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1 Canadian icon Neil Young is returning to Spotify two years after bailing on the streaming platform over its partnership with whom?
a. Jordan Peterson
b. George W. Bush
c. Joe Rogan
d. Alex Jones
2 Ryan Gosling’s “go-for-broke delivery” of I’m Just Ken at the 96th Academy Awards was “one of the Oscars’ best live musical performances in its history,” Barry Hertz writes. Which Canadian city is the Ken-adian from?
a. Winnipeg
b. London, Ont.
c. Victoria
d. Kingston
3 Which major Canadian arts festival wrote a note to audiences saying its future is in jeopardy last week?
a. Hot Docs
b. Toronto Fringe Festival
c. Osheaga
d. Halifax Jazz Festival
4 Titanique, the hit Titanic is coming to Canada this fall. The musical is stuffed with songs from which star?
a. Lady Gaga
b. Madonna
c. Celine Dion
d. Whitney Houston
5 Which of the six Canadians who made the long list for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction – one of the biggest literary prizes celebrating the work of female and non-binary authors in North America – has also won the Booker Prize?
a. Lisa Alward
b. Eleanor Catton
c. Claudia Dey
d. Catherine Leroux
e. Janika Oza
f. Anuja Varghese
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