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Hoser Hardware

Test your knowledge of Canadians at the Grammys

By Kevin J. Siu

Canadians are up for 11 awards at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards. They include Nickelback for Best Hard Rock Performance, Sarah McLachlan for Best Pop Vocal Album and Rush for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. The Grammys are not the Olympics, but there’s no denying our national pride is on the line. Thrill of victory? Think Alanis’s quadruple gold in 1995. Agony of defeat? Ask Avril about her oh-for-five heartbreaker two years ago. On second thought, don’t. Instead, test your knowledge of Canada's past glories at the Grammys. (Go Rush, go!)

1. With 43 nominations and 14 wins, who is the most successful Canadian in Grammy history?
	Celine Dion
	Shania Twain
	Oscar Peterson
	David Foster
	Glenn Gould

2. Walter Ostanek has been nominated 17 times for Best Polka Album (including a current streak of 14 consecutive noms). How many times has Canada’s Polka King won?
	0
	3
	5
	10
	17

3. At the 1991 awards, Toronto’s Alannah Myles defeated Tina Turner, Janet Jackson, Stevie Nicks and Melissa Etheridge for Best Female Rock Vocalist Performance. Which former MuchMusic VJ co-wrote her number one single, Black Velvet?
	Erica Ehm
	Rick the Temp
	Master T
	Christopher Ward
	J.D. Roberts

4. Before her Grammy-winning breakthrough album, Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette was best known for her minor dance hit Too Hot and appearing on what kid’s television show?
	Degrassi Junior High
	You Can't Do That On Television
	Danger Bay
	The Littlest Hobo
	Fraggle Rock

5. Before being nominated for Best Native American Recording in 2001 for Rockin’ the Rez (then again in 2003 for Still Rezin’) Saddle Lake’s Northern Cree performed in this Pierce Brosnan star vehicle.
	The Thomas Crown Affair
	GoldenEye
	Grey Owl
	Dante’s Peak
	Mrs. Doubtfire

6. Winnipeg rapper Fresh I.E.’s 2003 album Red Letterz scored Canada’s first-ever nomination in which category?
	Best Rap Album
	Best Spoken Word Album
	Best Classical Crossover Album
	Best Rock Gospel Album
	Best Comedy Recording

7. What Grammy honour do Canadians Neil Rosenberg, Colin Escott and Rob Bowman share?
	They’ve all hosted the non-televised portion of the show.
	They were all session musicians on Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
	They’ve all served as chief auditor for the accounting firm that tabulates the results.
	They’ve all been nominated in the Best Album Notes category.
	They’ve all been thanked by David Foster.

8. Which longtime Canadian children’s performer won his first and only Grammy in 1988 for his album Everything Grows?
	Raffi
	The Friendly Giant
	Mr. Dressup
	Fred Penner
	P.J. Phil

9. Bob Dylan received his second-ever nomination in the Best Folk Recording category in 1964 for The Times, They Are A-Changin’ – but lost to a Canadian. Who beat him?
	Joni Mitchell for Both Sides Now
	Ian & Sylvia for Four Strong Winds
	Gordon Lightfoot for Early Mornin’ Rain
	Bobby Curtola for Fortune Teller
	Gale Garnett for We’ll Sing in the Sunshine

10. Dylan won three Grammys in 1998, and beguiled the crowd with a speech that concluded, “And I just want to say that when I was 16 or 17 years old, I went to see Buddy Holly play at Duluth National Guard Armory. And I was three feet away from him, and he looked at me. And I just have some sort of feeling that he was – I don't know how or why – but I know he was with us all the time we were making this recording some kind of way. In the words of, you know, the immortal Robert Johnson, ‘The stuff we got'll bust your brains out,’ and we tried to get that across. And this man right here, he was sort of instrumental in helping that out; I'm going to let him say a few words.” Who was “this man right here”?
	Neil Young
	Daniel Lanois
	Leonard Cohen
	Lorne Greene
	Tom Green