Stumped? Find the answers at the bottom of the quiz.

1. What Nova Scotia native joined INXS after winning the lead singer
   spot on the hit reality show Rock Star?
   1. J.D. Fortune
   2. Clay Aiken
   3. Lukas Rossi

2. Nova Scotia's Gordie Sampson won a 2007 Grammy Award for co-writing "Jesus Take The Wheel". Which American Idol winner recorded the hit song?
   1. Reuben Studdard
   2. Kelly Clarkson
   3. Carrie Underwood

3. What Grammy award winning songwriter and Lilith Fair founder first got her start in the Halifax-based band October Game?
   1. Feist
   2. Sheryl Crow
   3. Sarah MacLachlan

4. What Halifax-originating band first formed at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and went on to win Best Alternative Album Juno in 1997?
   1. Joel Plaskett Emergency
   2. Sloan
   3. Wintersleep

5. The melody of a song is produced entirely by one part of the bagpipe. What is that part called?
   1. Chanter
   2. Blow pipe
   3. Drone

6. What is the name of the family that probably did more than any other group to bring traditional Cape Breton folk music to the masses?
   1. The Rankins
   2. The McNeils
   3. The MacMasters

7. Making her stage debut in 1941, what Truro singer is recognized as having one of the greatest contralto voices in the history of Canadian classical music?
   1. Rita McNeil
   2. Caroll Baker
   3. Portia White

8. What gravel-voiced "Prime Minister of the Blues", originally from Lunenburg Nova Scotia, began his career at age 14?
   1. Morgan Davis
   2. Dutch Mason
   3. Charlie A'Court

9. This Nova Scotia artist was the first Canadian female solo singer to reach #1 on the US charts, and has sold over 50,000,000 albums worldwide. Who is she?
   1. Rita MacNeil
   2. Anne Murray
   3. Natalie MacMaster

10. Richard Terfry, a Nova Scotia hip hop artist influenced by Jazz, blues, country and rock music, is better known as what?
    1. April Wine
    2. Buck 65
    3. Sixtoo

Answers
1 – a, 2 – c, 3 – c, 4 – b, 5 – a, 6 – a, 7 – c, 8 – b, 9 – b, 10 - b

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