Credit River PROBUS Club Canadian Trivia Contest
Canada's Early History
1 16th or 1500s 2. ..6 ...... 3.Captain James Cook... 4a)....Nova Scotia...
4b) .The Halifax Gazette...... 5..John McIntosh.....
6 Charlottetown...... Quebec City...... London England....
7.....Four..... 8..Manitoba, BC, PEI... 9....False Sir John A John Thompson..... 10 ..(a) Marconi.
11a).Lucy Maude Montgomery.
11b)..Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert.
11c)..Diana Barry ..... 11d)....Gilbert Blythe...
Sports
1.....Paul Henderson...... 2....d) Phil Esposito.
3...... Mike Weir (Masters 2003)...... Sandra Post (Women's PGA 1968)......
....Brooke Henderson (Women's PGA 2016).
4...... Rachel Homan...... 5...... Sandra Schmirler......
6 ...... Ontario (Brad Jacobs)...... 7....(a) Canadiens......
8 ...... Eugenie Bouchard and Milos Raonic......
9.....True...... 10....b) Lemieux...... 11. ..True: 1963 assists, 2857 total points..... 12 ....39 games..
13....NHL Scoring Championship/Art Ross Trophy/(regular season total points leader)......
14 ..Penny Oleksiak 15 True 9.84 sec.. 16 False. Set the record in the Semi final 19.80 sec..(20.02 Final)
17...b).1977...... 18...... Roberto Alomar...... 19..Dave Stieb......
Canada 50 to 100
1. ....Vimy Ridge .... 2...... The Halifax Explosion......
3.Tom Thompson... 4...b) K-k-k-Katy and c) Peg O'My Heart . 5.False. They lost at the Supreme Court but the judgement was overturned by the Judicial Committee of the (British) Privy Council
6. Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise Crummy McKinney, Irene Parlby
7...... c) Quebec 1940 Entertainment
1...... Mary Pickford, Norma Shearer, Marie Dressler 1929-31......
2...... My Heart Will Go On...... Beauty and the Beast......
3.a)...... Titanic...... 3b)...... James Cameron......
4...... Anne Murray...... Celine Dion......
5a)...... Murray McLaughlan...... 5b)...... kd lang......
5c)...... Leonard Cohen...... 5d)..Burton Cummings/ Randy Bachman/The Guess Who.
5e)...... Paul Anka...... 5f)...... Oscar Peterson......
5g)...... Moe Koffman...... 5h).....Jim Cuddy/Greg Keelor/Blue Rodeo......
5i)...... Frank Mills...... 5j)...... Ian Tyson /Ian and Sylvia......
5k)...... Shania Twain...... 5l)...... Neil Young......
5m)...... Bryan Adams...... 5n)...... Gilles Vigneault......
5o)...... Gordon Lightfoot...... 5p)...... Bruce Cockburn......
5q)...... Tom Cochrane...... 5r)...... Hank Snow......
5s)...... Avril Lavigne...... 5t)...... Alanis Morissette......
6a)...... Lorne Greene...... 6b)...... Raymond Burr
6c)...... Michael J. Fox...... 6d)...... Kiefer Sutherland......
6e)...... Matthew Perry...... 6f)...... Alan Thicke......
6g)...... Raymond Massey......
Canada 100 and Beyond
1a)...Flag 1965 (Anthem became official 1980)......
1b)Expo 67 opened April 1967, Leafs won the cup May 1967......
2...... Bobby Gimby...... 3...... Terry Fox......
4...... Come From Away...... 5...... Wolverine, Logan , James Howlett, Weapon X......
Grab Bag
1.a) Zipper .. 2c) Over 5 times: Methodologies differ but Canada's coastlies is listed by authorotis at 202,000 Km (World Factbook) to 266,000 km (World Resources Institute) ...... 3..25 Laureates.. 4.....Sudbury...... 5.Alice Munro......