1 - Who is the Prime Minister of Canada? What Party is he from?
Steve Harper, CPC
2 - Name the two houses of the Canadian Parliament (the official English names)
Commons and Senate?
3 - Who is the current Leader of the Opposition (official, not interim - bonus points if you can name both)
Jack Layton. Some Frenchwoman name.
4 - How many Provinces are in Canada (not including the 3 territories)
modern Canada has 10 provinces, two of which are in the historical region of Canada.
5 - Name the 4 parties that ran in over 90% of the ridings nation-wide, in all the elections since 2004.
CPC, Liberals, NDP, Greens.
6 - Prior to the current Prime Minister, who was the Prime Minister and from what party was he.
Paul Martin, Liberal.
HISTORICAL
7 - The smallest province, Prince Edward Island, has a minimum number of seats it can elect to the House, written in law. What is this number?
4
8 - Who was Canada's first Prime Minister?
I forget. Does it matter? Some Scottish name IIRC.
9 - Who was Canada's longest serving Prime Minister?
Dunno.
10 - In terms of the share of seats taken, which Prime Minister won the most seats, and, which party did he represent (official legal name of said party at time of election)
I can only guess, and several options come to mind. Brian Mulroney, Progressive Conservatives, 1984?
11 - One Prime Minister was so popular that a special term was developed to describe his popularity. What is this term?
dunno
12 - Who was the only non-Liberal Prime Minister to win the majority of Quebec seats two elections in a row?
Mulroney.
13 - Which leader of the opposition is often called "The best Prime Minister we never had"
dunno. Jack Layton?
14 - Who was the first Female Prime Minister?
Kim... Kim... now dammit, what was her surname?
PROVINCIAL (Note that you must answer 6 of these, but, you pick which 6!)
Nobody can force me to answer that.
15 - Quebec. The election of which Premier, representing which Party, began "The Quiet Revolution"
16 - Ontario. Which Premier of Ontario was in office when both the Toronto Subway, and Highway 401 were built.
17 - Alberta. What was Premier William Aberhart's nickname?
18 - Newfoundland. Who was the first Premier of the province?
19 - Saskatchewan. Who was the province's first Socialist Premier?
Tommy Douglas?
20 - Prince Edward Island. Which party won all the seats in a general election, and when did this occur?
21 - New Brunswick. Which party won the official opposition, beating the Tories, in 1991, and what was their main campaign plank.
22 - Nova Scotia. Who is the current Premier, and which party is he from?
NDP
23 - Manitoba. Who is often called the "Father of Manitoba"
I can only hope that that refers to Louis Riel.
24 - British Columbia. One of this province's first Premiers, legally changed his name to something out of this world. What was that name, when translated from Latin into English?
DIFFICULT
25 - Who was the only Communist elected to Parliament. What was his ultimate fate in that chamber?
I forget his name, but he was represented Montreal's jewish ghetto and was elected in 1945. As a "Labour Progressive", the Communist party was actually illegal IIRC.
26 - What are all the different names used by the Tories in Canada over history? Include the branch of the party that the current Leader came from.
Conservatives, Liberal-Conservatives (splintered off the Liberals and allied to the Conservatives in the early decades, eventually merged in), National Governance (1940 only), Progressive Conservatives (from 45 on), Canadian Alliance (merger of the Reform Party and a minority of the PCs), Conservative Party of Canada (hostile takeover of remnant PCs by the Alliance)
27 - What is the nickname for the Liberal Party of Canada?
Grits
28 - Who was the first official leader of the merged Tories in 2003?
Not Steve Harper? Yeah, I suppose there must have been an interim leader as they then went on to choose Harper by letting the members vote.
29 - Where and how did the speaker of the house who caused the pipeline debate crisis die.
the what?
IMPOSSIBLE
30 - One of our Prime Ministers has a nickname which is the real last-name of a Prime Minister from another commonwealth country. What is this nickname?
?
31 - In Mount Royal, it was once said that what item, if painted red, could win election?
A broomstick? That'd be the standard saying.
32 - What was the residence of the "true" leader of the original Rhino Party?
no idea
BONUS
xx - Of all the people in the correct answers to this test, which single one is Teddy's fav politician of all time?
Probably not Louis Riel.
