Alberta and Saskatchewan became provinces in the same year. Which year?Answer: 1905. Source: Wikipedia: Saskatchewan
Alberta is named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta. Whose daughter was she?Answer: Queen Victoria. Source: Wikipedia: Alberta
Before it was incorporated as a city in 1834, Toronto was a town with which name?Answer: York. Source: Wikipedia: Toronto
British Columbia's capital is not Vancouver. Which city on Vancouver Island is it?Answer: Victoria. Source: Wikipedia: Victoria, British Columbia
Charlottetown is the capital of which province?Answer: Prince Edward Island. Source: Wikipedia: Charlottetown
In 2001 the official name of one province was lengthened to include its mainland region. Which region was added?Answer: Labrador. Source: Wikipedia: Newfoundland and Labrador
The name of which territory means our land in Inuktitut?Answer: Nunavut. Source: Wikipedia: Nunavut
The name Saskatchewan comes from a Cree name for a river. What does it mean?Answer: Swift-flowing river. Source: Wikipedia: Saskatchewan
St. John's is the capital of which province?Answer: Newfoundland and Labrador. Source: Wikipedia: St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Until 1987 the town of Iqaluit was officially called by which name?Answer: Frobisher Bay. Source: Wikipedia: Iqaluit
What is the capital of Alberta?Answer: Edmonton. Source: Wikipedia: Edmonton
What is the capital of New Brunswick?Answer: Fredericton. Source: Wikipedia: Fredericton
What is the capital of Nova Scotia?Answer: Halifax. Source: Wikipedia: Halifax, Nova Scotia
What is the capital of Nunavut?Answer: Iqaluit. Source: Wikipedia: Iqaluit
What is the capital of Saskatchewan?Answer: Regina. Source: Wikipedia: Regina, Saskatchewan
What is the capital of Yukon?Answer: Whitehorse. Source: Wikipedia: Whitehorse
What is the Northwest Territories' capital?Answer: Yellowknife. Source: Wikipedia: Yellowknife
Which city sits right on the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan and belongs to both provinces?Answer: Lloydminster. Source: Wikipedia: Lloydminster
Which four provinces made up Canada at Confederation in 1867?Answer: Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Source: Wikipedia: Canadian Confederation
Which gold rush town was the first capital of Yukon?Answer: Dawson City. Source: Wikipedia: Dawson City
Which is the only province that is bilingual by law in French and English?Answer: New Brunswick. Source: Wikipedia: New Brunswick
Which province is the smallest by land area?Answer: Prince Edward Island. Source: Wikipedia: Prince Edward Island
Which province joined Canada in 1871 on the promise of a railway to the Pacific coast?Answer: British Columbia. Source: Wikipedia: British Columbia
Which province was created in 1870, after the Red River Resistance?Answer: Manitoba. Source: Wikipedia: Manitoba
Which province was the last to join Canada, in 1949?Answer: Newfoundland. Source: Wikipedia: Newfoundland and Labrador
Lakes, rivers, mountains and parks 25
The Bay of Fundy, between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, is famous for what?Answer: The highest tides in the world. Source: Wikipedia: Bay of Fundy
The Blackfoot call it the snow eater, and it can lift a southern Alberta winter day above freezing. What is a chinook?Answer: A warm, dry wind off the Rocky Mountains. Source: Wikipedia: Chinook wind
The Cabot Trail loops around the highlands of which island?Answer: Cape Breton Island. Source: Wikipedia: Cabot Trail
Canada's first national park was created in 1885 around hot springs in the Rocky Mountains. Which park is it?Answer: Banff. Source: Wikipedia: Banff National Park
The Columbia Icefield, the largest icefield in the Rocky Mountains, lies partly in which two national parks?Answer: Banff and Jasper. Source: Wikipedia: Columbia Icefield
The Confederation Bridge links Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick. Which strait does it cross?Answer: Northumberland Strait. Source: Wikipedia: Confederation Bridge
