Alberta - Wild Rose Country Trivia Quiz

Answer: 661 848 kmē

Alberta is the fourth largest province.

Answer: Strong and free

"Glorious and free" is the motto of Manitoba. "Je me souviens" or "I remember" is Quebec's motto. "One defends and the other conquers" is Nova Scotia's motto.

Answer: Rocky Mountains

The lodgepole pine is Alberta's provincial tree, the wild rose is the flower, and the great horned owl is the bird. Although many people think of the Rockies when they think of Alberta, the mountains are not official symbols of Alberta.

Answer: Consort

k d lang was born Katherine Dawn Lang in 1962. Her first band was the Reclines, a tribute band to Patsy Cline.

Answer: Utah

There are six states that are completely in the same time zone. There are several others that are partly in the Mountain Time Zone.

Answer: a legendary huge fish

Kinosoo was said to be a giant fish who lived in Cold Lake. The town of Cold Lake has a summer festival honoring the legend of Kinosoo, and he is on the town crest.

Answer: An English princess

Princess Louise Caroline Alberta (1848-1939) was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's sixth child. She became, on marriage, the Duchess of Argyll.

Answer: Alexander Rutherford

Alexander Rutherford was a member of the Liberal Party and was premier from 1905 to 1910. His house is now a museum in Edmonton.

Answer: True

Prairie rattlesnakes are fairly common in the grass lands of Southern Alberta. They will often share the same winter hibernaculum with bull snakes.

Answer: Lake Claire

Lake Claire, at 1436 kmē is the largest lake entirely inside Alberta. Lake Athabaska is larger, at 7936 kmē, but it is mostly in Saskatchewan. Lesser Slave Lake is the next largest, with 1168 kmē.

Answer: 1899

Treaty 8 was the largest land settlement up to that time between the Canadian government and aboriginal people. It covered the area that is now northern Alberta, and some of northern B.C., Saskatchewan, and southern N.W.T..

Answer: a rock structure

It is a sandstone structure that is formed by erosion. A caprock holds down the sandstone, and keeps it from washing away. This creates surreal and other-worldly looking rock pillars.

Answer: North Saskatchewan

The North Saskatchewan River starts in the Columbia Icefields and passes through Edmonton on its way to Hudson Bay.

Answer: T- Rex

At 26 feet Albertosaurus was smaller than the 50 foot long T-Rex, but was physically similar. It lived in Alberta in the Late Cretaceous Period. You can see its bones in the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta.

Answer: serval

The serval is a smallish wild cat found in southern Africa.