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Regional District Seats of British Columbia - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 12 times
- The average score is 20 of 29
Answer Stats
| Regional District/Region | Seat/Largest Community | Hint | % Correct |
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| ________ | Nanaimo | Lends its name to a tasty chocolate-custard desert bar! Indigenous name is Snuneymuxw. | 100%
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| Metro Vancouver* | Burnaby | If you're trying to incinerate wasps, be careful not to... | 90%
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| Central Okanagan | Kelowna | Rhymes with "Iona;" from local indigenous word meaning "grizzly bear." | 90%
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| Sunshine Coast | Sechelt | Sounds a bit like "seashell" | 90%
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| Comox Valley | Courtenay | Shares its name with a noble house that has existed since the 11th century and whose current head resides in Devon | 80%
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| Thompson-Nicola | Kamloops | Think "camera goes around in circles." | 80%
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| ________-Clayoquot | Port Alberni | This fjord-side mill town might as well have been named after politicians Gore and Sanders! | 80%
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| qathet | Powell River | Were it named more recently, it could have been named after George W. Bush's Secretary Of State! | 80%
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| Capital | Victoria | Named after 19th century British queen | 80%
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| Strathcona | Campbell River | Think a stream of mm-mm-good soup! | 70%
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| Fraser Valley* | Chilliwack | This "wacky" city lent its name to a Canadian arena rock band. | 70%
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| Cowichan Valley | Duncan | Famous people with this as their first name include Hines, MacLeod, Sheik, Keith, and Ferguson, plus also the ill-fated King of Scotland in Shakespeare's MacBeth. | 70%
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| Northern Rockies*** | Fort Nelson | Like Central Kootenay only with an extra word attached (means "encampment" | 70%
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| Central Kootenay | Nelson | Think Admiral Horatio? | 70%
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| Fraser-Fort George | Prince George | The eldest of Prince William's children also bears this name. | 70%
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| North Coast | Prince Rupert | Named after a British-German general and noble who was also the first head of the Hudson's Bay Company. | 70%
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| Columbia-Shuswap | Salmon Arm | Named after a part of Shuswap lake, not after the limb of a certain trout relative! | 70%
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| Kitimat-Stikine | Terrace | Named for a flat piece of land with a sharp slope on its edge, often created artificially for agricultural purposes. | 70%
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| Kootenay Boundary | Trail | Another word for "path." | 70%
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| Bulkley-Nechako* | Burns Lake | Think Scottish poet or Simpsons billionaire. | 60%
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| North Okanagan* | Coldstream | Think "low-temperature river." Named after a town in Scotland. | 60%
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| East Kootenay | Cranbrook | Named after a village in Kent, UK; could be held to mean "crane river." | 60%
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| Squamish-Lillooet* | Pemberton | Named after a neighbourhood of Wigan. | 60%
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| Okanagan-Similkameen | Penticton | Sounds English because it ends in -ton, but it is really of indigenous origin! | 60%
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| Cariboo | Williams Lake | Its nickname is "Bill's Pond." | 60%
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| Central Coast | Bella Coola | Might make you think of chimes and refrigerators! | 50%
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| Mount Waddington* | Port McNeill | The main part of the name means "Son of Niall," and it's on the ocean. | 50%
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| Stikine** | Atlin | Sounds a bit like "Atlas" | 40%
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| Peace River | Dawson Creek | NOT named after a teen drama with James van der Beek, Joshua Jackson, and Katie Holmes! Also lacking a possessive. | 40%
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