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QuestionID: 1999-W02-5-1
Question: Where is South Queens Junior High School located?
Answer: Liverpool, Nova Scotia | Canada
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W02-5-2
Question: Who is the principal of South Queens Junior High School?
Answer: Betty Jean Aucoin
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W02-5-3
Question: What has South Queens Junior High School done with its old metal shop?
Answer: turned it into a fitness club
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W02-5-5
Question: Who runs the club?
Answer: a non-profit society | school and community volunteers
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W02-5-6
Question: How big is the club?
Answer: 12,000 square feet
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W02-5-7
Question: If you were a student, how much would a club membership cost you?
Answer: $135 a year
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W03-5-2
Question: What team did Babe play for?
Answer: Edmonton Grads
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W03-5-3
Question: What position did Babe play?
Answer: forward
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W03-5-4
Question: How tall was Babe?
Answer: 5 feet, 2 inches
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W03-5-5
Question: How much was Babe paid to play basketball?
Answer: nothing | never made a cent
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W03-5-6
Question: How many games did the Edmonton Grads win?
Answer: 502
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W03-5-7
Question: When did Babe play for "the finest basketball team that ever stepped out on a floor"?
Answer: from 1929 to 1937
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W03-5-8
Question: Why did Babe stop playing basketball?
Answer: she got married
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W03-5-9
Question: Who was Babe's husband?
Answer: Ian MacLean
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W03-5-10
Question: Where did Babe's daughter find scrapbooks?
Answer: in the family's basement
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W04-5-2
Question: How much does Alexi Yashin earn as a hockey player?
Answer: more than three million dollars a season
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W04-5-3
Question: Who does Alexi Yashin play for?
Answer: Ottawa Senators
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W04-5-4
Question: How much money did Alexi Yashin actually donate to the National Arts Centre?
Answer: $200,000
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W04-5-7
Question: Why do people go to the National Arts Centre?
Answer: to see plays and dance and to hear live music
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W04-5-8
Question: How would Alexi's parents have benefited from his donation to the National Arts Centre?
Answer: they would earn $85,000 a year | the National Arts Centre would have hired them at $85,000 a year
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W04-5-9
Question: Where did reporters question Alexi Yashin?
Answer: in the locker room | Boston
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W06-2-1
Question: Who is Wiarton Willie?
Answer: the famous Canadian groundhog who predicted the arrival of spring
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W06-2-2
Question: What happened to him two days before Groundhog day?
Answer: he died | he died in his sleep | he died in his sleep of natural causes
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W06-2-3
Question: Who took care of Willie?
Answer: Sam Brouwer
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W06-2-4
Question: How old was Willie when he died?
Answer: 22
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W06-2-5
Question: When will he be buried?
Answer: the spring
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W06-2-6
Question: Where did Willie live?
Answer: a hutch | a hutch in the front yard of a motel south of Wiarton
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W06-2-8
Question: Who claims to have received a message from Willie's spirit?
Answer: Al Given | the mayor of South Bruce Peninsula | Al Given, the mayor of South Bruce Peninsula
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W06-3-1
Question: Who plans to institute a common code of conduct for students?
Answer: the Ontario government
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W06-3-2
Question: How many students would the code affect?
Answer: 2.1 million
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W06-3-3
Question: Under the code, what could happen to a student who swears at a teacher?
Answer: suspension | they might get suspended
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W06-3-4
Question: When is one time that schools will phone parents of students?
Answer: when the student is missing | when the student is absent
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W06-3-5
Question: According to Johnson, how might a student's sloppy clothing affect them?
Answer: it could flow over into their learning habits and make it difficult to conduct proper teaching | it could affect their learning habits
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W06-4-1
Question: How long has it been since Westerners crossed the world's largest sand desert?
Answer: more than 50 years
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W06-4-2
Question: Who are the nomadic natives of Oman?
Answer: the Bedouin
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W06-4-3
Question: What three countries will the Canadians cross through on their desert trek?
Answer: Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W06-4-4
Question: What is "Arabian Sands" about?
Answer: Sir Wilfred Thesiger's 1947 trek
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W06-4-6
Question: What advice did Mr. Thesiger give to the Canadians?
