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O Canada!

Thanks to the It's Jim blog, which I found via the STLBloggers.com site, I found this interactive quiz about our neighbour to the north. Of course, I speak of Canada.

In this quiz, you get to find out whether you can identify Canada's 10 provinces and three territories on a map. For each question, if you get it right the first time, you get three points. If you get it right on the second guess, you get two points. If you get it on the third and final guess, you get one point.

If you must know, I scored 39 of a possible 39 points on this quiz. If you take the challenge, I invite you to leave your results in the comments section of this post.

Of course, the perfect score only will reinforce the opinion of many of my co-workers at the Belleville News-Democrat that I really am a Canadian!

It doesn't help that three of the bicycle tours I've done since 1997 have included Canadian destinations.

It doesn't help that I have the Canadian maple leaf flag and the Quebec provincial flag taped to my computer monitor.

It doesn't help that I know the English and French lyrics to "O Canada" and have them posted elsewhere on this Web site.

It doesn't help that that I know that the Conservative and Bloc Quebecois parties voted together to topple the minority government of the Liberal Party and Prime Minister Paul Martin.

It doesn't help that two of my favourite female singers are Loreena McKennitt and Sarah Harmer. And, yes, Celine Dion is a guilty pleasure!

Peut-être je suis un Canadien!

Roger 2 comments 2:41 AM

Comments:

A true Canadian is embarrassed and shamed by Celine Dion.

;-)

# posted by  Anonymous : 8:17 AM

 

You have a point there. Yes, her songs are overwrought with overproduction. Yes, she's turned into a Las Vegas stage show. But, darn it, I do enjoy listening to her voice ... in small doses ... and that's why she's a guilty pleasure.

# posted by  Roger : 8:55 AM

 

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