QUIZ ANSWERS

b CHAPTER 1: BLAST FROM THE PAST

Answers to History Quiz: The Red and White Forever

1. c) 1925, when a committee of the Privy Council began to research possible designs for a national flag but never completed its work.

2. The Union Jack.

3. b) The flags were flown upside down.

4. b) Lawren Harris.

5. b) Royal Canadian Legion.

6. c) three.

7. d) all of the above.

8. e) all of the above.

9. Jean Chrétien, on February 15, 1996.

10. c) Two points were removed from the base of the maple leaf, reducing the number of points to 11 from 13.

11. d) He was dean of the arts at Royal Military College.

12. d) The governor general’s standard.

13. a) The Canadian flag, and c) the Red Ensign.

14. b) A flag no longer suitable for use should be destroyed “in a dignified way by burning it privately,” according to the Department of Canadian Heritage.

15. b) Ontario, Manitoba, British Columbia, and Newfoundland, which has a stylized version of the Union Jack.

16. a) The national coat of arms, and b) the Great Seal of Canada.

b CHAPTER 4: CAN CON CULTURE:
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS

Answers to Literary Quiz

1. c) Service in the 1942 film The Spoilers.

2. b) Margaret Atwood. She has only won twice; for The Handmaid’s Tale, and for The Circle Game.

3. b) The Manticore.

4. Margaret Laurence.

5. a) Manawaka.

6. b) Fraggle Rock.

7. Margaret Atwood, George Bowering, Michael Ondaatje.

8. Mavis Gallant.

9. The Acrobats, published in 1954.

10. d) three.

11. e) all of them.

12. c) carpentry.

b CHAPTER 5: CELEBRATING, CANADIAN STYLE

Answers to Labour Day Quiz

1. b) 12.

2. c) Toronto, partly as a demonstration demanding the release of union leaders who had been imprisoned for striking to gain a nine-hour working day. A few months later a similar parade took place in Ottawa.

3. a) iii
b) iv
c) i
d) ii

4. True. James S. Woodsworth, a Manitoba Labour MP, put forth a motion in 1923 to disband the RC MP. The motion failed but several politicians were unhappy with the Mounties at the time, blaming them for the violence in the 1919 strike.

5. b) 1961.

6. The Rand Formula. It was named for a decision handed down on January 26, 1946 by Mr. Justice Ivan Rand of the Supreme Court of Canada while he was arbitrating a strike at Windsor, Ontario, the Ford of Canada strike.

7. d) National Union of Public and General Employees, a family of 12 component unions that is the second largest union in Canada. Most of NUPGE ’s 340,000 members deliver public services of every kind to the citizens of their home provinces.

8. c) White moved to Canada from Ireland at age 14, and while working at a wood factory in the southwestern Ontario city of Woodstock he became a member of the United Auto Workers union. Eventually he become UAW Director for Canada and in 1985 was acclaimed president of Canadian Auto Workers-Canada after Canadian autoworkers pulled out of the UAW.

b Answers to Victoria Day Quiz

1. c) John Labatt. According to company history, Labatt introduced the idea while he was a councillor in London, Ontario, and other cities followed suit until it became a national celebration.

2. a) Calgary, at the Calgary Stampede, says Victoria parade chairman Ron Butlin. Victoria’s 2009 event was to be the 111th consecutive Victoria Day parade and would take about two hours to pass a given point.

3. b) nine. Her eldest son later became King Edward VII .

4. d) The Kinks scored big with “Victoria” in March 1970.

5. a) Drina. Her name was Alexandrina Victoria.

6. False. Ricketts, a 17-year-old, who received his medal in 1918 for volunteering to run 100 yards across a fire-swept open field for ammunition and supplies before helping to capture eight guns and eight Germans, was from Newfoundland.

7. b) William IV, her uncle.

8. c) Laurier.

9. b) 1952.

b Answers to Rideau Canal Quiz

1. Skating on the canal. The NC opened the Rideau Canal Skateway in January 1971. The first Winterlude was held in 1979.

2. e) all of them.

3. d) one metre in most areas; four metres deep at Dows Lake.

4. c) Mr. Fullerton was Chairman of the NCC from 1969 to 1973.

