| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Born in Scotland, died in the US, invented the telephone while in Canada. | Alexander Graham Bell | 88%
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| Tried to run across Canada with an artifical leg, cancer activist, died of cancer | Terry Fox | 88%
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| PM in the 70s and 80s, gave the finger to protestors, dropped the f bomb in the house of commons, swam with Castro, ex-wife partied with the Rolling Stones, generally regarded as the best PM | Pierre Elliot Trudeau | 87%
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| First PM of Canada, not an American fast food chain - minor spelling difference | Sir John A MacDonald | 85%
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| The Great One, hockey player with the most records, may be better known in the US for his daughter's twitter posts. | Wayne Gretzky | 84%
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| Pop-country singer, "The Women in Me" "You're Still the One" "Man I Feel Like a Woman" "Up" | Shania Twain | 76%
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| Canadian actor, comedian, "Wayne's World" "Austin Powers" "Shrek" | Mike Myers | 75%
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| PM in the 60s, UN diplomat who created the idea of peacekeepers during the Suez Crisis, Toronto airport is named after him | Lester B Pearson | 73%
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| Minor league hockey player and coach, TV commentator, the John Madden of hockey broadcasting, rock'em sock'em videos | Don Cherry | 68%
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| "The Nature of Things", science broadcaster, environmentalist, spent time in a BC internment camp during WWII | David Suzuki | 66%
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| Greatest hockey defenseman, Boston Bruins, bad knees ended his career, coached by #7 | Bobby Orr | 60%
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| Singer, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Stills and Nash, "Cinnamon Girl" "Heart of Gold" "Old Man" "Hey, Hey, My, My" "The Needle and the Damage Done" "Rocking in the Free World" | Neil Young | 60%
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| Metis rebel leader, founded Manitoba, hung after the North West Rebellion, had religious visions | Louis Riel | 56%
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| Father of medicare, first social democratic premier, Scottish born, Baptist minister | Tommy Douglas | 38%
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| Nationalist country singer, "The Hockey Song" "Sudbury Saturday Night" "Bud the Spud", plywood board | Stompin Tom Connors | 37%
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| Invented insulin, Nobel prize for medicine at 32, | Frederick Banting | 28%
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| UN commander, general, Hotel Rwanda | Romeo Dallaire | 27%
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| Leader of Ontario NDP, UN ambassador, special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa | Stephen Lewis | 9%
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| Founded L'Arche an international federation of group homes for the developmentally disabled, theologian, has an asteroid named after him, son of a Governor-General | Jean Vanier | 8%
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| CBC radio, Morningside, writer and reporter | Peter Gzowski | 5%
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