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1. What does 'Habeas corpus' means ?


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 Name given to a deceased person
 Family of deceased
 Name that refers to the rights of a person that has died
 The right to challenge unlawful detention by the state

2. How many electoral districts are there in Canada?


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 355
 287
 338 (as per Google)
 308 (as per Discover Canada book)

3. What is the capital city of British Columbia?


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 Vancouver
 Victoria
 Surrey
 British Columbia

4. Who represents the Sovereign in Canada?


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 The Governor General
 The Prime Minister
 The Premier of Province
 The Speaker of National assembly

5. What do you mark on a federal election ballot?


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 The candidate's name
 The party's name
 An X
 The number for the candidate

6. The Battle of the Plains of Abraham was fought in:


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  The Fortress of Louisbourg
 Montréal
 Grand Pré
 Québec Citry

7. What is a minority government?


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 The party in power holds less than half of the seats in the House of Commons.
 The party in power holds at least half of the seats in the House of Commons.
 The party in power holds at least half of the seats in the Senate.
 The party in power holds at least half of the seats in the House of Commons and the Senate.

8. Who was the Group of Seven in modern Canada?


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 Seven Canadian soldiers in World War I.
 A group of Canadian landscape painters in the 1920s
 A group of Aboriginal peoples.
 Seven athletes who won Olympic gold medals.

9. What are the first two lines of Canada's national anthem?


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  O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command.
 O Canada! We stand on guard for thee.
 O Canada! From far and wide, O Canada, We stand on guard for thee.
 O Canadian! Our home and private land! True love in all thy sons command.

10. When did settlers from France first establish communities on the St. Lawrence River?


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 Early 1500s.
 Early 1600s.
 Mid 1700s.
 Late 1800s.

11. What is the most significant difference between Canadian football and American football?


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 Canadian football uses a bigger ball
 Canadian football allows three downs instead of four
 Canadian football is played on a bigger field
 All of above

12. When did thousands of miners first come to Yukon?


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 Early 1700s.
 Early 1800s.
 1890s.
 1790s.

13. Who was the first explorer to reach Canada in 1497?


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 Jacques Cartier
 Henry Hudson
 John Cabot
 Samuel de Champlain

14. When did the Prime Minister, on behalf of the Government of Canada, officially apologized to First Nation for taking their children and putting them in separate school camps to better assimilate in Canadian Culture


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 2008
 2001
 1990
 2010

15. What are the Prairie Provinces?


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 Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
 Saskatchewan and Alberta.
 Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba.
 Alberta, Manitoba and British Columbia.

16. In which year Aboriginal people were given the name 'First Nation'?


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 1980s
 1970s
 2000
 1820s

17. Which Canadian province is the country's largest producer of Grains and Oilseed?


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 Ontario
 Quebec
 British Columbia
 Saskatchewan

18. Nova Scotian and Olympian Marjorie Turner-Bailey is a descendant of a group of escaped slaves and freed men and women of African origin. What is the name of this group who fled to Canada from America in the 1780s?


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 Underground Railroad Conductors
 Black Loyalists
 Young Canadians for Freedom
 None of the above

19. Which party becomes Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition?


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 The party the Queen selects
 The party with the second most elected representatives.
 The party with the fewest number of elected representatives
 The party that Queen's representative selects

20. What is the Underground Railroad?


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 The CPR's secret railway line
 The first railway to cross Canada
 The TTC subway system
 A network used by slaves who escaped the United States into Canada

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