Cabin Radio's 2022 News Quiz

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How closely did you follow the news happening this year? Let's find out. One point per correct answer and they're all multiple choice.

Which group rebranded to become the Northern Mosaic Network this year?

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NorthMart

NWT Arts Council

NWT Housing Corporation

Rainbow Coalition of Yellowknife

Soaring Eagle Friendship Centre

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Which of these answers correctly matches NWT authors with the children's books they published this year?

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Nikolai Deleff (pictured) wrote The Greatest Gift, Lana de Bastiani wrote Nick the Northern Special, Jessie Wilson wrote Gabby the Magic Poodle, Isabelle Caron Hébert wrote The Bear and Ivory.

Nikolai Deleff wrote Nick the Northern Special, Lana de Bastiani wrote The Bear and Ivory, Jessie Wilson wrote The Greatest Gift, Isabelle Caron Hébert wrote Gabby the Magic Poodle.

Nikolai Deleff wrote Gabby the Magic Poodle, Lana de Bastiani wrote The Greatest Gift, Jessie Wilson wrote Nick the Northern Special, Isabelle Caron Hébert wrote The Bear and Ivory.

Nikolai Deleff wrote The Bear and Ivory, Lana de Bastiani wrote Nick the Northern Special, Jessie Wilson wrote Gabby the Magic Poodle, Isabelle Caron Hébert wrote The Greatest Gift.

Nikolai Deleff wrote Nick the Northern Special, Lana de Bastiani wrote Gabby the Magic Poodle, Jessie Wilson wrote The Bear and Ivory, Isabelle Caron Hébert wrote The Greatest Gift.

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Liam Gill finished 23rd in the men's snowboard halfpipe event at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Of which First Nation is he a member?

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Łı́ı́dlı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́ First Nation

Łútsël K'é Dene First Nation

Deh Gáh Got'ı̨ę First Nation

Pehdzeh Ki First Nation

Behdzi Ahda First Nation

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Which award did Yellowknife's Jesse Roberts win this year?

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Arctic Inspiration Prize

Minister's Culture and Heritage Circle Award

Canadian Pacific Fleet Sailor of the Year

Music NWT's Fan Choice Award

Canadian Coast Guard Exemplary Service Medal

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"I'm just shaking. When I got the call I was like, oh my." Words said by which NWT minister, about what?

1 point

Diane Archie about a Russian aircraft landing in Yellowknife

Julie Green after Yellowknife City Council rejected a shelter location

Paulie Chinna on agreeing new federal funding for housing

Shane Thompson after wildlife officers raided a cultural camp

Caroline Cochrane after Alberta's Sovereignty Act became law

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Which of these did not happen in March?

1 point

NWT recorded its 10,000th Covid-19 case

NWT recorded its 20th death attributed to Covid-19

NWT announced the closure of its Covid-19 Secretariat

NWT announced the end of masking and isolation rules

NWT shut down its Covid-19 online dashboard

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The picture shows a place that was one of Yellowknife's twin cities for the past 30 years. Which city are you looking at?

1 point

Fairbanks

Yakutsk

Helsinki

Vladivostok

Montreal

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Which northern airline bought a Boeing 737 for the first time this year?

1 point

Canadian North

Air Tindi

Buffalo Airways

NWAL

Air North

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Complete this Cabin Radio headline: "Experts sound alarm as thousands of ______ migrate north"

1 point

Ontarians

Beavers

Wild boar

Mosquitoes

Electric vehicles

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Which federal party leader made an appearance at Yellowknife's farmers' market this year?

1 point

Justin Trudeau

Pierre Poilievre

Elizabeth May

Yves-François Blanchet

Jagmeet Singh

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The Monkey Tree Pub was cleared of breaking Covid-19 public health rules in October. What reason did the judge give for dismissing the charge?

1 point

The prosecution failed to demonstrate the pub had ever been told the rules

Customers had forcibly removed barriers to reopen the pub's dance floor

The pub had been the target of a sting operation

The chief public health officer had given the Monkey Tree a dancing exemption

It wasn't the pub owners' fault that customers kept ignoring the rules

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Who is this?

1 point

Ethel Blondin-Andrew, who became an Officer of the Order of Canada

Conservative leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis, who visited Yellowknife

Dene author Katłįà Lafferty, who released her third novel

Tanis Simpson, an expert in working with qiviut yarn

Debbie Purchase, who created a quilt for a Ukraine relief fund in Fort Smith

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What was special about this storm cloud?

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It triggered Yellowknife's first-ever funnel cloud warning

It was spawned by a wildfire

It created a downburst across the Dehcho

It cut off highway access to Wrigley

It led to a tornado in Fort Smith

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Where was Pope Francis when he first delivered an apology to Indigenous peoples in July?

1 point

Holding a private audience with Indigenous leaders at the Vatican

The Plains of Abraham, a historic area of Quebec City

Outside an elementary school in Iqaluit

A residential school site outside Edmonton

On parkland next to the Mackenzie River in Fort Simpson

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An outbreak of what led to the temporary closure of some parts of Wood Buffalo National Park?

1 point

Covid-19

RSV

Avian flu

Anthrax

Legionnaires' Disease

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Norm Glowach, pictured, was one of the first three NWT Music Hall of Fame inductees this year. Who were the other two? (Select two options below – you'll need both to score a point.)

1 point

Yellowknives Dene Drummers

Leela Gilday

Tanya Tagaq

Ted Wesley

Welders Daughter

Which building is this?

1 point

Gallery on 47th in Yellowknife

Fort Smith's new library, replacing the Mary Kaeser Library

The renovated reception of the Nest Building, formerly the Bellanca Building

An art space at Yellowknife's École Įtłʼo

Yellowknife's new visitor centre

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Complete this Cabin Radio headline: "Yellowknifers beyond despair after _____ outages in a day"

1 point

Four

Five

Six

Seven

Eight

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In October, MLA Katrina Nokleby urged the territorial government to allow "experimental, non-commercial test flights" involving what?

1 point

Russian-chartered aircraft

Cargo airships

South Korean military helicopters

A football field-sized research balloon

Spacecraft manned by NWT SPCA dogs

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What is happening here?

1 point

Researchers measure reindeer brain activity while playing different sounds to the animal

Museum staff put the finishing touches to an interactive, Tłı̨chǫ-curated caribou display

A caribou that crossed an NWT winter road is tested for exposure to contaminants

Veterinarians remove cables entangled in a reindeer that fell into a Christmas light display

Inuvik's first therapy reindeer is put through its paces before appearing at the town library

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