare in New York City's Brooklyn borough?
Answer: Avenue Q
- What name does Canada give to its 338 electoral districts, each one of which elects a member of parliament to the country's House of Commons?
Answer: Riding
- Shot primarily in Toronto, what 2010s sci-fi TV series starred actress Tatiana Maslany in multiple roles as clones called "sestras?"
Answer: Orphan Black
- Although not one of the Great Lakes, what is the largest lake contained entirely in Canada which also happens to have "Great" in its name?
Answer: Great Bear Lake
- Given to the city in 1981 as part of its "Salute to Switzerland," a 1,000-pound piece of what European mountain sits at the base of the CN Tower?
Answer: Matterhorn
- What biome is also known as the boreal forest or snow forest? The biome is identifiable through its coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches. Although sparsely populated compared to other biomes, it is the world's largest apart from the oceans. In North America it covers most of inland Canada and Alaska.
Answer: Taiga
- Although it was not created specifically to address the Internet, the personal-information law known as PIPEDA has an effect on Internet privacy. In what country was PIPEDA enacted in 2000?
Answer: Canada
- Located in the Canadian Rockies, what national park -- Canada's first -- contains such picturesque attractions as Lake Louise and Mount Norquay?
Answer: Banff
- The Calypso Monarch, the King and Queen Showcase, and the Grand Parade are all key elements to what annual Torontonian tradition?
Answer: Caribana
- Alaska is typically considered the seventh-largest country subdivision in the world by area. Two of the larger subdivisions are found in Russia and two in Australia. Name either of the other countries with a subdivision larger than Alaska.
Answer: Canada (Nunavut) or Denmark (Greenland)
- First issued in 1923, the official badge of what Canadian group features the motto "Per Ardua Ad Astra" along with an eagle in flight? P.S. That phrase means "Through adversity to the stars."
Answer: Royal Air Force
- Based on a common North American indigenous creation story, what is the two-word reptilian phrase often used as a name for the Earth or North American that is still used by some First Nations people?
Answer: Turtle Island
- The official state bird of Georgia was the mascot for what Atlanta NHL hockey team that played from 1999 until 2011?
Answer: Thrashers
- The migration of 100,000 prospectors to the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush occurred during a 4-year period in what decade?
Answer: 1890s
- Consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, G7 is short for what international intergovernmental organization comprised of seven of world’s largest developed economies?
Answer: Group of Seven
- What was the last name of the Ontarian woman with the first name Agnes who became the first woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1921 election?
Answer: Macphail
- Considered one of the first painters in Canada to adopt a Modernist painting style, what woman described as a "Canadian icon" by the The Canadian Encyclopedia was also a seasoned writer and one of the first to chronicle life in British Columbia?
Answer: Emily Carr
- To the surprise of many, "Canola" oil takes its name from CANada, Oil, Low Acid. Makes sense considering that canola oil was first made in Canada. From what plant is canola oil historically made?
Answer: Rapeseed
- In a Heritage Minutes episode about the basis of good governance and multilingual cooperation, two men are featured in the title of the episode and the episode itself. One is LaFontaine. Who is the other?
Answer: Baldwin
- What 1977 movie starring Paul Newman included a Canadian deportation as a key plot point? The film is considered somewhat unique cinematically as it was translated in colloquial Québécois French and not Standard French.
Answer: Slap Shot
- What creatively-named solar company was founded by Shawn Qu in Ontario in 2001? The company has more than 13,000 employees today, is publicly traded on the NASDAQ, and manufactures solar PV modules.
Answer: Canadian Solar
- In the Squamish history of the Great Flood, Chiyakmesh is given food and guided to a wife by what legendary creature that shares a name with a Ford convertible?
Answer: Thunderbird
- The round Canada Goose logo features the brand name at the top of the circle, and what two-word phrase at the bottom of the circle?
Answer: Arctic Program
- What Canadian politician born in 1904 was the Premier of Sasketchewan for 17 years and famously introduced the continent's first single-payer, universal health care program?
Answer: Tommy Douglas
- What is the name of the gift-giving feast practiced by indigenous peoples in the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States? A similar practice is celebrated by Interior and Subarctic peoples though with less elaborate rituals.
Answer: Potlatch
- What is the name of the region with large deposits of bitumen (heavy crude oil) in the northeastern region of Alberta? This is the largest known reservoir of bitumen on Earth.
Answer: Athabasca oil sands
- Cadillac Fairview (jointly with the Ontario Pension Board) owns and operates the headquarters for what major Canadian bank that encourages customers to "make someday happen" with them?
Answer: Royal Bank of Canada
- What is the Canadian-influenced name of the infamous and controversial unscripted professional wrestling incident in 1997in which owners and employees manipulated the pre-determined outcome of a match between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels?
Answer: Montreal incident
- Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley are collectively known by what name as a famed set of Canadian landscape painters in the first half of the 20th century?
Answer: Group of Seven or Algonquin School
- ISL is considered to be a "critically endangered language isolate" that is used today in Nunavut. What does ISL stand for?
Answer: Inuit Sign Language
- Located on the Yucatan Peninsula, what Mexican state sounds like it might contain Australian mammals but is actually named for a lawyer who fought for Mexican independence?
Answer: Quintana Roo
- Beating out Australia, India, and Turkey, what north hemisphere country is the world’s largest grower of lentils and produces more than half of the world’s total lentil exports?