Answer: take great care of the camels
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W06-4-8
Question: At what point did the group have to return to replace broken camel saddles?
Answer: 40 kilometres into the odyssey
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W06-4-9
Question: What type of clothing are the Canadians wearing on their journey across the desert?
Answer: the traditional clothing of the Bedouin people | traditional Bedouin clothing
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W06-4-10
Question: When did Clarke climb Mount Everest?
Answer: 1997
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W06-4-11
Question: Where will the trio's journey end?
Answer: Abu Dhabi
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W07-2-1
Question: Where is Todd McFarlane originally from?
Answer: Calgary | Canada
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W07-2-2
Question: How old is Todd McFarlane?
Answer: 37
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W07-2-3
Question: When did Todd McFarlane buy Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball?
Answer: January 12, 1999
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W07-2-5
Question: How many historic baseballs does McFarlane now own?
Answer: 9 | nine
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W07-2-6
Question: What does McFarlane want in return for making the "McFarlane Collection" available to places like the National Baseball Hall of Fame?
Answer: to take 20 swings in every major league ball park
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W07-2-7
Question: Whose ball did McFarlane buy for about $250,000 Canadian dollars?
Answer: Sammy Sosa's final home run of the season, No. 66
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W07-2-9
Question: How often is there a Toy Fair in New York?
Answer: yearly
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W07-4-1
Question: What type of sports facility does Maple Leaf Gardens function as?
Answer: a hockey rink
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W07-4-2
Question: When was the Maple Leaf Gardens built?
Answer: 1931
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W07-4-3
Question: Where is the Maple Leaf Gardens?
Answer: Toronto
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W07-4-4
Question: How far did Brent Shuya and his son have to drive just to reach Winnipeg?
Answer: 3 and a half hours | 3 1/2 hours
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W07-4-5
Question: When did Foster Hewitt start broadcasting Maple Leaf games on the radio?
Answer: March, 1923
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W07-4-7
Question: Where did Tommy and Ruth sit for the Leaf's games at the Gardens?
Answer: Grey Section West, Seats 13 and 14
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W07-4-8
Question: Who was known as one of the toughest players in the NHL in the 1950s?
Answer: Bill Juzda
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W07-5-1
Question: Where did the Kolla boys get lost?
Answer: a ski resort | the Schweitzer Mountain Ski Resort in Sandpoint, Idaho | the Schweitzer Mountain Ski Resort
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W07-5-2
Question: Who is the youngest brother?
Answer: A.J. Kolla
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W07-5-4
Question: When did the boys realize they were lost?
Answer: when they reached a riverbank around 4 p.m. | when they reached a riverbank | around 4 p.m
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W07-5-5
Question: Where did they dig the snow cave in which they spent the night?
Answer: the base of a tree | the snow hollow around the base of a tree
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W07-5-6
Question: What did they use to dig the snow cave?
Answer: their hands
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W07-5-7
Question: Why was the search for the boys called off?
Answer: weather | blizzard | wind | 110-kilometres-an-hour winds
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W07-5-8
Question: Who found the boys?
Answer: a party of snowmobilers
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W07-5-12
Question: What are the boys' parents' names?
Answer: Michael and Carol
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W08-1-1
Question: What does "perjury" mean?
Answer: lying in court
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W08-1-2
Question: How many senators voted that President Clinton was guilty of perjury?
Answer: 45
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W08-1-3
Question: When was Clinton acquitted of the charges of perjury and obstructing justice?
Answer: Friday
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W08-1-4
Question: Where did Monica Lewinsky work as an intern?
Answer: the White House
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W08-1-5
Question: Who claimed that Clinton tried to get Lewinsky to lie about her affair with the president?
Answer: Republican senators
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W08-1-7
Question: What happened to Clinton's approval ratings during the impeachment trial?
Answer: they climbed
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W08-3-1
Question: What happened in Europe and England when Geoffrey was nine years old?
Answer: the Second World War began
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W08-3-2
Question: Where did Geoffrey Dewis live before he was nine?
