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293 Canada Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated For 2024)

1. Fairbanks, Alaska; Svalbard, Norway; and Yukon, Canada are three destinations recommended by Travel + Leisure Magazine for travelers hoping to see what phenomenon?
   
   Answer: Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)
   
   
2. What popular mathematics software program is named after the type of tree whose leaf appears on the flag of Canada?
   
   Answer: Maple
   
   
3. 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
   
   
4. What directionally named carrier has the second-largest fleet of any airline in Canada, behind only Air Canada itself in size?
   
   Answer: WestJet
   
   
5. 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
   
   
6. “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
   
   
7. The Cadillac Fairview Corporation is owned by the pension plan in Ontario, Canada of what profession?
   
   Answer: Teachers
   
   
8. What singer released "D'eux," "Falling Into You," and "Let's Talk About Love" between 1995 and 1997? Together, those albums sold over 73 million units, which is about twice the entire population of Canada.
   
   Answer: Celine Dion
   
   
9. 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
   
   
10. 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)
    
    
11. Torrington, Wyoming got the TOR airport code instead of Toronto, because Canadian airport codes all start with what letter?
    
    Answer: Y
    
    
12. 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
    
    
13. 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
    
    
14. 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
    
    
15. What white tri-petal woodland flower is the official flower of Ontario?
    
    Answer: Trillium
    
    
16. 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
    
    
17. 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
    
    
18. "Pepsi" is a slang term for a French Canadian, based on the strong preference for Pepsi over Coke in which province whose official language is French?
    
    Answer: Quebec
    
    
19. 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
    
    
20. Meaning "The Round" in English, La Ronde is an amusement park whose French name reflects its location in what Canadian province?
    
    Answer: Quebec
    
    
21. Named after a Scottish merchant whose bequest formed its precursor, which of Montreal's six universities is the city's oldest?
    
    Answer: McGill
    
    
22. 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
    
    
23. In 2021, Justin Trudeau announced that what Inuit leader would succeed Julie Payette as governor general of Canada?
    
    Answer: Mary Simon
    
    
24. According to the Inuit, Nunavut is comprised of three regions: the Qikiqtaaluk Region, the Kivalliq Region and what third region?
    
    Answer: Kitikmeot Region
    
    
25. Originating in Canada, what pizza notable for its tropical fruit topping was created in the 1960s by Sam Panopoulos?
    
    Answer: Hawaiian
    
    
26. Fin the Whale, an anthropomorphic orca, is the official mascot of what Canadian NHL team?
    
    Answer: Vancouver Canucks
    
    
27. 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
    
    
28. 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
    
    
29. Located in Alberta and established in 1885, what is the oldest national park in Canada?
    
    Answer: Banff
    
    
30. 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
    
    
31. What North American nation instituted a two-year ban on the purchase of residential property by foreigners (those who are not citizens or permanent residents) starting on January 1, 2023?
    
    Answer: Canada
    
    
32. 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
    
    
33. 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
    
    
34. 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
    
    
35. 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
    
    
36. What was the first national park established in Canada? The park is located in Alberta.
    
    Answer: Banff National Park
    
    
37. 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
    
    
38. What tough-sounding CFL team has its origins in the Regina Rugby Club, a team that was founded in 1910?
    
    Answer: Saskatchewan Roughriders
    
    
39. 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
    
    
40. What Canadian city is home to the intersection of the Red and Assiniboine rivers and is located very near the longitudinal center of North America?
    
    Answer: Winnipeg
    
    
41. 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
    
    
42. 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
    
    
43. 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
    
    
44. King Henry VII described the…um…recently discovered area…by John Cabot in a letter written in the late 1500s using a fairly uninventive term. Today that’s the N-name of what island that joins Labrador in the name of a Canadian province?
    
    Answer: Newfoundland
    
    
45. Thistles and a unicorn take up space in Canada's coat of arms repping which UK constituent country?
    
    Answer: Scotland
    
    
46. 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
    
    
47. "Grey Owl" was the name of a conservationist famous for his work as a caretaker at Riding Mountain National Park and Prince Albert National Park in what country?
    
