TRIVIA ANSWERS
The
fictional NWT Communities are:
Lynx River (from the popular TV program North
of 60)
Fort Simmer (from Richard Van Camp's The
Lesser Blessed)
Prohibition Creek (from Susan Haley's The
Complaints Department)
Fort Simmer is modelled on Fort Smith, Prohibition Creek on Tulita.
Sombak'e is the Dene name for Yellowknife. Tungsten and Point
Point are defunct mining communities, Whale Cove is a settlement in
Nunavut, and Fort Enterprise was the name given to the location where Sir
John Franklin spent his first winter in the Arctic.
1. The vehicle pictured above is generally known as a "Bombardier," which is the name of the manufacturer. Technically it's a model B12.
2. Slavey, Dogrib, Gwich'in and Chipewyan are Athapaskan languages, as are Apache and Navajo.
3.
a) Frank and Joe Hardy came to Yellowknife in volume 42, The Viking Symbol
Mystery.
b) Most of the first 24 volumes in the Hardy Boys series were
written by Leslie McFarlane, father of Brian McFarlane, who for 27 years
was a colour commentator on Hockey Night in Canada, and himself the
author of dozens of books on hockey. Ghost of the Hardy Boys
is the title of Leslie McFarlane's autobiography.
4. The unlikely bunch of heroes on the detective channel:
James Franciscus played Mike Longstreet, a blind insurance investigator on the the TV series Longstreet. His guide dog was a German shepherd named Pax, and his self-defence instructor was played by Bruce Lee. The series ran for only one season (1971-72)
The salvage consultant was Travis McGee, hero of 21 colourful detective novels by John D. MacDonald. McGee lived in a houseboat called "The Busted Flush," and was portrayed on film by Rod Taylor in Darker Than Amber, released in 1970, and by Sam Elliott in the TV movie Travis McGee: The Empty Copper Sea, released in 1983.
James Garner played Jim Rockford in the long-running TV series, The Rockford Files. Rockford lived in a battered house trailer.
5. The Yellowknife Golf Club's raven rule: no penalty if a raven steals your ball.
6. Some sources define carat as a unit of weight for precious stones, and karat as a measurement of the purity of gold, 24-karat gold being 100% pure. Other sources indicate the words can be used interchangeably.
7. Incredible as it seems (and yet so typical of Hornby) all the statements are true, at least according to George Whalley's The Legend of John Hornby. Hornby enlisted in the Canadian armed forces and survived the poison gas attacks of the second Battle of Ypres. While still in France he was discharged from the Canadian army and given a commission in the British army. The exact nature of his duties is unclear, but various sources reported him to have served both as a sniper and an intelligence officer. He was wounded, awarded the Military Cross, and evacuated to England to convalesce. He then left for Canada without permission and was declared AWOL when his leave expired. Canadian authorities might have detained him, but being a member of the British army he was not under their jurisdiction. Later he was found unfit for service and awarded the honorary rank of second lieutenant. Chapter V in Whalley's book details these events.
8.
The notorious three-legged polar bear on the GNWT logo:
9.
YZF is Yellowknife's
airport code. The others are:
a) YKS - Yakutsk
b) YMX - Mirabel (Montreal)
c) YYZ - Pearson (Toronto)
10. Nunavut means "Our Land" in Inuktitut.
11. A thylacine is a carnivorous marsupial, now believed to be extinct, though there have been unconfirmed sightings in Tasmania. Other common names include Tasmanian Wolf and Tasmanian Tiger.
12.
The badge designed for Operation Morning Light, the
codename given to the joint Canadian-American cleanup operation after the
nuclear-powered Soviet satellite Kosmos-954 came down in the NWT in
1978.
13.
Red
Trivet
Snowman by Thomas York
Sam
Wolverine Murder on the
Mackenzie by Jim Lotz
Jazz the
Jackal The Lesser Blessed
by Richard Van Camp
*Captain Al Cohol Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordcai Richler
Robert Woodcutter The
Complaints Department by Susan Haley
*
Richler borrowed this character from the NWT Alcohol Education
Program. Capt. Cohol was the creation of Art Sorensen.
14.
In 2005 Canada was the third largest producer of diamonds by value, after Russia and Botswana,
according to Natural Resources Canada.
15. Eric Schweig was chosen as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world in the May 3 1993 issue of People, after co-starring in The Last of the Mohicans. He was born in Inuvik. Adam Beach was born in Manitoba, Tantoo Cardinal in Alberta. Margot Kidder was born in Yellowknife but is not aboriginal.
16. None of the above. There are no political parties in the NWT Legislature, which governs by consensus. However, candidates from political parties do stand for election as federal MPs.
17.
Iqaluit - Toonik Tyme
Fort Simpson - Beavertail Jamboree
Yellowknife - Caribou Carnival,
Mad Trapper's Ball, Folk on the Rocks
Tsiigehtchic
(formerly Arctic Red River)
- Canoe Days
18.
a) Paul Henderson scored the series-winning goal in the 1972
Summit Series.
b) His sweater number was 19.
c) Surprisingly, he is not in
the Hockey Hall of Fame.
19.
The four levels of difficulty in Duke Nukem 3D (Atomic
Edition):
a) Piece of Cake
b) Let's Rock
c) Come Get Some
d) Damn I'm Good
20. The meal cost $12, which is represented by "1100" in binary and "C" in hexadecimal.