5. d) 25 centimetres. In a very cold winter, the ice can be as thick as 90 centimetres.

6. The Senators Alumni beat the Montreal Canadiens Alumni 14–10 in front of 1,500 fans.

7. a) The canal was closed to the public from 7:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on February 21, 2004, when the NCC and the Ottawa Senators Hockey Club presented the Senators Hockey Day in the Capital event, as part of Hockey Day in Canada. The event saw more than 1,000 young hockey players from Canada’s Capital Region play 110 simultaneous shinny hockey games.

8. c) 90.

9. Lansdowne Park is named after Sir Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, fifth Marquess of Lansdowne, who was Canada’s governor general from 1883–1888. Prior to his appointment as governor general, Lansdowne was a Liberal member of parliament in Britain.

10. a) beavertails.
b) ice hogs.
c) toques.
d) speed skates.

b Answers to Thanksgiving Quiz

1. a) Armistice Day. From 1921 to 1930, the Armistice Day Act provided that Thanksgiving would be observed on Armistice Day, which was fixed by statute on the Monday of the week in which November 11 fell. Armistice Day was later renamed Remembrance Day.

2. c) Martin Frobisher in 1578 in what is now Newfoundland.

3. b) April 15, 1872, to celebrate the recovery of The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII ) from a serious illness.

4. Thursday.

5. c) the potato was considered by many Europeans to be poisonous.

6. b) The Cornucopia originated in ancient Greece. The original was a curved goat’s horn filled to overflowing with fruit and grain. It symbolizes the horn possessed by Zeus’s nurse, the Greek nymph Amalthaea, which could be filled with whatever the owner wished.

7. True.

8. All are varieties of turkey.

9. a) a general election was held on the second Monday of October.

10. Louis St. Laurent.

11. c) 86 percent, says the Canadian Turkey Marketing Agency.

12. d) all of the above. The name pumpkin originated from the Greek word pepon, which the French nasalized into pompon. The English changed pompon to pumpion and American colonists eventually changed pumpion into pumpkin.

b CHAPTER 6: COLOURFUL CANUCKS
THE FAMOUS AND THE INFAMOUS

Answers to Famous Canadians Quiz

1. Yousuf Karsh.

2. Cabot did, in 1497 (Cartier arrived in 1534, de Champlain in 1604).

3. True. It was invented by Louise Poirier.

4. The Marathon of Hope.

5. c) She was the first Canadian woman to swim the English Channel.

6. b) They were the first to drive across Canada. Although some parts of the country didn’t even have roads then, the two made the trip in 52 days.

7. Sitting Bull.

8. b) Herbert.

9. b) Carnegie.

10. True.

b CHAPTER 10: GREAT WH ITE NORTH

Answers to Summer Quiz

1. d) Wasaga Beach, with 14 kilometres of sand.

2. True.

3. Lighthouse.

4. False. Several swimmers have completed the crossing, the first being Pat Budny in August 1975.

5. c) The highest temperature recorded in Canada was in Saskatchewan in July 1937, when the mercury hit 45 degrees Celsius in Midale and Yellowgrass in the southern part of the province.

6. Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario.

7. Prince Edward Island.

8. b) Halifax-Dartmouth in 1969.

9. True. Fifty-seven kinds of mosquitoes to be exact.

10. Hailstone. The largest one ever documented in Canada fell at Cedoux in August 1973. It weighed 290 grams and measured 114 millimetres across — about the size of a large grapefruit.

11. c) Operating a vehicle with just one tire under inflated by eight PSI can reduce the life of the tire by 15,000 kilometres and can increase the vehicle’s fuel consumption by 4 percent, says Transport Canada.

b Answers to Six to Savour Quiz

1. False. There are more than 100 species.

2. d) It was called Emerald Lake because of its greenish colour.

3. a) Ivy Lea Bridge. It does cross into the U.S. but near Gananoque.

4. b) geologist.

5. a) caribou b) badger c) coyote d) walleye 6. A blizzard.

b Answers to Coast to Coast Quiz

1. True. Mount Logan, at 5,959 metres, is Canada’s highest peak.

2. d) no one 3. Saskatchewan and Alberta.