    Answer: Canada
    
    
48. A tongue-in-cheek "Whisky War" over possession of Hans Island, in which bottles of alcohol were left as claims of ownership, was finally settled in 2022 between Denmark and what North American nation?
    
    Answer: Canada
    
    
49. What Canadian delicacy consists simply of butter, sugar, syrup, and egg—and sometimes, controversially, raisins—baked together in a pastry filling?
    
    Answer: Butter Tart
    
    
50. 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
    
    
51. English is the most-spoken language in Canada. French is second. What language is third?
    
    Answer: Chinese (Mandarin)
    
    
52. While still playing for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Mario Lemieux led the national team of what country to Olympic gold in 2002?
    
    Answer: Canada
    
    
53. 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
    
    
54. 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
    
    
55. Screech is an alcohol most closely associated with what Canadian island?
    
    Answer: Newfoundland
    
    
56. What sport joins ice hockey as one of two national sports of Canada?
    
    Answer: Lacrosse
    
    
57. The 2000s robots Dextre and Canadarm were both pieces of technology developed by what federally funded Canadian agency?
    
    Answer: Canadian Space Agency
    
    
58. Rising above the Saskatchewan prairie, in what city is the largest provincial legislative building in Canada?
    
    Answer: Regina
    
    
59. 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
    
    
60. "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
    
    
61. 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
    
    
62. 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
    
    
63. 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
    
    
64. 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
    
    
65. 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
    
    
66. Made famous by the novels of L.M. Montgomery, Green Gables House is a tourist attraction in what Canadian province?
    
    Answer: Prince Edward Island
    
    
67. Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta are known collectively by what "flat" nickname, reflecting their location in the northern Great Plains?
    
    Answer: Prairie Provinces
    
    
68. 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!
    
    
69. Métis leader Louis Riel is often cited as a founder of what province that almost got the name "Assiniboia"?
    
    Answer: Manitoba
    
    
70. 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
    
    
71. 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
    
    
72. 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
    
    
73. The giant Canada Goose is the largest subspecies of Canada Goose. Although widespread now, it had once been thought extinct until a small group was found in what Midwestern state in 1962?
    
    Answer: Minnesota
    
    
74. Baffin, Victoria, and Ellesmere, three of the ten largest islands in the world, can all be found in what country?
    
    Answer: Canada
    
    
75. 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
    
    
76. "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
    
    
77. 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
    
    
78. "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
    
    
79. Crown Royal whiskey is produced in what country with QE2 on their $20 bill?
    
    Answer: Canada
    
    
80. 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
    
    
81. Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell, and Jean Chrétien each served during some part of the 1990s as Prime Minister of what country?
    
    Answer: Canada
    
    
82. What actress, who was the wife of Liam Neeson, tragically died from a head injury sustained during a ski trip in Canada?
    
    Answer: Natasha Richardson
    
    
83. 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
    
    
84. 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 Austronesian language?
    
    Answer: Tagalog
    
    
85. A base of wafer and coconut, custard, and chocolate ganache are the layers in a popular "bar" name for what city on Canada's Vancouver Island?
    
    Answer: Nanaimo
    
    
86. 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
    
    
87. 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
    
    
88. Which two Canadian cities made their NBA franchise debuts in 1995? We need BOTH answers here.
    
    Answer: Toronto and Vancouver
    
    
89. Canada's Dalhousie University is located in what capital and largest city of the Maritime province of Nova Scotia?
    
    Answer: Halifax
    
    
90. 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
    
    
91. 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
    
    
92. 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
    
    
93. 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
    
    
94. 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
    
    
95. Lake Hillier in Australia and Dusty Rose Lake in Canada are notable examples of lakes that have what color water?
    
    Answer: Pink
    
    
96. 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
    
    
97. As of 2016, the most populous Canadian province has more than 38% of the entire country's population. Which province is this?
    
