Year-end news quiz | We’ve got a few questions about 2024

Did you keep up with the northern news over the past year? Test your knowledge and memory here

Nunavut is two years into its Nunavut 3000 housing program. Here, students work on one of three duplexes under construction in Rankin Inlet on Oct. 3 as part of their trades studies at Nunavut Arctic College. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)

By Nunatsiaq News

Welcome to the say-goodbye-to-2024 year-end news quiz. Were you paying attention to current events over the past year? Let’s see how you do with these 12 questions.

1. Premier P.J. Akeeagok described Jan. 18, 2024, as a “historic moment.” What was historic about it?

A. It was Akeeagok’s 40th birthday.
B. The Nunavut Lands and Resources Devolution Agreement was signed.
C. Temperatures reached a record low in Iqaluit that day.

2. It felt like Christmas in February across three Nunavut communities this year. How come?

A. An unidentified national corporation flew hundreds of children’s toys to families there.
B. Each of those hamlets declared a one-day holiday for families.
C. Northern Stores distributed thousands of free turkeys there.

3. Pita Aatami was re-elected president of Makivvik Corp. in February, but voter turnout was the lowest in recent memory. What was the turnout?

A. 17 per cent, the same turnout that Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. saw in its 2021 presidential election.
B. 26 per cent.
C. 47 per cent, or less than half of the electorate.

4. On March 26, Nunatsiaq News became a hot news item. How did that happen?

A. That date marked our 51st year of operations.
B. Actor George Clooney dropped into our Iqaluit office while filming a movie in the North.
C. Our office burned down.

5. Notorious Nunavut priest Rev. Johannes Rivoire was in the news again in April. What did he do this time?

A. He agreed to return to Canada to face charges of sexually abusing Nunavut children.
B. New sexual abuse charges were filed against him in Canada.
C. He died.

6. In May, a Cambridge Bay resident fed up with paying high prices in the North launched a petition calling for what to be changed?

A. The federal government should cut in half the usual GST it charges for people living in remote areas.
B. Canada Post should begin providing free shipping to those areas.
C. Amazon Canada should offer the same free shipping to Prime members in remote areas as it does to the rest of Canada.

7. “I was just told how to dress and that there’s no street names and all cabs cost $9.” Who said that?

A. Actress Mary Lynn Rajskub, filming on location in Iqaluit.
B. An American tourist, responding to a Government of Nunavut survey of people visiting Iqaluit.
C. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was in Iqaluit to sign the devolution agreement in January.

8. Something unusual happened this year regarding a soccer ball at a school in Pond Inlet. What was it?

A. A photographer captured a shot of a polar bear playing with the discarded ball.
B. The weather was so cold the ball split in two when a student kicked it.
C. A ball kicked into the water floated for 3,000 kilometres until it was found by a man in Newfoundland and Labrador.

9. The new Nuuk-to-Iqaluit direct flights that were celebrated in June were no longer direct in August, and required an extra stop. What happened?

A. Mechanical problems with Air Greenland’s plane.
B. Smoke from southern forest fires made flying too risky.
C. Problems at the Nuuk airport.

10. Why was an Air India flight forced to make an unscheduled landing in Iqaluit in October?

A. A “heat smell” was detected inside the plane.
B. The plane had a fuel leak.
C. A bomb threat.

11. What issue inflamed Nunavik in November, causing residents to hold numerous protests?

A. A fatal shooting by police.
B. Frustration over a lack of medical services.
C. An increase in the price of fuel.

12. About two years after the Nunavut 3000 housing plan was announced, how many units had been completed as of November?

A. 185.
B. 394.
C. 749.

An Air India jet that was forced to make an unscheduled landing in Iqaluit sits parked at the airport in this photo from October. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)

Answers

  1. B — The devolution agreement was signed, which will lead to Nunavut eventually gaining control over much of its Crown lands. It was the largest land transfer in Canadian history.
  2. C — Northern retailers handed out more than 2,000 free turkeys across Rankin Inlet, Baker Lake and Arviat.
  3. B — 26 per cent.
  4. A — That’s the date our Iqaluit office was destroyed by fire. Sadly, a man who lived in an apartment in that building was injured in the fire and lost all of his possessions.
  5. C — Rev. Johannes Rivoire died in April, in France where he lived since fleeing Canada in 1993.
  6. C — Krista Matthews of Cambridge Bay organized the petition calling for Amazon to give northerners equal treatment when it comes to Amazon Prime shipping rates.
  7. A — It was American actress Mary Lynn Rajskub, a cast member in the new Netflix comedy series North of North.
  8. C — The wayward ball was found on a beach by a lobster fisher living in Robert’s Arm, N.L.
  9. C — Blame the Nuuk airport, where security authorization for international flights was revoked.
  10. C — A bomb threat forced the unscheduled landing, according to the federal government.
  11. A — The shooting by police that left Joshua Papigatuk dead and his brother Garnet injured remains under investigation.
  12. B — 394 units were completed as of November, with 322 more units under construction.

 

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