A Great Canadian Trivia Quiz!

1. This area has less gravity than the rest of the world. 

2. Canada has 2,860 of these, twice as many as the United States. 

3. Quebec is the world’s top producer of this condiment. 

4. The beaver is one of Canada’s national animals; this statuesque mammal is the other. 

5. This type of bear lives in British Columbia—and nowhere else in the world. 

6. A Canadian pharmacist invented this spreadable. 

7. This type of pizza was created by Sam Panapoulos in Chatham, Ontario, in 1962. 

8. This piece of hardware was invented in Canada. 

9. A group of Canadian experimental filmmakers invented this technology for Expo 67. 

10. This event was the most watched broadcast in Canadian history. 

11. …and this 2016 concert followed closely behind. 

12. The world’s oldest water was found at this spot in Northern Ontario. 

13. Canadians consume more than twice as much of this meal-in-a-box than Americans. 

14. The oldest surviving basketball court in the world resides in this province. 

15. …and we also have the oldest piece of this sports equipment. 

16. People in Saskatchewan use this cutesy nickname for hoodies. 

17. The world’s only perogy drive-through is in this city. 

18. Canadians eat 1 billion of these every year. 

19. This ballet dancer famously defected from the Soviet Union after a performance in Toronto in 1974. 

20. Rodney, Ontario, is home to North America’s smallest one of these institutions. 

Answers:

1. Hudson’s Bay. It’s due to a combination of the melting Laurentide Ice Sheet and convection in the Earth’s mantle.

2. Hockey rinks. That’s more than any other country.

3. Maple syrup. The province makes about 73 percent of the global supply.

4. The Canadian horse, which is usually black, bay or brown and descends from the horses sent by King Louis XIV of France to his subjects in New France in 1665.

5. The kermode bear, also known as the spirit or ghost bear. It was named after Francis Kermode, who encountered the animals while working as a director of the B.C Provincial Museum.

6. Marcellus Gilmore Edson, who patented a method to turn roasted peanuts into peanut butter in 1884.

7. Hawaiian pizza. He had a hunch that the sweet pineapple and savoury ham would go well together.

8. The square Robertson screw.

9. Imax. It took longer than they expected, and the first screening took place three years later at Expo 70 in Japan.

10. The 2010 Olympic men’s hockey final. Some 16.6 million Canadians watched Team Canada clinch the gold medal.

11. The Tragically Hip’s last show, a year before the death of lead singer Gord Downie.

12. Kidd Mine, a base metal mine north of Timmins. A pool of two-billion-year-old water was discovered in one of the underground tunnels in 2016.

13. Kraft Dinner.

14. New Brunswick. The court, in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, was first used in 1893, and there are plans to turn it into a museum.

15. Hockey stick. It dates back to 1830s Cape Breton, where it was carved from a single piece of sugar maple

16. Bunny hugs. The term dates to the 1970s.

17. Saskatoon. Baba’s Homestyle Perogies is known for its exceptional Ukrainian dumplings, as well as cabbage rolls, sausages and borscht.

18. Doughnuts. Thanks, Tim Hortons.

19. Mikhail Baryshnikov. He was on tour with the Bolshoi Ballet at the time.

20. Jails. It measures a snug 270 square feet.