Q 01/05

Travel due south from downtown Detroit and you cross a river into which Canadian city?

A) Sarnia

B) Windsor

C) Kingston

D) Hamilton

Answer · why

B) Windsor

Windsor sits on the south bank of the Detroit River, so Americans there look south, not north, to see Canada.

Q 02/05

Canada beats every other country on which measure, with a total of about 243,000 kilometres?

A) Rail network

B) River network

C) Coastline

D) Highway network

Answer · why

C) Coastline

Coastline of that length, spread along the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic oceans, would wrap around the equator about six times.

Q 03/05

Canada shares four of the five Great Lakes, but which one lies entirely on the American side of the border?

A) Lake Superior

B) Lake Huron

C) Lake Erie

D) Lake Michigan

Answer · why

D) Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan lies wholly inside the United States, while the other four are shared, with the international border running through their waters.

Q 04/05

Which European country governs Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, islands about 20 kilometres off Canada's Atlantic coast?

A) France

B) Portugal

C) Britain

D) Denmark

Answer · why

A) France

France returned to the islands for good in 1816, and their residents hold European Union citizenship and pay in euros.

Q 05/05

Which Atlantic inlet, where the sea rises and falls by about 16 metres, has the highest tides in the world?

A) Bay of Fundy

B) Chaleur Bay

C) Placentia Bay

D) Bonavista Bay

Answer · why

A) Bay of Fundy

Bay of Fundy tides move about 100 billion tonnes of water in and out in each cycle, twice the combined flow of all the world's rivers.