News quiz Jan. 25 | What was the right community for ‘Wrong Husband’?
Give our weekly news quiz a try and test your knowledge of recent northern events
Families, elders and students from the community packed the school gymnasium in this Nunavut community for the screening of the movie ‘Wrong Husband’ on Jan. 12. What’s the name of the community? (Photo courtesy of Zacharias Kunuk)
Quiz time! Five questions from the past week or so, all with an Arctic theme. Are you ready?
1. There was good news this past week for Canadians interested in seeing more of Inuit culture on their TVs. What happened?
A. It was confirmed North of North will return for a second season on CBC and APTN.
B. Air Canada announced it will offer Arctic-themed movies on all its flights, along with the usual Hollywood stuff.
C. Inuit-language Uvagut TV is now included on all basic cable packages across the country.
2. Filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk’s new movie, called Wrong Husband, drew a full house during an advance screening recently in the Nunavut community where it was filmed. Where was that?
A. Iqaluit.
B. Igloolik.
C. Cambridge Bay.
3. Thieves broke into a storage container belonging to Iqaluit’s hunters and trappers association late last month and stole $3,100 worth of property, according to the RCMP. What did they carry off?
A. Guns and ammunition meant to be used for hunting.
B. Dried fish, muskox and seal meat.
C. Personal property belonging to association members.
4. Schools across Nunavik were closed for four straight days over the past week and a half. Why weren’t the kids in class?
A. The weather was too cold, part of the deep winter freeze that has extended even into the southern United States.
B. A strike by school bus drivers.
C. A strike by teachers.
5. Baffin Fisheries’ $72.5-million vessel Inuksuk II finally arrived in Canada recently, a few months later than expected. Why the delay?
A. There was an issue with some of the crew members’ passports.
B. The ship had mechanical problems.
C. The crew went on strike demanding higher pay.
Closed-circuit camera footage shows suspects breaking into a storage unit in Iqaluit in December, RCMP say. (Photo courtesy of Iqaluit RCMP)
Answers
- C — Uvagut TV will provide all kinds of northern programming — current affairs, kids’ shows, movies and documentaries — to Canadians from coast to coast.
- B — Kunuk’s new movie was screened in his home community of Igloolik, near where it was filmed in 2023.
- B — RCMP say three suspects escaped with a haul of country food.
- C — Nunavik teachers took a four-day strike action to protest slow negotiations for a new contract, which have been ongoing since October 2022.
- B — Mechanical problems forced the 80-metre vessel to return for repairs to the shipyard in Turkey where it was built.
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