Gros Morne National Park, with its fjords and the bare Tablelands, is in which province?Answer: Newfoundland and Labrador. Source: Wikipedia: Gros Morne National Park
Manitoulin Island is the largest island in a freshwater lake anywhere in the world. Which lake is it in?Answer: Lake Huron. Source: Wikipedia: Manitoulin Island
Much of the border between western Canada and the United States follows which line of latitude?Answer: The 49th parallel north. Source: Wikipedia: 49th parallel north
The Ottawa River forms much of the border between which two provinces?Answer: Ontario and Quebec. Source: Wikipedia: Ottawa River
Point Pelee, the southernmost tip of mainland Canada, juts into which lake?Answer: Lake Erie. Source: Wikipedia: Point Pelee National Park
The Rideau Canal, opened in 1832, links the Ottawa River at Ottawa with Lake Ontario at which city?Answer: Kingston. Source: Wikipedia: Rideau Canal
Sable Island, a long sandbar far off the coast of Nova Scotia, is best known for which animals?Answer: Wild horses. Source: Wikipedia: Sable Island
Until 2010 the islands of Haida Gwaii, off the coast of British Columbia, had which official name?Answer: The Queen Charlotte Islands. Source: Wikipedia: Haida Gwaii
What is the Canadian Shield?Answer: A vast area of ancient exposed rock. Source: Wikipedia: Canadian Shield
What is the name of the place farthest north in the world where people live all the time, a station on Ellesmere Island?Answer: Alert. Source: Wikipedia: Alert, Nunavut
What mountain is Canada's highest?Answer: Mount Logan. Source: Wikipedia: Mount Logan
Which is Canada's largest national park, set up in 1922 to protect free-roaming wood bison?Answer: Wood Buffalo National Park. Source: Wikipedia: Wood Buffalo National Park
Which is the largest lake that lies entirely inside Canada?Answer: Great Bear Lake. Source: Wikipedia: Great Bear Lake
Which is the only one of the five Great Lakes that does not touch Canada?Answer: Lake Michigan. Source: Wikipedia: Lake Michigan
Which island is Canada's largest?Answer: Baffin Island. Source: Wikipedia: Baffin Island
Which lake in the Northwest Territories is the deepest in North America?Answer: Great Slave Lake. Source: Wikipedia: Great Slave Lake
Which peak is the highest in the Canadian Rockies?Answer: Mount Robson. Source: Wikipedia: Mount Robson
Which river system is the longest in Canada?Answer: The Mackenzie. Source: Wikipedia: Mackenzie River
Which town on Hudson Bay calls itself the polar bear capital of the world?Answer: Churchill, Manitoba. Source: Wikipedia: Churchill, Manitoba
History to Confederation and after 25
After the rebellions of 1837 and 1838, which British lord wrote a famous report recommending that Upper and Lower Canada be united?Answer: Lord Durham. Source: Wikipedia: Report on the Affairs of British North America
The Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 decided the fate of Quebec. What happened to the two commanding generals?Answer: Both died of their wounds. Source: Wikipedia: Battle of the Plains of Abraham
Beginning in 1755 the British deported thousands of French-speaking settlers from the Maritimes. What were these settlers called?Answer: Acadians. Source: Wikipedia: Expulsion of the Acadians
During the War of 1812, Laura Secord walked about 32 kilometers out of American-occupied territory. Why?Answer: To warn the British of an American attack. Source: Wikipedia: Laura Secord
In 1793 Upper Canada passed a law against slavery, before any other part of the British Empire had limited it. Which lieutenant governor backed it?Answer: John Graves Simcoe. Source: Wikipedia: Act Against Slavery
In 1916 which province became the first to give women the right to vote in provincial elections?Answer: Manitoba. Source: Wikipedia: Women's suffrage in Canada
In 1980 Terry Fox set out to run across Canada after losing a leg to cancer. What did he call the run?Answer: The Marathon of Hope. Source: Wikipedia: Terry Fox
In April 1813 American forces looted York, the capital of Upper Canada. Which British attack of August 1814 was in part a retaliation for it?Answer: The burning of Washington. Source: Wikipedia: Burning of Washington
