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Worth Repeating: CBC Digital Archives Quiz

From CBC Digital Archives, July 2004
A couple of years into its operation, the CBC Digital Archives site adds a quiz based on content found in its 10,000-clip repository. The quiz is broken down into thematic categories. Hints can be found through the clips' write-ups, which load with the questions. You won't have that advantage here. See how much you know about Canadian food, Arctic Winter Games, figure skaters and clones in this excerpt from the Archives Quiz. 

1. In 1957, who described Canadian food as "plumb tasteless"?
Kate Aitken
Dave Thomas
Ronald McDonald
Colonel Sanders
2. According to Quebec's office de la langue française, what does "poutine" mean?
Gravy
Mess
Pudding
Heart attack
3. Which of the following is not a sport at the Arctic Winter Games?
Two-foot high kick
Groin punch
Knuckle hop
Head pull
4. In 1961 the RCAF promoted a workout regimen called what?
5BX (5 Basic eXercises)
ParticipACTION
FitStop
Drop and Give Me Ten
5. Starbuck II was a clone of what?
A sheep
A goat
A bull
A coffee shop
6. What was the name of the world's first computer?
SHOPVAC
RAYOVAC
UNIVAC
ENIAC
7. Women who are in love with rodeo cowboys are sometimes called what?
Buckle bunnies
Rodeodies
Stetson Sallies
Lasso ladies
8. Which of these was Canada's largest mass arrest since the October Crisis of 1970?
James Bay protests, 1972
Rochdale College, 1974
Greenpeace seal hunt protest, 1978
Toronto bathhouse raids, 1981
9. Which of the following athletes has never won an Olympic medal?
Elvis Stojko
Kurt Browning
Kerrin Lee-Gartner
Sandra Schmirler
10. Who donated the trophy for Canada's football league?
Prince Philip
Lord Stanley
Earl Grey
Duke Nukem

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Arts Quiz (Feb. 2005)