    Answer: Ontario
    
    
98. Named for a large type of ungulate, what is the name of Edmonton's Canadian Football League team?
    
    Answer: Elks
    
    
99. 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
    
    
100. 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
     
     
101. Regina is the provincial capital of the Saskatchewan province in western Canada. What other provincial capital is closest in distance to Regina?
     
     Answer: Winnipeg
     
     
102. "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
     
     
103. What Canadian province's southern border lies adjacent to both Idaho and Montana?
     
     Answer: British Columbia
     
     
104. 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
     
     
105. Before publishing her first book "Split Tooth," Tanya Tagaq gained acclaim as a musician of katajjaq, otherwise known as Inuit WHAT singing?
     
     Answer: Throat
     
     
106. 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
     
     
107. 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
     
     
108. 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
     
     
109. Montana shares a northern border with 3 Canadian provinces. Name 2.
     
     Answer: British Columbia Alberta and Saskatchewan
     
     
110. What Western Conference team did the Toronto Raptors defeat in the 2019 NBA finals to become league champions?
     
     Answer: Golden State Warriors
     
     
111. 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
     
     
112. The article of clothing known as a "bunnyhug" in Saskatchewan is typically known by what other name throughout the rest of Canada and the U.S.?
     
     Answer: Hoodie
     
     
113. 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
     
     
114. 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
     
     
115. A white owl is featured prominently on the cover of "Fly By Night," a 1975 album from what Canadian progressive-rock band?
     
     Answer: Rush
     
     
116. 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
     
     
117. 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
     
     
118. The name Canada is generally accepted as coming from the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word kanata, meaning what?
     
     Answer: Village or settlement
     
     
119. 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
     
     
120. Poutine, often referred to as Canada's national dish, consists of french fries, gravy, and what other ingredient?
     
     Answer: Cheese curds
     
     
121. 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
     
     
122. 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
     
     
123. 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
     
     
124. 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
     
     
125. 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
     
     
126. 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
     
     
127. What was the sixth nation to join the Six Nations or Haudenosaunee, after the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca nations?
     
     Answer: Tuscarora
     
     
128. 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
     
     
129. 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
     
     
130. What Somalian-born, one-named supermodel served as host and head judge on the short-lived Canadian version of "Project Runway?"
     
     Answer: Iman
     
     
131. "Flight Stop," a sculpture in Cadillac Fairview's Toronto Eaton Centre, depicts 60 of what birds in flight?
     
     Answer: Canada goose
     
     
132. 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
     
     
133. 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
     
     
134. A trilateral trade bloc between Canada, Mexico, and the United States was formed by what agreement in 1994?
     
     Answer: NAFTA
     
     
135. 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
     
     
136. 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
     
     
137. 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
     
     
138. 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
     
     
139. 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
     
     
140. 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
     
     
141. 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
     
     
142. 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
     
     
143. 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
     
     
144. 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
     
     
145. 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-based salt company which features a yellow girl with an umbrella.
     
     Answer: Desmond Morton
     
     
146. “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
     
     
147. What is the start-of-the-alphabet name of Canada's largest telecom company, aptly named for a famous industry inventor?
     
     Answer: Bell
     
     
148. New Zealand actress, Ana Paquin, was actually born in what country?
     
     Answer: Canada
     
     
149. Which triple-named author is famous in Prince Edward Island—and beyond—for penning “Anne of Green Gables?”
     
     Answer: Lucy Maud Montgomery
     
     
150. 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
     
     
151. 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
     
     
152. 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
     
     
153. 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
     
     
154. Which variation of French is spoken throughout Canada, northern Maine, and the Magdalen Islands?
     
     Answer: Acadian
     
     
155. 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
     
     
156. What territory of Canada (and traditional Inuit homeland) was officially established in 1999, after being carved out of the extensive Northwest Territories?
     
