Statistics for Regional District Seats of British Columbia

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Regional District/Region	Seat/Largest Community	Hint	% Correct
Metro Vancouver*	Burnaby	If you're trying to incinerate wasps, be careful not to...	100%
Strathcona	Campbell River	Think a stream of mm-mm-good soup!	100%
Thompson-Nicola	Kamloops	Think "camera goes around in circles."	100%
Central Okanagan	Kelowna	Rhymes with "Iona;" from local indigenous word meaning "grizzly bear."	100%
________	Nanaimo	Lends its name to a tasty chocolate-custard desert bar! Indigenous name is Snuneymuxw.	100%
________-Clayoquot	Port Alberni	This fjord-side mill town might as well have been named after politicians Gore and Sanders!	100%
Sunshine Coast	Sechelt	Sounds a bit like "seashell"	100%
Stikine**	Atlin	Sounds a bit like "Atlas"	75%
Central Coast	Bella Coola	Might make you think of chimes and refrigerators!	75%
Bulkley-Nechako*	Burns Lake	Think Scottish poet or Simpsons billionaire.	75%
Fraser Valley*	Chilliwack	This "wacky" city lent its name to a Canadian arena rock band.	75%
North Okanagan*	Coldstream	Think "low-temperature river." Named after a town in Scotland.	75%
Comox Valley	Courtenay	Shares its name with a noble house that has existed since the 11th century and whose current head resides in Devon	75%
East Kootenay	Cranbrook	Named after a village in Kent, UK; could be held to mean "crane river."	75%
Peace River	Dawson Creek	NOT named after a teen drama with James van der Beek, Joshua Jackson, and Katie Holmes! Also lacking a possessive.	75%
Cowichan Valley	Duncan	Famous people with this as their first name include Hines, MacLeod, Sheik, Keith, and Ferguson, plus also the ill-fated King of Scotland in Shakespeare's MacBeth.	75%
Northern Rockies***	Fort Nelson	Like Central Kootenay only with an extra word attached (means "encampment"	75%
Central Kootenay	Nelson	Think Admiral Horatio?	75%
Squamish-Lillooet*	Pemberton	Named after a neighbourhood of Wigan.	75%
Okanagan-Similkameen	Penticton	Sounds English because it ends in -ton, but it is really of indigenous origin!	75%
Mount Waddington*	Port McNeill	The main part of the name means "Son of Niall," and it's on the ocean.	75%
qathet	Powell River	Were it named more recently, it could have been named after George W. Bush's Secretary Of State!	75%
Fraser-Fort George	Prince George	The eldest of Prince William's children also bears this name.	75%
North Coast	Prince Rupert	Named after a British-German general and noble who was also the first head of the Hudson's Bay Company.	75%
Columbia-Shuswap	Salmon Arm	Named after a part of Shuswap lake, not after the limb of a certain trout relative!	75%
Kitimat-Stikine	Terrace	Named for a flat piece of land with a sharp slope on its edge, often created artificially for agricultural purposes.	75%
Kootenay Boundary	Trail	Another word for "path."	75%
Capital	Victoria	Named after 19th century British queen	75%
Cariboo	Williams Lake	Its nickname is "Bill's Pond."	75%