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1. What is the origin of the name "Canada"?
   Canada is a name derived from the Huron-Iroquois word "kanata" - meaning a village or settlement.
2. Who was the first Prime Minister of Canada?
   Sir John A. MacDonald
3. What animal is on the Canadian quarter?
   The caribou
4. How many oceans touch Canada?
   Three - the Atlantic on the east, the Pacific on the west and the Arctic to the north
5. How many countries border Canada?
   One - the United States of America
6. How many territories in Canada?
   Three - from west to east they are: Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut
7. How many provinces in Canada?
   Ten - from west to east they are: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland
8. What is the capital of Canada?
   Ottawa
9. True or False? Canada is the world's largest country, by land mass.
   False - Russia is the largest; Canada is the second largest.
10. What is the nickname for the Canadian $1 coin?
    The loonie - the loon is a Canadian bird and is pictured on the coin, thus the name.
11. What is the nickname for the Canadian $2 coin?
    The toonie
12. In which Canadian province is French the official language?
    Quebec
13. True or False? Superman was created by a Canadian.
    True
14. Who were the first people to live in Canada?
    (a) Europeans, (b) Americans, (c) Aboriginals or (d) Norsemen
    Answer: (c) - The Aboriginals were the first inhabitants of Canada.
15. What is the name of the elected lower house of Canadian parliament?
    The House of Commons
16. What is the leader of Canada called?
    The Prime Minister
17. What leaf is on the Canadian flag?
    The maple leaf - the national emblem of Canada
18. What is the "big prize" for the Canadian Football League (CFL) called? Hint: The ____ Cup
    The Grey Cup
19. What is the "big prize" for the National Hockey League (NHL) called? Hint: The _______ Cup
    The Stanley Cup
20. What rodent is described by the Canadian Encyclopedia as having "a greater impact on the history and exploration of Canada than any other animal or plant species"?
    The beaver
21. What is the motto on the Canadian Coat of ArmS?
    "A Mari Usque Ad Mare" - which means "from sea to sea"
22. What are the official colors of Canada?
    Red and white were approved as Canada's official colors in the proclamation of her coat of arms in 1921.
23. What measurement is used in Canada for temperature?
    The Celsius scale
24. How many national languages does Canada have?
    Two - English and French
25. Before 1982, what was Canada Day called?
    Dominion Day
26. How many time zones does Canada have?
    Six - Newfoundland Standard Time (NST), Atlantic Standard Time (AST), Eastern Standard Time (EST), Central Standard Time (CST), Mountain Standard Time (MST) and Pacific Standard Time (PST).
27. What is the name of the highest mountain in Canada?
    Mount Logan stands close to 20,000 feet.
28. What was the name of the system of safe passages and safe houses that allowed American slaves to escape to freedom in Canada?
    The Underground Railroad
29. Who is the most famous fictional Royal Canadian Mountie?
    Dudley Do-Right
30. Which of the following famous people were born in Canada?
    (a) Jim Carrey, (b) Celine Dion, (c) Pamela Anderson, (d) Raymond Burr?
    Answer: All of the above!
31. How many national parks are there in Canada?
    (a) under 10, (b) between 10 and 50, (c) between 50 and 100, (d) over 100?
    Answer: (b) between 10 and 50.
32. True or False? Guy Lombardo was born in Canada.
    True - born in London, Ontario, Canada on June 19, 1902.
33. What did Chris Haney and Scott Abbott, two Canadians, invent?
    The game of Trivial Pursuit
34. How many characters are there in the Canadian postal code?
    Six - the postal code should be in upper case and placed two spaces to the right of the province with one space between the first three and last three characters.
35. What percentage of Canadians live within 100 miles of the U.S. border?
    80%
36. What is the population of Canada?
    Approximately 32 million
37. What are the two official sports in Canada?
    Lacrosse and hockey
38. What is a tuque?
    A French word (pronounced TOOK), it is a woolen knit hat worn by many Canadians in the winter.
39. Toronto is the home to what hockey team?
    The Maple Leafs
40. Basketball was invented by a Canadian. What was his name?
    James Naismith
41. In which month is Victoria Day celebrated in Canada?
    May - Queen Victoria's birthday (May 24) was declared a holiday in 1864.
42. When is Thanksgiving celebrated in Canada?
    The second Monday in October
43. When is Boxing Day celebrated in Canada?
    December 26th
44. What is Canada's most populated city?
    Toronto has a population of approximately 2.5 million people.
45. Alfred Fuller was born on January 13, 1885 in Welsford, Nova Scotia. What company did he start?
    The Fuller Brush Company
46. Who is Canada's very own "Blues Brother"?
    Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Dan Aykroyd spends his spare time in Kingston, Ontario and is a supporter of many local causes.
47. Was there an American president who was born in Canada?
    Maybe. According to the U.S. constitution, a person can only become president if he or she is born in the United States. That's why there was some controversy about whether Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president, was eligible for the job. Arthur was officially listed as being born in Fairfield, Vermont, a town in the northwest corner of the state near the Canadian border. However, over the years, some people have argued that Arthur was in fact born across the border in Quebec.
48. What is the average high temperature in Quebec in July?
    77 degrees F (or 25 degrees C)
49. What is the "Honeymoon Capital" of the world?
    Niagara Falls, located on the border between the U.S. and Canada
50. What is the Canadian national anthem called?
    "O Canada" - Oddly enough, although it has been sung since the late 1800s, it wasn't proclaimed Canada's national anthem until 1980.

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Originally, "O Canada" was a patriotic poem by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier, a Quebec judge. Calixa Lavallée, the well-known Canadian composer, was commissioned to set it to music, and it was first sung in 1880 during a national convention of French Canadians in Quebec City. The French words to the song have remained the same to this day.

The English version, however, has a more interesting history. When Routhier's lyrics were first published in Toronto, a doctor named Thomas Bedford Richardson translated the words into English and changed them to fit the melody. Two years later, the first edition of the Canadian version of Collier's Weekly held a competition to rewrite the English lyrics to the song. Mercy E. Powell McCulloch won the competition with her entry.

The words were rewritten again and again, but one version gained the most popularity. It was written by Montreal lawyer Robert Stanley Weir in 1908 in honor of the 300th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City. It was amended in 1913, 1914, and 1916 and published in an official form for the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation in 1927. A slightly modified version of the first verse of Weir's poem was proclaimed as Canada's national anthem in 1980.

• Check out the Full History of "O Canada" and share some of the information with your group this month.
• Click HERE and print Weir's original poem of 1908. Read the entire poem to your group.
• Click HERE and print the lyrics (English and French) to "O Canada." Try singing the song in French.
• Click on the "note" and download the music.