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Questions About People

Did a Canadian invent the baseball glove? Did the sister of the last Czar of Russia live in Canada? Who is Canada's most decorated war hero? Is it true that Canadian actress Mary Pickford had a brother who also acted in films? What was Canada's musical connection to the once-popular television sitcom the Beverly Hillbillies? Why was Sir Isaac Brock, hero of the War of 1812, buried four different times? What's the story behind Sydney Guilaroff, the Canadian who was known as the "hairdresser to the stars?" Was the woman who inspired the Broadway musical The King and I from Canada? Who was the Canadian who started the Fuller Brush Company? Who was Canada's first female medical doctor? Have Canadians ever been commemorated on American postage stamps? Was there an American president who was born in Canada? What can you tell me about a Canadian who was the daughter of Hollywood movie director Cecil B. DeMille? Is the old pie in the face gag, seen in so many silent movies, a Canadian invention? Did a Canadian kill famed escape artist Harry Houdini? Who was the first American to play in the National Hockey League? What's the Canadian connection to the popular Hardy Boys series? Who was the first Prime Minister to meet with an American president and what happened? Which Canadian is considered to be the founder of credit unions in North America?

Questions About Places

Is there a medieval castle in Canada? Is Winnie the Pooh really named for Winnipeg? How long does it take for water to pass through the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean? Where is the smallest jail in North America? What is the narrowest building in Canada? Where did Canada's early Parliament meet? Where can you watch a play where the stage is in Canada but the audience sits in the United States? Where was Canada's first oil boom? Does Canada own the North Pole? Has Niagara Falls ever run dry? What became of the World War II spy camp that was set up in Canada by Sir William Stephenson, also known as A Man Called Intrepid?

Questions About Events

What is the Canadian connection to the term Beatlemania? Was the first baseball game played in Canada and not Cooperstown, New York? Canadians fought in the American Civil War, but is it true some fought on the side of the South? Was a Canadian group responsible for the song considered to be the first rock 'n roll hit? Was a Canadian responsible for the famous Great Escape of World War II? Were draft dodgers who came to Canada to avoid fighting in the Vietnam War the first American draft evaders to settle in Canada? Is it true Canada once had a plan to invade the U.S.? In June 1497, when Italian explorer John Cabot landed in North America, were Cod off the coast of Newfoundland so plentiful that they slowed the progress of his ship and could be taken from the sea in baskets? Where in Canada is the North Magnetic Pole located?

Questions About Miscellaneous Topics

Is it true Natives learned scalping from white settlers? Is half a Canadian $20 bill worth anything? What is Canada's most valuable coin? What other names besides Canada were suggested before it officially became a country in 1867? Is there a Canadian connection to the hold-up command "hands up"? Is it ever too cold to snow? What happens to goods seized at international border entry points into Canada?

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