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Pronounced like Eevee
Probably pretty easy for canadians who bothered to listen in their history classes...and hard for everyone outside Canada since we're very unimportant. So 0.00000000000000000000000001% of the world should be able to do well in this quiz.
Anyway
1) NAme the terrorist movement that sought to achive Québec independance in the 1960-70.
2) This politician of the first half of the 20th century actually held a nation-wide referendum to ask the population to free him of an electoral campaign promise he made. Who is he and what was the promise (he won his referendum and broke it, btw)?
3)Which form of tactic proved especially deadly for the French and their allies in their war against the english, and which general, by changing tactic, brought about the end of the the french colonies?
4)This region of Canada was the site of one of the greatest atrocities ever commited by the english government in the colonial era, in the second half of the 18th century, one for which no formal apologies have been offered yet. Which region is it?
5)Name the figurehead and leader of the native resistance against the Canadian expansion into the great plains?
6)Name the three ships Jacques Cartier took on his second visit to the New World.
7)The first atested european landings obviously took place there. What is the name of this location, who landed there, and in what province is this place?
8)Which famous world leader gave a strong boost to the Québec independantist movement in the sixties (perhaps by accident)? What did he say to do so?
9)Name the two canadian cities ever to hold the olympics, the years in which they did so, and the VERY rare (once in modern olympic history afaik) occurence concernign the host country that took place in the earlier ones.
10)In 1967, Montréal held the World Exposition. What was the theme chosen for it?
Anyway
1) NAme the terrorist movement that sought to achive Québec independance in the 1960-70.
2) This politician of the first half of the 20th century actually held a nation-wide referendum to ask the population to free him of an electoral campaign promise he made. Who is he and what was the promise (he won his referendum and broke it, btw)?
3)Which form of tactic proved especially deadly for the French and their allies in their war against the english, and which general, by changing tactic, brought about the end of the the french colonies?
4)This region of Canada was the site of one of the greatest atrocities ever commited by the english government in the colonial era, in the second half of the 18th century, one for which no formal apologies have been offered yet. Which region is it?
5)Name the figurehead and leader of the native resistance against the Canadian expansion into the great plains?
6)Name the three ships Jacques Cartier took on his second visit to the New World.
7)The first atested european landings obviously took place there. What is the name of this location, who landed there, and in what province is this place?
8)Which famous world leader gave a strong boost to the Québec independantist movement in the sixties (perhaps by accident)? What did he say to do so?
9)Name the two canadian cities ever to hold the olympics, the years in which they did so, and the VERY rare (once in modern olympic history afaik) occurence concernign the host country that took place in the earlier ones.
10)In 1967, Montréal held the World Exposition. What was the theme chosen for it?
Not well I assume.
