News quiz for Jan. 11 | Trudeau, Trump and Nunavut TV

Welcome back to the weekly quiz! Hope your week was better than Justin Trudeau’s. Here we go — five questions to ponder. The answers are listed below.

1. Justin Trudeau’s first visit to Nunavut as prime minister was in 2017. Where did he go?

A. To the official opening of the High Arctic Research Centre in Cambridge Bay.
B. To Iqaluit to sign a partnership deal with Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.
C. To Rankin Inlet to visit the Meliadine gold mine.

2. Seriously, did anyone in Nunavut or Nunavik not watch the first episodes of the new TV series North of North this week? It’s set in Nunavut and in the first episode, what happens to lead character Siaja when she goes seal hunting with her husband?

A. She catches more seals than he does.
B. She falls out of the boat.
C. She drives, and he falls out of the boat.

3. A blanket of bone-chilling cold weather that started in Siberia spread across much of North America over the past week. What is the nickname for that particular sort of weather system?

A. Arctic Blast.
B. Siberian Bomb.
C. Winter Whopper.

4. Gov. Gen. Mary Simon played a part in the news surrounding Trudeau’s resignation announcement on Monday. What did she do?

A. Agreed to postpone a federal election until a new Liberal leader is chosen.
B. Not knowing her microphone was live, she was heard saying: “I thought he would never leave!”
C. Consented to Trudeau’s request to prorogue Parliament until March 24.

5. This week, how did United States president-elect Donald Trump suggest he might convince Canada to join the U.S.?

A. Military force, if necessary.
B. By blocking American TV shows from being viewed in Canada.
C. By economic pressure.

Actress Anna Lambe is seen during shooting of North of North, a new comedy series that premiered Jan. 7 on CBC and APTN. The series was shot in Iqaluit last year. (Photo courtesy of Jasper Savage/Netflix)

Answers

1. B — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went to Iqaluit to sign an Inuit-to-Crown partnership that would see federal ministers meet regularly with Inuit representatives.
2. B — Siaja, played by Iqaluit actress Anna Lambe, falls out of the boat, to the embarrassment of her husband.
3. A — This weather system is commonly called the Arctic Blast, according to Brian Proctor, a meteorologist at Environment Canada.
4. C ­— Gov. Gen. Mary Simon approved Trudeau’s request to prorogue Parliament until March 24, shutting down official business in the House of Commons until then.
5. C — Trump said he wouldn’t rule out force to gain control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, but for Canada he would use economic pressure, i.e. the 25 per cent tariffs he has threatened to impose on all goods the U.S. imports from Canada.