Answer: England | Britain | the Commonwealth
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W08-3-2
Question: Where did Geoffrey Dewis live before he was nine?
Answer: over 2,600
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W08-3-6
Question: Why did CBC produce "Canada Calling"?
Answer: so that the British kids who were separated from their families could speak to their parents and friends back home over the airwaves
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W08-3-7
Question: When did Geoffrey Dewis die?
Answer: this week | February 1999
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W08-3-8
Question: Who published Dewis's obituary?
Answer: the National Post
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W08-4-1
Question: Who is Abdullah Ocalan?
Answer: rebel Kurdish leader
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W08-4-2
Question: What do the Kurdish separatists want?
Answer: an independent Kurdistan | a separate Kurdish homeland
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W08-4-3
Question: Why did Kurds all over the world hold violent demonstrations?
Answer: Abdullah Ocalan was arrested | the arrest of rebel Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan | Abdullah Ocalan was captured
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W08-4-4
Question: How did an Ottawa police officer get burned?
Answer: demonstrators hurled a gasoline bomb
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W08-4-5
Question: What triggered some Kurds to try to occupy the Israeli consulate in Berlin?
Answer: rumours that Israel helped Turkish securities forces capture Ocalan
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W08-4-6
Question: How many protesters were injured at the Israeli consulate in Berlin?
Answer: 16
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W08-4-7
Question: What did Chancellor Schroeder tell the Kurds in Germany?
Answer: they must obey German laws and stop violent protests -- or they will be thrown out of the country
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W08-4-8
Question: When did Ocalan start living outside of Turkey?
Answer: 1980
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W08-4-10
Question: Why has Turkey sent soldiers into Northern Iraq?
Answer: to attack Kurdish rebel bases
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W08-5-2
Question: How can the satellite help farmers?
Answer: it can help forecast crop yields
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W08-5-4
Question: Why might the Canadian government have to get someone else beside NASA to launch the satellite for them?
Answer: NASA is refusing to send the Radarsat-2 satellite into the sky | NASA Refuses to Launch the Satellite
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W08-5-5
Question: Who is concerned about Radarsat-2's powerful abilities?
Answer: the United States | the U.S. | the U.S. government | the United States government | the U.S. intelligence community
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W08-5-6
Question: Who is the director of strategic development for the Canadian Space Agency?
Answer: Hugues Gilbert
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W09-3-1
Question: How many McDonald's restaurants are there in North America?
Answer: 15,000
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W09-3-3
Question: Where is the only unionized McDonald's in North America?
Answer: Squamish, British Columbia | Squamish | British Columbia
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W09-3-5
Question: When was the McDonald's unionized?
Answer: last August
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W09-3-6
Question: What happened when the Teamsters tried to unionize a McDonald's in Montreal?
Answer: workers voted against becoming members of a trade union | 55 workers voted against unionizing | workers voted against unionizing
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W09-3-7
Question: According to their Quebec office, how did McDonald's feel about the vote to unionize the Montreal franchise?
Answer: they welcomed the vote | it's the fairest and most responsible way to resolve the question of union representation
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W09-3-8
Question: Why did the St-Hubert McDonald's not get unionized?
Answer: it got shut down just as the union was about to be certified
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W09-4-1
Question: Who was the master of ceremonies for this year's Grammy Awards?
Answer: Rosie O'Donnell | American talk show host Rosie O'Donnell
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W09-4-2
Question: What type of music does Lauryn Hill make?
Answer: hip-hop | rap | R
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W09-4-3
Question: How many children does Lauryn Hill have?
Answer: two
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W09-4-4
Question: Why did Jay-Z not attend the Grammy Awards?
Answer: he doesn't like the way the Grammys treat rap
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W09-4-5
Question: Where is Alanis Morissette from?
Answer: Canada
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W09-4-6
Question: What movie was the song "My Heart Will Go On" in?
Answer: Titanic
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W09-4-7
Question: Who wrote "My Heart Will Go On"?
Answer: James Horner and Will Jennings
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W09-4-8
Question: When did Madonna enter the music business?
Answer: 16 years ago
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W09-4-9
Question: Who is Will Smith's wife?
