Eh? to Zed Trivia

Test your historical knowledge with our Canada Day quiz!

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* 1. What did inventor Alexander Graham Bell propose as the standard telephone greeting?

How do you do?

Hello.

Salutations!

Ahoy

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* 2. Who was the first woman to have a solo show in her lifetime at the National Gallery of Canada?

Toronto multimedia artist Joyce Wieland

West Coast painter Emily Carr

First Nations painter and printmaker Daphne Odjig

Montreal portaitist Prudence Heward

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* 3. The governments of Canada and Japan agreed in 1928 to restrict annual Japanese immigration to Canada to how many people?

Zero

150

1,500

15,000

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* 4. After escaping from enslavement in the United States and enduring discrimination in Nova Scotia, who led a contingent of disillusioned Black settlers from Halifax to Sierra Leone in 1792?

William Hall

John Freeman Walls

Richard Pierpoint

Thomas Peters

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* 5. What RCMP ship, now permanently docked at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, was the first to cross the Northwest Passage from west to east?

Gjoa

St. Roch

Erebus

Bluenose

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* 6. What was donated to the Winnipeg General Hospital as a result of the first official curling match at the Manitoba Curling Club in Winnipeg, held Dec. 11, 1876?

Four bolts of polka-dotted cotton cloth

A cart horse

A barrel of oatmeal

A bale of bison skins

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* 7. True or false: From 1927 to 1951, the Indian Act made it illegal for First Nations people to raise money amongst themselves to hire a lawyer or pursue a legal claim.

True

False

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* 8. Which Canadian province or territory has the longest coastline?

Nunavut

Newfoundland

British Columbia

Quebec

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* 9. The 11-point maple leaf on today’s Canadian flag is based on an earlier design with how many points on the maple leaf?

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* 10. Under what circumstances did Canadian Prime Minister John Thompson die on December 12, 1894?

While delivering a fiery speech in the House of Commons

In a confrontation with French Canadians protesting the execution of Louis Riel

Caught in a scandalous affair with the Governor General’s wife, Lady Aberdeen

While lunching with Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle

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* 11. What tasty Chinese-Canadian dish is said to have been invented in the 1970s by Calgary chef George Wong?

Chop suey

Ginger beef

Sweet-and-sour chicken balls

Bison fried rice

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* 12. In what year did builders complete the first Sikh gurdwara (temple) that still survives in Canada?

1841

1900

1911

1926

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* 13. The first patent in Canada was issued to Noah Cushing on June 8, 1824, for what invention?

a “washing and fulling machine”

a “waggon divided into equal portions”

an “advanced method of churning butter”

a “device for measuring gaseous substances”

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* 14. Established in 1885, Banff was the first national park in Canada. What was the second?

Glacier

Yoho

Cape Breton Highlands

Thousand Islands

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* 15. Which province or territory was the first to include sexual orientation in its human rights code?

Alberta

Quebec

Prince Edward Island

Yukon