News quiz Feb. 7 | Who’s that knocking at my door?

Welcome to the weekly quiz — put on your thinking cap, get comfortable and let’s go!

1. One community emerged with two titles when the Nunavut Basketball Territorial Championships were played in Iqaluit last weekend. Which basketball powerhouse won both the men’s and women’s divisions?

A. Iqaluit
B. Cambridge Bay
C. Rankin Inlet

2. Everyone living in Nunavut or Nunavik can expect a knock on the door soon from someone carrying paperwork to be filled out. What’s going on?

A. Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami is conducting a broad survey on Inuit priorities.
B. Canada Post is experimenting with door-to-door delivery in the Arctic.
C. Statistics Canada workers are collecting data for the next national census.

3. Pangnirtung currently has no mayor — what’s unique about the hamlet’s attempt to fill the vacant position?

A. No one signed up to run when a byelection was called.
B. When the hamlet council voted to appoint one of its members as mayor, no one put their hand up.
C. Only one would-be candidate tried to register to run — a 12-year-old boy.

4. Kinngait artist Koomuatuk Sapa Curley is showing his carvings in an exhibition in a major Canadian city until March 7. Which city is the host gallery in?
A. Toronto
B. Vancouver
C. Montreal

5. The Nunavut Black History Society presented its annual Sankofa Awards recently, as part of Black History Month. What is ‘sankofa’?
A. A Zimbabwean term meaning ‘small but strong’
B. A mythical bird of Ghana
C. A Haitian term meaning ‘inspirational’

Presenter Baidir Bangoura, left, hands the Volunteer Achievement Sankofa Award to recipient Tristan Howell, during the Black History Society Sankofa Award ceremony at Astro Theatre in Iqaluit on Feb. 1. (Photo by Daron Letts)

Answers

1. B — Cambridge Bay teams ruled the court at the territorial basketball championships, winning in both the men’s and women’s divisions.
2. C — That knock you hear will be a StatCan worker, delivering census notices and offering help when needed for people to respond online with confidential data to be used in the 2026 census.
3. A — The nomination period ended Jan. 30 and when the snow had settled, no candidate had registered to run for mayor.
4. C — The exhibition by carver Koomuatuk Sapa Curley, who now works from Ottawa, is called Animism Today. It is open at La Guilde gallery in Montreal until March 7.
5. B — The sankofa is a mythical bird of Ghana. “It teaches us that wisdom, learning and strength come from remembering where we have been and honouring those who shape where we are going,” host Thoko Ngwenya said during Black History Month opening ceremonies last weekend in Iqaluit.