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Quiz

1 The American Revolutionary War secured independence from what other country?

2 What drink is made from mixing whisky, sugar, bitters, and water, and typically garnished with an orange slice?

3 Who wrote Trainspotting, a novel

first published in 1993?

4 What poisonous spider can be identified by a small red hourglass-shaped marking on the underside of its body?

5 What controversial figure directed

2004’s The Passion Of the Christ?

6 Fashion company Ralph Lauren is

synonymous with what sport?

7 Robot Bender Bending Rodriguez is a main character on what cartoon?

8 Communique, Love over Gold and Brothers in Arms are all albums by what rock band?

9 What country finances the LIV Golf tour, which former Ryder Cup player Paul Casey has just joined?

10 Legendary outlaw Robin Hood is primarily associated with what English forest?

History

1776 Members of the Second Continental Congress begin attaching their signatures to the Declaration of Independence.

1865 Lewis Carroll publishes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

1873 Inventor Andrew S Hallidie successfully tests a cable car he designed for San Francisco.

1876 US frontiersman “Wild Bill” Hickok is shot and killed while playing poker at a saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, by Jack Mccall, who is later hanged.

1939 Albert Einstein signs a letter to US President Franklin D Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research programme.

1980 85 people are killed when a bomb explodes at the train station in Bologna, Italy.

1983 In Auckland, the visit of nuclear-powered warship USS Texas sparks anti-nuclear rallies on land and at sea.

1989 Nasa confirms Voyager 2's discovery of three more moons around Neptune.

1990 Iraq invades Kuwait, seizing control of the oil-rich emirate.

1992 Windsurfer Barbara Kendall becomes the only Kiwi to win gold at the Barcelona Olympics.

Birthdays

● Rock musician Garth Hudson (The Band) is 85

● Actor Joanna Cassidy is 77

● Writeractor-director Kevin Smith is 52

● Actor Jacinda Barrett is 50

● Actor Sam Worthington is 46

● Actor Edward Furlong is 45

Quiz Answers

1. Great Britain 2. Old Fashioned

3. Irvine Welsh 4. Black widow

5. Mel Gibson 6. Polo 7. Futurama

8. Dire Straits 9. Saudi Arabia

10. Sherwood.

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