Canada Trivia Quiz
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Canada is the second largest country in the world (Russia being the largest) but only 0.5% of the world's population live there.

Canada Trivia Quiz
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1. 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?

2. What is the name of the multi-sport event featuring thousands of athletes from the Americas in summer sports that Toronto hosted in 2015?

3. 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?

4. 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.

5. 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?

6. Before publishing her first book 'Split Tooth,' Tanya Tagaq gained acclaim as a musician of katajjaq, otherwise known as Inuit WHAT singing?

7. 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?

8. 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.

9. 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?

10. 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.

11. 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?

12. 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?

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. What 9-letter type of brandy is from a Croatian word for plum?

17. 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?

18. 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.

19. Belonging to Canada, what is the fifth-largest island in the world? (hint: it's got a double letter in it)

20. The Iroquois Confederacy's flag has a design based on the belt of what Iroquois co-founder written about by Longfellow?

21. Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell, and Jean Chrétien each served during some part of the 1990s as Prime Minister of what country?

22. 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.

23. What directionally named carrier has the second-largest fleet of any airline in Canada, behind only Air Canada itself in size?

24. 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.

25. 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.