     Answer: Nunavut
     
     
157. The Canadian Rockies more or less form the border between Alberta and what province with a two-word name that borders the Pacific Ocean?
     
     Answer: British Columbia
     
     
158. In 1859, the United States and Britain nearly went to war over the shooting of what common, domesticated animal on San Juan Island in Washington? The incident would not be formally resolved until 1871, when the final boundary between the U.S. and Canada was settled, with the San Juan Islands becoming US territory.
     
     Answer: Pig
     
     
159. Nobel peace prize winner Lester B. Pearson served as prime minister between 1963 and 1968 of which country?
     
     Answer: Canada
     
     
160. In 2013, a coffee shop in Vancouver became the first place to have a Bitcoin ATM. What country was it in?
     
     Answer: Canada
     
     
161. "Although a Gander does not strut before his beloved with the pomposity of a Turkey, or the grace of a Dove, his ways are quite as agreeable to the female of his choice." What French-American naturalist wrote this about the Canada Goose in his monumental Birds of America?
     
     Answer: John James Audubon
     
     
162. What legendary short story writer behind collections like Runaway and Dear Life became the first and only Canadian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013?
     
     Answer: Alice Munro
     
     
163. What French film, released in the U.S. in 2003, follows the extensive seasonal journey of several bird species, including Canada and snow geese?
     
     Answer: Winged Migration
     
     
164. A flock of Canada Geese got themselves into a sticky, and deadly, situation when they landed in what Los Angeles landmark in 2023?
     
     Answer: La Brea Tar Pits
     
     
165. What northern neighbor of the U.S. has the most natural lakes in the world (with more than 879,000 of them)?
     
     Answer: Canada
     
     
166. The intelligence-sharing alliance established in 1941 among the U.S., UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia is typically known as the Five what?
     
     Answer: Eyes
     
     
167. Made from a merger of Sun Oil and GCOS, the world's largest bitumen producer Suncor is headquartered in what country?
     
     Answer: Canada
     
     
168. "Reuben" was the first name of the founder of what legendary namesake smoked deli on Montreal's Saint-Laurent Boulevard, founded in 1928 and famous for its smoked meat sandwiches?
     
     Answer: Schwartz's
     
     
169. In what small town in Alberta can you visit the world’s first UFO landing pad?
     
     Answer: St. Paul
     
     
170. The Meteor was a car brand exclusive to Canada. It was a subsidiary of which larger North American car manufacturer?
     
     Answer: Ford
     
     
171. Thornton and Lucie Blackburn were freedom seekers who fled Kentucky when slavery was still the law. After being caught and escaping imprisonment, they headed north to find safety and went on become instrumental figures in bringing the Underground Railroad to which country above the United States?
     
     Answer: Canada
     
     
172. There’s only one province in Canada that is officially bilingual (French and English). Which one is it?
     
     Answer: New Brunswick
     
     
173. What Canadian city is known as the "City of Waterfalls," thanks to the presence of Webster's Falls and over 100 others, the result of its proximity to the Niagara Escarpment?
     
     Answer: Hamilton, Ontario
     
     
174. At 163 feet tall and meant to represent several factions of the Kwakwaka’wakw people, Alert Bay, British Columbia boasts the world's tallest example of what particular art form?
     
     Answer: Totem Pole
     
     
175. 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
     
     
176. Belonging to Canada, what is the fifth-largest island in the world? (Hint: It's got a double letter in it)
     
     Answer: Baffin
     
     
177. 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
     
     
178. 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
     
     
179. 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
     
     
180. Which U.S. state shares the longest border with Canada? The total comes in at over 1,500 miles.
     
     Answer: Alaska
     
     
181. 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
     
     
182. 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
     
     
183. 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
     
     
184. 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: Lynx
     
     
185. 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
     
     
186. 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
     
     
187. 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
     
     
188. Named after a headdress worn by Indigenous healers, Medicine Hat is a city located along the South Saskatchewan River in which Canadian province?
     