In April 1917 all four divisions of the Canadian Corps fought together for the first time and took which ridge in northern France?Answer: Vimy Ridge. Source: Wikipedia: Battle of Vimy Ridge
In September 1864, delegates met on Prince Edward Island to discuss a union of the colonies. In which city?Answer: Charlottetown. Source: Wikipedia: Charlottetown Conference
John Cabot left Bristol in May 1497 and reached the coast of North America. What was his ship called?Answer: The Matthew. Source: Wikipedia: John Cabot
L'Anse aux Meadows, at the northern tip of Newfoundland, holds the remains of a settlement built around the year 1000 by which people?Answer: The Norse. Source: Wikipedia: L'Anse aux Meadows
The name Canada comes from kanata, a word that Jacques Cartier heard in 1535. What does kanata mean?Answer: Village or settlement. Source: Wikipedia: Name of Canada
On D-Day, June 6, 1944, Canadian troops landed on which beach in Normandy?Answer: Juno Beach. Source: Wikipedia: Juno Beach
On which date in 1867 did the Dominion of Canada come into being?Answer: July 1. Source: Wikipedia: Canadian Confederation
The Persons Case of 1929 settled which question?Answer: Whether women could be named to the Senate. Source: Wikipedia: Edwards v Canada (AG)
What caused the Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917?Answer: A collision between two ships, one loaded with explosives. Source: Wikipedia: Halifax Explosion
Where was the Canadian Pacific Railway's last spike driven on November 7, 1885?Answer: Craigellachie, British Columbia. Source: Wikipedia: Last spike (Canadian Pacific Railway)
Which act of 1791 split the Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada?Answer: The Constitutional Act. Source: Wikipedia: Constitutional Act 1791
Which British statute of 1931 greatly increased the sovereignty of Canada and the other self-governing dominions?Answer: The Statute of Westminster. Source: Wikipedia: Statute of Westminster 1931
Which fur trading company received a royal charter from King Charles II in 1670?Answer: The Hudson's Bay Company. Source: Wikipedia: Hudson's Bay Company
Which Métis leader headed the Red River Resistance of 1869 and the North-West Resistance of 1885?Answer: Louis Riel. Source: Wikipedia: Louis Riel
Which police force was founded in 1873 to bring Canadian law to the prairies?Answer: The North-West Mounted Police. Source: Wikipedia: North-West Mounted Police
Who founded Quebec City in 1608?Answer: Samuel de Champlain. Source: Wikipedia: Samuel de Champlain
Who served first as Prime Minister of Canada?Answer: Sir John A. Macdonald. Source: Wikipedia: John A. Macdonald
Symbols and government 25
Before 1855 the city of Ottawa had which name, after the British engineer who built the Rideau Canal?Answer: Bytown. Source: Wikipedia: Bytown
The Constitution Act of 1982 recognizes three groups of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Which three?Answer: First Nations, Inuit and Métis. Source: Wikipedia: Indigenous peoples in Canada
The flag of Nunavut shows a red stone landmark built by the Inuit. What is it called?Answer: An inuksuk. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of Nunavut
How do members of the Senate of Canada get their seats?Answer: They are appointed. Source: Wikipedia: Senate of Canada
How many judges sit on the Supreme Court of Canada?Answer: Nine. Source: Wikipedia: Supreme Court of Canada
How many seats are there in the Senate of Canada?Answer: 105. Source: Wikipedia: Senate of Canada
In 1916 fire destroyed the Centre Block of the Parliament buildings in Ottawa. Which part survived?Answer: The Library of Parliament. Source: Wikipedia: Library of Parliament
In the 1850s the legislature of the Province of Canada could not agree on a capital. To which monarch was the choice referred?Answer: Queen Victoria. Source: Wikipedia: History of Ottawa
In which language were the first words of O Canada written?Answer: French. Source: Wikipedia: O Canada
In which year did the red and white maple leaf flag first fly as the national flag of Canada?Answer: 1965. Source: Wikipedia: Flag of Canada
Je me souviens is the motto of which province?Answer: Quebec. Source: Wikipedia: Je me souviens
July 1 has been called Canada Day since 1982. What was the holiday called before that?Answer: Dominion Day. Source: Wikipedia: Canada Day
The legislature of Quebec has a name that no other province uses. What is it called?Answer: The National Assembly. Source: Wikipedia: National Assembly of Quebec
The motto of Canada is A mari usque ad mare. What does it mean?Answer: From sea to sea. Source: Wikipedia: A mari usque ad mare
The two dollar coin arrived in 1996 and was soon nicknamed the toonie. Which animal is on its back?Answer: A polar bear. Source: Wikipedia: Toonie
Under a 1994 act, Canada has two national sports, one for winter and one for summer. Which pair is it?Answer: Ice hockey and lacrosse. Source: Wikipedia: Lacrosse in Canada
What is an electoral district for the House of Commons often called in Canada?Answer: A riding. Source: Wikipedia: Electoral district (Canada)
What is the title of the person who represents the monarch in each province?Answer: Lieutenant Governor. Source: Wikipedia: Lieutenant governor (Canada)
Which animal appears on the reverse of the Canadian 25 cent coin?Answer: A caribou. Source: Wikipedia: Quarter (Canadian coin)
Which animal, once trapped across the continent for hat felt, is a national symbol of Canada and appears on the five cent coin?Answer: The beaver. Source: Wikipedia: North American beaver
Which famous Nova Scotia ship is shown on the Canadian ten cent coin?Answer: The schooner Bluenose. Source: Wikipedia: Bluenose
Which flag did Canada use in the years before the maple leaf flag was adopted?Answer: The Canadian Red Ensign. Source: Wikipedia: Canadian Red Ensign
Which honor, created in 1967, has the Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, meaning they desire a better country?Answer: The Order of Canada. Source: Wikipedia: Order of Canada
Who composed the music of O Canada in 1880?Answer: Calixa Lavallée. Source: Wikipedia: O Canada
Who represents the monarch in Canada at the federal level?Answer: The Governor General. Source: Wikipedia: Governor General of Canada
Inventions, science and firsts 25
Abraham Gesner of Nova Scotia gave the world a new lamp fuel in 1846, distilled from coal. What did he call it?Answer: Kerosene. Source: Wikipedia: Abraham Pineo Gesner
At which university did Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin in 1921?Answer: The University of Toronto. Source: Wikipedia: Frederick Banting
The Burgess Shale, one of the most important fossil beds in the world, is in which national park in British Columbia?Answer: Yoho National Park. Source: Wikipedia: Burgess Shale
The first lasting telegraph cable across the Atlantic came ashore in 1866 at a Newfoundland village with which name?Answer: Heart's Content. Source: Wikipedia: Transatlantic telegraph cable
From 1975 until 2007, which Toronto landmark was the tallest free-standing structure in the world?Answer: The CN Tower. Source: Wikipedia: CN Tower
In 1911 a newspaper publisher in Smithers, British Columbia, invented a container to end a dispute between a farmer and a hotel. What was it?Answer: The egg carton. Source: Wikipedia: Egg carton
In 1962 Canada launched the first satellite built outside the Soviet Union and the United States. What was it called?Answer: Alouette 1. Source: Wikipedia: Alouette 1
In August 1876 Alexander Graham Bell made what is called the first long-distance telephone call. It ran from Brantford to which other Ontario town?Answer: Paris. Source: Wikipedia: Alexander Graham Bell
In the early 1960s James Till and Ernest McCulloch, working in Toronto, demonstrated the existence of what?Answer: Stem cells. Source: Wikipedia: Ernest McCulloch
James Naismith invented basketball while teaching in Massachusetts. In which Ontario town was he born?Answer: Almonte. Source: Wikipedia: James Naismith
