Q 01/05

Which seafarers built a settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows about a thousand years ago, centuries before Columbus sailed?

A) The Basques

B) The Norse

C) The Portuguese

D) The Irish

Answer · why

B) The Norse

The Norse left eight sod-and-timber buildings and more than 800 objects at the site, which a Norwegian husband-and-wife team excavated in the 1960s.

Q 02/05

Which British Columbia runner with an artificial leg began the 1980 Marathon of Hope to raise money for cancer research?

A) Rick Hansen

B) Steve Fonyo

C) Terry Fox

D) Harry Jerome

Answer · why

C) Terry Fox

Terry Fox covered 5,373 kilometres in 143 days before cancer in his lungs forced him to stop outside Thunder Bay.

Q 03/05

Which fur-trading enterprise, chartered by King Charles II in 1670, once controlled the vast territory of Rupert's Land?

A) Hudson's Bay Company

B) North West Company

C) East India Company

D) Russian-American Company

Answer · why

A) Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company was the oldest corporation in North America, and it acted as the territory's de facto government until it gave up the land to Can...

Q 04/05

Which Nova Scotia port was devastated in December 1917 when the explosives-laden ship Mont-Blanc blew up in the harbour?

A) Sydney

B) Yarmouth

C) Pictou

D) Halifax

Answer · why

D) Halifax

Halifax suffered the largest human-made explosion the world had seen up to then, which killed at least 1,782 people and injured an estimated 9,000 mor...

Q 05/05

Which gold rush drew an estimated 100,000 fortune seekers north after a strike on Bonanza Creek in 1896?

A) Cariboo

B) Klondike

C) Kootenay

D) Fraser

Answer · why

B) Klondike

The Klondike stampede was brutal: only 30,000 to 40,000 of those who set out reached the goldfields, and just a few hundred got rich.