4. a) Made entirely from wood, the Chateau Montebello was built using 10,000 logs from British Columbia; 500,000 hand-slit cedar roof shakes; 53 miles of plumbing and heating pipes; and 103.5 miles of wooden moulding. It is also known as the world’s largest cabin.

5. The Mackenzie, which flows 4,241 kilometres through the Northwest Territories. The St. Lawrence is 3,058 kilometres long.

b CHAPTER 11: HOLL YWOOD NORTH

Answers to Academy Awards Quiz

1. Manitoba.

2. Angelica Huston.

3. b) 1941 for the documentary Churchill’s Island.

4. False. Denys Arcand’s The Barbarian Invasions won in 2004.

5. d) Cameron.

6. South Park: Bigger, Louder and Uncut.

7. c) Mononcle Antoine.

8. Million Dollar Baby, directed by Clint Eastwood and Crash, which he co-wrote and directed himself. He did not, however, pick up the statue for Best Director, which went to Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain.

b CHAPTER 12: HOW WE GET AROUND

Answers to Quiz: You Auto Know

1. b) Imperial Oil.

2. True.

3. d) He made the trip in three hours and 20 minutes.

4. c) Winnipeg hosted Canada’s first automobile race in 1901.

5. a) He was NASCAR ’s rookie of the year in 1974.

6. b) “Keeps pecking.”

7. The Icefields Parkway.

8. False. Quebec’s DOH was created in 1914. Ontario followed suit in 1916.

9. c) On July 3, 1991, the company sold its first shares to Canadians.

10. Thunderbird.

b CHAPTER 15: MY GENERATION
FROM BOOMERS TO GEN X

Answers to Quiz 1: The 1980s

1. Family Ties.

2. i) Quiche ii) Bonfire iii) Brief iv) Present.

3. a) Ferraro, who was the first woman nominated for that position by a major party.

4. c) Places in the Heart. She won Best Actress in 1979 for Norma Rae.

5. d) The 49ers won in 1982, 1985, and 1989.

6. e) Madonna.

7. Chrysler. The model Sinatra promoted was the Imperial.

8. c) 1986.

9. Cabbage Patch Dolls.

10. d) Cats. Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and based on the poetry of T.S. Eliot.

11. The American hockey team’s gold-medal win in February 1980 at Lake Placid, New York. Seeded seventh out of 12, the U.S. team knocked off the heavily favoured Soviet Union in the semifinals before beating Finland 4-2 in the final.

12. b) The Color Purple.

Scoring:  
Ten and above – Like, totally awesome
Five to nine – Bitchin’, fer sure
Under five – Gag me

b Answers to Quiz 2: The Oscar/Grammy Quiz

1. d) Simon and Garfunkel.

2. b) On The Waterfront. He accepted his award that time.

3. True.

4. c) Randy Traywick. However, in the early 1980s his stage name was Randy Ray, before he changed it to Randy Travis.

5. b) The Staples office-supply company, one of the centre’s corporate sponsors.

6. c) Bono.

7. a) Pacino for Serpico, Godfather II, and Dog Day Afternoon respectively.

8. c) for the movie Heaven Can Wait.

9. b) Carson was host four times in that decade.

Scoring: 
8 and above – We expect to see you on the red carpet
5 to 8 – Movie and music buff
below 5 – B oomer bookworm

b Answers to Quiz 3: Advertising

1. a) Chiffon.

2. c) Maxwell House was good to the last drop.

3. Brylcreem.

4. b) Calvin Klein.

5. d) Mariette Hartley.

6. b) Rolaids.

7. Charlie.

8. a) Palmolive.

9. d) American Express

10. a) squeeze b) filling c) upper d) eat

Scoring:  
Eight and above – All those hours in front of the TV finally pay off
Five to 8 – Commercially challenged
Below 5 – What, you were out in the kitchen getting a beer and a sandwich?

b Answers to Quiz 4: Holidays

1. b) 1972.

2. a) ii
b) iv
c) i
d) iii

3. Festivus.

4. d) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the “Heroes in the Half Shell” who lived in sewers and ate pizza.

5. a) iv b) i c) ii d) iii.

6. b) Ray Walston, the actor best known as the star of the TV show My Favorite Martian and later Picket Fences, died on January 1, 2001, at age eighty-six. Dean Martin passed away on Christmas Day, 1995; Charlie Chaplin died on December 25, 1977, and James Brown died on Christmas Day, 2006.

