39 Canada Trivia Questions and Answers
Canada trivia from coast to coast: provinces and capitals, explorers and prime ministers, national symbols, and the mountains, rivers and islands on the map. It works for Canada Day, a classroom or a quiz night. The answers are printed with the questions.
There are 39 questions on this page. They are free to use for quiz nights, classrooms and pub quizzes, and each one links to its own page.
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1.What is the capital city of Canada?
Answer: Ottawa
Open this question2.Which is the largest Canadian province by area?
Answer: Quebec
Open this question3.Which is the smallest Canadian province in both area and population?
Answer: Prince Edward Island
Open this question4.In which year did Canadian Confederation take place?
Answer: 1867
Open this question5.Who was the first Prime Minister of Canada?
Answer: Sir John A. Macdonald
Open this question6.Which was the last province to join Canada, in 1949?
Answer: Newfoundland
Open this question7.Which large rodent is one of the national symbols of Canada?
Answer: The beaver
Open this question8.The leaf of which tree appears on the Canadian flag?
Answer: Maple
Open this question9.In which year did Canada adopt its red and white maple leaf flag?
Answer: 1965
Open this question10.Which river, together with its headstreams, forms the longest river system in Canada?
Answer: The Mackenzie River
Open this question11.What is the highest mountain in Canada?
Answer: Mount Logan
Open this question12.What is Canada's official national summer sport?
Answer: Lacrosse
Open this question13.By what nickname are members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police known?
Answer: Mounties
Open this question14.Which Toronto tower, completed in 1976, was for more than thirty years the world's tallest free-standing structure?
Answer: The CN Tower
Open this question15.Which bay between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia is known for having the highest tides in the world?
Answer: The Bay of Fundy
Open this question16.What is the title of the national anthem of Canada?
Answer: O Canada
Open this question17.What are the two official languages of Canada?
Answer: English and French
Open this question18.Which Canadian doctor, working with his student Charles Best at the University of Toronto, isolated insulin in the early 1920s?
Answer: Frederick Banting
Open this question19.Which fur-trading company was incorporated by a royal charter from King Charles II in 1670?
Answer: Hudson's Bay Company
Open this question20.The Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s took place in which Canadian territory?
Answer: Yukon
Open this question21.What is the capital of British Columbia?
Answer: Victoria
Open this question22.What is the capital of Nova Scotia?
Answer: Halifax
Open this question23.What is the capital of Alberta?
Answer: Edmonton
Open this question24.What is the capital of Saskatchewan?
Answer: Regina
Open this question25.Which Canadian city hosted the world's fair Expo 67 and the 1976 Summer Olympics?
Answer: Montreal
Open this question26.Which Canadian city hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics?
Answer: Calgary
Open this question27.The novel "Anne of Green Gables" is set in which Canadian province?
Answer: Prince Edward Island
Open this question28.Who wrote "Anne of Green Gables"?
Answer: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Open this question29.Which French explorer founded Quebec City in 1608?
Answer: Samuel de Champlain
Open this question30.Which French explorer claimed land near the St. Lawrence River for France in 1534?
Answer: Jacques Cartier
Open this question31.What is the name of the site in Newfoundland where the remains of a Norse settlement about 1,000 years old were found?
Answer: L'Anse aux Meadows
Open this question32.The Canadian one-dollar coin is nicknamed the "loonie" after which bird shown on it?
Answer: The loon
Open this question33.What is the name of the largest of the three waterfalls that together make up Niagara Falls?
Answer: Horseshoe Falls
Open this question34.Which is the only Canadian province that is officially bilingual in English and French?
Answer: New Brunswick
Open this question35.What name did Terry Fox give to his 1980 run across Canada to raise money for cancer research?
Answer: The Marathon of Hope
Open this question36.Which British general died winning the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Quebec in 1759?
Answer: James Wolfe
Open this question37.In which year was the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway driven, completing the line across Canada?
Answer: 1885
Open this question38.Which is the largest island in Canada?
Answer: Baffin Island
Open this question39.Which Alberta city holds a famous rodeo and festival called the Stampede every July?
Answer: Calgary
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