     Answer: Alberta
     
     
189. 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
     
     
190. 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
     
     
191. Orcas Island is the largest of what group of islands that lie between mainland Washington state and Vancouver Island, Canada?
     
     Answer: San Juan Islands
     
     
192. One Canadian has won the National Basketball Association's MVP award. Who is it?
     
     Answer: Steve Nash
     
     
193. 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
     
     
194. Cree, Ojibway, and Innu/Montagnais are just some of the languages belonging to WHAT Indigenous language family that is Canada's largest?
     
     Answer: Algonquian
     
     
195. Haida Gwaii is a remote archipelago with ancient village sites located off the northernmost coast of what Canadian province?
     
     Answer: British Columbia
     
     
196. The Scotties Tournament of Hearts is Canada's national women's championship in what sport?
     
     Answer: Curling
     
     
197. 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: U.S. and Canada
     
     
198. 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
     
     
199. 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
     
     
200. Thanksgiving in the U.S. is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, but when is Canada’s Thanksgiving?
     
     Answer: The second Monday of October
     
     
201. 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
     
     
202. 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
     
     
203. 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
     
     
204. 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
     
     
205. According to an August 2023 story in Yahoo! Finance, the two most-searched-for cities for real estate in Canada are Edmonton and Alberta, which are both located in which province?
     
     Answer: Alberta
     
     
206. What colorful Nova Scotia port town is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site for boasting the best-preserved British colonial settlement architecture in the new world?
     
     Answer: Lunenburg
     
     
207. 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
     
     
208. 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
     
     
209. I guess the flag is a big plus! Although she was born and raised in Quebec, Canada, Celine Dion represented what country in the 1988 Eurovision contest?
     
     Answer: Switzerland
     
     
210. 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
     
     
211. 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
     
     
212. 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
     
     
213. 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
     
     
214. 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
     
     
215. An Algonquin or Ojibwe word meaning "where the river narrows" became the name of what province where the Saint Lawrence does actually narrow?
     
     Answer: Qubec
     
     
216. 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
     
     
217. 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
     
     
218. Thutade Lake is the source of Canada's longest river—which is what?
     
     Answer: Mackenzie River
     
     
219. 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
     
     
220. The war known in the U.S. as the French and Indian War is known by what temporally-accurate name in Canada?
     
     Answer: Seven Years War
     
     
221. What is the English-adaptation name of 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)
     
     
222. 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
     
     
223. 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
     
     
224. 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
     
     
225. 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
     
     
226. What are the two words inscribed on the Victoria Cross, which is the highest award for military bravery given to soldiers from the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and other Commonwealth countries?
     
     Answer: For Valour
     
     
227. "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
     
     
228. What resort town was named the Host Mountain Resort for the 2010 Winter Olympics? It was the first time the International Olympic Committee had designated a community as such.
     
     Answer: Whistler
     
     
229. 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
     
     
230. Ryan Malcolm and Kalan Porter were the first two winners of what Canadian reality television program?
     
     Answer: Canadian Idol
     
     
231. 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
     
     
232. Located in the New Edinburgh neighborhood of Ottawa, what is the official address of the residence of the Prime Minister of Canada?
     
     Answer: 24 Sussex Dr
     
     
233. 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. the phrase means "through adversity to the stars."
     
     Answer: Royal Air Force
     
     
234. 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
     
     
235. Known in part for painting their houses, canoes, weapons, and even bodies with red ochre, 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
     
     
236. 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
     
     
237. 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
     
     
238. 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
     
     
239. 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
     
     
240. Shot primarily in Toronto, what 2010s sci-fi TV series starred actress Tatiana Maslany in multiple roles as clones called "sestras?"
     
     Answer: Orphan Black
     
     
241. 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
     
     
242. 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
     
     
243. 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
     
     
244. 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
     
     
245. Located in the Canadian Rockies, what national park—Canada's first—contains such picturesque attractions as Lake Louise and Mount Norquay?
     
