Most Canadians would fail own citizenship test

Thorns2010

Interesting article about America's Hat I kid I kid.

It is refreshing to see the USA isn't the only 'dumb' country out there though.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070702/od_nm/ignorance_odd_dc_1;_ylt=AlId72wDDEKrqjiqP1OROvFkM3wV

Ahnimus

75%

http://www.yourlibrary.ca/citizenship/

Kind of a dumb test though

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Ahnimus wrote:

75%

http://www.yourlibrary.ca/citizenship/

Kind of a dumb test though

I went for a 10 question quiz and got 80% the two I failed were:

How many electoral districts are there in Canada?
a. 20.
b. 308. (A Look at Canada, p. 32)
c. 178.
d. 59.

What will you promise when you take the Oath of Citizenship?

a. Pledge allegiance to the Queen, observe the laws of Canada and fulfill the duties of a Canadian. (A Look at Canada, p. 40)
b. Pledge to be faithful to the Queen.
c. Promise to observe the laws of Canada.
d. Fulfill duties as a Canadian citizen.

answer was A - I didn't know we still pledged oath to the Queen?!



This was the test:

1. What important trade did the Hudson Bay Company control?
a. Fishing.
b. Agriculture.
c. Fur. **
d. Oil.

2. What year was Confederation?
a. 1867. **
b. 1871.
c. 1898.
d. 1870.

3. When is Canada Day and what does it celebrate?
a. June 15 of each year to celebrate the anniversary of Confederation.
b. August 8th of each year to celebrate the joining of British Columbia to Confederation.
c. We celebrate the anniversary of Confederation July 1st of each year. **
d. May 21st of each year to remember Queen Victoria.

4. What will you promise when you take the Oath of Citizenship?
a. Pledge allegiance to the Queen, observe the laws of Canada and fulfill the duties of a Canadian.
b. Pledge to be faithful to the Queen.
c. Promise to observe the laws of Canada.
d. Fulfill duties as a Canadian citizen.

5. Give an example of where English and French have equal status in Canada.
a. In schools.
b. In the workplace.
c. In the Parliament of Canada. **
d. At City Hall.

6. What three oceans border Canada?
a. Atlantic, Arctic and Bering.
b. Atlantic, Arctic and Pacific. **
c. Pacific, Indian and Atlantic.
d. Hudson, Pacific and Atlantic.

7. Name two responsibilities of the federal government.
a. National defence and firefighting.
b. National defence and foreign policy. **
c. Citizenship and highways.
d. Recycling and education.

8. How many electoral districts are there in Canada?
a. 20.
b. 308. **
c. 178.
d. 59.

I guessed 178 but thought it was higher..oh well almost 90%.

9. How is the government formed after a federal election?
a. The party with the most elected representatives becomes the party in power. The Queen chooses the Prime Minister from this party
b. The party with the most elected representatives becomes the party in power. The leader of this party becomes the Prime Minister. **
c. The Governor General picks a party to run the government.
d. Each province elects one representative to form the government. The Queen then chooses the Prime Minister.

10. What is the name of the Premier of British Columbia?
a. Premier Gordon Campbell. **
b. Premier David Anderson.
c. Premier Ujjal Dosanjh.
d. Premier Gordon Wilson.

nothing too brain wrenching...

Ahnimus

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

I didn't know we still pledged oath to the Queen?!

This was discussed in one of the papers I was reading this afternoon. They were asking should we ditch the monarchy. The majority of the "published" responses were in favour of keeping the monarchy saying "I would lose my identity as a Canadian".

Fuck the Queen. I'm a Canadian because I live here, not because I fulfill my "duties" as a Canadian, whatever the hell they are. More appropriate questions would be "Who wrote 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'?"

I'm seriously guy. Who gets their identity from pledging allegiance to the Queen? That's a pretty shallow and useless identity.

Jeanie

The thought that people applying for Canadian Citizenship have to pledge allegiance to the queen has had me searching all over the internet for the last half hour wondering if immigrants have to do the same here.

Seems our Citizenship Testing/Requirements are in the middle of an overhaul.
That can only make me more nervous about the direction this country is heading in.


http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21752187-2,00.html?CMP=KNC-google

http://www.australiantest.com/

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Ahnimus wrote:

This was discussed in one of the papers I was reading this afternoon. They were asking should we ditch the monarchy. The majority of the "published" responses were in favour of keeping the monarchy saying "I would lose my identity as a Canadian".

Fuck the Queen. I'm a Canadian because I live here, not because I fulfill my "duties" as a Canadian, whatever the hell they are. More appropriate questions would be "Who wrote 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'?"

