1. Not one of the North Shore's mayors is planning to run for office again in three years. Why not?
2. This type of undercover police operation, which shares its name with a popular chocolate bar, is now presumed inadmissible in court. What is it?
3. "You can't catch it." A North Vancouver server won a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal award after being fired from her job because she had which productive medical condition?
4. The city put in three years of work on a draft official community plan that will guide population and economic growth over approximately how long?
5. Several North Vancouver teachers were aghast at drawing funding for classroom projects from which "town pump?" (Ding, ding.)
6. Outgoing Lt.-Gen. Stuart Beare, Canada's point man on multiple military operations, called on Canada to put more emphasis on what D word? (Not defense.)
7. "I'm not with Wendy anymore." After parting ways with one fast food chain, Tim Hortons opted to become a member of which monarchist company's flamebroiled commonwealth?
8. "If you can make it there... ." Prime Minister Stephen Harper skipped a United Nations climate summit in New York in September. What city was Harper in at the time?
9. A British Properties homeowner launched a lawsuit against his neighbour in September to address "injury and losses" related to what type of environmentally friendly but view-obstructing forms?
10. Questions without answers: What two Middle Eastern countries, which both begin with the letter I, did Conservative MP Paul Calandra appear to conflate during question period in September?
11. West Vancouver astronomer Brent Tully is also a resident of Laniakea, a neighbourhood he thinks has about 100,000 of these. They're even bigger than the Fords with which they share their name. What are they?
12. Out on one limb: West Vancouver motorcyclist Erez Avramov is training to be the first entrant in the Dakar Rally motorcycle race to compete without what?
13. Brad Baker, the first Aboriginal teacher hired by the North Vancouver school district, got his job in a year when the NDP was in power in B.C. (mostly), a flood hit Medicine Hat, Alta., the New Jersey Devils won their first Stanley Cup, and the opening of Parliament was televised live for the first time. What was the year?
14. "Put me in... ." It might not be the first choice when flying, but both North and West Vancouver residents can now live in what kind of homes?
15. Not the Magnificent Seven? John Weston, MP for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country, made the unprecedented move of chastising which group of
seven for opposing an LNG project?
16. High and dry: Starting in 2015, West Vancouver is planning to stop providing what to Montizambert Wynd residents?
17. What Deep Cove Brewery golden ale - which shares its name with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles villain - exclusively benefits the Tim Jones Legacy Fund?
18. North Vancouver RCMP believe which common item was the key to $100,000 in automotive damage discovered at two car dealerships over the B.C. Day long weekend?
19. Casting call: A group of six, who were out for a run, started doing this when the rising Capilano River threatened to submerge their island. What were they doing? (Hint: the worst day of doing it is better than the best day of working.)
20. In 1983, North Vancouver's Presentation House Gallery auctioned off a photo for $5 - now valued at between $40,000 and $60,000 - of which 1950s movie star? (Hint:
This performer seemed more natural than two co-stars when playing a woman in the 1959 comedy Some Like it Hot.)
Bonus question: What is the most North Shore Rescue will charge to retrieve a hiker, provided a helicopter is used?
ANSWERS
1. Mayors and councillors now serve four-year terms.
2. Mr. Big stings.
3. She was pregnant.
4. Zero days. Council voted down the draft OCP in September.
5. Chevron.
6. Diplomacy.
7. Burger King's.
8. New York.
9. Trees.
10. Iraq and Israel.
11. Galaxies. Laniakea is a newly defined supercluster.
12. A right leg.
13. 1995. 14. Coach homes.
15. West Vancouver council.
16. Water.
17. Shredder.
18. A key. A suspect allegedly keyed 47 vehicles.
19. They fished for a salmon run.
20. Marilyn Monroe. Bonus: Zero. NSR does not charge for rescues.
