Happy Canada Day

1  Who or what is Sudbury's Ramsey Lake named for?
a) CPR surveyor W. A. Ramsey
b) The English county of Ramsey
c) Lord George Ramsey, an early governor general

2  When did the first Northern Lights Festival Boreal take place on the shores of Ramsey Lake?
a) 1967
b) 1971
c) 1980

3  What natural disaster happened in Sudbury in Aug. 20, 1970?
a) tornado
b) hurricane
c) blizzard
d) flood

4  Who was Frank Cochrane (1852-1919)?
a) Owner of a hardware store
b) Former mayor of Sudbury
c) An MPP
d) Provincial cabinet minister
e) Member of Robert Borden's federal cabinet and in this capacity was responsible for launch of the Welland Canal
f) All of the above

5  Who was the City of Sudbury's only female mayor?
a) Mila Wong
b) Grace Hartman
c) Florence Harvey
d) Kitty Young

6  What is the population of Canada?
a) 31 million
b) 50 million
c) 20 million
d) 40 million

 7  When did Sudbury's first radio station CKSO go on the air?
a) 1935
b) 1920
c) 1929
d) 1952

8  Nick Foligno was recently drafted in the first round, 28th overall, in the 2006 NHl Entry Draft. His father, Mike, was also a first round draft pick in the NHL Draft in what year?
a) 1977
b) 1978
c) 1979
d) 1980

9  What team drafted Mike Foligno?
a) Toronto
b) Buffalo
c) Detroit
d) Washington

10  Todd Bertuzzi was recently traded from Vancouver to Florida. What OHL team did Bertuzzi play for?
a Sudbury
b) North Bay
c) Guelph
d) Oshawa

11  Sudbury recently crowned its 2006 Golf Champion. Who was he?
a) Sam Yawney
b) Nick Yawney
c) John Hastie
d) George Lacko

12  Greater Sudbury has been selected to host what major 2007 sporting event?
a) Wrestlemania
b) Canadian darts championships
c) Ontario Summer Games
d) Canadian Open Short Track speed skating championships

13  Which of the following recording artists is not Canadian?
a) Fred Eaglesmith
b) Nelly Furtado
c) Danny Michel
d) Dan Bern
e) Daniel Lanois

14  Which of the following female recording artists is not Canadian?
a) Ani DiFranco
b) Lynn Miles
c) Sara McLachlan
d) Sass Jordan
e) Alanis Morrissette

15  Which of the following classic Canadian albums went platinum (one million in sales) in the United States?
a) Tragically Hip's Road Apples
b) Bruce Cockburn's Nothing But a Burning Light
c) Fred Eaglesmith's Lipsticks, Lies and Gasoline
d) Blue Rodeo's Five Days in May
e) None of the above

16  Which Neil Young album details the human destruction caused by drug addiction?
a) Harvest
b) After the Gold Rush
c) Rust Never Sleeps
d) Tonight's the Night
e) Comes a Time

17  Which Canadian songstress once had Bruce Springsteen open for her in New York City?
a) Sara McLachlan
b) Joni Mitchell
c) Anne Murray
d) Buffy St. Marie
e) Sarah Harmer

18  Telephones first came to Sudbury in:
a) 1899
b) 1905
c) 1902
d) 1910

19  What was the name of a newspaper published in Copper Cliff by Joseph J. Pratt in the early 1900s?
a) The Copper Cliff Tribune
b) The Copper Cliff Courier
c) The Copper Cliff Times
d) The Copper Cliff News

20  When did construction on the streetcar tracks on Elm St. begin?
a) 1909
b) 1919
c) 1914
d) 1903

21  Who was James Stobie (1840-1919)?
a) prospector and co-discoverer of the Levack Mine
b) first mayor of Sudbury
c) a rich citizen
d) a mine supervisor

22  Which of these streets is not in Capreol?
a) Cobalt St.
b) Dennie St.
c) Floyd St.
d) Hanna St.

23  In what year did the Highway 69 Drive-in Theatre on CKSO Rd. project its final film?
a) 1990
b) 1991
c) 1992
d) 1993

24  How old is the crater that is now known as the Sudbury Basin?
a) 1.85 billion years old
b) 1.95 billion years old
c) 1.65 billion years old
d) 2.05 billion years old

25  How many lakes lie within the boundaries of the City of Greater Sudbury?
a) More than 200
b) More than 300
c) More than 400
d) Less than 200

26  Approximately what percentage of the city's population is Franco-Ontarian?
a) 10 percent
b) 20 percent
c) 30 percent
d) 50 percent

27  In 1968, what type of surgery was successfully performed at Sudbury Memorial Hospital for the first time in Canada?
a) Coronary artery bypass
b) Hip replacement
c) Tommy John (ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction)
d) Ophthalmic (eye)

28  Sudbury's first gay pride parade was held in what year?
a) 1992
b) 1994
c) 1997
d) 1999
 
29  According to scientist David Pearson of Laurentian University a do-nothing approach to climate change by governments, industry and the public will mean one of the following winters in Sudbury in 2050:
a) Loss of eight weeks of skiing and ski-dooing in the beginning and end of winter
b) Six to eight cm of snow during all of winter
c) Fluctuating temperatures, with some warmer some colder than today but generally much less snow cover
d) Not much change as the science is still questionable but there could be impacts further north in the Arctic affecting polar bears
e) Hello tropics. It's time to break out the beach towels in December!

30  What connection does Superman have to Canada?
a) His Fortress of Solitude is located south of Yellowknife
b) His co-creator, artist Joe Shuster, was from Toronto
c) His adoptive Earth parents, Jonathan and Martha Kent, lived outside of Portage la Prairie, Man.
d) Each of the actors (Kirk Alyn, George Reeves, Christopher Reeve, Dean Cain) who has portrayed Superman on TV and in the movies has been Canadian