Joseph-Armand Bombardier of Valcourt, Quebec, is remembered for inventing which vehicle?Answer: The snowmobile. Source: Wikipedia: Joseph-Armand Bombardier
Marquis wheat, which ripened early enough for the short prairie summer, was developed in the early 1900s by which plant breeder?Answer: Charles Saunders. Source: Wikipedia: Charles E. Saunders
The name canola, for an oilseed crop bred in Canada in the 1970s, is partly built from which word?Answer: Canada. Source: Wikipedia: Canola oil
On Signal Hill in St. John's, Newfoundland, in December 1901, Guglielmo Marconi received what?Answer: The first wireless signal sent across the Atlantic. Source: Wikipedia: Signal Hill, St. John's
Roberta Bondar flew on the shuttle Discovery in January 1992. Which first does she hold?Answer: First Canadian woman in space. Source: Wikipedia: Roberta Bondar
The Robertson screw, which P. L. Robertson patented in Canada in 1907, has a socket of which shape?Answer: Square. Source: Wikipedia: Robertson screw
The Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta, is devoted to what?Answer: Dinosaurs and other fossils. Source: Wikipedia: Royal Tyrrell Museum
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory studied particles from the Sun. Where was it built?Answer: Two kilometers underground in a nickel mine. Source: Wikipedia: Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Thomas F. Ryan of Toronto invented which bowling game around 1909, with a smaller ball and fewer pins?Answer: Five-pin bowling. Source: Wikipedia: Five-pin bowling
What is the Canadarm?Answer: A robotic arm used on the Space Shuttle. Source: Wikipedia: Canadarm
Which everyday painting tool did Norman Breakey of Toronto invent in 1940?Answer: The paint roller. Source: Wikipedia: Paint roller
Which light, narrow boat, covered in skin and paddled with a double-bladed paddle, was developed by the Inuit and other Arctic peoples?Answer: The kayak. Source: Wikipedia: Kayak
Which Scottish-born Canadian railway engineer proposed the worldwide system of standard time zones?Answer: Sir Sandford Fleming. Source: Wikipedia: Sandford Fleming
Which warning device did Robert Foulis of Saint John, New Brunswick, invent in the 1850s?Answer: The steam foghorn. Source: Wikipedia: Robert Foulis (inventor)
Who, in October 1984, was the first Canadian in space?Answer: Marc Garneau. Source: Wikipedia: Marc Garneau
Sport, food and Canadian words 25
The Calgary Stampede, held every July, is built around which kind of event?Answer: A rodeo. Source: Wikipedia: Calgary Stampede
The city of Saskatoon is named after what?Answer: A sweet purple berry. Source: Wikipedia: Saskatoon
The first organized indoor game of ice hockey was played on March 3, 1875, in which city?Answer: Montreal. Source: Wikipedia: First indoor ice hockey game
The Grey Cup, the championship trophy of Canadian football, is named after the man who donated it in 1909. Who was he?Answer: A Governor General, Earl Grey. Source: Wikipedia: Grey Cup
How do most Canadians say the last letter of the alphabet?Answer: Zed. Source: Wikipedia: Z
How does a Montreal-style bagel differ from a New York bagel?Answer: It is boiled in honey-sweetened water and baked in a wood-fired oven. Source: Wikipedia: Montreal-style bagel
How many players does each team have on the field in Canadian football?Answer: 12. Source: Wikipedia: Comparison of American and Canadian football
If an older Canadian asks you to sit on the chesterfield, where do you sit?Answer: On the sofa. Source: Wikipedia: Canadian English
In Canada, what is a toque?Answer: A close-fitting knitted winter hat. Source: Wikipedia: Toque
In Canadian English, what is a garburator?Answer: A garbage disposal unit under the kitchen sink. Source: Wikipedia: Canadian English
In curling, what is the target of rings painted on the ice called?Answer: The house. Source: Wikipedia: Curling
In Quebec, what is a dépanneur?Answer: A corner convenience store. Source: Wikipedia: Convenience store
In Saskatchewan, what is a bunnyhug?Answer: A hooded sweatshirt. Source: Wikipedia: Hoodie