     Answer: Banff
     
     
246. Canada’s Laurentian Plateau is also known by what defensive name that, in geological terms, is exposed areas of very, very old (Precambrian) igneous/metamorphic rock that are sometimes referred to as “continental nuclei?”
     
     Answer: Shield
     
     
247. What Italian scientist received the first wireless transmission on Newfoundland's Signal Hill from the country of Ireland in 1901?
     
     Answer: Guglielmo Marconi
     
     
248. The Calypso Monarch, the King and Queen Showcase, and the Grand Parade are all key elements to what annual Torontonian tradition?
     
     Answer: Caribana
     
     
249. 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)
     
     
250. 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
     
     
251. Considered one of the first painters in Canada to adopt a Modernist painting style, what woman described as a "Canadian icon" by the Canadian Encyclopedia was also a seasoned writer and one of the first to chronicle life in British Columbia?
     
     Answer: Emily Carr
     
     
252. 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
     
     
253. 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
     
     
254. Who became the first mayor of Toronto in 1834? He also led the unsuccessful Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837-1838, after which he escaped to the United States.
     
     Answer: William Lyon Mackenzie
     
     
255. 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
     
     
256. 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
     
     
257. 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
     
     
258. 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
     
     
259. What legendary singer-songwriter wrote about her childhood in Fort MacLeod, Alberta and rural Saskatchewan in songs like "Song for Sharon?"
     
     Answer: Joni Mitchell
     
     
260. What Canadian politician born in 1904 was the Premier of Saskatchewan for 17 years and famously introduced the continent's first single-payer, universal health care program?
     
     Answer: Tommy Douglas
     
     
261. 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
     
     
262. 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
     
     
263. 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
     
     
264. 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
     
     
265. 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
     
     
266. 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
     
     
267. 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
     
     
268. 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
     
     
269. 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
     
     
270. 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
     
     
271. What town next to Pacific Rim National Park and Reserve on Canada's Vancouver Island is home to the annual Canadian surfing championships?
     
     Answer: Tofino
     
     
272. Which Canadian province has the largest % of its total area occupied by water?
     
     Answer: Quebec
     
     
273. "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
     
     
274. 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
     
     
275. 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
     
     
276. 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
     
     
277. 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
     
     
278. What confusing sounding "A" term refers to the practice of controlling goose populations by replacing laid eggs with frozen eggs, so that geese will continue to sit on the eggs, but they never hatch?
     
     Answer: Addling
     
     
279. The Piikani, Siksika, and Kainai groups are all linguistically related and have historically been referred to by what collective name?
     
     Answer: Blackfoot
     
     
280. 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
     
     
281. 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
     
     
282. "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" and "We Can't Be Friends" were top-10 hits for what Toronto-born artist who got her start singing backup for Celine Dion?
     
     Answer: Deborah Cox
     
     
283. Started in 1946 and focusing on temperature sensitive products, what company with multiple sites in British Columbia and Alberta is one of Canada’s largest supply chain companies?
     
     Answer: Versacold
     
     
284. 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
     
     
285. There is a 6,000 square kilometer wetland complex in northern Yukon that contains archaeological sits with demonstrations of some the earliest human habitation in North America. What is the three-word "fowl" name for this area?
     
     Answer: Old Crow Flats
     
     
286. 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
     
     
287. 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
     
     
288. 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
     
     
289. The Iroquois Confederacy's flag has a design based on the belt of what Iroquois co-founder written about by Longfellow?
     
     Answer: Hiawatha
     
     
290. 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
     
     
291. Dan Harron was awarded the Order of Canada for playing a reporter at what "Hee Haw" radio station?
     
     Answer: KORN
     
     
292. 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
     
     
293. 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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Whether you're looking to brush up on your knowledge of Canada or you're studying for a Canadian citizenship test, our quiz is the perfect way to do it.

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If you're planning a Canada-themed trivia night, our quiz is the perfect way to get started.

Our team of trivia experts can pull together a comprehensive quiz that covers all the bases.

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