Q 01/05

What was Shania Twain's birth name?

A) Ellen Louise Edwards

B) Sharon Marie Morrison

C) Eilleen Regina Edwards

D) Shania Rose Twain-Lange

Answer · why

C) Eilleen Regina Edwards

She took the surname Twain from her adoptive father Jerry, and adopted the first name Shania in the early 1990s.

Q 02/05

In which Ontario city was Shania Twain born?

A) Sudbury

B) Windsor

C) Timmins

D) Ottawa

Answer · why

B) Windsor

Her parents divorced when she was two and her mother moved the girls north.

Q 03/05

In which northern Ontario mining town did Shania Twain grow up?

A) Thunder Bay

B) Sudbury

C) Kirkland Lake

D) Timmins

Answer · why

D) Timmins

She started singing in local bars at eight to help pay the family's bills, earning about CA$20 a night after last call.

Q 04/05

Her adoptive father Jerry Twain was a member of which First Nation?

A) Mohawk

B) Cree

C) Mi'kmaq

D) Ojibwe

Answer · why

D) Ojibwe

Media reports have often incorrectly described her as sharing that heritage because of the connection.

Q 05/05

The name 'Shania' was widely rumoured to be an Indigenous phrase meaning what?

A) Little star

B) On my way

C) Sings at dawn

D) Wild flower

Answer · why

B) On my way

Her biographer Robin Eggar wrote that there is 'continuing confusion' over whether it is really a word from that language at all.