7. c) Ross dresses up as the “Holiday Armadillo.”

8. d) David Bowie.

9. a) all share a Christmas Day birthday.

10. a) the Chiefs, who lost by a score of 27 to 24.

Scoring:  
Eight and above – A holiday toast to you.
Five to eight – Naughty or nice?
Below five – Bah, humbug!

b Answers to Quiz 5: Music

1. a) iii
b) iv
c) ii
d) i.

2. c) “Philadelphia Freedom” stayed at number one for two weeks in 1975. Other number ones for John in the 70s were “Crocodile Rock,” “Bennie and the Jets,” and “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”

3. Bruce Springsteen.

4. d) Saturday Night Fever.

5. Sonny and Cher.

6. a) Mr. Mister.

7. Phil Collins.

8. b) in 1984.

9. b) the club was located at 84 King Street in New York City.

10. b) DJs.

11. a) Rickie Lee Jones.

Scoring:  
Eight and above – You still look good in glitter and platform shoes.
Five to seven – Dy-no-mite!
Below five – Boomer wannabe.

b Answers to Quiz 6: Music 2

1. a) sunny
b) shining
c) waiting
d) Sunday.

2. Pina colada.

3. Maurice. Other brother Andy was primarily a solo artist.

4. a) his tonic and gin.

5. c) Paradise Theater which was released by Styx in April 1981, and had four top forty singles, including “The Best of Times” and “Too Much Time on My Hands.”

6. “Say Say Say.” “The Girl Is Mine” only reached number two.

7. b) “You Make My Dreams.”

8. False. Ocean, born Leslie Sebastian Charles in 1950, is a native of Fyzabad, Trinidad.

9. Burial at sea, which is usually reserved for certain members of the armed forces.

10. Supertramp

Scoring:  
Eight and above – We know what music’s on your mp3 player.
Five to seven – Still an oldie but a goodie.
Below five – Music memories are fading.

b Answers to Quiz 7: Travel

1. a) The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

2. a) iii
b) iv
c) i
d) ii

3. a) True. John Hertz, a native of Austria, started the Yellow Cab Company in Chicago in 1915. In the early 1920s, he began renting cars under the name Drive-Ur-Self until General Motors bought both businesses in 1925 and renamed the car rental business Hertz Rent-A-Car.

4. b) American Airlines suggests travellers put those items in their carry-on bags.

5. b) Idaho, at Sun Valley, where the world’s first chairlifts were installed on Proctor and Dollar mountains.

6. Chevy Chase.

7. c) lawyer. The Frommer series is now published by John Wiley & Sons.

8. c) Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu, which ranks as ninth largest.

9. a) Las Vegas.

Scoring: 
Eight or more – Bitten by the travel bug.
Five to seven – Weekend road warrior.
Under five – There’s no place like home for the holidays.

b Answers to Quiz 8: Trivia Hodge Podge

1. b) 1975. He was nominated for his performance in all the others.

2. b) Patty Hearst, who turns sixty in 2014.

3. d) never. The highest the show ever reached was number seven in the 1972–73 season.

4. The Harlem Globetrotters.

5. a) iii
b) iv
c) v
d) ii
e) i

6. c) Cernan, commander of Apollo 17, was the last man on the moon in December 11, 1972.

7. Twiggy.

8. c) The Monkees made “believers” out of everyone that year.

9. Art Carney won Best Actor for Harry and Tonto.

10. a) Robert and Linda. William and Barbara ranked number four; Richard and Carol number five; and Kenneth and Karen number fifteen, says the Social Security Administration.

Scoring:  
Eight or more – Far out, man!
Five to seven – Still able to wear your love beads proudly.
Below five – Uh, what a bummer.

b Answers to Quiz 9: Boomer Car Qiuz

1. Originally the name was Panther but Chevy decided to continue its established pattern of using “c” names for its cars. Camaros were released to the public in September 1966.

2. False. “G.T.O.” was a hit for Ronny & the Daytonas.

3. a) Warner Brothers, which produced the popular Road Runner cartoons.

4. True, according to a 1993 magazine article in Mopar Muscle.

5. a) Duster.
b) Gremlin.
d) Hornet.
d) Vega.

