Q 01/05

Canada and Denmark spent decades leaving each other bottles of liquor on which islet off Nunavut?

A) Sable Island

B) Coats Island

C) Hans Island

D) Bylot Island

Answer · why

C) Hans Island

Hans Island was the prize of the so-called Whisky War, in which Canadians left whisky and Danes left schnapps. The two countries agreed in 2022 to spl...

Q 02/05

Nunavut's licence plates are famous for being cut into the shape of which Arctic animal?

A) Polar bear

B) Walrus

C) Muskox

D) Arctic fox

Answer · why

A) Polar bear

A polar bear has shaped licence plates in Canada's North since 1970, and Nunavut kept the design when it became a territory. After a spell of rectangu...

Q 03/05

What does the name Nunavut mean in the language of the Inuit, who make up most of its people?

A) Great north

B) Our land

C) Frozen sea

D) Many islands

Answer · why

B) Our land

Our land is the meaning of Nunavut, and the territory's motto builds on it: Nunavut Sannginivut, or 'our land, our strength'.

Q 04/05

Which city, whose name means 'place of many fish', is the capital of Nunavut?

A) Churchill

B) Whitehorse

C) Inuvik

D) Iqaluit

Answer · why

D) Iqaluit

Iqaluit is Canada's smallest capital by population, with only 7,429 residents at the 2021 census. Voters picked it as capital in 1995, four years befo...

Q 05/05

The amauti, a parka worn by Inuit women in Nunavut, has a built-in pouch for carrying what?

A) A baby

B) Seal meat

C) Dried fish

D) Fishing line

Answer · why

A) A baby

A baby rides in the pouch, called the amaut, just below the hood and against the mother's back until about two years of age.