General Knowledge Questions and Answers on Canada

Important Questions and Answers on Canada:  

1. What is the area of Canada in square kilometers? 

Answer is: 9.985 million (9,984,670 km2 or 3,855,100 sq mi)

2. According to the area, what is the position of Canada in the world?  

Answer is: Second 

3. What is the capital of Canada?

Answer is: Ottawa (It is the capital of Canada since 1857)

4. What is the largest city in Canada?

Answer is: Toronto (it is the capital of the province of Ontario)

5. What was the oldest capital city of Canada? 

Answer is: St John's 

6. What is the official name of Canada?

Answer is: Dominion of Canada

7. What is the currency of Canada?

Answer is:  Canadian dollar (CAD)

8. What is a Canadian one dollar coin called?

Answer is: Loonie

9. What is a Canadian two dollar coin called?

Answer is: Toonie

10. The official language of the country?

Answer is: English and French

11. What is the national symbol of Canada? 

Answer is: The maple leaf

12. What type of “boat” is the unofficial symbol of Canada?
Answer is: Canoe

13. What is the Demonym of Canada? 

Answer is: Canadian

14. What is the National animal of Canada?
Answer is: Beaver

15. Which city is the capital of British Columbia province of Canada?

Answer is: Victoria

16. The world Canada comes from which world?

Answer is: Kanata

17. What date is Canada Day celebrated?

Answer is: 1 July 

18. What is the year of Canadian independence?

Answer is: 1867 (when the British North America Act was passed by the UK Parliament)

19. What is the motto of Canada? 

Answer is: A Mari Usque Ad Mare.

20. What is the Royal anthem of Canada.

Answer is: God Save the Queen.

21. Who is the monarch of Canada? 

Answer is: Elizabeth II 

22. Who was the first Prime minister of Canada? 

Answer is: Sir John A. Macdonald 

23. Who was the first woman Prime minister of Canada? 

Answer is: Kim Campbell

24. What is the Legislature Upper House is called in Canada?

Answer is: Senate

25. What is the Legislature Lower House is called in Canada?

Answer is: House of Commons

26. Who is the present and 23rd Prime minister of Canada?

Answer is: Justin Pierre James Trudeau

27. Who is the father of Justin Pierre James Trudeau? 

Answer is: Pierre Trudeau (15th prime minister of Canada and from Liberal Party)

28. Who was the 22nd Prime minister of Canada?

Answer is: Stephen Joseph Harper

29. Who was a Canadian scholar, statesman, soldier, prime minister, diplomat and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957? 

Answer is: Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson

Geography

30. Where Canada is located? 

Answer is: The northern part of North America

31. How many provinces are there in Canada? 

Answer is:  10 (These are Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan.)

32. How many territories are in Canada?

Three (Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon)

33. What Canadian city is the second-largest French-speaking city in the world?

Answer: Montreal, Quebec.

34. How many time zones in Canada?

Answer is: Six 

35. The southern border of Canada is with which country?

Answer is: USA 

36. What is the world's longest bi-national land border? 

Answer is: Canada USA border

37. What is the longest river in Canada? 

Answer is: The Mackenzie River is the longest river system in Canada

38. What is Canada’s highest mountain?

Answer is: Mount Logan

39. What is the northernmost permanently inhabited place in Canada? 

Answer is: Alert 

40. What is the northernmost inhabited place in the world? 

Answer is: Alert 

41. What was the most easterly province to become part of Canada? 

Answer is: Newfoundland and Labrador.

42. What is the southernmost piece of land in Canada?

Answer is: Pelee Island

43. Which country has the world's longest coastline?

Answer is: Canada 

44. What is the most popular sport in Canada?

Answer is: Ice hockey

45. What is the National winter sport of Canada?
Answer is: Ice Hockey.

46. Who scored the winning goal of the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union (Ice Hockey).
Answer is: Paul Henderson.

47. What was a major sporting event held in Vancouver, B. C. in 2010?
Answer is: Winter Olympics.

48.  What do Canadians call a wooden sled that curves up at one end?
Answer is: Toboggan

49. The Métis are polyethnic Indigenous group of which country? 

Answer is: Canada 

Some important fact about Canada: 

50. Canada is the World's Most Educated Country. It is the only nation in the world where more than half its residents can proudly hang college degrees up on their walls. 

51. Canada's lowest recorded temperature was -81.4 degrees Fahrenheit (-63 C) in 1947.

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52. Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world's lakes combined. There are more than 30,000 lakes in Canada.

Answer is:

53. Canada's population density is among the lowest in the world, at 3.7 inhabitants per sq km (9.6/sq mi).

Answer is:

54. Residents of Churchill, in Canada, people leave their cars unlocked to offer an escape for pedestrians who might encounter Polar Bears.

Answer is:  

55. 98% of Canadian can speak both English and French.

Answer is:

56. Prostitution is legal in Canada. Buying the services of a prostitute is not.

Answer is:

57. License plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears.

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68.  In Newfoundland, Canada, the Atlantic Ocean sometimes freezes so people play hockey on it.

Answer is:

General Facts about Canada:

Total Population: 37,797,496

Capital: Ottawa

Life expectancy: 82.30 

Highest Mountain: Mount Logan

Land area: 9,984,670 km2

Largest Lake: The Great Bear Lake

National Day: July 1 

Government: Federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy

 Prime minister: Justin Trudeau (Liberal Party) 

Currency: Canadian Dollar or CAD 

Official language: English and French 

Religion: Christianity  

National song: “O Canada”

Time zone:  Six 

Country Number/Prefix: +1 

Country Code: 001