Q 01/05

What was Shania Twain's birth name?

A) Ellen Louise Edwards

B) Sharon Marie Morrison

C) Eilleen Regina Edwards

D) Elaine Ruth Twain

Answer · why

C) Eilleen Regina Edwards

Eilleen Regina Edwards took the surname Twain when her stepfather Jerry adopted her, and she chose the stage name Shania only after landing her Nashvi...

Q 02/05

Shania Twain was born in which Ontario border city?

A) Sarnia

B) Windsor

C) Cornwall

D) Niagara Falls

Answer · why

B) Windsor

Windsor, which faces Detroit across the river, is her birthplace; after her parents split, her mother took her three daughters to the north of the pro...

Q 03/05

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

A) Thunder Bay

B) Elliot Lake

C) Kirkland Lake

D) Timmins

Answer · why

D) Timmins

Timmins is where she was raised, and she spent her teenage summers working in the bush for her stepfather's tree-planting business.

Q 04/05

Shania Twain's adoptive father, Jerry Twain, belonged to which Indigenous people?

A) Mohawk

B) Cree

C) Mi'kmaq

D) Ojibwe

Answer · why

D) Ojibwe

Ojibwe stepfather Jerry Twain adopted her and her sisters, which legally registered the girls as Status Indians even though he was not their birth fat...

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

'On my way' is how Twain translated her new stage name, yet her biographer Robin Eggar argues that no phrase in the language comes close to that meani...