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Sample Questions
  1. What terrifying disease, responsible for killing and paralysing millions, was brought under control in 1953 when a Canadian medical researcher, Dr. Leone Farrell, developed the “Toronto Technique” which allowed laboratories to mass-produce a vaccine?

    Scurvy
    Smallpox
    Tuberculosis
    Polio

  2. Known as the "Father of Biomedical Engineering in Canada", this man invented the pacemaker – which he himself needed more than thirty years later.

    Robert Borden
    Armand Bombardier
    John Hopps
    Dr. Abraham Gesner

  3. Against the wishes of powerful opposition, this woman opened the first racially integrated school in Canada, and was the first Black woman in North America to own and edit a newspaper.

    Jane Jacobs
    Margaret Laurence
    Kenojuak Ashevak
    Mary Ann Shadd

  4. What Canadian scientist "added more wealth to his country than any other man" because his discovery allowed the settlement of the Canadian west?

    Louis St Laurent
    Thomas D'Arcy McGee
    Sir Charles Saunders
    John McCrae