Answer: actress Jada Pinkett Smith | Jada Pinkett Smith
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W09-4-10
Question: What other form of show business does Will Smith participate in besides music?
Answer: acting | actor
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W09-5-1
Question: Who is Moshe Akavak?
Answer: a guard with the BCC | a guard with the Baffin Correctional Centre | a jail guard
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W09-5-2
Question: When did Akavak get his job?
Answer: 16 years ago
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W09-5-3
Question: Why does Akavak think some Inuits commit crimes?
Answer: they have lost their traditional skills
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W09-5-5
Question: How much do the hunting programs cost?
Answer: tens of thousands of dollars
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W09-5-6
Question: Where do the hunting parties go to hunt caribou?
Answer: far from the city on the frozen tundra | far from the city | on the frozen tundra
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W09-5-7
Question: What kind of animal do the inmates hunt in the summertime?
Answer: seals
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W09-5-8
Question: Who is one of the prisoners on today's hunt?
Answer: Michael Evic
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W10-1-1
Question: Who owns Youth News Network?
Answer: Athena Educational Partners Inc. | a company in Montreal
Difficulty: moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W10-1-2
Question: What did it cost Meadowvale secondary to have a satellite dish, televisions, and audio-visual equipment installed?
Answer: nothing | it was free | free of charge
Difficulty: moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W10-1-3
Question: How many students attend Meadowvale secondary school?
Answer: 1700
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-1-4
Question: When is the deadline by which the school must decide whether to sign a five-year contract with YNN?
Answer: June 1999
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-1-6
Question: What does CBC Newsworld provide to schools?
Answer: free TV programming | free television programming
Difficulty: moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W10-1-7
Question: Who is the principal of Meadowvale secondary?
Answer: Laurie Pedwell
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-1-10
Question: How long is YNN's newscast?
Answer: 12 minutes
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-1-11
Question: What organization does Heather-Jane Robertson represent?
Answer: the Canadian Teachers Federation
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-2-2
Question: When was the international landmine treaty agreed to by 130 countries?
Answer: 1997
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-2-3
Question: Which countries refused to sign the international accord on landmines?
Answer: Russia, the United States, China and Ukraine
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W10-2-4
Question: What do we call groups of people who are experts at ringing bells?
Answer: carillon associations
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-2-5
Question: How long have North Korea and South Korea been in conflict?
Answer: more than 40 years
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-2-6
Question: What is the name of the Portuguese anti-landmine film?
Answer: "Spotlight on a Massacre"
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-2-7
Question: Who is the Secretary General of the United Nations?
Answer: Kofi Annan
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-2-9
Question: Where is Brasilia?
Answer: Brazil
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-3-1
Question: Why will Wang Shui-Bo be attending the Oscars this year?
Answer: He's been nominated for an award. | He's been nominated for an Oscar. | He's hoping to win.
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W10-3-2
Question: What is the name of Wang's documentary?
Answer: "Sunrise over Tiananmen Square"
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-3-4
Question: Who fired on the student demonstrators in Tiananmen Square?
Answer: Chinese government troops
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-3-5
Question: When did Wang leave China?
Answer: after the student uprising | after the Tiananmen Square massacre | after June 4, 1989
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W10-3-6
Question: Where does Wang live now?
Answer: Montreal, Quebec | Canada | the West
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-3-7
Question: Who doesn't need another revolution, according to Wang?
Answer: the Chinese people | China
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W10-4-1
Question: What is the scientific name for marijuana?
Answer: Cannabis sativa
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W10-4-2
Question: What is the Health Department's study going to examine about marijuana?
Answer: how the drug should be administered and how a safe supply could be distributed to patients
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-4-3
Question: Who has the Canadian Health Department consulted with about obtaining marijuana?
Answer: the Food and Drug Administration in the United States
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-4-4
Question: Why was Mark Crossley sentenced to house arrest?
Answer: for growing marijuana | for growing marijuana in his backyard
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-4-5
Question: Where has marijuana already been approved for medical use?
Answer: several American states | in seven U.S. States and the District of Columbia
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-4-6
Question: How long does it take for delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol to be absorbed into the bloodstream when someone smokes marijuana?
