Could you pass as a Canadian

Keith Webb · #1 03-04-09, 22:40

I tried this quiz and failed (4/10 score).

I liked question 7.

Amazingly the question

"What do the letters CMP stand for?" was totally absent which I thought a major oversight.

How did you go, non-Canadians?

Hanno Spoelstra · #2 03-04-09, 23:11

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Originally Posted by Keith Webb

How did you go, non-Canadians?

My score:

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You scored: 7 / 10
Total points: 70
The average score for this quiz: 7 / 10

So I could pass as an average Canadian guy, eh?

Hanno

Keith Webb · #3 03-04-09, 23:14

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Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

My score:

So I could pass as an average Canadian guy, eh?

Hanno

Well I did anyway...

Bruce MacMillan · #4 03-04-09, 23:47

don't feel too bad. I is one and I only got 8/10. Some of the questions are culturally based on those who live near Gracies, etc. Out here in Lotusland we learn to golf at an early age. We have to build large buildings with refrigeration plants if we want to skate.

I've never worn a maple leaf overseas as I didn't want to be taken for a Murican

Jordan Baker · #5 03-04-09, 23:50

Well I feel good aboot myself eh. got 9/10

Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) · #6 04-04-09, 00:16

9/10 for me - I missed the skating rink question, but then again that doesn't bother me too much given that the last time I pulled on a pair of skates was the winter of 1970/71...

Jordan Baker · #7 04-04-09, 00:21

Doesn't bother me either. I can't skate at all. Well actually I can I just can't stop. Have the same problem with skiing

Keith Webb · #8 04-04-09, 00:22

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Originally Posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball

9/10 for me - I missed the skating rink question, but then again that doesn't bother me too much given that the last time I pulled on a pair of skates was the winter of 1970/71...

Ironically that was one of the four I answered correctly... it was a guess of course!

Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP) · #9 04-04-09, 00:26

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Originally Posted by Jordan Baker

Doesn't bother me either. I can't skate at all. Well actually I can I just can't stop. Have the same problem with skiing

LMAO!!! That's why I quit when I was ahead...

Bob Moseley (RIP) · #10 04-04-09, 00:40

Beat Ya Keefy - I got 5 right.

Bob

Keith Webb · #11 04-04-09, 00:45

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Originally Posted by Bob Moseley

Beat Ya Keefy - I got 5 right.

Bob

How many were guesses? MANY of mine were!

cletrac (RIP) · #12 04-04-09, 01:01

I just missed the skating rink thing but the right answer would have been my second choice. We get news reports about skating on the canal but never any about Winnipeg. I always thought it would be too cold and windy to go skating there anyway.

Grant Bowker · #13 04-04-09, 01:39

The question of longest vs. largest skating rink has been the subject of a multi-year pissing match between the propaganda staffs of the two cities. The Winnipeg version is longer but the Ottawa proponents claim the Winnipeg version is so narrow that it hardly counts.
As in all propaganda, there is a grain of truth somewhere inside. it is just hard to find.

Eric Korhonen · #14 04-04-09, 21:29

I scored 9 out of 10 as well. Got the skating rink one wrong as well, thought longest was still in Ottawa. I best start paying more attention.

hrpearce · #15 05-04-09, 05:54

I got 7

But the skating Q. was answered above

four of the corect answers were highlited in blue

and two lucky gueses

aj.lec · #16 05-04-09, 07:09

You scored: 9 / 10
Total points: 90
The average score for this quiz: 7 / 10

I didn't know the food question

Max Hedges · #17 05-04-09, 22:39

Guess what I also scored above average and got 8/10 right, come on keefy surely you got no 7 right.

Kathy

sapper740 · #18 10-04-09, 15:03

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Originally Posted by Bruce MacMillan

don't feel too bad. I is one and I only got 8/10. Some of the questions are culturally based on those who live near Gracies, etc. Out here in Lotusland we learn to golf at an early age. We have to build large buildings with refrigeration plants if we want to skate.

I've never worn a maple leaf overseas as I didn't want to be taken for a Murican

Same here Bruce, as a Left-Coaster I only got an 8 out of 10. I never watched Mr. Dressup and figured that in an Ontario-centric country like Canada, most wouldn't know about the Assiniboine River. Sorry Grandad!

Phil Waterman · #19 10-04-09, 16:30

I took the test and scored 5 correct 4 wrong and 1 don't have a clue.

Thats OK though took a similar test once here in the states that they gave on US history to "history teachers" and the test average was something like 60% for everyone who took it.

Cheers

BCBlitz · #20 12-04-09, 16:05

9 out of 10 got the longest skating rink question wrong, DARN

guess Im still a Canadian though, think Ill go have Poutine for breakfast

LOL

mike mckinley · #21 12-04-09, 18:35

score was 8/10, but i don't skate and could care less what the quebecois eat, although i have a few ideas that weren't in the answer key...eh!

David_Hayward (RIP) · #22 12-04-09, 18:58

6/10..I guessed that Newfoundland was The Rock. I knew what a Parka is because we Brits imported the idea and in the 1960s it became a fashion for scooter-riding Mods, i.e. Lambrettas and Vespas, as a hooded jacket. However I thought that a loonie, apart from an insane person (lunatic) was a water fowl...now I know it is a coin that has the bird on one side! That comestible sounds intereseting...our Belgian friends gave us chips with mayonnaise, and because curry is our national dish, we have chips in curry sauce! Chips in gravy I believe is a Northen English delicacy? I like chips and [Chinese] pancake or spring rolls...in student days our nearest Chinese takeaway made over 80 rolls a day!

And yes I gather that a French priest invented chips in the early 19th Century by frying potatoes in order to feed the poor. Hence French Fries! And our French cousins make some darn beautiful ones with French pommes de terre, thinly sliced and deep-fried in French oil, served up with a nice Dandelion plant salad (pis en lit).