6. c) The Cars.

7. d) Vega.

8. a) ii
b) v
c) iv
d) iii
e) i.

9. b) American Motors, or AMC as it was also known.

Scoring:  
Eight or more – Get your motor running, head out on the highway.
Five to seven – In need of a tune-up.
Below five – Time for the scrap yard.

b CHAPTER 16: ODDS AND SODS
FROM EH TO ZED
Answers to Quick Quiz Five-Pack

1. a) Hamilton.

2. b) Scrabble was the only one invented in the United States.

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Scrabble was invented by an American.

3. First World War, in April 1917.

4. a) It was the first snowmobile, invented by Armand Bombardier in 1959 in Valcourt, Quebec.

5. At 28,956 kilometres, the coastline of Newfoundland is the longest of any Canadian province. British Columbia is second with 25,725 kilometres. The distances include mainland and all significant islands.

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Newfoundland has Canada’s longest coastline.

b CHAPTER 17: ON THE HILL
POLITICKING IN CANADA

Answers to Political Posers Quiz

1. Agnes Macphail.

2. d) Sir John A. Macdonald.

3. b) $600.

4. b) journalist.

5. The Golden Boy.

6. a) firecrackers.

7. d) Manitoba, where females won the right to vote in January 1916.

8. c) The auditorium at the Museum of Nature, then known as the Victoria Museum.

9. Bill Davis, Ontario’s premier from 1971 to 1985.

10. c) Alexander.

b CHAPTER 18: OUR GAME
HOCKEY HEROES

Answers to Stanley Cup Quiz

1. b) The Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup.

2. b) $50.

3. The Montreal Canadiens in 1993, when they defeated the Los Angeles Kings to take the final, four games to one.

4. True, during the presidencies of George Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush.

5. c) They won the cup three years in a row in 1896, 1897, and 1898.

6. a) All have scored Stanley Cup-winning goals.

7. c) Sheffield, England.

8. b) The Montreal Amateur Athletic Association in 1893. The team declined to accept the Cup because of an alleged slight, but they eventually accepted the prize a year later.

b CHAPTER 21: STRANGE BREW
A HISTORY OF CANADA’S POTENT POTABLES

Answers to Good For What Ales You Quiz

1. True.

2. d) Belgium.

3. Brick Brewing Co. Ltd., which reintroduced Red Cap Ale.

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Labatt 50, the beer that’s for me and the boys.

4. a) corn.

5. b) Victoria Day.

6. c) banking.

7. a) iii,
b) iv
c) v
d) i
e) ii.

8. d) upturned beer bottles.

9. b) Victoria.

10. India Pale Ale.

11. b) It fell out of fashion because brewers wanted more distinctive packaging.

12. c) Mallorytown, Ontario, at Mallorytown Glass Works, where bottles were blown by hand.

13. b) Stand up while drinking beer and carrying a glass around the room.

14. a) five cents.

15. e) all of the above.

16. c) Labatt’s beer delivery truck, first unveiled in 1936.

17. a) Alberta iii) Big Rock Brewery Ltd.
b) Saskatchewan iv) Great Western Brewing Company Ltd.
c) Ontario ii) Creemore Springs Brewery Ltd.
d) New Brunswick i) Moosehead Breweries Limited.

18. b) lemon lime.

19. c) Cool Light, which was test marketed by Labatt’s in 1972 in British Columbia and Alberta.

20. a) It was sold in keg-shaped bottles from 1970 until 1972.

b CHAPTER 25: CASH AND CARRY
BUSINESS, FINANCE, AND TRADE

Answers to Biz Quiz

1. a) J.J. McLaughlin, a pharmacist, invented and manufactured Canada Dry Ginger Ale.

2. Queen Elizabeth’s. She was also on the old one and two dollar bills, and is currently on the twenty dollar bill.

3. c) smoking. Fifteen years earlier, the carrier had introduced no-smoking sections in its aircraft.

4. a) Canada Cycle and Motor Company.

5. a) Quebec City. It was used to make rum from imported molasses.

6. a) a service station and car dealership.

7. a) Sandy McTire has been a featured character on Canadian Tire money since 1958.

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Canada Dry was a druggist’s creation.