ROUND 6: History/Canadiana - Famous immigrants
Identify these famous Canadian immigrants.
Q.1 Born in the former Czechoslovakia in 1940, he and his sister
won the Pairs title for Canada at the 1962 World Figure Skating
Championships. He became a Tory MP and held cabinet posts
including Minister of National Revenue.
A.1 Otto Jelinek
Q.2 She was born in Israel in 1965. This cellist has won five Juno Awards
for best classical album or instrumentalist.
A.2 Ofra Harnoy
Q.3 This filmmaker was born in India in 1950. She directed
Bollywood/Hollywood, which opened the Perspective Canada series
at the Toronto Film Festival in 2002.
A.3 Deepa Mehta
Q.4 Born in Germany in 1904, he taught at the University of Saskatchewan
and later joined the National Research Council in Ottawa. In 1971,
he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for molecular spectroscopy.
A.4 Gerhard Herzberg
Q.5 Born in Russia in 1913, he was Canadian Ambassador to NATO and the United
Nations. In 1980, he was appointed Chancellor of the University of Toronto,
which named a theatre in his honour.
A.5 George Ignatieff
Q.6 He was born in the former Yugoslavia in 1935. Best known for his work
at the Toronto Star, he won First Prize in the World Press Photo Competitions
in 1966.
A.6 Boris Spremo
Q.7 Born in England in 1946, she was Prima Ballerina in the National Ballet
of Canada. She won an International Emmy Award in 1999 for writing and
producing the TV special Karen Kain: Dancing in the Moment.
A.7 Veronica Tennant
Q.8 Born in Pakistan in 1945, he became a professional at the Skyline
Racquet Club in Toronto in 1968. He won the North American Squash
Championship 12 times.
A.8 Sharif Khan
Q.9 She was born in the United States in 1935. This novelist, playwright and
professor won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1995.
A.9 Carol Shields
Q.10 Born in Trinidad in 1941, she opened a Vancouver family medical practice.
She became a Liberal MP in 1993 and served as Secretary of State for
Multiculturalism and Status of Women from 1996-2002.
A.10 Hedy Fry