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What is the largest lake entirely within Canada?
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Great Bear Lake
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There are 10 provinces and 3 territories in Canada, for a total of 13 subdivisions. Of those 13, how many have their capital on an island?
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4 (British Columbia, Nunavut, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island)
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How many metropolitan areas does Canada contain that have a population over one million?
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6 (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa, and Edmonton)
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In which Canadian bay would you find the highest tides in the world?
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Bay of Fundy
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Name one of the cities in the Greater Vancouver Area other than Vancouver itself. (There are 13)
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Burnaby | Coquitlam | Delta | Langley | Maple Ridge | New Westminster | North Vancouver | Pitt Meadows | Port Coquitlam | Port Moody | Richmond | Surrey | White Rock
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What is the longest river in Canada?
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Mackenzie River
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What was the first national park established in Canada? (it is also the most visited national park in Canada)
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Banff National Park
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Between 1896 and 1899, this region of Yukon saw a gold rush that bears its name, attracting an estimated 100,000 prospectors
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Klondike
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This island, which shares its name with the city that sits upon it, is the most populous fresh water island in the world.
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Île de Montréal
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What is the largest uninhabited island in the world?
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Devon Island
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This city in Ontario lies directly south of Detroit.
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Windsor
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Two Canadian cities have hosted the Winter Olympics. Name the first to do so.
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Calgary
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Two Canadian cities have hosted the Winter Olympics. Name the most recent to do so.
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Vancouver
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Which is the most densely populated of Canada's provinces?
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Prince Edward Island
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This iconic feature of the Toronto skyline was the tallest freestanding structure on earth from its completion in 1976 until 2007 when it was surpassed by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
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CN Tower
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L'anse Aux Meadows is an important archeological site in Newfoundland. It is the only undisputed settlement of this group of people found in the Americas (outside of Greenland)
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Norse
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What is the largest city in British Columbia, that is not within 50 kilometers of the nearest coast?
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Kelowna
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Edmonton is the northernmost city in North America with a population of at least a million. Name a city outside of North America with a metropolitan population of over 1 million that is at least as far north.*
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Glasgow | Hamburg | Copenhagen | Oslo | Gothenburg | Stockholm | Helsinki | St. Petersburg | Gdansk | Minsk | Moscow | Kazan | Samara | Ufa | Perm | Chelyabinsk | Yekaterinburg | Omsk | Novosibirsk | Krasnoyarsk
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