{"id":5250,"date":"2013-07-01T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T12:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=5250"},"modified":"2013-06-28T17:21:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T21:21:46","slug":"canada-day-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=5250","title":{"rendered":"Canada Day Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We all know him as “Justin Trudeau’s father” today, but there was a time when Pierre was just a lowly Justice Minister, needing 4 ballots to win the party’s leadership.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Test your political skills with this 10-question quiz about the present – and the past – of Canadian politics.<\/p>\n

1. You may not be aware of this, but Justin Trudeau’s father was also once Liberal Party leader. For half a point each, name the runner up in the LPC leadership races that elected Pierre and Justin.<\/p>\n

2. There have been 5 by-elections since the last federal election. In how many has the party who won the seat in 2011 held it?<\/p>\n

3. Within 5 percentage points, what percentage of Canadians now live in a province run by a female Premier?<\/p>\n

4. Bob Rae recently announced his retirement from politics. In what year was he first elected to the House of Commons as an MP?<\/p>\n

5. Complete the following Stephen Harper quote, uttered in the wake of the Boston marathon bombing: “Now is not the time to commit ______<\/em>”<\/p>\n

6. We heard a lot about Nigel Wright this year. Who replaced him as Stephen Harper’s chief of staff?<\/p>\n

7. Who did FastForward readers vote as Calgary’s sexiest man earlier this year?<\/p>\n

8. With Dalton McGuinty and Jean Charest exiting the stage, who is Canada’s longest serving Premier?<\/p>\n

9. There was a brief flurry of excitement that the Liberals might win in Calgary Centre last fall. Sadly, this hope proved as fleeting as a Leafs’ third period lead. When was the last time the Liberals won a seat in cowtown?<\/p>\n

10. For the very first time since he became Prime Minister, we’ve started hearing speculation about Stephen Harper retiring. Still, Harper is just 54 and could ride a divided opposition to a few more years in power. If he stays PM, in what year would Harper pass Mackenzie King as the longest serving Prime Minister in Canada’s history?<\/p>\n

(answers to be posted shortly in the comments section)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Test your political skills with this 10-question quiz about the present – and the past – of Canadian politics. 1. You may not be aware of this, but Justin Trudeau’s father was also once Liberal Party leader. For half a point each, name the runner up in the LPC leadership races that elected Pierre and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1296,989,1000,1367,1180,1375,991,1374],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5250"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5256,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5250\/revisions\/5256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}