Canadian Trivia Questions III

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Meant to house Canadian bureaucrats fleeing nuclear war, the bunker in Carp, Ontario, was named for which PM?

       a. Louis St Laurent
       b. John Diefenbaker
       c. Lester Pearson
       d. WLM King


What Manitoba community calls itself the Polar Bear Capital of the World?

       a. Churchill
       b. Frobisher Bay
       c. Portage la Prairie
       d. Fort McMurray


What Canadian icon was on the back of the 1973 quarter?

       a. A maple leaf
       b. A beaver
       c. A Mountie
       d. A Mohawk in a canoe


The US is the closest place in the world to Canada, being right on its border. But which of these places is #2?

       a. Russia
       b. Greenland
       c. St Pierre and Miquelon
       d. Iceland


Later a radio broadcaster known as Mr Canada, who was once the youngest ever managing editor in the history of Maclean's?

       a. Peter Gzowski
       b. Gordon Sinclair
       c. Pierre Burton
       d. Barbara Frum


What is the colorful nickname of Canada's Senate?

       a. White Chamber
       b. Red Chamber
       c. Green Chamber
       d. Yellow Chamber


Who was an anchor on both the CBC National and the CTV Evening News?

       a. Lloyd Robertson
       b. Peter Mansbridge
       c. Pamela Wallin
       d. Harvey Kirck


What city's name is an Okanagan word for "grizzly bear"?

       a. Toronto
       b. Kelowna
       c. Iqaluit
       d. Saskatchewan


Manitobans will know this. Numerically speaking, what is the lowest valued area code in Canada?

       a. 202
       b. 204
       c. 203
       d. 201


When did Canada's parliament permanently fix the second Monday in October as "a day of general Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed"?

       a. 1907
       b. 1957
       c. 1857
       d. 1807


William Lyon Mackenzie King held office longer than any other Commonwealth prime minister. How many days was he in office?

       a. 7817
       b. 5817
       c. 3817
       d. 1817


Who was the Prince Albert for whom the Saskatchewan city is named?

       a. Queen Victoria's husband
       b. Queen Elizabeth's father
       c. Edward VIII's brother
       d. George's IV's cousin


What Saskatchewan city was named for a purple berry?

       a. Saskatoon
       b. Prince Albert
       c. Moose Jaw
       d. Red Deer


When this future Canadian PM dated Princess Margaret in 1959, some British Anglicans attacked her relationship with a Catholic. Who was Margaret's Canuck paramour?

       a. Brian Mulroney
       b. John Turner
       c. Pierre Trudeau
       d. Paul Martin


Eighteen of which province's first 19 members of Parliament were separatists?

       a. Newfoundland
       b. Quebec
       c. Nova Scotia
       d. Manitoba


Around 1900, what Canadian city was known as "Methodist Rome"?

       a. Toronto
       b. Edmonton
       c. Calgary
       d. Winnipeg




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