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q[0]="The border between Canada and the United States is the world's longest frontier. It stretches 3,987 miles (6,416 km).";
q[1]="Pre-recorded cassettes are fast becoming ancient history and compact discs are the culprit. In 1985 cassette sales peaked at 41 million units but as the 20th Century drew to a close, music lovers were buying less than 8 million a year.  CD sales, meanwhile, have more than doubled since 1992.";
q[2]="Nineteen Canadian actors and actresses have been nominated for Academy Awards during the more than 70-year history of the Oscars.  And the winners were Mary Pickford, Norma Shearer, Marie Dressler, Deanna Durbin (special award), Walter Huston, and Harold Russell.";
q[3]="Sure, it's the biggest lake in the world, but not in Canada.  Huh?  Lake Superior is the world's largest lake, but only 28,749 square kilometres of it lie within Canada.  Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories, with all of 31,328 square kilometres within Canada, is the country's largest lake.";
q[4]="In 1911 there were a mere 303,000 telephones in use in Canada.  These days there are more than 18 million.";
q[5]="The Eaton Centre in Toronto is the number one (non-natural) tourist attraction in Canada.  Latest figures show that more than 2.4 million people visit it annually.";
q[6]="The first persons to drive across Canada were Thomas Wilby and F.V. Haney in 1912.  Although some parts of the country didn't even have roads then, the two made the trip in 52 days.";
q[7]="The tiniest jail in North America is in Rodney, Ontario, near the southwestern Ontario city of London.  Built in 1890 and now a tourist attraction, the 24.3 square meter jail had two cells.";
q[8]="The first play ever performed in North America, took place on a boat at Port Royal, Nova Scotia.  The production, staged on November 16, 1606, was called Le Theatre de Neptune en la Nouvelle-France.";
q[9]="Canada's largest 20th Century earthquake occurred in 1949 off the Queen Charlotte Islands in British Columbia, taking the Richter Scale to a magnitude of 8.1.  The quake knocked cows off their feet and made it difficult for people to stand. Because of the area's sparse population, damage was not severe.";
q[10]="There is evidence to suggest that Hui-Shen, a fifth century Chinese monk and explorer, might have reached the shores of what is now Western Canada about 500 years before the Vikings.";
q[11]="Gene Cornish of Ottawa was the lead guitarist of the successful 1960s band The Rascals.  Known for such hits as \"Groovin'\", \"A Beautiful Morning\", and \"People Got to be Free\", the New York-based band, including Cornish, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.";
q[12]="The world will end at 8 p.m., 8:30 in Newfoundland.  Canada's 10th province isn't the only place in the world with a half hour time zone.  Suriname in South America lies in the same zone.  Parts of Asia and the Pacific Islands also have this curious time difference.";
q[13]="The comedy team of Wayne and Shuster, who were legends in the history of Canadian entertainment, appeared a record 67 times on the Ed Sullivan television show.";
q[14]="Nearly half of deaths among Canadian children and teenagers aged 10 to 19 are due to external causes, most commonly, car accidents. Among teens 15 to 19, suicide is the second leading cause of death, accounting for about 25 per cent of teenage deaths.";
q[15]="Those bright yellow summer flowers seen from airplanes as you fly over Canada's prairies belong to Canola. Since the 1970s, this upstart oilseed has become a dominant crop on the Prairies and in 1998 earned farmers more money than wheat, the king of Canada's crops. In 1999 Canola's value to the Canadian economy was $7 billion.";
q[16]="Phoney as a $4 bill? The last Dominion of Canada four-dollar notes were issued in 1911. They were replaced in 1912 by Dominion of Canada five-dollar notes.";
q[17]="He's not the Queen and he's not a Prime Minister, but Sandy McTire is one of the most famous faces on Canadian currency.  That's the name of the elderly gentleman on the coupons distributed by Canada's Canadian Tire chain of stores.  McTire's face has graced the company's coupons since 1958 when Canadian Tire first introduced the gimmick to boost sales at its gas bars.";
q[18]="The Bluenose, Canada's most famous ship because it is pictured on the Canadian 10-cent piece, was sold in 1942 to a West Indies trading company.  Four years later it was wrecked off the coast of Haiti.";
q[19]="Canada’s first Olympic gold medal was won by a man competing for the United States. George Orton of Strathroy, Ontario, took first place in the steeplechase at the 1900 Olympics in Paris, but because Canada didn’t have an official team, he entered as part of the American team instead.";
q[20]="Built in 1967, the world’s only flying saucer launching pad is in St. Paul, Alberta, Canada.";
q[21]="Although Superman was depicted as fighting for truth, justice, and the American way, he was co-created by a Canadian.  Toronto-born Joe Shuster created the Man of Steel in the 1930s with his friend Jerry Siegal.";
q[22]="The first downtown mall in North America, Wellington Square, was built in London, Ontario in 1960.  It has since been transformed into a larger mall known as Galleria.";
q[23]="Long before he gained renown as Pa Cartwright on the TV series \"Bonanza\", Canadian-born actor Lorne Greene made a name for himself as a radio broadcaster during World War II.  He was known to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation listeners as the \"Voice of Doom.\"";
q[24]="<b>Anne of Green Gables</b>, by L.M. Montgomery, the story of a little red-haired orphan of Prince Edward Island, was first published in 1908 and is considered by experts to be the best-selling Canadian book of all time.";
q[25]="Every 9.6 years, there is a peak in Canada wildlife population, especially among the muskrats, red fox, skunks, mink, lynx, and rabbits.  The population of grasshoppers of the world tends to rise and fall rhythmically in 9.2-year cycles.";
q[26]="For the upcoming motion picture <i>Mission To Mars,</i> director Brian DePalma and crew needed to re-create the surface of the planet Mars.  They chose the more than two million square feet of a 45-acre sand dune in Vancouver, Canada.  To give the sand dune the color of the planet Mars, they covered it with over 15,000 gallons of red paint.";
q[27]="During Canada's summers, an average of one tornado every five days is reported in the country, compared to five tornadoes every day in the United States.";
q[28]="Fogs over the seas on the Grand Banks, Newfoundland, Canada, can last for weeks on end. These are the longest-enduring fogs recorded in the world.";
q[29]="Some orchids come from the deep jungles.  But every country in the world, and every province in Canada, has at least one orchid species, including the Arctic.  Ontario, for example, has more than 60 species of native orchids.";
q[30]="The highest tides in the world are in the Bay of Fundy in southeastern Canada.  Tides have reached 70 feet at the head of this bay.";
q[31]="Canada is home to the world's most remote weather station. Its Eureka weather station is 600 miles from the North Pole.";



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