Answer: minutes
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W10-5-1
Question: Who authored a study on the differences between the rich and poor in Canada?
Answer: Ms. Armine Yalnizyan
Difficulty: moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W10-5-3
Question: How is Alberta's economy doing?
Answer: well | It's growing
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W10-5-5
Question: Where in Alberta, Canada is the difference between rich and poor most noticible?
Answer: Calgary
Difficulty: moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W10-5-6
Question: Why does Calgary have many high-paying managment jobs?
Answer: Because it is prosperous.
Difficulty: moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W10-5-7
Question: When did Ms. Yalnizyan give a speech?
Answer: Thursday, March 4, 1999
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W11-2-1
Question: Where did the issue of chemical pollutants in the Arctic come to a head recently?
Answer: at a United Nations conference in Africa
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W11-2-2
Question: Why is eating Arctic fish and game a frightening and tricky business?
Answer: because of the build-up of polluting chemicals in these animals
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W11-2-3
Question: When did the issue of chemical contaminants in Arctic food come to a head?
Answer: recently | this week
Difficulty: moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W11-2-4
Question: Who does Carole Mills represent?
Answer: the Canadian Arctic Indigenous Peoples Against POPs
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W11-2-5
Question: How does Mills convince her family members to eat fish?
Answer: talks to them and explains that the contaminants concentrate in specific parts, so they don't have to stop eating the animals | explains that the contaminants concentrate in specific parts, so they don't have to stop eating the animals
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W11-2-6
Question: What are POPs?
Answer: persistent organic pollutants
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W11-2-8
Question: What is muktuk?
Answer: a dish made from seal, walrus or whale fat
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W11-2-9
Question: Who is Eric Loring?
Answer: environmental wildlife coordinator with the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W11-2-10
Question: Why does Carole Mills think it is more of a health risk not to eat country food than to eat it?
Answer: because country food contains vitamins and nutrients not found in store-bought food
Difficulty: moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W11-3-1
Question: How does Newfoundland intend to use a film of seals feasting on cod?
Answer: to increase the seal hunt
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W11-3-4
Question: Why has there been a moratorium on cod fishing?
Answer: fish stocks dropped to dangerous levels
Difficulty: moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W11-3-5
Question: When was the moratorium instituted?
Answer: 1992 | seven years ago
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W11-3-6
Question: What is the estimated size of the seal herd?
Answer: six million
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W11-3-7
Question: By how much does John Efford want to cut the seal herd?
Answer: in half
Difficulty: moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W11-3-8
Question: Where is Dalhousie University?
Answer: Halifax, Nova Scotia | Nova Scotia
Difficulty: moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W11-3-10
Question: How much was sealing worth to the Newfoundland economy in 1996?
Answer: in excess of $11 million
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W11-5-1
Question: What is Bill 101?
Answer: Quebec's very controversial language law
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W11-5-2
Question: What does Bill 101 require?
Answer: signs in Quebec to be in French | immigrant children to attend French schools
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W11-5-4
Question: Who described Dr. Laurin as "a pioneer, a builder, a man of conviction, determined"?
Answer: Francois Gendron, chairman of the Parti Quebecois caucus in the legislature | Francois Gendron
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W11-5-5
Question: When did Bill 101 come into effect?
Answer: 1977
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W11-5-6
Question: How does the president of the Alliance Quebec English-rights lobby describe Laurin's masterwork, Bill 101?
Answer: as an attempt to "wipe out bilingualism" in Canada
Difficulty: moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W11-5-8
Question: How do Quebec nationalists credit Bill 101?
Answer: as helping preserve the French language | as helping to preserve the French language in a sea of English in North America
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W12-3-1
Question: Who said Bedouin ways are "a death in life."?
Answer: T.E. Lawrence
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W12-3-2
Question: How long did it take Jamie Clarke and his companions to travel 1,200 kilometers across the Arabian desert?
Answer: 39 days
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W12-3-4
Question: What was one of the things that motivated Clarke during the journey?
Answer: the kids
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W12-3-6
Question: Where did the team's journey begin?
