| Coverage : Great Big Sea Quiz is designed to test your knowledge of this famous band. How much do you think you really know about the Great Big Sea? This Great Big Sea Quiz will give you new insight into the work and history of this famous band. |
| 1. | Great Big Sea is a what folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador? |
| a. | | American |
| b. | | Canadian |
| c. | | English |
| d. | | Russian |
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| 2. | They are best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea shanties, which draw from the island's 500-year-old Irish, English, and French heritage? |
| a. | | True |
| b. | | False |
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| 3. | The band played its first official gig opening for the Irish Descendants at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland in? |
| a. | | 1990 |
| b. | | 1992 |
| c. | | 1993 |
| d. | | 1995 |
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| 4. | The founding band members included Alan Doyle, S‚an McCann, Darrell Power, and? |
| a. | | Bob Hallett |
| b. | | Rob Hallett |
| c. | | Sam Hallett |
| d. | | Jon Hallett |
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| 5. | The band won the Entertainer of the Year award at the East Coast Music Awards for every year between 1996 and what year? |
| a. | | 1999 |
| b. | | 1998 |
| c. | | 2000 |
| d. | | 2002 |
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| 6. | They have also been nominated for several Juno Awards, including Group of the Year in 1998 and? |
| a. | | 2000 |
| b. | | 2006 |
| c. | | 2005 |
| d. | | 2001 |
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| 7. | The band has also produced a DVD, Great Big DVD, which was released in 2003 in Canada and the United States and in 2004 in Europe? |
| a. | | True |
| b. | | False |
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| 8. | The band released its long-awaited "traditional" album, The Hard and the Easy, on which they recorded their favourite Newfoundland party songs in? |
| a. | | 2006 |
| b. | | 2005 |
| c. | | 2004 |
| d. | | 2003 |
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| 9. | Great Big Sea released their second DVD, Courage & Patience & Grit in what year? |
| a. | | 2007 |
| b. | | 2006 |
| c. | | 2005 |
| d. | | 2004 |
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| 10. | What is the name of Great Big Sea's 1999 album? |
| a. | | Wrong |
| b. | | Turn |
| c. | | Right |
| d. | | Left |
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