News quiz Nov. 15 | Dangerous drugs and deadly bears
Challenge your knowledge of the North’s news with our weekly quiz
A polar bear walks through a Nunavut community on Nov. 3. It was shot after coming to the community six times, including after kids had finished trick or treating on Halloween. What community did the bear visit? (Photo courtesy of Rhoda Akeeagok)
Just five more quizzes until Christmas after this, so let’s go!
- Iqaluit recently made an ambulance purchase. How many ambulances does the territory’s capital city have now with this latest buy?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4 - A growing number of people are signing onto an effort to hold those in authority accountable for acts of sexual abuse or harassment against Inuit women. What is the movement called?
A. #NoMoreAbuse
B. #InuitMeToo
C. #InuitMatterToo - That was no costume — a real polar bear showed up six times in the days around Halloween before being shot and killed by a hunter. Which municipality did the bear visit?
A. Pond Inlet
B. Arviat
C. Grise Fiord - Residents in one Nunavut electoral riding won’t be represented when newly elected MLAs gather for the first time this coming week in Iqaluit. Which riding won’t send a representative?
A. Quttiktuq
B. Aggu
C. Netsilik - The RCMP and the territory’s top public health officials are warning of a dangerous, possibly lethal, drug called pink cocaine that has been found in Nunavut. Why is the name considered to be misleading?
A. It makes the drug sound harmless like cotton candy, but it can be deadly.
B. The drug doesn’t actually contain cocaine.
C. It’s actually more of an off-salmon colour than pink.
A sample of pink cocaine is shown in a file photo from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. (Photo courtesy of Drug Enforcement Administration)
Answers
- C — By purchasing two new ambulances, both of them 2024 Ford Transits, the city of Iqaluit now has four ambulances to transport people for medical care.
- B — So far, close to 1,400 people have signed an online petition and about $8,000 has been contributed in the name of #InuitMeToo.
- C — It was Grise Fiord that was repeatedly dropped into by the polar bear. When bear bangers were tried but proved ineffective, the roving bear was killed by a hunter.
- B — No MLA from Aggu riding, which includes Igloolik, will attend because there isn’t one — yet. Voters there have to go back to the polls for a second election on Dec. 15 because a recount found the two candidates in the original Oct. 27 vote finished in a tie.
- B — Pink cocaine’s ingredients can include fentanyl, ketamine, methamphetamine or other drugs but it doesn’t actually contain cocaine, says Dr. Ekua Agyemang, chief public health officer for Nunavut.
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