Art & Sports

Question 1

Hockey

Answer 1

Canada’s national winter sport
Canadians watch this sport more than any other sport
The Stanley Cup is for men
The Clarkson Cup is for women
The players wear skates

Question 2

Curling

Answer 2

• Introduced by Canada’s Scottish pioneers
• Players push a “rock” across the ice
• Some players sweep it with a broom
• The “rock” has a handle on it

Question 3

The Group of Seven

Answer 3

A famous group of Canadian landscape painters active in the 1920s who painted the wilderness in Canada

Question 4

Emily Carr

Answer 4

A member of the Group of Seven from British Columbia. She painted images from Aboriginal culture and the West Coast forests.

Question 5

Tom Thomson

Answer 5

A member of the Group of Seven. His most famous painting is called “The Jack Pine”

Question 6

Les Automatistes

Answer 6

Les Automatistes were a group of Québécois artistic dissidents from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The movement was founded in the early 1940s by painter Paul-Émile Borduas. Les Automatistes were so called because they were influenced by Surrealism and its theory of automatism.

Extra: Members included Marcel Barbeau, Roger Fauteux, Claude Gauvreau, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Pierre Gauvreau, Fernand Leduc, Jean-Paul Mousseau, Guy Borremans, Marcelle Ferron and Françoise Sullivan.

Question 7

Jean-Paul Riopelle

Answer 7

A famous Canadian painter and a part of Les Automatistes active in the 1940s. He was an abstract painter.

Question 8

Louis-Philippe Hébert

Answer 8

A famous sculptor from Quebec who made historical sculptures.

Question 9

Name 3 Canadian filmmakers

Answer 9

• Denys Arcand
• Norman Jewison
• Atom Egoyan
• David Cronenberg
• Michel Brault
• Denis Villeneuve
• James Cameron

Question 10

James Naismith

Answer 10

Inventor of basketball in 1891.

Question 11

What sport was invented in 1891?

Answer 11

Basketball (by James Naismith)

Question 12

What is Canada’s national winter sport?

Answer 12

Hockey

Question 13

Wayne Gretzky

Answer 13

A great Canadian hockey player. He played for the Edmonton Oilers.

Question 14

What did Canada win in 1972?

Answer 14

An important hockey game against Russia (in the Summit Series)

Question 15

Catriona Le May Doan

Answer 15

She won a gold metal in speed skating at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games

Question 16

Donovan Bailey

Answer 16

A double Olympic gold medalist and a world record sprinter active in the 1990s. He is Canadian-Jamaican.

Question 17

Mark Tewksbury

Answer 17

Olympic gold medalist swimmer active in the 1990s. Also an important activist for gay and lesbian Canadians.

Question 18

Chantal Petitclerc

Answer 18

A world wheelchair racer and Paralymic champion active in the 1990s, and current senator in Quebec.

Question 19

Terry Fox

Answer 19

He lost his right leg to cancer when he was 18 years old and began a cross-country run across Canada to raise money for cancer research in 1980 called The Marathon of Hope.

Question 20

The Marathon of Hope.

Answer 20

1980. The name for Terry Fox’s cross-country run to raise money for cancer research.

Question 21

Rick Hansen

Answer 21

In 1985, he went around the world in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord research.

Question 22

The Grey Cup

Answer 22

A trophy that the CFL (Canadian Football League) teams compete for. It is named after Lord Grey, who donated the trophy to the CFL.

Question 23

Canadian Football

Answer 23

A popular game that is different from American football and from what other countries call football (soccer)

Question 24

Lord Grey

Answer 24

Governor General in 1909. The Grey Cup is named after him.

Question 25

Who was Marjorie Turner-Bailey?

Answer 25

An Olympian and descendant of Black Loyalists. She competed in the 1976 Summer Olympic Games as a sprinter.