# Could you pass the Canadian Citizenship test? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 4, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292 "2008-07-04T13:34:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/21 "2008-07-04T15:29:58Z")
16/20. I can read French, I am not likely to become a public charge, I know not to say _aboot_, and Clamato doesn’t make me vomit. May I go to the head of the line? ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/22 "2008-07-04T15:32:10Z")
85%. I got 2, 3 and 16 wrong. Did the same thing **drm** did, actually. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/23 "2008-07-04T15:36:26Z")
11/20, but I guessed on a few of the ones I got right. I feel like a dunce. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/24 "2008-07-04T15:54:44Z")
85%. I missed #3, 4 &18. ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/25 "2008-07-04T15:59:22Z")
Missed the electoral district question. Pshaw, all I know is that it’s boring watching election coverage and waiting for them to get to constituencies I actually know. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/26 "2008-07-04T16:01:26Z")
95%. Only one I missed was #18. But. . .my mom’s side of the family is Canadian, and we used to go up to Ottawa a lot. I think I went on, like, six tours of the Parliament buildings, and sat through the light show outside a few times. And, like, five tours of the Royal Canadian Mint. And I’m applying for dual citizenship. So. . .I don’t think that I count :-D. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/27 "2008-07-04T16:01:59Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi] I am an American, I got 17/20 for 85%. Am I a winner of Landed Alien status? [/QUOTE] 17 out of 21 for you. It’s “landed immigrant.” 😃 I got 20 out of 20. That test should be absurdly easy for a Canadian, although I’d understand not knowing the number of ridings there are at the federal level. This was a stupidly written test. Canada does not have electoral “districts,” it has “ridings.” Wayne Gretzky’s name does not have an S in it. The “Two freedoms” question was a convoluted mess. It’s stupid to have two consecutive questions with the same answer. The “Correct” answer to Question 2 is preposterous - to suggest the Canadian Pacific railway was built primarily to make immigration easier is ludicrous. Question 10 could be quite reasonably argued to have two correct answers. Question 19 does not actually have any correct answer - the five year limit can be ignored in wartime, and in fact it has happened. Question 7 tells you the answer to Question 6. And as was pointed out, there’s a lot of trivia in it, as opposed to important facts about Canadian civics. “Who is Canada’s biggest trading partner” is interesting if you like international trade but not really a matter of civics. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/28 "2008-07-04T16:12:59Z")
Well, isn’t trivia a requirement to enter any in-group? ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/29 "2008-07-04T16:23:47Z")
I got 18 out of 20, largely thanks to **matt\_mcl** ’s history lesson some years back. When do I get my lifetime supply of maple syrup and autographed photo of Alanis Morrissette? You can keep Stephen Harper, though. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/30 "2008-07-04T16:48:42Z")
55% here. Had they asked anything about Danny’s strip joint, the casinos or the legal drinking age, I coulda been a contender. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/31 "2008-07-04T16:57:22Z")
I got 12/20 for a 60% grade, which I think means I passed by the skin of my teeth. In my defense, just for kicks I took it _in French_, a language I studied for 3 years in school 20 years ago, and without having first read the section _Regard sur le Canada_… So I’m still pretty proud of myself 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/32 "2008-07-04T16:59:12Z")
Last year, I got 12/20 for a 60% grade on [this practice Canadian citizenship test](http://www.yourlibrary.ca/citizenship/), which I think means I passed by the skin of my teeth. In my defense, just for kicks I took it _in French_, a language I studied for 3 years in school 20 years ago, and without having first read the section _Regard sur le Canada_… So I’m still pretty proud of myself 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/33 "2008-07-04T17:07:46Z")
1. Labatt 50 2. Eight ender 3. Younge Street 4. YYZ = Toronto’s airport code 5. Poutaine 6. Three periods 7. Don Cherry 8. 44 pounds, granite 9. Stubbies 10. Roughriders vs. Rough Rivers ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/34 "2008-07-04T17:10:54Z")
100%. (Whew!) 70% on the American one. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/35 "2008-07-04T17:39:38Z")
[QUOTE=Malthus] 100% 🙂 Both this and the US test contain trivia that one could easily not know [for example, how many electoral districts (Canada), how many amendments to the Constitution (US)] [/QUOTE] “Ridings” methinks, not “electoral districts.” ---
**Author:** ![Elret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Elret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elret)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/36 "2008-07-04T17:46:11Z")
Aw, I missed the freedoms one. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/37 "2008-07-04T18:36:52Z")
80%!! (minus 1, 2, 7, 10) Not bad, not bad at all, if I may say so myself… ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/38 "2008-07-04T18:41:12Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi] “Ridings” methinks, not “electoral districts.” [/QUOTE] Yes indeed - I’m just using the wording on the test. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/39 "2008-07-04T18:43:12Z")
55% a.k.a. 11/20. I freely admit to quite a few wild-assed guesses. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292/40 "2008-07-04T18:45:35Z")
Got everything but the “electoral districts” question. So I can keep my citizenship, right? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-canadian-citizenship-test/455292.md?page=3)