Answer: Canada
- When ignoring the stem, how many points does the maple leaf on the Canadian flag have?
Answer: 11
- Canadian forces were sent to aid Britain in a war in the opening years of the 20th century after fierce debate between the country's English Canadian (in favor) and French Canadian (opposed) populations. What foreign war was this?
Answer: Second Boer War
- What author critiqued cultural evaluations of indigenous Americans across North America in his 2012 book “The Inconvenient Indian?" His last name implies some kind of regal background.
Answer: Thomas King
- Originally conceived by its eponymous founder as a place for choral music without religious affiliation, what famed music venue in Toronto was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1981? The venue shares its name with an American actor, dancer, and rapper who reached childhood fame with his role on "That's So Raven."
Answer: Massey Hall
- With a name translating to "inside the Skeena River," what is the name of the indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast that consist of ~10,000 members of seven First Nations? Their society is kinship-based and matrilineal and they traditionally fashioned most goods out of western red cedar.
Answer: Tsimshian
- What Canadian author and member of the Sto:lo Nation wrote such books as “Ravensong” in 1993, and “Bobbie Lee: Indian Rebel” in 1975?
Answer: Lee Maracle
- "Bonheur d'Occasion" was the original French title of what classic 1945 novel by Gabrielle Roy? Its English title contains the name of a musical instrument.
Answer: The Tin Flute
- Which Canadian province has the largest % of its total area occupied by water?
Answer: Quebec
- In what year did the Canadian Mint distribute the last pennies?
Answer: 2013
- What is the "T" name for the historical frame structure used for transportation by indigenous Canadians for many centuries to drag loads over land? Typically this item would consist of a platform mounted on two long poles shaped like an elongated triangle.
Answer: Travois
- What is the "A" name of the land that is home to the Mohawk Nation which straddles both international (Canada and US) and provincial (Ontario and Quebec) boundaries on the banks of the St. Lawrence River?
Answer: Akwesasne
- What “M” Canadian insurance company based in Toronto, Canada mainly operates in the United States through John Hancock Financial, while operating in Canada and Asia under its own name? Its logo is a green chart.
Answer: Manulife
- Way back in the 1800s, Canada's first transatlantic telegraph link connected Newfoundland to what country that gets some of its cell service from Eir Mobile?
Answer: Ireland
- The Piikani, Siksika, and Kainai groups are all linguistically related and have historically been referred to by what collective name?
Answer: Blackfoot
- Author Alicia Elliott uses her own perspective as a Tuscarora writer from Six Nations of the Grand River in what 2019 book? The work was based on a 2017 essay of the same name which won gold at the National Magazines Awards.
Answer: A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
- What is the popular name for encased coils or pocketed springs that takes its name from the Canadian engineer and machinist who patented the item in Canada in 1900? The man later started a namesake mattress company.
Answer: Marshall springs
- "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" and "We Can't Be Friends" were top-ten hits for what Toronto-born artist who got her start singing backup for Celine Dion?
Answer: Deborah Cox
- What ecoregion of Brazil is considered to be the biologically richest savanna in the world, and has seen a recent agricultural boom resulting in it being responsible for 70 percent of Brazil's beef production and major grain production (especially soybeans)?
Answer: Cerrado
- According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, what is the most educated country on the planet as of 2019? To measure this, they are ranking countries based on the share of adult residents between the ages of 25 and 64 with a "tertiary education," meaning a two-year or four-year degree or education via vocational program. The leader had ~56% of the population with tertiary education.
Answer: Canada
- Established in 1663, and located in the province of Quebec, what is the oldest post-secondary institution (i.e. college) in Canada?
Answer: Université Laval
- There is a 6,000 square kilometer wetland complex in northern Yukon that contains archaeological sits with demonstrations of some fo the earliest human habitation in North America. What is the three-word "fowl" name for this area?
Answer: Old Crow Flats
- What does the “Y” stand for in all Canadian airport codes?
Answer: Yes
- As of 2011, which of Canada's provinces or territories had the highest share of its population that reported English as their mother tongue? English was the native language of more than 97% of the entity's population.
Answer: Newfoundland and Labrador
- Feeding almost entirely on insects (rare for an owl), what is the small "F" owl with a 14-inch wingspan that gets its name from ember-like markings on its face that is found across Canada, the United States, and Mexico?
Answer: Flammulated Owl
- First released in 1991, the Heritage Minutes are a bilingual series of PSAs that are produced by what non-profit organization that also famously publishes an encyclopedia?
Answer: Historica Canada
- The Iroquois Confederacy's flag has a design based on the belt of what Iroquois co-founder written about by Longfellow?
Answer: Hiawatha
- What man was a critical figure in Northwest Coast style art (specifically that of the Kwakwaka'wakw Aboriginal people) while also a prominent singer and songwriter? First hired by the Museum of Anthropology at UBC, he later created his most famous work -- a massive totem pole standing 160 feet tall that was raised in 1956 and stood until 2000.
Answer: Mungo Martin
- In the late 1960s, politicians in Canada attempted to incorporate a new word into the national lexicon as a generic term for greeting, so it could be used like "ciao" or "aloha." The short-lived term originated from the northern Canadian Inuktitut language. What was the term?
Answer: Chimo
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