Statistics for 100 Greatest Canadians

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Rank	Clue	Person	% Correct
3.	Liberal Prime Minister of the 70's and 80's	Pierre Trudeau	88%
10.	Hockey player	Wayne Gretzky	85%
9.	Purported inventor of the telephone	Alexander Graham Bell	77%
2.	Cancer activist who died during an attempted cross-country marathon	Terry Fox	68%
8.	Canada's first Prime Minister	Sir John A. MacDonald	66%
32.	Comedic actor	Michael J. Fox	55%
27.	Singer	Céline Dion	54%
7.	CBC hockey commentator	Don Cherry	51%
83.	Native politician who defeated the Meech Lake accord through filibustering	Elijah Harper	51%
6.	Prime Minister, "founder" of modern peacekeeping	Lester Pearson	51%
5.	CBC nature show host, environmentalist	David Suzuki	49%
18.	Singer	Shania Twain	48%
53.	Hockey player	Gordie Howe	46%
38.	Hockey player	Mario Lemieux	45%
19.	Hockey player	Bobby Orr	43%
11.	Executed Metis rebel leader and politician	Louis Riel	43%
45.	Recent Prime Minister	Jean Chrétien	40%
29.	Comedic actor	Jim Carrey	38%
20.	Comedic actor	Mike Myers	38%
59.	Hockey player, founder of donut shop chain	Tim Horton	37%
49.	War War II-era Prime Minister	Mackenzie King	35%
23.	Hockey player	Maurice Richard	35%
14.	Musician	Neil Young	35%
1.	NDP leader, "founder" of Canadian healthcare system	Tommy Douglas	35%
47.	Conservative Prime Minister from the 50's	John Diefenbaker	34%
90.	Singer	Bryan Adams	31%
4.	Inventor of Insulin	Dr. Frederick Banting	31%
85.	Painter	Emily Carr	31%
64.	Conservative Prime Minister	Brian Mulroney	29%
70.	Inventor of basketball	James Naismith	29%
35.	British heroine from War of 1812, chocolate company founder	Laura Secord	26%
69.	First separatist Premier of Quebec	René Lévesque	26%
94.	Singer	Anne Murray	25%
57.	Author of "Anne of Green Gables" series	Lucy Maud Montgomery	25%
43.	First French-Canadian Prime Minister	Wilfrid Laurier	25%
21.	Symbolic dead World War I soldier	"The Unknown Soldier"	23%
39.	WWF wrestler	Bret "The Hitman" Hart	22%
95.	British Governor General, creator of the Stanley Cup	Lord Stanley	22%
71.	Feminist author	Margaret Atwood	22%
58.	Hocky player, scored winning goal against USSR in 1972	Paul Henderson	22%
96.	Rock musician from the Band "Rush"	Geddy Lee	20%
42.	Inventor of universial time zones	Sir Sandford Fleming	20%
16.	UN Commander of failed peacekeeping mission in Rwanda	Gen. Roméo Dallaire	18%
41.	Comedic actor	John Candy	18%
92.	Founder of "Molson Canadian" beer company	John Molson	18%
40.	Singer	Avril Lavigne	17%
65.	Rock musician, lead singer of "The Guess Who"	Burton Cummings	17%
89.	Gold-medal winning sprinter, "The World's Fastest Man"	Donovan Bailey	17%
33.	Musician	Gordon Lightfoot	17%
93.	Singer	Joni Mitchell	17%
91.	Founder and leader of Reform Party	Preston Manning	17%
48.	World War I fighter pilot	Billy Bishop	15%
77.	Scientist, partner of Frederick Banting	Dr. Charles Best	15%
55.	Pianist	Glenn Gould	15%
46.	Singer	Leonard Cohen	15%
88.	Author of stories about wolves	Farley Mowat	14%
86.	PGA golfer	Mike Weir	14%
67.	Hockey player	Patrick Roy	14%
30.	Parapalegic activist who did a global marathon in his wheelchair	Rick Hansen	14%
13.	Country singer	"Stompin' Tom" Connors	14%
72.	Map-maker, explorer	David Thompson	12%
36.	Children's TV show host on CBC	"Mr. Dressup"	12%
17.	Former Ontario NDP leader, poverty activist	Stephen Lewis	12%
76.	World War I military surgeon, wrote "In Flander's Fields"	John McCrae	11%
31.	Author, historian, CBC host	Pierre Berton	11%
82.	Comedic actor	Dan Aykroyd	9%
26.	Communist surgeon who served in Mao's Red Army	Dr. Norman Bethune	9%
68.	Hockey player	Jean Béliveau	9%
12.	Founder of international charity for mentally handicapped children	Jean Vanier	9%
62.	Professor of media studies	Marshall McLuhan	9%
80.	Native American actor	"Chief" Dan George	8%
25.	Feminist politician, fought for women's suffrage	Nellie McClung	8%
50.	Comedian, actor, CBC TV host	Rick Mercer	8%
63.	First Canadian woman in space	Roberta Bondar	8%
28.	British General in War of 1812	Sir Isaac Brock	8%
34.	DJ from Winnipeg radio station	Hal Anderson	6%
98.	Author	Mordecai Richler	6%
51.	Actress	Pamela Anderson	6%
15.	Radio talk show host	Peter Gzowski	6%
75.	Musician	Sarah McLachlan	6%
60.	Folk singer	Stan Rogers	6%
56.	Actor	William Shatner	6%
74.	Judge, argued women had the right to be appointed as senators	Emily Murphy	5%
24.	WWI general, first to independently command Canadian troops	Gen. Arthur Currie	5%
22.	Founder of Kin Canada, a secret men's society	Harold A. Rogers	5%
84.	Figure skater	Kurt Browning	5%
78.	Children's author	Robert Munsch	5%
66.	Current Auditor General of Canada. In 2002, she blew the whistle on high-profile money laundering scandal within current Liberal government.	Sheila Fraser	5%
37.	Native American leader who led Indian forces during the War of 1812	Tecumseh	5%
87.	Pro-abortion activist responsible for making the practice legal in Canada	Dr. Henry Morgantaler	3%
52.	Teenage human-rights activist	Craig Kielburger	2%
97.	Supreme Court Judge, current UN High Commissioner for Human Rights	Louise Arbour	2%
99.	North West Mounted Police officer who quelled last Native uprisings	Sam Steele	2%
81.	Gold-medal winning curler	Sandra Schmirler	2%
61.	Early Canadian geologist	William Edmond Logan	2%
54.	British spy during World War II	William "Intrepid" Stephenson	2%
72.	First black woman appointed to the Senate of Canada	Anne C. Cools	0%
79.	Hockey player	Ed Belfour	0%
100.	Founder and leader of the CCF / NDP party	J. S. Woodsworth	0%
44.	Bahai' religious activist, wife of Bahai' leader*.	Mary Maxwell	0%