Canadian Culture Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which Scarborough-raised comedian created Wayne's World and the Austin Powers films and voices the ogre in Shrek?

Question 2

Which province was the birthplace or childhood home of Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, Jim Carrey and Mike Myers?

Question 3

Which cocktail of vodka, clam-and-tomato juice, hot sauce and a celery-salt rim was invented in Calgary in 1969?

Question 4

Which two languages are the official languages of Canada at the federal level under the Official Languages Act of 1969?

Question 5

Which Vancouver Island city gives its name to a no-bake bar of crumb base, custard icing and chocolate topping?

Question 6

Which long-running Toronto teen-drama franchise, tackling issues from addiction to school shootings, began with The Kids of a city street in the 1980s?

Question 7

When is Thanksgiving celebrated in Canada?

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About Canadian Culture

How much do you know about Canadian culture -- the food, the holidays, the music, the television, the sports and the many peoples that share the country? This quiz runs to one hundred questions in four packs of twenty-five, written the way people actually search: what is Canada's national animal, why do Canadians say eh, which province invented poutine, who wrote In Flanders Fields, what is a double-double, which band is Canada's unofficial house band.

The answer is always one of four choices of the same kind, and the question never gives it away. A short note after each answer adds the background -- a date, a place, a name, a story.

The first pack covers symbols and everyday life: the beaver and the maple leaf flag, Canada Day and Victoria Day and Thanksgiving, the loonie and the toonie, the toque and the double-double, poutine and maple syrup and butter tarts and the Caesar, and the two official languages. The second pack is the arts: O Canada and the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson and Emily Carr, Inuit carving and printmaking, Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro and Anne of Green Gables, and a run of musicians from Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell to Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Drake and The Weeknd.

The third pack is screen and sport: the National Film Board, IMAX and Cirque du Soleil, SCTV and Schitt's Creek and Trailer Park Boys, the many Canadians in Hollywood and on Saturday Night Live, Hockey Night in Canada and the CBC, the Stanley Cup and the Grey Cup, Terry Fox and Wayne Gretzky. The fourth pack is regional and multicultural: the Fete nationale and Winterlude and the Calgary Stampede, the Toronto and Montreal festivals, the policy of multiculturalism and the idea of the mosaic, the Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the potlatch and the powwow, the Metis sash, Acadian and Newfoundland and Ukrainian traditions, and the Hudson's Bay Company.

About a fifth of the questions carry a photograph tied to the subject of the question, chosen so it does not reveal the answer. Every fact has been checked.