Happy Canada Day everyone!

Here is a quizz from the Globe&Mail to test your knowledge of Canadian and American general information - it is pretty simple - 10 answers for each. I am ashamed to say I missed one of the Canadian ones so my score was 19 out of 20.

Good luck-and have a great day!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...adaDay2008/home

I got 16 outta 20 - I messed up the CDN Anthem lyrics by reading the question incorrectly.. so that one wrong answer doesn't count eh

http://www.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/quiz/quiz.cgi?quiz=canada-day-2008

Here's a harder one.. i won't even admit to the score I got

I got 19/20. I missed one question on the American question. Shhhhh don't tell my husband!

I didn't take the quiz, but just stopped by to wish all of my neighbours to the North a wonderful Happy Canada Day.
God keep your land glorious and free!

Ugh - I missed 6 on Emancipations' CBC quizz - although to be honest, most of the ones I missed dealt with news and sports events that happened in Canada this last year - and I haven't lived there since 2004. Still, I knew it was a toss up between Margaret Atwood and Hugh MacLennanan - and went with the wrong one :-(. Thanks, Emancipation!

Awwww. Thanks Nagi.

I'll take the quizzes later. My head's too fuzzy at the moment. lol

Thanks Nagi!!

re the quiz- I got 11/20

Whoo hoo

1/10 Canadian
10/10 American

Helps that I had to study American History for my citizenship though...

well hell, i never was awake much in history.

happy canada day everyone!

Ugh - how unCanadian of my. I got more of the American questions right than the Canadian one's. However -

HAPPY CANADA DAY

PS: Chris' flight arrives in 3 hours

Happy Canada Day!

(A little blue for Quebec...and B.C....in more ways than one. Hee, hee.)



What an embarrassment.
I, too got more right about the U.S. than Canada.
Mixed up facts in my pea brain I guess.
Upon seeing the correct answers, the only one I didn't truly know was about the Canadian author.

I'd like to write up my own version of CDN/U.S. knowledge.
Please stand by...ha!

Canadian questions -- 6/10

American questions -- 10/10

That's not much of a surprise, really. I thought the U.S. history questions were incredibly easy, but then again, I know a lot about my own country. Obviously, I know a little less about Canada.

I think it's become the "norm" for Canadians to actually know more about the U.S. than Canada (or at least both equally). At the end of that quiz, it says that many Canadians are having the same issues, where they can recognize American history but have trouble with Canadian history. I'd have to imagine that's due to the American media being so prevalent and vocal.

After all, I'm sure quite a few Canadians could at least somewhat recognize the names of former U.S. presidents George Washington, Abraham Lincoln or Franklin D. Roosevelt. How many Americans could pick a Canadian Prime Minister's name out of a lineup? Probably not too many.

HAPPY CANADA DAY!! This will be my last one living here so it's extra special!!

7/10 Canadian
8/10 American

Here is a quickie and maybe a goodie...as compiled by yours truly:
(Answers in next post.)


An Arcane Questionnaire

Which country has the most lakes?

What does the word Canada mean?

Which U.S. president was awarded a patent?
And for what?

Which state grows the most eggplant?

On the Canadian 2 dollar bill (got one??), what flag is flying over the Parliament building?

Which state has only one syllable?

What is L.A.’s full and complete name?

What was the one of the strangest marriages to have taken place in the U.S.?

When was mail delivery stopped in Canada?

Who has more plastic flamingos?

Is there a royal palace in the U.S.? Where?

Which province has no rats?

Which country (Canada/U.S.) has the most credit cards per person?

How much does Hawai’I move each year (plate tectonics)?

What percentage of Canadians live close to the U.S. (obviously) border?

Bonus question:
What came first, the chicken or the egg?

Answers:

(Canada has the more lakes than the rest of the world combined.)

(Big Village)

(Abraham Lincoln)

(New Jersey grows two thirds of the world’s eggplant.)

(On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.)

(Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.)

(Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula")

(In 1976 a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people.)

(Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!)

(There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!)

(Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!)

(The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.)

(There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.)

(Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.)

(90% of Canada's 31,000,000 citizens live within 100 miles of the U.S. border.)

(There sat the chicken smoking a cigarette and an egg looking forlorn. Now we know the answer to that age old question.)





How many USians bought stuff at Walmart last year?








(82%)

Yep knew the $2 bill one wasn't true as I remember hearing about that a long time ago. I did not know there wasn't any or barely any rats in Alberta. How did they manage to pull that off? I assume it's because of the freezing cold weather probably kills them too fast or something...

Just got back from the Embassy festivities and let me tell you, you CAN eat too much poutine!

damn! I miss poutine!

I got 19/20. I took American history at university though, one course that is, so I know a little bit about where I live now. I know my Canada though.

i got 2 right and those were guesses..

I got the same as Kathryn.... 9/10 for the Canadian trivia and 10/10 for the American. The sad part is that I can't remember which one I got wrong. I think it may have been the constitutional monarchy question. Bad Krikit.

10/10 for Canadian Qs and 10/10 for American Qs, now if I could only remember what day it is.

BTW, for the CBC quiz I got 16/20 which OK since I don't watch the news and spend most of my time watching the Playboy Channel.

5/10 canadian
6/10 american.

ahh... shame. I dunno about you guys, but this is my first canada day in US. (First week in US actually.) Ironically, my SO is taking me to Fuddruckers (was a huge part of my childhood growing up before the chain closed up in my hometown.) I'm wondering if I can make a poutine there somehow. ;_;

And I do have to try to answer Spirit Alight's survey... Does any of Britney's or Micheal Jackson's marriages count?

Happy Canada Day!
I want to go back to visit my friends there, but no AP approved yet. A little sad.

I have heard that Alberta has rat patrol at the borders. Whether this is actual fact- I don't know.

I don't think Alberta has cockroaches either. I have never seen one or heard of them there.

Man- what a difference from Louisiana- I never know what type of creepy crawly I will face here.