In the 1972 Summit Series, a team of Canadian professionals played eight games against which country?Answer: The Soviet Union. Source: Wikipedia: Summit Series
In the season of 1944 to 1945, Maurice Richard became the first player in his league to score 50 goals in a season, and he did it in 50 games. What was his nickname?Answer: The Rocket. Source: Wikipedia: Maurice Richard
In which city is the Hockey Hall of Fame?Answer: Toronto. Source: Wikipedia: Hockey Hall of Fame
The Nanaimo bar, a dessert that needs no baking, is named after a city in which province?Answer: British Columbia. Source: Wikipedia: Nanaimo bar
On November 1, 1959, goaltender Jacques Plante changed hockey for good. What did he do?Answer: He wore a mask in a regular game. Source: Wikipedia: Jacques Plante
Peameal bacon is a Toronto specialty. What is it?Answer: Cured pork loin rolled in cornmeal. Source: Wikipedia: Peameal bacon
Pemmican was the high-calorie travel food of the fur trade. What is it made of?Answer: Dried meat mixed with fat, sometimes with dried berries. Source: Wikipedia: Pemmican
Ringette, a skating game played with a straight stick and a rubber ring, was created in northern Ontario in 1963 as a winter team sport for whom?Answer: Girls. Source: Wikipedia: Ringette
The Stanley Cup was donated in 1892 by Lord Stanley of Preston. Which office did he hold at the time?Answer: Governor General of Canada. Source: Wikipedia: Stanley Cup
Tom Longboat won the Boston Marathon in 1907 in record time. Which First Nation did he belong to?Answer: Onondaga. Source: Wikipedia: Tom Longboat
What is in the filling of a classic butter tart?Answer: Butter, sugar, syrup and egg. Source: Wikipedia: Butter tart
When a Canadian complains that the hydro bill has gone up, which bill is it?Answer: The electricity bill. Source: Wikipedia: Canadian English
How it works
Where was the last spike driven, and what is a bunnyhug? These 150 Canadian trivia questions run in six rounds of 25, from provinces and capitals to sport, food and Canadian words. Tap any choice to check it.
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Run it as a Canada Day quiz
Set Start from to one round and you have 25 questions on one subject. Read each question and its four choices aloud, let teams write down a letter, then tap a choice. Tally the points on paper, because the card keeps no team scores. Open with Provinces, territories and capitals: nine of its 25 are easy, so nobody starts on zero.
Print a round for the cottage
Choose a round under Start from and play a set, then Print lists its questions with lettered choices. A tick on With answer key adds the reason for each answer. The card fetches its questions over the network, so print before you drive out of signal.
Save Sport, food and Canadian words for last. Visitors guess at garburator while the Canadians argue about raisins in a butter tart.
Inventions, science and firsts is the stiffest round, with 11 hard questions in 25. Make it worth double.
Questions and answers
How hard are these Canada questions for trivia night?
Mixed. Of the 150, 29 are easy, such as the capital of Alberta. Another 87 are medium, and 34 are hard, such as the Newfoundland village where the 1866 Atlantic cable came ashore. The capitals round is the gentlest.
What are some easy Canadian trivia questions?
Which Great Lake does not touch Canada? How do most Canadians say the last letter of the alphabet? On which date in 1867 did the Dominion begin? The answers are Lake Michigan, zed and July 1.
Do I have to be Canadian to play?
No. Plenty of it is general knowledge: the beach Canadians took on D-Day, the robotic arm on the Space Shuttle, the Ontario-born teacher who invented basketball. The words round explains each term, so visitors leave knowing what a toque is.
Will these answers go out of date?
They should hold. Each was checked on September 19, 2026 against the article linked under it, and population figures, prices and office-holders are left out. One fact had already moved: the Hudson's Bay Company, chartered in 1670, was liquidated in 2025.