News quiz Dec. 21 | Animals, alcohol and a new $5 bill

Welcome to the quiz. Put aside all thoughts of Christmas for a few minutes and challenge your brain with these five questions on current events.

1. Kuujjuaq’s veterinary clinic has been operating for a year now and is housed in its own permanent building. Where did it get its start?

A. In an organizer’s closet.
B. In a dressing room at the arena.
C. In an unused room at the Kuujjuaq fire hall.

2. Kevin Iksiktaaryuk resigned as mayor of Baker Lake on Dec. 10, citing workload and stress on his family life. According to Nunavut election rules, the hamlet council has two options for finding a new mayor. Which of these is not an option?

A. Council can appoint one of its own members.
B. Council can take applications from the public and choose a mayor.
C. Council can schedule a byelection.

3. Some Nunavut hamlets have adopted alcohol restrictions over the Christmas holidays. Rankin Inlet councillors took a unique approach to that — what did they do?

A. They banned alcohol sales outright for all of December.
B. Decreed that anyone purchasing alcohol in December must also donate a toy to a local charity.
C. They pledged to avoid alcohol for 12 days over Christmas.

4. A pertussis outbreak was declared in Igloolik on Monday by the Department of Health. What is pertussis better known as?

A. Tuberculosis.
B. Whooping cough.
C. Dysentery.

5. The late Kinngait artist Pitseolak Ashoona was a finalist as the Bank of Canada considered which Canadian should adorn the newly designed $5 bill. Ashoona wasn’t selected. Who was?

A. Gordon Lightfoot.
B. Gordie Howe.
C. Terry Fox.

Whose image will soon replace Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canada’s seventh prime minister, on the $5 bill? (File photo)

Answers

1. A — Liam Callaghan worked for 12 years to see a veterinary clinic opened in Kuujjuaq, and once hosted veterinary services in his closet.
2. B — Taking applications is not an option, probably because that would lead to an unelected person running council.
3. C — It will be a dry Christmas for Rankin Inlet hamlet council members, and they encouraged other local residents to make a similar commitment against drinking.
4. B — Whooping cough. After announcing on Dec. 13 that a case had been confirmed in Igloolik, on Dec. 16 the Health Department said it had declared an outbreak there.
5. C — The image of Terry Fox, the young Canadian whose heroic Marathon of Hope in 1980 inspired millions of people to donate money to fight cancer, and continues to inspire donations from around the world, will replace Sir Wilfrid Laurier on the new $5 bill.