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How much do you know about your home and native land?

Peter Dyakowski is an all-Canadian kind of guy—a trivia champ and a CFL lineman. Can you beat his 67% on our special Canada Day Quiz?
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A Canadian flag flies in the wind at Granville Island in Vancouver, B.C., on Monday June 30, 2014. A Canadian flag was removed from a Manitoba advance polling station over the weekend because a worker felt it violated election rules. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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The Canadian flag flies from the stern of the Uchuck 111 as it traverses Esperanza Inlet, British Columbia, Canada. (Ron Watts/All Canada Photos/Corbis)
The Canadian flag flies from the stern of the Uchuck 111 as it traverses Esperanza Inlet, British Columbia, Canada. (Ron Watts/All Canada Photos/Corbis)

To celebrate Canada Day, here’s a very special Canadian edition of the Maclean’s Quiz, our weekly diversion designed by Terrance Balazo to test your trivia skills. Good luck, and remember: no Internet assistance allowed.

We’ve also invited the Maclean’s Genius, Peter Dyakowski, to take this Canada Day quiz. He’s an all-Canadian man: A lineman with the Canadian Football League’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats who also bested the competition in CBC’s Canada’s Smartest Person contest in 2012. And we don’t call him our genius for nothing—he solved the viral Singapore brain teaser that had been stumping the Internet. (And during his workout, no less!)

This week, we tested Dyakowski on everything Canada, from comediennes to pioneers, from high altitudes to even higher satellites. How did he do? Fittingly, given Canada’s wonderful centenary that year and its Expo in Montreal, he scored 67 per cent.

Ready to try your hand? Click here to take the Quiz, or take it below.