Canada Day Quiz Answers

1. What did inventor Alexander Graham Bell propose as the standard telephone greeting?
Answer: d) Ahoy! The greeting “Hello” was Thomas Edison’s idea.

2.Who was the first woman to have a solo show in her lifetime at the National Gallery of Canada? 
Answer: a) Joyce Wieland, in 1971. Carr and Heward both had posthumous shows.

3.The governments of Canada and Japan agreed in 1928 to restrict annual Japanese immigration to Canada to how many people? 
Answer: b) 150

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? 
Answer: d) Thomas Peters

5. What RCMP ship, now permanently docked at the Vancouver Maritime Museum, was the first to cross the Northwest Passage from west to east? 
Answer: b) St. Roch

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 December 11, 1876?
Answer: c) A barrel of oatmeal

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. 
Answer: True

8.Which Canadian province or territory has the longest coastline? 
Answer: a) Nunavut, whose extensive mainland and more than 36,000 islands give it 144,689 kilometres of coastline.

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? 
Answer: a) 13. That shape proved too hard to discern from afar or in the wind, so the number of points was reduced.

10.Under what circumstances did Canadian Prime Minister John Thompson die on December 12, 1894? 
Answer: d) While lunching with Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle.

11. What tasty Chinese - Canadian dish is said to have been invented in the 1970s by Calgary chef George Wong?
Answer: b) Ginger beef

12.In what year did builders complete the first Sikh gurdwara (temple) that still survives in Canada? 
Answer: c) 1911. It’s the Gur Sikh Temple in Abbotsford, B.C.

13. The first patent in Canada was issued to Noah Cushing on June 8, 1824, for what invention?
Answer: a) A “washing and fulling machine.” Fulling was a process of pounding wool cloth to cleanse and thicken it.

14. Established in 1885, Banff was the first national park in Canada. What was the second?
Answer: a) Glacier and b) Yoho. The two parks were established simultaneously in 1886.

15.Which province or territory was the first to include sexual orientation in its human rights code? 
Answer: b) Quebec, in 1977