How much do you know about Canadian politics [and history]

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1: Adolf Hitler Steve Harper, Tories

2: HOC + Senate

3: Jack Layton and Nycole Turmel interim

4: 10

5: CON, LIB, NDP, GRN

6: Paul Martin, Liberal


HISTORICAL

7: 4

8: John A. 'Drunk on the job' MacDonald

9: William Lyon 'talks to dead people' Mackenzie King

10: Diefslide of 58 with the Progressive Conservatives?

11: Trudeaumania

12: Mulroney in 84 and 88

13: Stanfield?

14: Campbell


PROVINCIAL (Note that you must answer 6 of these, but, you pick which 6!)

15: Jean Lesage Liberal

16: Leslie Frost, PC

17: Bible Bill

18: Joey Smallwood, Lib

19: Tommy Douglas, CCF

20: Liberals or something dunno when, don't count this question.

21: Confederation of Regions, against official bilingualism

22: Darrel Dexter, NDP

23: Lord. Clifford Sifton?

24: Bill Vander Zalm to whatever "Annoying Corrupt Asshole who should go DIAF" is in Latin

DIFFICULT

25: Fred Rose, Cartier. Got canned for being a Soviet spy or something and got thrown out of the House

26: Liberal-Conservatives, Conservatives, Unionist, National Liberal and Conservative, National Government, Progressive Conservatives, Reform, Canadian Alliance, DRC, Conservative Party of Canada. Harper is an Alliancist.

27: Grits or only decent party

28: Some old geezer, Staunton or Stanton or something

29: no idea

IMPOSSIBLE

30: No clue

31: mailbox

32: Granby Zoo, QC

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INTERMEDIATE:

1. Seat allocation for Canada's Lower House is not solely based on population, but based foremost on two rules. Name them.
Quebec guaranteed 75 seats... and PEI guaranteed 4 seats??

2. Who are the incumbent Premiers for the provinces of New Brunswick, Quebec and Alberta?
David Alward
Jean Charest
Ed Stelmach

3. Name any one of the Lieutenant-Governors currently appointed.
David Onley I think is LG of Ontario. Some cripple.

4. Which politician was murdered by the FLQ, and what does the acronym stand for in English and/or French?
Pierre Laporte. Front de liberation du Quebec

5. Name the first president of the New Democratic Party.
Douglas?

6. What was the King-Byng Affair? Apart from "King and Byng", which other hapless party leader was implicated in the event?
Meighen

7. What was suggested in the Durham Report, published in 1838?
Assimilating French-Canadians, merging UC+LC

8. Name the two proportional voting systems put to referendum in Canada. You do not get half marks for naming just one.
MMP (ON), STV (BC)

9. What were the Pacific Scandal, the Chanak Crisis, the Gouzenko Affair, the Quiet Revolution and the Sponsorship Scandal?
Pacific Scandal was in the 1870s, the Conservative government was in cahoots with friendly railway companies who paid them or something. Don't recall details, but it was some corrupt Conservatives and related to railways in the west
Chanak Crisis: in 1921 or so, Britain demanded Canada send troops to Chanak where British troops were surrounded by Ataturk's forces. Mackenzie King said he'd ask Parliament first and let it die. one of the founding events of Canadian nationalist
Gouzenko Affair: Soviet guy at the USSR's embassy, Igor Gouzenko, defected with state secrets
Quiet Revolution: 1960s in Quebec, reforms of society, Church's power almost disappeared overnight, liberalization of QC, rise of nationalism and left-wing QC
sponsorship scandal: Liberal government gave lots of money to crooks and frauds. For a change, the big guy in charge was an Italian. They don't even try to act honest those people.

10. Who were Louis Papineau, George-Étienne Cartier, Henri Bourassa, Robert Bourassa and Jacques Parizeau? Make sure each answer is distinct.
Papineau: leader of the rouges and LC Patriotes in 1837
Cartier: MacDonald's QC lieutenant, railway guy, father of Confederation
Bourassa I: founder of Le Devoir, prominent 'Canadien' nationalist opposed Boer War etc.
Bourassa II: Liberal premier of QC in the 70s and late 80s, including during FLQ crisis. Responsible for building the Baie James and all
Parizeau: PQ premier of QC 1994-1996, Levesque's finance minister, pushed the YES vote in 1995 referendum. Resigned after referendum defeat and 'l'argent et le vote ethnique' remarks.

DIFFICULT:

1. Who were the Premiers of British Columbia and Newfoundland upon their joining of Confederation?
Joey Smallwood for Nfld, can't remember for BC

2. Who was the only federal Canadian politician to be assassinated?
Thomas d'Arcy McGee, killed in Ottawa by the Fenians.

3. Since its founding in 1905, how many times have the government of Alberta switched between parties?
1919 to UFA
1935 to SoCred
1976? to PCs
so three times

4. The "Trois Colombes" is the nickname for a group of Quebec intellectuals. One member was Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Name the other two.
?

5. The Lower House of the 16th Canadian Parliament was one of the most plural in history, featuring six parties with four or more seats. Two of them were the Liberals and the Conservatives. Name the other four.
Progressives
UFA
Labour?
Indies/Liberal-Progressives/UFO?

6. It is common knowledge that the Liberal Party is the oldest active party in Canada. Which active party is the second oldest?
Communist Party

7. What were Prime Minister Jean Chretien's "White Paper" and "Red Book"?
White Paper was when Chretien was aboriginal affairs minister or something and dealt with aboriginal rights. It's premise was that natives should be integrated as equal citizens or something, which they didn't want.
Red Book was the Liberal platform in 1993

8. Apart from being political figures, what did Rosemary Brown, Elijah Harper and Pierre de Bané have in common?
Brown was a black and Harper was a native, so presumably first minorities elected to legislatures?

9. Which Francophone Governor-General died on June 24, the day of Quebec's National Holiday (though he was born and died somewhere else)?
LeBlanc?

10. How many provincial parties with members in their respective parliaments do not have the words "Liberal", "Conservative" or "New Democratic" in their names?
PQ, ADQ, SaskParty, Wildrose, Alberta Party, Yukon Party. I count 6.

11. Which political figure is credited with the paraphrase "an election is no time to discuss serious issues"?
Campbell?

12. Among all the provinces, which province had the shortest period between two elections post-Confederation?
who knows? QC 1935-1936?

UNFAIR:

There have been few referendums staged at the federal level. One of them were the referendums on the Charlottetown Accords, constitutional reforms spearheaded by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. One referendum was given to Quebec, and another to the rest of Canada. Provide the national results of the combined referendums to the nearest decimal point, in the format xx.x YES to xx.x NO.
no clue