Modern Canada

Question 1

What is the GATT?
What is the WTO?

Answer 1

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
World Trade Organization.

Question 2

When was oil discovered in Alberta?

Answer 2

1947

Question 3

When did Employment Insurance start?

Answer 3

1940

Question 4

When did ideas for Old Age Security start?

Answer 4

1927

Question 5

When did the Canada and Quebec Pension plans start?

Answer 5

1965

Question 6

What is NATO? What is NORAD? What is the UN?

Answer 6

NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NORAD - North American Aerospace Defence Command
UN - United Nations

Question 7

When was the Korean War?

Answer 7

1950-1953.

Question 8

What was the Quiet Revolution?

Answer 8

An era of rapid change in Quebec when many Quebecers tried to separate from Canada.

Question 9

What was promised in the Official Languages Act in 1969?

Answer 9

French-language rights and services in the federal government.

Question 10

In 1948, what were Japanese-Canadians finally allowed to do?

Answer 10

Japanese-Canadians were allowed to vote.

Question 11

When were Aboriginal people allowed to vote?

Answer 11

Aboriginal people were allowed to vote in 1960.

Question 12

What idea started in the 1960s?

Answer 12

Multiculturalism

Question 13

Who was the Group of Seven? Who was Emily Carr?

Answer 13

A group of Canadian landscape painters in the 1920s who painted the wilderness in Canada; a famous painter from BC who was associated with Group of Seven painters.

Question 14

Who painted The Jack Pine?

Answer 14

Tom Thomson.

Question 15

Who was the most famous abstract art painter in Quebec?

Answer 15

Jean-Paul Riopelle.

Question 16

Who was a famous sculptor from Quebec?

Answer 16

Louis-Philippe Hébert

Question 17

What did Denys Arcand, Norman Jewison and Atom Egoyan win awards for?

Answer 17

Filmmaking

Question 18

Who was Mordecai Richler?

Answer 18

A writer and journalist

Question 19

Who is a famous Canadian writer who was born in Sri Lanka?

Answer 19

Michael Ondaatje

Question 20

Who invented basketball in 1891?

Answer 20

James Naismith

Question 21

What is the most popular spectator sport of Canada?

Answer 21

Hockey

Question 22

What is Canada’s national winter sport?

Answer 22

Hockey

Question 23

Who is one of the greatest hockey players of all time?

Answer 23

Wayne Gretzky

Question 24

What do professional teams in the Canadian Football League (CFL) try to win?

Answer 24

The Grey Cup

Question 25

Who was Lord Grey? What did he do?

Answer 25

Lord Grey was the Governor General in 1909 and he donated the Grey Cup trophy.

Question 26

Who was a double Olympic gold medalist and a world record sprinter?

Answer 26

Donavan Bailey.

Question 27

Who became a wheelchair racer and Paralympic champion?

Answer 27

Chantal Petitclerc.

Question 28

Who started the Marathon of Hope?

Answer 28

Terry Fox.

Question 29

Who went around the world in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord research?

Answer 29

Rick Hansen.

Question 30

In what area were Marshall McLuhan and Harold Innis pioneer thinkers?

Answer 30

Communication

Question 31

What did the Canadian Space Agency design?

Answer 31

The Canadarm.

Question 32

What do Gerhard Herzberg (a refugee from Nazi Germany), John Polanyi, Sidney Altman, Richard E. Taylor, Michael Smith and Bertram Brockhouse all have in common?

Answer 32

They are Nobel Prize-winning scientists.

Question 33

Who invented the first electric light bulb?

Answer 33

Mathew Evans and Henry Woodward.