Happy Canada Day!!

[SpiritAlight 1]

Here is a quickie and maybe a goodie...as compiled by yours truly:

(Answers in next post.)

An Arcane Questionnaire

Which country has the most lakes?

What does the word Canada mean?

Which U.S. president was awarded a patent?

And for what?

Which state grows the most eggplant?

On the Canadian 2 dollar bill (got one??), what flag is flying over the Parliament building?

Which state has only one syllable?

What is L.A.’s full and complete name?

What was the one of the strangest marriages to have taken place in the U.S.?

When was mail delivery stopped in Canada?

Who has more plastic flamingos?

Is there a royal palace in the U.S.? Where?

Which province has no rats?

Which country (Canada/U.S.) has the most credit cards per person?

How much does Hawai’I move each year (plate tectonics)?

What percentage of Canadians live close to the U.S. (obviously) border?

Bonus question:

What came first, the chicken or the egg?

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[SpiritAlight 1]

Answers:

(Canada has the more lakes than the rest of the world combined.)

(Big Village)

(Abraham Lincoln)

(New Jersey grows two thirds of the world’s eggplant.)

(On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.)

(Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.)

(Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula")

(In 1976 a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people.)

(Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!)

(There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!)

(Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!)

(The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.)

(There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.)

(Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.)

(90% of Canada's 31,000,000 citizens live within 100 miles of the U.S. border.)

(There sat the chicken smoking a cigarette and an egg looking forlorn. Now we know the answer to that age old question.)

How many USians bought stuff at Walmart last year?

(82%)

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Answers:

(Canada has the more lakes than the rest of the world combined.)

(Big Village)

(Abraham Lincoln)

(New Jersey grows two thirds of the world's eggplant.)

(On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.) False - here is the snopes article about this one: http://www.snopes.com/business/money/redensign.asp

(Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.)

(Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula")

(In 1976 a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people.)

(Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!)

(There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones!)

(Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!) good - your answer specifies Saturday mail - the question only says ' mail delivery' hehehe

(The province of Alberta, Canada is completely free of rats.) well, they are sure working on it - still get about a dozen calls a year on rat sightings but there is an aggressive anti-rat campaign http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...331_rats_2.html

(There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.)

(Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.)

(90% of Canada's 31,000,000 citizens live within 100 miles of the U.S. border.)

(There sat the chicken smoking a cigarette and an egg looking forlorn. Now we know the answer to that age old question.)

How many USians bought stuff at Walmart last year?

(82%)

[warlord 73]

Yep knew the $2 bill one wasn't true as I remember hearing about that a long time ago. I did not know there wasn't any or barely any rats in Alberta. How did they manage to pull that off? I assume it's because of the freezing cold weather probably kills them too fast or something...

[derekkj 0]

Just got back from the Embassy festivities and let me tell you, you CAN eat too much poutine!

[thetreble 19]

damn! I miss poutine!

I got 19/20. I took American history at university though, one course that is, so I know a little bit about where I live now. I know my Canada though.

[Earmuffs 1]

i got 2 right and those were guesses..

[Krikit 1,165]

I got the same as Kathryn.... 9/10 for the Canadian trivia and 10/10 for the American. The sad part is that I can't remember which one I got wrong. I think it may have been the constitutional monarchy question. Bad Krikit.

[IR5FORMUMSIE 850]

10/10 for Canadian Qs and 10/10 for American Qs, now if I could only remember what day it is.

BTW, for the CBC quiz I got 16/20 which OK since I don't watch the news and spend most of my time watching the Playboy Channel.

[Daly 0]

5/10 canadian

6/10 american.

ahh... shame. I dunno about you guys, but this is my first canada day in US. (First week in US actually.) Ironically, my SO is taking me to Fuddruckers (was a huge part of my childhood growing up before the chain closed up in my hometown.) I'm wondering if I can make a poutine there somehow. ;_;

And I do have to try to answer Spirit Alight's survey... Does any of Britney's or Micheal Jackson's marriages count?

Edited July 1, 2008 by Daly

[Reneehao 0]

Happy Canada Day!

I want to go back to visit my friends there, but no AP approved yet. A little sad.

[MissStacey 1]

Yep knew the $2 bill one wasn't true as I remember hearing about that a long time ago. I did not know there wasn't any or barely any rats in Alberta. How did they manage to pull that off? I assume it's because of the freezing cold weather probably kills them too fast or something...

I have heard that Alberta has rat patrol at the borders. Whether this is actual fact- I don't know.

I don't think Alberta has cockroaches either. I have never seen one or heard of them there.

Man- what a difference from Louisiana- I never know what type of creepy crawly I will face here.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Yep knew the $2 bill one wasn't true as I remember hearing about that a long time ago. I did not know there wasn't any or barely any rats in Alberta. How did they manage to pull that off? I assume it's because of the freezing cold weather probably kills them too fast or something...

I have heard that Alberta has rat patrol at the borders. Whether this is actual fact- I don't know. Yeah, they do - it is a pretty impressive all-out war on rats. I don't know about cockroaches.

I don't think Alberta has cockroaches either. I have never seen one or heard of them there.

Man- what a difference from Louisiana- I never know what type of creepy crawly I will face here. Oh tell me about it - and Lousiana is worse than Georgia!

Edited July 2, 2008 by Kathryn41