Q 01/05

Which animal has Alberta kept out since the early 1950s, making it the only province free of the pest?

A) Skunks

B) Rats

C) Pigeons

D) Snakes

Answer · why

B) Rats

Rats are even illegal to keep as pets in Alberta, where only zoos, universities and research labs may have them.

Q 02/05

Licence plates in the Northwest Territories have been cut in the shape of which animal since 1970?

A) Caribou

B) Muskox

C) Beluga whale

D) Polar bear

Answer · why

D) Polar bear

Polar bear plates were introduced for the territory's 1970 centennial, and the shape is now a registered trademark of its government.

Q 03/05

Which Prairie capital is the namesake of the real bear that gave A. A. Milne's best-known character his name?

A) Winnipeg

B) Brandon

C) Thunder Bay

D) Saskatoon

Answer · why

A) Winnipeg

Winnipeg was the adopted home of army vet Harry Colebourn, who bought the cub on his way to war, called her Winnie and left her at London Zoo in 1914.

Q 04/05

Which province, Canada's largest by area, has a capital that is the only walled city north of Mexico?

A) Ontario

B) British Columbia

C) Quebec

D) Nova Scotia

Answer · why

C) Quebec

Quebec owes its capital's surviving ramparts to Lord Dufferin, Canada's viceroy in the 1870s, who stepped in to stop them being demolished.

Q 05/05

Which province was the last to join Canada, entering in 1949 after a referendum won with just 52 percent?

A) Prince Edward Island

B) Newfoundland

C) British Columbia

D) Saskatchewan

Answer · why

B) Newfoundland

Newfoundland joined at midnight on March 31, 1949, and officially added 'and Labrador' to its name in 2001.