Made in Canada Trivia Quiz

Answer: Goin' Down the Road

Pete and Joey get jobs that pay $2, but as time goes by, they manage to buy a small apartment, get girlfriends and even get married. Joey marries Betty (Jayne Eastwood) when he learns she is pregnant. After being laid off, they try to rob a supermarket, which of course, did not work.

The film has been compared to literary masterpiece "The Grapes of Wrath", and a sequel, "Down the Road Again", was released in 2011.

Answer: Mon Oncle Antoine

"Mon Oncle Antoine" is set before the Asbestos Strike, a four-month long strike by asbestos miners which was very violent, as the miners killed and kidnapped people as a way of protest. This event is said to have shaped Canadian history, particularly that of Quebec.

The movie stars Jacques Gagnon and Jean Duceppe, and tells the story of Benoit, a 15-year-old boy living in a mining town, showing how society was back then.

Answer: Michel Brault

Michel Brault was certainly a cinema aficionado, as he was a cinematographer, writer, producer, director, and cameraman! He directed more than ten films, and was recognized by many different organizations throughout his lifetime.

"Les Ordres", starring Jean Lapointe and Guy Provost, is a scripted movie, although based on interviews with those unfairly incarcerated during the October Crisis, which was a series of battles between the Canadian government and the FLQ.

Answer: Charlotte Laurier

The film tells the story of Michelle, who has to deal with both her unstable daughter Manon and her mentally challenged brother Guy. Michelle is in a relationship with the police captain Maurice. Manon dislikes both her uncle and the policeman, as she wants her mother's attention only for her.

Charlotte Laurier also appeared in films like "The Dame in Color" and "The Tin Flute".

Answer: The Decline of the American Empire

At the beginning, it seems like it is a normal conversation about politics and work, but tension begins to build as one of the students reveals she has had affairs with two people who are there, in the same room, creating a rather awkward situation.

This movie dominated the 1987 Genie Awards, as it won an outstanding number of nine awards.

Answer: Jeremy Irons

"Dead Ringers" reminds its viewers of Stewart and Cyril Marcus, identical twin gynecologists who were found dead in 1975, as they were in a process of withdrawal from barbiturates. The script of the film is based on "Twins" by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland.

Jeremy Irons is an Academy Award winner, who has appeared in films such as "Reversal of Fortune" and "Elizabeth I".

Answer: Jesus

"Jesus of Montreal" is about actor Daniel Coloumbe (played by Lothaire Bluteau), who is invited to play the role of Jesus in the church Passion Play. The film was recipient of numerous awards, like the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in the Cannes Film Festival of 1989. The movie had already appeared in the "Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time" list, in 1993.

Answer: Atom Egoyan

The movie, set in British Columbia, narrates the grieving process of two parents after their son (and other children) died in a school bus accident.

Interestingly, Atom was named this way because the first nuclear reactor in Egypt had just been completed. Egoyan rejected his Armenian descent for most of his life.

Answer: First film ever written, directed and acted entirely in Inuktitut

Inuktitut is an Inuit language with Eskimo origins. It is mostly spoken in the Canadian territory of Nunavut, a province inhabited by the Inuit people. Zacharias Kunuk presides the Isuma production company with Paul Apak Angilirq, Pauloosie Qulitalik and Norman Cohn.

Answer: The Barbarian Invasions

This film is the second in a series; it is preceded by "The Decline of the American Empire", and it was followed by "Days of Darkness". The film shows the characters of "The Decline of the American Empire" all grown up, and show their children and the new ways of thinking as generations pass.