THE GREAT CANADIAN TRIVIA QUIZ

By Mark Kearney and Randy Ray

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1. True or False. Canada's first Olympic gold medal in ice hockey was won during the Summer Games?
                                                                                                
True, at the 1920 Games in Antwerp
2. Complete the following jingle -- "Harvey's makes a hamburger..." "a beautiful thing."
3. What Canadian performer is known as "The First Lady of the Guitar"? Liona Boyd
4. Name the Ottawa photographer who gained worldwide fame with his
portraits of such well-known figures as Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein.
Yousuf Karsh
5. What was Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's middle name?
a) Herbert b) Albert c) Michael d) George e) Arthur
d) George
6. What is the capital of the Yukon? Whitehorse
7. The black-capped chickadee is the official bird of which province?
a) Ontario b) Manitoba c) Quebec d) New Brunswick e) none at all.
d) New Brunswick
8. True or False.  The Banff Springs Hotel was once the largest hotel in the world. True. In the late 1880s.
9. Of these three explorers, who first reached what is now Canada: Samuel de Champlain, John Cabot, or Jacques Cartier? Cabot in 1497 (Cartier arrived in 1534, de Champlain in 1604)
10. What is a Calgary Redeye?
A drink made from beer and tomato juice

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