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Quiz about The USCanada Border Threat or Menace
Quiz about The USCanada Border Threat or Menace

The U.S./Canada Border: Threat or Menace? Quiz


Rife with insinuating, sinister "Welcome to Canada/Bienvenue au Canada" signs, this stark divide between the home of the free and the land of the polite is crossed only by hard men willing to convert "real" money into funny coins and pieces of paper.

A multiple-choice quiz by coolupway. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
coolupway
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
102,962
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
5770
Last 3 plays: Upstart3 (9/10), toddruby96 (4/10), TriviaFan22 (5/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. The border between the U.S. and Canada has long been known to be the world's longest ______________ border. Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Apart from being the northernmost and westernmost state in the US, this state also has a little under a third of the entire length of the Canadian border. Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. U.S. speed limit signs approaching the Canadian border indicate "50".
"Maximum speed" signs across the Canadian border also indicate "50."
What will the driver have to do in Canada?
Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. What greets the northward traveler as he crosses the bridge from Massena, New York into Cornwall, Ontario? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. A mid-November, 2002 southward trip across the Cornwall-Massena bridge cost $2.25 American, $3.00 Canadian. Given exchange rates prevailing at that time, how would a penny-wise tourist pay this toll? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. What momentous issue, which came up for an important referendum in 1995, threatened to disturb the continuity of the US-Canada border? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Which of these Canadian territories or provinces does not share a border with the United States? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. This agrarian province, which shares a border with Montana and North Dakota, is known for flatness and wheat. Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Which Canadian border town is known for a famous nightclub with a huge, garish neon sign advertising "Politically Incorrect Off-Color
Humor"?
Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Which of these Canadian cities is actually the closest to the American border? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. The border between the U.S. and Canada has long been known to be the world's longest ______________ border.

Answer: Undefended

At 5,526 miles/Il a 8,893 km, the Canadian border is a trivia maven's favorite, or, as one says north of the border, favourite. Expect merciless grilling from grizzled, hard-bitten border agents at checkpoint Charlie... "what's your purpose in Canada, eh?"... "are those business papers you have there?" Few humans can survive this sort of interrogation for too long.
2. Apart from being the northernmost and westernmost state in the US, this state also has a little under a third of the entire length of the Canadian border.

Answer: Alaska

Like Canada, Alaska is thought to be comprised mostly of snow, native peoples, frozen lakes and a sprinkling of other people wearing heavy and unfashionable clothing.

The name "Alaska" came about when someone asked then Secretary of State William H. Seward if he thought he could buy a big, cold territory from the Russian empress for 7.2 million dollars. Seward said, "I don't think so, but Alaska." Do NOT use this answer on a history quiz!
3. U.S. speed limit signs approaching the Canadian border indicate "50". "Maximum speed" signs across the Canadian border also indicate "50." What will the driver have to do in Canada?

Answer: Slow down

Canada, probably for no other reason than to stick out its (bilingual) tongue at Uncle Sam, has had the temerity for some time to be on the metric system. 50 km/hour is very slow, as are most of the provincial roads one has to slog along before hitting the Trans-Canada highway or some such more impressive-sounding thoroughfare. N.B.

While Canada does have Dunkin' Donuts franchises, it is apparently considered poor form to patronize them. Tim Horton's appears to have set the standard in the donut/doughnut industry in the frozen north, and any American who fails to stop/arret on a long car line to sample Timmy's delights has committed a social blunder/faux pas.

When in Banff, etc.
4. What greets the northward traveler as he crosses the bridge from Massena, New York into Cornwall, Ontario?

Answer: All of these

Cornwall is a BIT of an industrial town, and a series of plants there on the Canadian side of the St. Lawrence River belch out fumes so nauseatingly horrible that they actually leave an aftertaste. It is encouraging, however, that there is industry on the Canadian side of this border; on the apparently less inhabited New York side, there are Indian reservations, casinos, and an amazing number of state prisons.
5. A mid-November, 2002 southward trip across the Cornwall-Massena bridge cost $2.25 American, $3.00 Canadian. Given exchange rates prevailing at that time, how would a penny-wise tourist pay this toll?

Answer: In Canadian money

Between June 2002 and mid-November 2002, the U.S. dollar fluctuated between roughly 1.50 and 1.60 Canadian dollars. During all of these periods, and certainly in mid-November, when the exchange rate was up over $1.58, the tourist would save money-- about 55 cents Canadian-- by paying in Canadian money.
6. What momentous issue, which came up for an important referendum in 1995, threatened to disturb the continuity of the US-Canada border?

Answer: Quebec separatism(e)

Scary. 49.4% of Quebecers/Quebecois voted to split off. Chretien held the country together by a hair's breadth. The separatism movement seems to have fallen into eclipse a bit in the intervening years. As Alberta becomes more and more of a potential source of oil leverage for Canada, it seems less and less likely that the Francophones will plausibly be able to secede and form their own state.
7. Which of these Canadian territories or provinces does not share a border with the United States?

Answer: Newfoundland

Newfoundland is an island and one of the Atlantic provinces. It is the butt of innumerable Canadian jokes, and its residents, the poor Newfies, are a rich source of humor for those Canadians in the contiguous provinces. Nonetheless, Canada's sharpest political humorist, Rick Mercer, is in fact a Newfie.
8. This agrarian province, which shares a border with Montana and North Dakota, is known for flatness and wheat.

Answer: Saskatchewan

Jokes about Saskatchewan's legendary flatness abound; the standard, about being able to watch your dog run away for several hours, pops up on just about every Canadian website. The place is supposed to be a kind of northern Kansas, albeit without Auntie Em and Toto, but since no one has ever been there, the jury is out.

A Saskatoon correspondent on this site has advises that the place is so flat that if you drive in Saskatchewan on a clear day amd look straight ahead, you can eventually see the back of your own head.
9. Which Canadian border town is known for a famous nightclub with a huge, garish neon sign advertising "Politically Incorrect Off-Color Humor"?

Answer: None of these

What's right with this picture? "Famous Canadian nightclub" is an oxymoron, nothing in Anglophone Canada is garish (except possibly the CN tower), Canadians employ the British spellings "colour" and "humour", and political incorrectness is about as easy to find in Canada as would be a kosher butcher in Vatican City.
10. Which of these Canadian cities is actually the closest to the American border?

Answer: Windsor, ON

Windsor is just over the border from Detroit; it is one of the southernmost Canadian cities and lies further south than Albany, New York. Peculiarly, both Windsor and Detroit have good harness racing tracks. Most Americans assume that Montreal and Toronto are right over the border, which they are not. Quebec City, the only walled city in North America, lies between the northerly Saint Lawrence River/Riviere Saint-Laurent and miles of nothingness.
Source: Author coolupway

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