HOT TOPICS

Quiz

1 How many points for the ‘B’ tile in

Scrabble?

2 How many primary teeth does a

child have?

3 Which horse race is usually run every year at Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May?

4 Which band was originally

known as The Quarrymen?

5 The Danyang — Kunshan Grand Bridge, the world’s longest at 165km, is located in what country?

History

1814 Paris is occupied by a coalition of Russian, Prussian and Austrian forces; the surrender of the French capital forces the abdication of Emperor Napoleon.

1917 The United States takes formal possession of the Virgin Islands from Denmark.

1943 Oklahoma!, the first musical play by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opens on Broadway.

1976 The New Jersey Supreme Court rules that Karen Ann Quinlan, a young woman in a persistent vegetative state, can be disconnected from her respirator. (Quinlan remains unconscious until she dies in 1985.)

1995 Mexican-american singer Selena Quintanilla-perez, 23, is shot to death in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the founder of her fan club, Yolanda Saldivar, who is convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

2004 Four American civilian contractors are killed in Fallujah, Iraq; frenzied crowds drag the burned, mutilated bodies and string two of them from a bridge.

2009 Benjamin Netanyahu takes office as Israel’s new prime minister after the Knesset approves his government.

2011 Moammar Gadhafi strikes a defiant stance after two highprofile defections from his regime, saying the Western leaders who had decimated his military with air strikes should resign — not him.

2019 Rapper Nipsey Hussle, 33, is fatally shot outside the clothing store he founded to help rebuild his troubled LA neighbourhood.

2016 An overpass collapses onto a crowded Kolkata, India, neighbourhood, killing 26 people.