News quiz Aug. 30 | Athletes, protesters and a year full of elections

The final quiz for August … summer’s nearly gone. Anyway, let’s start the quiz!

1. At the Canada Summer Games which ended last weekend, Kaneena Netser of Rankin Inlet led Team Nunavut as its flag-bearer for the closing ceremony. What sport did she participate in?

A. Beach volleyball
B. Wrestling
C. Basketball

2. The head coach of the Whale Cove girls’ soccer team was critical recently of the Nunavut Soccer Association. What is her complaint?

A. Too many tournaments are hosted in Iqaluit.
B. Teams from small communities are disadvantaged by having to raise too large a share of the costs to participate in territorial tournaments.
C. Small communities should be given newer, better training facilities.

3. This is the year of elections in the North. So far, we’ve seen a new president elected for Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., there was the federal election in April — and there are more to come. But which of these elections will not happen this year?

A. Territorial elections in Nunavut
B. Municipal elections in Nunavik
C. Presidential election for Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

4. The Inuit Art Foundation recently named Lindsay McIntyre as its new executive director. What is unique about that move?

A. She’s the first Inuk to lead the organization
B. McIntyre is a renowned sculptor in her own right
C. McIntyre comes from a long line of accomplished Inuit sculptors

5. Nunatsiaq News covered a protest in Iqaluit on Aug. 19 where about 20 people marched and voiced their opinions over an issue that’s being protested around the world. What was the issue?

A. It was an anti-Trump ‘No More Kings’ march.
B. They protested to oppose Russia’s war on Ukraine.
C. They protested Israel’s treatment of Gaza residents in its war against Hamas.

Lindsay McIntyre is the new executive director of the Inuit Art Foundation. (Photo by Frances Cathryn Forge Projects)

Answers

1. B — Kaneena Netser was a member of Nunavut’s wrestling team at the Canada Summer Games in St. John’s, N.L.
2. B — Sheila Nattar said a policy change by the Nunavut Soccer Association forces small communities to raise unreasonable amounts of money to travel and compete.
3. B — There are no municipal elections happening in Nunavik this year, they were held last fall.
4. A — Incredibly, the Inuit Art Foundation had never been led by an Inuk until McIntyre’s appointment was announced in mid-August.
5. C — The protesters marched to support Gazans, whose homes and communities have been devastated in the ongoing war.