Remembrance Day quiz

Calixa Lavalee
Norman Bethune
John McCrae
Lorne Greene

2. In which war did Canadians fight troops from Communist China?

Korean War
Russian Revolution
Spanish Civil War
Second World War

3. What was the last city liberated by Canadian troops in the final days of the First World War?

Amiens
Valendiennes
Vimy
Mans

4. Which Canadian retail company got behind the war effort in 1914 and sponsored a motor machine gun unit for combat on the Western Front?

Canadian Tire Corp.
T.E. Eaton Co.
Hudson's Bay Co.
Zellers

5. During the Second World War, Japan launched thousands of these devices against North America; some have been discovered in Canada as far east as Lake Erie. What were they?

Explosive mines
Suicide aircraft
Incendiary balloons
Propaganda leaflets

6. Name the Canadian pilot who is credited with having shot down the infamous German fighter ace Baron van Richthofen ("The Red Baron").

Billy Bishop
Captain Roy Brown
Eddy Richenbacher
William Barker

7. During the First World War, Canadian troops on the Western Front gave the nickname "potato masher" to what German weapon?

Stick grenade
Light tank
Poison gas
Trench club

8. What is the make of tank on the Canadian War Museum logo?

Panzer
Ram
T-34
Sherman

9. Canada contributed uranium and scientists to the development of what powerful weapon?

Nuclear missiles
Atomic bomb
Mustard gas
V-1 rocket

10. The First World War started in this city, which would later have Canadian troops returning to that same city as peacekeepers.

Berlin
Sarejevo
Jerusalem
Kosovo

11. What was the only part of Canada to come under direct enemy attack during the Second World War?

Estevan point lighthouse, B.C.
Ellesmere Island, N.W.T.
Peggy's Cove, N.S.
Charlottetown, P.E.I.

12. Name a Canadian general of the First World War whose name recalls a type of spice.

Gen. Lewis Caramom
Sir Edward Sage
Sir Arthur Currie
Gen. Lyle Paprika

13. Which famous Canadian said, "conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription"?

General George P. Vanier
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson
Bobby Orr
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King

14. What was the term used by the Canadian Navy in the Second World War to describe sonar?

Sosus
Dew
Bogey
Asdic

15. What war-time film, starring Randolph Scott and Robert Mitchum, featured the adventures of a Canadian corvette in the North Atlantic during the Second World War?

Das Boot
The Cruel Sea
Corvette K 221
Run Silent Run Deep

16. What medal is unique to Canadian veterans of the Second World War?

Canadian Volunteer Service Medal
Victoria Cross
Canadian Cross of Valour
Order of the Bath