Canadian Culture Quiz — 7 Free Questions

Question 1

Which sketch series, spun off from the Toronto branch of the Second City comedy troupe, was built around a fictional television station?

Question 2

Which author created the red-haired orphan Anne Shirley in a novel set on a Prince Edward Island farm?

Question 3

In which year did Canada become the first country in the world to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism?

Question 4

Which national public broadcaster, founded in 1936 and known in French as Radio-Canada, runs radio and television services in both official languages?

Question 5

Which long-running Toronto teen-drama franchise, tackling issues from addiction to school shootings, began with The Kids of a city street in the 1980s?

Question 6

Which faux-documentary comedy follows Ricky, Julian and Bubbles through petty crime in a Nova Scotia trailer park?

Question 7

Which fried-dough pastry, stretched into a flat oval and dusted with cinnamon sugar, is sold at winter festivals and named for a national animal's appendage?

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About Canadian Culture

How much do you know about Canadian culture -- the food, the holidays, the music, the television, the sports and the many peoples that share the country? This quiz runs to one hundred questions in four packs of twenty-five, written the way people actually search: what is Canada's national animal, why do Canadians say eh, which province invented poutine, who wrote In Flanders Fields, what is a double-double, which band is Canada's unofficial house band.

The answer is always one of four choices of the same kind, and the question never gives it away. A short note after each answer adds the background -- a date, a place, a name, a story.

The first pack covers symbols and everyday life: the beaver and the maple leaf flag, Canada Day and Victoria Day and Thanksgiving, the loonie and the toonie, the toque and the double-double, poutine and maple syrup and butter tarts and the Caesar, and the two official languages. The second pack is the arts: O Canada and the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson and Emily Carr, Inuit carving and printmaking, Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro and Anne of Green Gables, and a run of musicians from Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell to Celine Dion, Shania Twain, Drake and The Weeknd.

The third pack is screen and sport: the National Film Board, IMAX and Cirque du Soleil, SCTV and Schitt's Creek and Trailer Park Boys, the many Canadians in Hollywood and on Saturday Night Live, Hockey Night in Canada and the CBC, the Stanley Cup and the Grey Cup, Terry Fox and Wayne Gretzky. The fourth pack is regional and multicultural: the Fete nationale and Winterlude and the Calgary Stampede, the Toronto and Montreal festivals, the policy of multiculturalism and the idea of the mosaic, the Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the potlatch and the powwow, the Metis sash, Acadian and Newfoundland and Ukrainian traditions, and the Hudson's Bay Company.

About a fifth of the questions carry a photograph tied to the subject of the question, chosen so it does not reveal the answer. Every fact has been checked.