5. How can a party in power be defeated in Parliament?
Select One:
If Canadians do not approve of the laws to be passed.
If a majority of the MPs vote against a major government decision.
If the Premiers vote against major federal government decisions.
If Canadians vote against the party in power.
6. Which of the following not a Canadian Invention?
Select One:
Basketball
Refrigerator
Insulin
Telephone
7. Which of the followings are the responsibilities of local government?
Select One:
Education, foreign policy and transportation
Health care, natural resources and transportation
National defence, health care and transportation
Social and community Health, snow removal and transportation.
8. From whom are the Acadians descended?
Select One:
French colonists who began settling in what are now the Maritime Provinces in 1604.
Métis and Inuit.
First Nations who began settling in what are now the Prairie Provinces in 1600s.
British colonists who began settling in what are now the Maritime Provinces in 1604.
9. 'Habeas corpus' became part of Canadian Rights and Responsibility. Where was the concept of 'Habeas corpus' taken from ?
Select One:
A word that came from Aboriginal language
It was part of aboriginal culture
It came from French Common Law
It came from English common law
10. What is a ballot?
Select One:
A form that tells you when and where to vote.
A dance.
A form for voting.
An official who counts the number of votes.
11. Which province is known as as the 'wheat province' of Canada?
Select One:
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Ontario
Quebec
12. Which biennial sports event that began in 1970 features such sports as snowshoeing and dog sledding, as well as athletes from northern communities like the Northwest Territories, Yukon, Nunavut, Alaska, Greenland and several northern Russian provinces?
Select One:
Arctic Cup
Northern Winter Olympics
Arctic Winter Games
Northern Games
13. More than half of Canada's aeronautics and space industry are located in which province?
Select One:
Ontario
Alberta
Manitoba
Quebec
14. Which province is on the Pacific coast of Canada?
Select One:
Nova Scotia.
Yukon
British Columbia
Quebec
15. List three ways you can protect the environment.
Select One:
Recycle, conserve energy and buy bottled water
Recycle, conserve energy and drive your car to work
Recycle, conserve energy and mow your lawn
Recycle, conserve energy and water and join a car pool
16. Which Canadian imagined the idea for the first telephone at his summer house in Canada?
Select One:
Thomas Edison
Mathew Evans
Henry Woodward
Alexander Graham Bell
17. Which two fundamental freedoms are protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
Select One:
Freedom of belief and freedom of religion.
Aboriginal peoples' rights and to volunteer.
Equal employment rights and opportunities
Basic living rights and obey laws.
18. When did the Prime Minister, on behalf of the Government of Canada, officially apologize in the House of Commons for the Chinese Head Tax that was imposed on Chinese newcomers in 1885?
Select One:
2005
2000
2006
2007
19. What is the significance of Hockey?
Select One:
It is the most played sports in canada and also it is the national Summer Sport
It is the most popular spectator sport in Canada and is also its national winter sport
Canada won a gold medal in 2008 Olympics for this event
None of that
20. What is Canada's system of governance?
Select One:
Police state, parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy
Federal state, Provincial state and constitutional monarchy
Federal state, parliamentary democracy and dictatorship
Federal state, parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy