Canada Day 2014

Canada is 147 years young today.

There'll be plenty of beer drunk, grills fired up, and fireworks across the country today.

It's become a tradition around here to have a Canada Day quiz on Canada Day to test your knowledge of all things Canadian.

Here is this year's edition . . .

 

1. Name the longest river in Canada.
2. Name the largest lake entirely in Canada's borders.
3. Only two provinces don't touch salt water. Name them.
4. Where was The Last Spike driven to complete the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885?
5. Who was the first Prime Minister born in Canada?
6. Which is the only legally bilingual province?
7. What is the Queen's representative in each province called?
8. What year was the dollar bill replaced by the loonie?
9. Who wrote the words to O Canada?
10. Which Canadian originally performed the "Hockey Song"?
11. In 1989 the National Gallery of Canada spent $1.8 million on what controversial Abstract Expressionist painting?
12. Which Beatle’s costume featured an Ontario Provincial Police badge on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?
13. A.Y. Jackson, Lawren Harris, Franklin Carmichael, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer and J.E.H. MacDonald were members of what acclaimed group of artists?
14. Why was Viola Desmond was arrested in 1946 in a movie theatre in New Glasgow, N.S.?
15. Which province rejected Confederation in 1867, but joined 82 years later?
16. On May 5, 1945 Canadian soldiers liberated which European country?
17. True or False: The 1976 Montreal Summer Olympic Games were boycotted by more than 20 countries because the I.O.C. refused to ban New Zealand from competition.
18. What fishing schooner has been featured on the Canadian dime since 1937?
19. The comic book world’s most famous hero, Superman, created by Toronto-born cartoonist Joe Shuster and writer Jerry Siegel, originally worked at the Daily Star, which was patterned after which Canadian newspaper?
20. Name the author of Smelly Socks, Mud Puddle and The Paper Bag Princess.

Good luck!