Canada

A country so huge they can have super long straight roads that need to warn people when they bear left or right slightly.

Questions

One of the country’s longest serving Prime Ministers, Jean Chrétien was in charge over what ten year period?

1993 TO 2003

In Inuit mythology what is the spirit or soul attached to all things, not just humans? There is a ward by this name in Edmonton and a 2021 song by Silla and Rise.

ANIRNIQ

Located south of the Gray Strait and north-east of Ungava Bay, the uninhabited Killiniq Island can be found in which Canadian province or territory? It used to have a population, but the last residents were re-settled in 1978.

NUNAVUT

An important area for fishing that was a location in Rudyard Kipling’s “Captains Courageous”, off which of Canada’s provinces can the Grand Banks be found?

NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

Giving its name to a crater on Callisto and a bomb-like snoll in “Final Fantasy XI”, which Inuit water spirit is considered to be a protector of seals and able to come to the aid of fishermen?

AGLOOLIK

Seen on the map of Brobdingnag in “Gulliver’s Travels”, Juan de Fuca searched for which fabled strait that was believed to connect the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific? It had first appeared on real maps in the early 16th century well before the existence of the Bering Strait was established.

STRAIT OF ANIÁN

The Koukdjuak river that runs from Nettilling lake to the Arctic Ocean and the Dewey Soper Migratory Bird Sanctuary Ramsar site are features on which Canadian island?

BAFFIN ISLAND

In Inuit myth, who are the moon god and sun goddess whose constant chase explains the workings of night and day? Every once in a while the goddess catches up and this results in a solar eclipse.

IGALUK AND MALINA

A kind of bogeyman that is featured in the indie game “Beneath the Floes”, which Inuit creature abducts children that are foolhardy enough to wander too close to the water?

QALLUPILLUIT / QALUPALIK

Having a five-word title, which 1969 Neil Young album gave rise to the singles ”Down by the River” and “Cinnamon Girl”, with track #2 having the same name as the album? His second studio release, the cover features the artist alongside a dog and a tree.

EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE

Part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which large bay off the south of Newfoundland is north of the Burin peninsula and north-east of St. Pierre & Micquelon?

FORTUNE BAY

His works also including “Fearful Symmetry”, a significant re-assessment of William Blake, what was the three-word title of Northrop Frye’s significant work on literary theory that was made up of four essays?

ANATOMY OF CRITICISM

Music – Canada

Despite having gone to see them live I couldn’t recognise the name of Billy Talent’s lead singer or any album name that didn’t include “Billy Talent”!

Questions

11 Mar 23

Produced by David Crosby and containing the name of a bird in its four-word title, what was Joni Mitchell’s first album, being released in 1968?

SONG TO A SEAGULL

Which 1974 Joni Mitchell album with a three-word title featured the songs “Help me” and “Free man in Paris”, becoming her highest charting album in North America, reaching number 1 in Canada and number 2 in the US.

COURT AND SPARK

Her most recent and first album of new material since 1998’s “Taming the Tiger”, what is the one-word title of Joni Mitchell’s 2007 album, featuring songs based on the Tennessee Williams play “The Night of the Iguana” and Rudyard Kipling poem “If”, as well as a new version of “Big Yellow Taxi”?

SHINE

From which 1970 third studio album with a four-word title was Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi”, the title referring to a mountainous neighbourhood in Los Angeles where Raymond Chandler’s detective Philip Marlowe lived?

LADIES OF THE CANYON (The neighbourhood is Laurel Canyon)

Of Polish descent and born in Montreal, what is the name of the vocalist of Canadian rock band Billy Talent, who got their name from the 1996 Canadian mockumentary “Hard Core Logo”?

BENJAMIN KOWALEWICZ

Breaking with the tradition of their first three albums by not calling it “Billy Talent IV”, what fourth album by Canadian rock band Billy Talent contained the singles “Viking Death March” and “Surprise Surprise”, neither being reflective of the album’s title?

DEAD SILENCE

The first album recorded by Billy Talent without drummer Aaron Solowoniuk who had suffered a multiple sclerosis relapse, what were the Canadian rock band afraid of in the title of their fifth album and its lead single, with perhaps the strangest song title on the record being “Ghost Ship of Cannibal Rats”?

AFRAID OF HEIGHTS

Which sixth studio album by Billy Talent suggests they have lost some confidence, which may explain why they teamed up with Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo for the track “End of Me”?

CRISIS OF FAITH