Answer: Salalah, Oman | Salalah | Oman
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W12-3-8
Question: When did Clarke dream about the desert?
Answer: before the journey
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W12-3-10
Question: How do camels like to be spoken to?
Answer: softly | nicely | you have to be nice to it, you have to talk softly and show your love
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W12-4-1
Question: What kind of treatments do the doctors want to give thirteen-year-old Tyrell Dueck for his cancer?
Answer: have part of his thigh bone removed and undergo chemotherapy treatments
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W12-4-3
Question: Where was the court where the trial took place?
Answer: Saskatchewan | Saskatoon | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W12-4-4
Question: Where does Tyrell's father want him to go?
Answer: Tijuana, Mexico | Tijuana | Mexico | a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W12-4-5
Question: How would Tyrell prefer to treat his medical condition?
Answer: herbal remedies, doses of vitamins and a special diet | herbal and vitamin treatments
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W12-4-6
Question: Who does the boy need to speak to without his parents present, according to lawyers in the case?
Answer: a medical doctor | doctors | his cancer doctor
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W12-4-7
Question: When will Tyrell likely die if he doesn't receive proper treatment?
Answer: in less than a year
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W12-5-2
Question: Who won Monday night's game?
Answer: The OCN Blizzards | The OCN Blizzards of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W12-5-3
Question: When did hockey fans bring hand drums to a game to taunt the Native players?
Answer: Two weeks ago
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W12-5-4
Question: Why do First Nations people allegedly "hate white people," according to some?
Answer: because they have brand new cars, nice homes and new clothes
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W12-5-5
Question: What is Rod Bushie's role in the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs?
Answer: grand chief
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W12-5-6
Question: How should politicians respond to racism, according to Bushie?
Answer: encourage racial tolerance
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W12-5-7
Question: According to Bushie, what should the schools do to combat racism?
Answer: more aboriginal education
Difficulty: Moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W12-5-8
Question: Where have the First Nation leaders been invited?
Answer: a meeting with the city council | Dauphin city council
Difficulty: Easy
QuestionID: 1999-W13-1-1
Question: Why did Judge A. R. Rothery not allow Tyrell Dueck to refuse cancer treatment?
Answer: the judge said treatment was in Tyrell's best interest
Difficulty: moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W13-1-3
Question: How would doctors have conventionally treated Tyrell's cancer?
Answer: chemotherapy and at least the partial amputation of his leg
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W13-1-4
Question: What did doctors discover when Tyrell returned to them for treatment?
Answer: the cancer had spread from his leg to his lungs
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W13-1-5
Question: When did Tyrell discover the lump in his leg?
Answer: after he slipped in the shower | around his birthday | around October 1
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W13-1-6
Question: What is the name of the Duecks' lawyer?
Answer: Owe Girths
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W13-1-7
Question: Where is Tyrell's home?
Answer: Martinsville, Saskatchewan
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W13-3-1
Question: What do the nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization want to stop the Yugoslavians from doing?
Answer: invading neighbouring Kosovo | invading the neighbouring region of Kosovo
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W13-3-2
Question: What are the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo pushing for?
Answer: independence from Serbia
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W13-3-3
Question: How old are the roots of the conflict between Kosovo and Serbia?
Answer: hundreds and hundreds of years
Difficulty: moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W13-3-3
Question: How old are the roots of the conflict between Kosovo and Serbia?
Answer: 1389
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W13-3-5
Question: Where is the capital of Kosovo?
Answer: Pristina
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W13-3-6
Question: Who is Slobodan Milosevic?
Answer: Yugoslav President | President of Yugoslavia
Difficulty: easy
QuestionID: 1999-W13-3-7
Question: How has Milosevic described the problems in Kosovo?
Answer: as an internal Yugoslav matter
Difficulty: moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W13-3-9
Question: What does Milosevic refuse to do?
Answer: he refuses to allow any outside force into Kosovo to monitor any peace agreement
Difficulty: moderate
QuestionID: 1999-W13-3-10
Question: What do Yugoslav officials feel they can do in a war against NATO?
Answer: inflict serious damage
Difficulty: moderate