For Canada Day - a short Canadian quiz

[just_mills]

Only if you can say "Howsitgoineh?" without laughing or seriously hurting yourself.

Pfft mastered that the first day I stood on Canadian ground.

 

[Lukeee]

Only if you can say "Howsitgoineh?" without laughing or seriously hurting yourself.

I giggled

 

[wastingmymind]

And another explanation here: I'm from Toronto.

 

[gsdx]

I giggled

Giggles are fine. . . but you'll have to eat a plate of poutine to make up for it.

 

[cklover]

Only if you can say "Howsitgoineh?" without laughing or seriously hurting yourself.

Only Ontarioans say that. The rest of the country doesn't speak so strangely, unless they are mocking someone from Ontario.

 

[sexsomniac]

^^oh really, I thought only new foundlanders speak funny. Damn I can't comprehand anything comes frm their mouth. Well to be fair, English isn't my mother tongue. So apparently I'm not good at discerning strange accent.

 

[landers]

For the record, I think someone in Dubai is building something taller than the CN Tower

The Burj Dubai doesn't officially become the tallest building in the world until it is complete so officially, the CN Tower is still the tallest.

My score was 9 out of 12 but it really should be 10 because I said that the word Canada comes from a foreign language, which it does, the Native word Kanata. Jacques Cartier misheard and misinterpreted Kanata to get Canada as the name of a nation instead of a village.

 

[Fire]

No Laura Secord question? For shame.

 

[gsdx]

the Native word Kanata. Jacques Cartier misheard and misinterpreted Kanata to get Canada as the name of a nation instead of a village.

Not quite. He heard it correctly but things got a bit mixed up in translation.

It's an interesting story, really.

In 1534, as Cartier was sailing up the St. Lawrence River, he encountered the Iroquois and met their chief, Donnacona, near present day Quebec City. Cartier managed to lure Donnacona and his 3 sons aboard ship then kidnapped two of the Chief's sons to take them back to France as proof of his discovery of the New World. It was on the way back that he learned from the sons that their father's village, a 'kanata', was called Stadacona.

Cartier wrote the name of Stadacona in his diaries and marked its place on his maps and later wrote the word 'Kanata' above it, perhaps to mark the extent of Donnacona's territory. It was actually the map makers of the time who screwed it up. With no marking near 'Kanata' to indicate a settlement of any kind, the map makers assumed it was the name Cartier had given to the New World and that's how they marked it their maps.

 

[gsdx]

No Laura Secord question? For shame.

Shhhhh. There are millions of Canadians who think she just makes chocolates.

 

[frankfrank]

You are soo canadian. )

But "The Soo" (Sault Ste. Marie) is on the American side of the border too, LOL.

8 out of 12 right, and the Wayne Gretzky question was an educated guess. (I remember him being close to a certain milestone in his late years, and I had to think about whether he passed that milestone or not...)

 

[Kester]

I'd make such a crap Canadian.

2/12

 

[belamy]

^ Aussies have more fun... so they say.

 

[Kester]

^ Aussies have more fun... so they say.

Very true that.

 

[Yooper]

I got 11/12.

Not bad for an American.

But then again, when I'm in Michigan, I can see Canada from my House. I get the CBC on Cable TV...reliably...FOX only works half the time.

Back in the day when analog TV still worked, I could get the Thunder Bay CBC station over-the-air.

And almost ALL the Hockey Players at the local University are from Canada.

 

[belamy]

 

[voyager1994]

8/12. Didn't get the $100 bill, national sports, origin of the name Canada, and Gretzky questions. I knew (not guessed) all the other 8.

 

[Ontariobear]

The CN Tower question is out of date and that was my only mistake.

Nothing about Doug & Bob???

 

[phoenix99]

Holy crap I feel so dumb, I only got 2 of 12 right and I guessed on most of them. I knew about the CN tower, my other right answer was a guess.