Canadian History Quiz

[M.Dancer]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/v5/content/...meberanceday07/

I got 21 our of 21 so I deserve the Order of Canada.....

The bad news is........

"Even for a jaded pollster like me these are jaw-dropping statistics," the Dominion Institute's Rudyard Griffiths writes today in his column Let's not be a rootless nation of amnesiacs

"Only one in four Canadians 18 to 24 -- the graduates of some of the world's best-funded school systems -- can give the date of Confederation.

"Less than half can name Sir John A. Macdonald as our first prime minister. If there is any solace for the Old Chieftain in these dismal findings, it is that barely one in four young adults are familiar with his arch-nemesis, Louis Riel.

"These results, compared with an identical survey we conducted a decade ago, indicate that young people's knowledge of Macdonald, Confederation and Riel is declining, on average, a percentage point a year.

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[Smallc]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/v5/content/...meberanceday07/

I got 21 our of 21 so I deserve the Order of Canada.....

The bad news is........

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I got 20/21, so you beat me, but it still says I deserve the order. Since I'm 18 and the only one I got wrong was about November 11th, I guess I am among the 1 in 4.

[M.Dancer]

SPOLIER ALERT

One answer actually threw me. It said Brock was a canadian general.....well, he was a General...in Upper Canada..... and he is buried in Canada.......

[guyser]

SPOLIER ALERT

One answer actually threw me. It said Brock was a canadian general.....well, he was a General...in Upper Canada..... and he is buried in Canada.......

19 out of 21.

Yea I know Confed was 1867 , but clicked on 1967.

I screwed up the Quiet Rev one.

[M.Dancer]

19 out of 21.

Yea I know Confed was 1867 , but clicked on 1967.

I screwed up the Quiet Rev one.

Were you nominated for the order of Canada?

[guyser]

Were you nominated for the order of Canada?

No it asked about a tattoo on my chest or something like that.

I will steal Alan Eaglesons instead then.

no wait, thats gone.

[geoffrey]

17/21... but Canadian history was by far the most boring in school.

[GreenWhiteandPink]

21/21...I loved Canadian History in school.

[White Doors]

21/21. easy quiz.

[shavluk]

Zero out of zero because its Canada's future that is important and still changeable.

I hold my own on pretty much anything for the testosterone types.

History is the victors version.

[Smallc]

Zero out of zero because its Canada's future that is important and still changeable.

I hold my own on pretty much anything for the testosterone types.

History is the victors version.

Without a history, we have no national identity. We don't know where to go if we forget where we came from.

[M.Dancer]

Zero out of zero because its Canada's future that is important and still changeable.

I hold my own on pretty much anything for the testosterone types.

History is the victors version.

And tomorrow we discuss chronic marijuana use and memory loss.

[ScottSA]

QUOTE(shavluk @ Nov 13 2007, 09:26 PM)

Zero out of zero...

And tomorrow we discuss chronic marijuana use and memory loss.

Perhaps the day after that we could have a discussion of THC's effects on the math centers of chronic druggies' brains?

[shavluk]

Without a history, we have no national identity. We don't know where to go if we forget where we came from.-quote smallc

I have a national identity and gladly a personal one.

I don't get lost in big shopping malls either.

Don't think for one second I am not aware of history.

I actually have one myself unlike like some children playing on the Internet.

Thanks for all responding with your fine salute every time I burp though , very commendable and I must say my history has helped as it normally takes more time before I am a bonafide favorite.

Now for my next trick I will explain the mistakes Harper made by not thinking schreiber wouldn't find some reporter to spew his history to avert his extradition as all of any importance will be long dead before mulroney spends the whole 2 million defending himself and golfing with harper and schreiber all the while,,,there's a history you guys seem to like. Enjoy

Whats up with the tax department Brian?

Thanks to all of you for your warm fuzzeeesss you keep giving me just to keep me interested in educating here.

TaaTaa

[Pliny]

20/21 - Missed the quiet Revolution too.

Shavluk - this was your chance to prove you have a memory! A missed opportunity - again!

[Visionseeker]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/v5/content/...meberanceday07/

I got 21 our of 21 so I deserve the Order of Canada.....

The bad news is........

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21/21. Perhaps we will attend the same ceremony.

[M.Dancer]

21/21. Perhaps we will attend the same ceremony.

"Who ordered the salmon burgers, tourtiere, bison flank steak, poutine, cod tongue and peach pie?

That's the Order of Canada all right......

[shavluk]

20/21 - Missed the quiet Revolution too.

Shavluk - this was your chance to prove you have a memory! A missed opportunity - again!

A missed opportunity ? How? You keeping score for me? hmmm

You need to understand that as I know how those who post their scores from these types of things are really quite insecure deep down and are just like little insecure children needing and craving something that in all reality I know is not nor never quenched by these attempts results.

To me some one posting how smart they may be ,,well it is a sure sign to me that something is definitely missing. mdancer I understand as I know his birthday curse.(justice?)

Some call me a genius , some an ass.

None of any other's persons comparisons of me matters to me obviously and I wouldn't even know about their thoughts if not for my wife.

I have spent time in places like palliative care rooms , hospitals and even jails , that would show you and teach you that all the smarts in the world pale in comparison to some one with a great big heart! Those are the ones worth knowing and remembering.

I would be to embarrassed to tell all of you my actual IQ results (from jobs I have had)

Because to me its really all irrelevant if one can not even be emotionally smart because of it or say to me because of it (you so called good memory types) that you remembered to call your folks , give to the food bank this week or visited some lonely dying old lady wandering the hospital wing looking for her visiting children that never come and may already be dead themselves.

Smart to me is putting people above ones ego.

Stories of soothing peoples pains that way , well I would love to read all about here but only because of your anonymity(do good silently as to voice it is payment)

I guess I shouldn't have said anything here ,, about how smart or not smart I am as to those that need that measure ,I am quite sure it will be shown over time.

As far as my memory ,hmm I would say I am in fact cursed with almost a photographic memory on some things sadly and that if one of you knows what I mean by that statement , well yes it really can almost be a curse. Ignorance is bliss isn't it?

[M.Dancer]

A missed opportunity ? How? You keeping score for me? hmmm

You need to understand that as I know how those who post their scores from these types of things are really quite insecure deep down and are .............

You mean like someone who posts they came in second in race for the presidencey of the NDP? Omitting to mention there was only one other candidate?

Thanks for the clarification.

[Wilber]

21/21. What's the Order of Canada?

[M.Dancer]

21/21. What's the Order of Canada?

Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, followed by Manitoba then BC, PEI, Alberta and Saskatchewan, and finally Newfoundland.

[Guest American Woman]

Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, followed by Manitoba then BC, PEI, Alberta and Saskatchewan, and finally Newfoundland.

Are the Territories different from Provinces?

[M.Dancer]

Are the Territories different from Provinces?

Ummmm...not as different as Puerto Rico or DC is to states

but the territories are:....colder, less populous.....No classical opera companies....more federal subsidies.....

[shavluk]

You mean like someone who posts they came in second in race for the presidencey of the NDP? Omitting to mention there was only one other candidate?

Thanks for the clarification.

Mr dense please prove it.

For some one preaching their memory skills you look rather silly.

Wow I feel sorry for you.

[M.Dancer]

Mr dense please prove it.

For some one preaching their memory skills you look rather silly.

Wow I feel sorry for you.

Thank you for your insults and this special opportunity

Shavluk ran for BC Provincial Council rep, and also President of the NDP. In both cases he was running against a single opponent who had broad support.

http://www.endprohibition.ca/2006_09_13_archive.php

I take it then, you forgot?