{"id":17110,"date":"2012-06-22T08:02:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T13:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=17110"},"modified":"2012-06-22T08:48:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T13:48:52","slug":"prof-hits-national-airwaves-this-sunday-in-cbc-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/06\/prof-hits-national-airwaves-this-sunday-in-cbc-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof hits national airwaves this Sunday in CBC quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17111\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17111\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17111\" title=\"Sharilyn Ingram \" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/web-sharilyn-ingram-2012-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"Prof. Sharilyn Ingram's knowledge of Canada will be tested on CBC Radio Sunday.\" width=\"504\" height=\"284\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17111\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. Sharilyn Ingram&#39;s knowledge of Canada will be tested on CBC Radio Sunday.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Humanities professor Sharilyn Ingram will put Brock University on a national stage this weekend. She&#8217;s one of three academics who will duke it out in a pre-Canada Day quiz on CBC Radio&#8217;s flagship current affairs program, the Sunday Edition.<\/p>\n<p>The show was pre-taped with host Michael Enright earlier this month, though Ingram is sworn to secrecy about who prevails in the good-natured derby between herself, University of Calgary professor Rebecca Sullivan and Anthony Stewart of Dalhousie University.<\/p>\n<p>She says the experience was fun, if a bit nerve-wracking. The questions cover a broad range of topics, from history to geography and pop culture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are some very creative answers, and we all laughed a lot,&#8221; said Ingram, who teaches in the Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture. &#8220;The quiz was meant to be a light-hearted look at all things Canadian, and I think it lived up to this goal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Staging a quiz with contestants in three different studios across Canada has its challenges. She said each contestant was asked to bring their own noisemaker to signal their attempt to answer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I learned that it was most important to be the first to get the noisemaker going, and only then worry about whether you knew the answer &#8211; which accounts for some\u00a0pauses, as well as some wild guesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ingram ended up on CBC through a twist of fate. At a recent social event in Toronto, a producer for the program was mentioning the search for an academic who is a good fit for a pop-culture quiz on Canada. A friend of Ingram&#8217;s was present, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of my former employees said I would be perfect &#8211; never defeated in Trivial Pursuit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The quiz will air June 24 during the show&#8217;s final hour, between 11 a.m. and noon, on 99.1 CBC Radio One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanities professor Sharilyn Ingram will put Brock University on a national stage this weekend. She&#8217;s one of three academics who will duke it out in a pre-Canada Day quiz on CBC Radio&#8217;s flagship current affairs program, The Sunday Edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":17111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[345,30,346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17110"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17114,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17110\/revisions\/17114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}