Jeopardy Questions

Question 1

Who signed the Free Trade Agreement (FTA)

Answer 1

Brian Mulrony

Question 2

Who surrounded Cuba with a full blockade air and sea?

Answer 2

John F. Kennedy

Question 3

What is the organization (Trudeau blocked any foreign investments that seemed not to be in Canada’s interest?)

Answer 3

FIRA (Foriegn investment Review Agency)

Question 4

What is the Canadian organization that provides medical help to foreign countries?

Answer 4

CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency)

Question 5

What did the FLQ want?

Answer 5

Quebec soverignty

Question 6

negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, aimed at limiting the production of strategic nuclear weapons

Answer 6

SALT (Strategic Arms limitations talk)

Question 7

A defense treaty/organization between America and Canada

Answer 7

NORAD

Question 8

This alliance was aimed at protecting western countries from the threat of Soviet Union Invasion

Answer 8

NATO (North American Treaty Organization)

Question 9

This event was responsible for the threat of nuclear war in 1962

Answer 9

The cuban missle crisis

Question 10

This war helped define Canada as a nation because canada disagreeed with the american policies

Answer 10

Vietnam War

Question 11

The creation of the United Nations Emergency Force de-escalated this crisis

Answer 11

Suez Crisis

Question 12

Scandal in the 90s that cast a serious blow to Canadian armed forces

Answer 12

Somalia scandal

Question 13

This motto reflected pride and anger at the unfair way quebec was being treated by Ottawa

Answer 13

“Maitres Chez Nous” Masters in our own house

Question 14

Name of labour minister that was kidnapped and killed

Answer 14

Pierre Laporte

Question 15

What was the Quiet Revolution

Answer 15

Modernization of Quebec

Question 16

Rene Levesque wanted “political independence, yet maintining close economic ties with Canada”

Answer 16

Sovereignty-association

Question 17

What did the Quebec referrendum of 1995 want

Answer 17

Full independence

Question 18

DEW Line

Answer 18

A line of radar stations which would have detected a Soviet Attack

Question 19

Project cancelled because Canada felt pressure from the United States

Answer 19

Arvo Arrow

Question 20

He introduced the Canadian Bill of RIghts

Answer 20

John diefenbaker

Question 21

Middle Power

Answer 21

Trudeau sought to establish Canada as this by building links between east and west Canada

Question 22

Globalization

Answer 22

process of which the regions and countries of the world are becoming economically and culturally connected

Question 23

A pivotal event marking the end of the Cold War and the joining/uniting of Germany

Answer 23

Fall of the Berlin Wall (marked end of cold war

Question 24

USSR

Answer 24

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Question 25

What did Trudeau mean when he said "Living next to the USA was like sleeping in a fat elephant"

Answer 25

He meant Canada could not make decisions without considering the Americans

Question 26

What is a draft dodger?

Answer 26

A draft dodger is someone who avoids being forced to join the army during a war. - Many Americans came to Canada to avoid the Vietnam War

Question 27

What was the Meech Lake Accord?

Answer 27

- The Meech Lake Accord was a deal made to try to get Quebec to officially agree to Canada’s Constitution by recognizing it as a "distinct society." - The deal failed because not all provinces agreed.