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Canadian Numbers Quiz -- can you guess what they mean?

1. 24
2. 301
3. M5W 1E6
4. 13
5. 1-800-622-6232
6. 136

Feel free to add any you can think of. I thought up another good one on the drive home last night, but promptly forgot it.

Date: 2003-12-06 09:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kdborg.livejournal.com
1. 24 Sussex Drive, Prime Minister's Residence.
2. Number of members of parliament... going up to 308 in the next election. :)
3. M5W 1E6 is a postal code for Toronto.
4. # provinces and territories.
5. I'm guessing the toll-free number to the Federal Government of Canada.
6. Canada is 136 years old

New ones:
7. 105... number of Senators
8. 21 years, 5 months and 1 day... I'll let you guess at that one.

Date: 2003-12-07 02:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] c9.livejournal.com
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Not specific enough, something more Canadian.
4. Yes
5. The judges have decided to accept this response.
6. Yes.

8. Age of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?

Date: 2003-12-07 02:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kdborg.livejournal.com
3. CBC?


8. Nope. :)

Date: 2003-12-07 03:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kdborg.livejournal.com
8. is not a bad guess... Hadn't realized it was close to this, potentially, obscure fact. Charter was in April, 1982.

That time given, 21 years, 5 months and 1 day was the longest any Prime Minister was ever in power. Accomplished by King in multiple sittings.

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