I'm seriously guy. Who gets their identity from pledging allegiance to the Queen? That's a pretty shallow and useless identity.

Exactly...what does the queen do anyways... She's an echo from an old dead world.

Gordon Lightfoot. I have the album Gord's Gold Sadly I know most of the lyrics and the story to that song.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gord's_Gold

I saw him live at Massey Hall. "Carefree highway...I want to slip away on you"

also "song for a winter's night"

Some solid shit man

Ahnimus

I have to admit I'm not all that familiar with Lightfoot, but that one song.

I had no idea he wrote "If you could read my mind"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Could_Read_My_Mind_%28song%29
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ta0a3DFUU0Y

vedderfan10

95% 19/20...paid attention in school...plus I've had a few friends take the citizenship test in the past couple of years.

Nobody called me to take part in the survey :(

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Ahnimus wrote:

I have to admit I'm not all that familiar with Lightfoot, but that one song.

I had no idea he wrote "If you could read my mind"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Could_Read_My_Mind_%28song%29
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ta0a3DFUU0Y

yeah I laughed when the dance remix to that song came out. I bet he got some good coin for that.

I hope he lives for a long long time to come.

Great artist. True to life.

edit: song for a winter's night (keep in mind he is a folk singer):
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-2236322758885598612&q=Song+For+A+Winter%27s+Night&total=41&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=6

I have a very wide palate for musical flavor

Ahnimus

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

yeah I laughed when the dance remix to that song came out. I bet he got some good coin for that.

I hope he lives for a long long time to come.

Great artist. True to life.

I hope he rakes in a lot of coin for all the covers of his tunes

Per Wiki
If you could read my mind
Don McLean, Kalan Porter, Olivia Newton-John, Barbra Streisand, Johnny Cash, Liza Minelli, Glen Campbell, Gene Clark, Viola Wills and techno-dance supergroup Stars on 54.

Wikipedia doesn't list all the other artists who've done many of Lightfoots other songs like "Early Morning Rain" but searching Youtube produces a lot of results

Bu2

did an EXCELLENT cover of "In the Early Morning Rain".

I always liked "The Edmund Fitzgerald", myself.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Bu2 wrote:

did an EXCELLENT cover of "In the Early Morning Rain".

I always liked "The Edmund Fitzgerald", myself.

This looks like the Massey Hall gig. Awesome venue. I saw James Brown and Pete Townshend play here as well. The sound is insane. It is/was James Brown's favorite venue to gig at. When the drummer for James picked up his sticks (unmic'd) you could hear the sticks click together. Acoustically perfect venue.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-393109616355293490&q=In+the+Early+Morning+Rain&total=182&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

The place only holds about 2700 people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massey_Hall

mookie blaylock 10

RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

answer was A - I didn't know we still pledged oath to the Queen?!

we don't! pretty easy to get the answer wrong on this one i guess, when the "correct" answer is wrong.

mookie blaylock 10

Thorns2010 wrote:

Interesting article about America's Hat I kid I kid.

It is refreshing to see the USA isn't the only 'dumb' country out there though.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070702/od_nm/ignorance_odd_dc_1;_ylt=AlId72wDDEKrqjiqP1OROvFkM3wV

would that make MN our smelly armpit?

...or the southern states our jock itch?

...because we don't have all the modern conveniences like running water to bathe ourselves.

polaris

i did 20 questions and got 100% ...

Rygar

I got 80% on the 20 question test, but two of the wrong answers I had were the Premier and Leader of the Opposition of BC, so I'm ignoring those seeing as I'm in NS and don't even know the leader of the opposition for this province...

even flow?

The same people who stopped Quebec from seperating are the same people who probably can't do well on this test. When people talk about their home and it ain't here, what can you expect them to answer correctly. I would say about 1/3 of the people in Toronto struggle with English better yet French and they are supposed know stuff about their new country. Or the country they are calling home now. That is the way I see it. Easy questions for somebody who went to school here and alien to somebody who is new. Of course there are the exceptions.

Collin

I took 10 questions and had 70% and I'm not Canadian. I took the American one too once, I also scored around 70 or even 80%.

69charger

You guys are so focused on Gordon Lightfoot that you almost forgot these two. Perhaps the most significant canadians of thier generation...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrance_and_Phillip

RolandTD20Kdrummer

69charger wrote:

You guys are so focused on Gordon Lightfoot that you almost forgot these two. Perhaps the most significant canadians of thier generation...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrance_and_Phillip

lol they're awesome

THC

I got the one wrong that asked what do Canadian's like more: Hockey or Molson...turns out it was Molson.....

seriously though...i got 4/5! what what!! (i'm scared to do the 20 ?'s test...don't want to lower my 80%)