Weekly Quiz: Mining, Metrics, and Missing Children

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const title = "Mining, Metrics, and Missing Children"; const date = "September 27, 2025"; const data = [ { image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/WEB_SalesTrack_SEPT25-1.jpg", title: "The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/the-publishing-industry-has-a-gambling-problem/", question: "In the publishing industry, writers carry failure on their record, no matter the reasons for the flop. What is one of the tactics authors are told to use to try and offset the impact of having a poor sales track?", options: [ "Publishing under a pseudonym", "Pivoting to international markets", "Switching publishing houses", "Adding a celebrity foreword", ], answer: "Publishing under a pseudonym", correct: "Online, certain tactics are suggested for how to “get over” the ailment of bad track—home remedies meant to replace the old curatives of editorial advocacy and time. A surprising number of sources suggest writing under a pseudonym. They can’t pin a bad track on you, the logic goes, if you take a different name. (Gotcha!) Literary agent and author Alia Hanna Habib is unimpressed by this gambit. “It’s very hard to publish under a pseudonym,” she says. “The books that get the most promotion have an author to promote them. You can’t keep making up personae.”", incorrect: "Online, certain tactics are suggested for how to “get over” the ailment of bad track—home remedies meant to replace the old curatives of editorial advocacy and time. A surprising number of sources suggest writing under a pseudonym. They can’t pin a bad track on you, the logic goes, if you take a different name. (Gotcha!) Literary agent and author Alia Hanna Habib is unimpressed by this gambit. “It’s very hard to publish under a pseudonym,” she says. “The books that get the most promotion have an author to promote them. You can’t keep making up personae.”", }, { title: "The Children Russia Stole from Ukraine", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/ukrainian-children/", question: "Since 2022, Canada has pledged almost $22 billion in support for Ukraine. In 2024/25, how much of this funding was specifically allocated for the recovery and rehabilitation of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia?", options: [ "$22 million", "$27 million", "$35 million", "$40 million", ], answer: "$27 million", correct: "Over the past three years, Canada has supported Ukraine with repairing and replacing damaged infrastructure, military needs, and humanitarian assistance such as shelter, water, and sanitation. In 2024/25, Canada pledged over $27 million for the recovery and rehabilitation of children, including in the form of funding for AI-driven technology to identify missing Ukrainians. A spokesperson for Global Affairs Canada indicated that, since the coalition was launched in February 2024, over 600 children have been returned to their homes.", incorrect: "Over the past three years, Canada has supported Ukraine with repairing and replacing damaged infrastructure, military needs, and humanitarian assistance such as shelter, water, and sanitation. In 2024/25, Canada pledged over $27 million for the recovery and rehabilitation of children, including in the form of funding for AI-driven technology to identify missing Ukrainians. A spokesperson for Global Affairs Canada indicated that, since the coalition was launched in February 2024, over 600 children have been returned to their homes.", }, { image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/WAL_Drimonis-Allophones_Sep25-002.jpg", title: "Were Immigrant Kids Barred from Quebec’s French Catholic Schools?", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/were-immigrant-kids-barred-from-quebecs-french-catholic-schools/", question: "Montreal writer and filmmaker Guy Rex Rodgers is deconstructing myths about English-speaking Quebecers, including through a major project challenging claims that no immigrant children were ever denied access to French Catholic schools. What is the name of the 2022 document he released as an extension of this work?", options: [ "“Beyond ‘Je Me Souviens’”", "“A Place in the Record”", "“What We Choose to Remember”", "“Hidden Histories”", ], answer: "“What We Choose to Remember”", correct: "When Rodgers arrived in Quebec in 1980, he never planned to stay. Four decades later, as co-founder of the English Language Arts Network, he turned his outsider’s perspective into an exploration of the fictions about English-speaking Quebecers. His first foray was a document, released in 2022, called “What We Choose to Remember.” Interviewing more than sixty people across six waves of immigration—from families rooted since the Napoleonic era to recent arrivals—Rodgers highlights a community far more diverse than the “privileged elite” caricature. The film was Rodgers’s way of “setting the record straight”: anglophones not as outsiders but integral to Quebec’s fabric.", incorrect: "When Rodgers arrived in Quebec in 1980, he never planned to stay. Four decades later, as co-founder of the English Language Arts Network, he turned his outsider’s perspective into an exploration of the fictions about English-speaking Quebecers. His first foray was a document, released in 2022, called “What We Choose to Remember.” Interviewing more than sixty people across six waves of immigration—from families rooted since the Napoleonic era to recent arrivals—Rodgers highlights a community far more diverse than the “privileged elite” caricature. The film was Rodgers’s way of “setting the record straight”: anglophones not as outsiders but integral to Quebec’s fabric.", }, { title: "Were Immigrant Kids Barred from Quebec’s French Catholic Schools?", url: "https://thewalrus.ca/were-immigrant-kids-barred-from-quebecs-french-catholic-schools/", question: "Two of the first five major national projects recently advanced by the Mark Carney government for fast tracking involve copper mines, but Canada is a relative bit player in global copper production. Which country dominates the market?", options: [ "Japan", "Chile", "Indonesia", "Zambia", ], answer: "Chile", correct: "Chile is the world leader in copper production, producing, according to 2023 numbers, some 23 percent of global output, followed by its Southern Cone neighbour, Peru, at 12 percent, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo at 11 percent. Mine output from the DRC increased in 2024 to the extent that it outstripped that of Peru and climbed the rankings to the world’s second largest producer. The United States, ranked fifth in the world, produces about three times the copper that Canada does; Canada comes in twelfth, at 2 percent of global mined copper. Where Canada shines is in copper recycling, much of which takes place at facilities in Quebec.", incorrect: "Chile is the world leader in copper production, producing, according to 2023 numbers, some 23 percent of global output, followed by its Southern Cone neighbour, Peru, at 12 percent, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo at 11 percent. Mine output from the DRC increased in 2024 to the extent that it outstripped that of Peru and climbed the rankings to the world’s second largest producer. The United States, ranked fifth in the world, produces about three times the copper that Canada does; Canada comes in twelfth, at 2 percent of global mined copper. Where Canada shines is in copper recycling, much of which takes place at facilities in Quebec.", }, ];