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Canadian cities: fun facts - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 15 times
- The average score is 8 of 15
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| 3,000 tonnes of maple syrup worth $18m were stolen from a storage unit in this Quebec city in 2011/12. | Quebec City | 86%
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| This Saskatchewan city has the country's only synchrotron (a particle accelerator). | Saskatoon | 86%
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| In 1985, a man began a 40,000 km global wheelchair odyssey in this British Columbian city. | Vancouver | 71%
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| In 2019, a car thief from this Olympic venue hid in a haystack to try and evade the police. | Calgary | 64%
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| In 2006, a man from this bilingual city began with a paper clip which he traded for more and more valuable items and ended up with a house. | Montreal | 64%
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| A man from this Albertan city opened an Arab theme park on a tiny island. He later seized the Canadian embassy in Beirut, taking 34 hostages. | Edmonton | 57%
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| Thieves stole 30,000 litres of iceberg water from a vodka maker in this old Newfoundland port. | Port Union | 57%
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| Police raiding a marijuana farm, near this lakeside B.C. town, found it to be guarded by ten black bears. | Christina Lake | 50%
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| In 1970 in this B.C. town, the father of a Maple Leafs player held up a TV studio - who had cut from an ice hockey game to the news - and forced them to put the game back on. | Prince George | 50%
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| In 2012, a drunk from this Alberta municipality was out cold on railroad tracks. A long train ran right over him but left him unscathed. | Crowsnest Pass | 36%
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| A 1983 flight to Edmonton ran out of fuel and had to emergency land here, on an airstrip where a dragster race was taking place. | Gimli | 36%
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| Troy Hurtubise, from this Lake Ontario city, invented odd contraptions including a bear-proof metal suit. | Hamilton | 36%
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| The Circus Riot took place in this metropolis, sparked by a brawl between clowns and firemen at a Victorian brothel. | Toronto | 36%
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| Every April in this English-sounding town, bagpipers play to accompany the local swans back to their lake. | Stratford | 29%
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| An outlaw being pursued by fighter jets landed his plane, carrying 4 tonnes of cocaine, near this remote outpost in 1992. | Casey | 21%
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