ROUND 10: Challenge Round
A. Canadian Sports Awards
B. Quebec Institutions
C. Orchestral Conductors in Canada
D. Women's Rights in Canada
E. Canadian Railheads
F. Canadian Literary Magazines
Guess what: this is also the Canadiana round.
Canadian Sports Awards
A1. The most-valuable-player award presented to the top curler in the
playoffs of the Scott Tournament of Hearts is named for which person?
Sandra Schmirler
A2. The CFL Most Outstanding Canadian Award for regular season play has
been selected by the Football Reporters of Canada since 1954. Name
either of the two players who have won it four times.
Tony Gabriel
Russ Jackson
Quebec Institutions
B1. In Quebec, "la SAQ" [pronounce it "sack", then give the spelling]
sells what sort of products?
Alcoholic beverages (accept anything more specific)
[SAQ = Société des alcools du Québec]
B2. In Quebec, "le CEGEP" or "le cégep" [pronounce it "SAY-zhep", then
give the spelling] is what type of institution?
Post-secondary educational, college, university-preparatory,
technical school, etc. (Accept anything along these lines,
but if "school" or "educational" is given, say "more specific".
"High school" or "secondary school" is wrong.)
[CEGEP = Collège d'enseignement général et professionel]
Orchestral Conductors in Canada
C1. Jeanne Lamon (Jeen La-MON; not French pronunciation) is Music Director
of which period instrument orchestra?
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
C2. The Montreal Symphony Orchestra won two Grammy Awards under the direction
of what conductor?
Charles Dutoit
Women's Rights in Canada
D1. Within 3, in what year did the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously
decide that the term "person" did not include women?
1928 (accept 1925-1931)
(At the time a Supreme Court decision could be appealed to the
Privy Council in Britain; they overturned the ruling in 1929.)
D2. Within 3, what was the first year that women had the right to vote
in all nine provinces?
1940 (accept 1937-1943)
(The last holdout was Quebec)
Canadian Railheads
E1. Name the only port on Hudson Bay served by Canada's main railway network.
Churchill
E2. Name the northernmost seaport in B.C. served by Canada's main railway
network.
Prince Rupert
(You remember, it was named for the first governor of the
Hudson's Bay Company...)
Canadian Literary Magazines
F1. Canada's longest-running literary journal (since 1945), it is published
four times a year at the University of New Brunswick.
The Fiddlehead
F2. This literary periodical began in 1970 as a mimeograph and has evolved
into a quarterly journal publishing new and established contemporary
writers and visual artists from Canada and around the world. Their
most recent issue is a tribute to Timothy Findley.
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