HOT TOPICS History

Quiz

1 Who starred as Hazel Grace in the

2014 film The Fault in Our Stars?

2 Family Guy takes place in what

American state?

3 In what Italian city is the Bridge of

Sighs located?

4 In 1947, the Hollywood Ten were blacklisted from film productions for their alleged association with what movement?

5 Band Aid recorded Do They Know It’s Christmas in 1984 to raise money for famine relief in what African country? 1844 The first experimental use of an inhaled anesthetic in dentistry took place as Dr. Horacewells of Hartford, Connecticut, under the influence of nitrous oxide, had a colleague extract one of his teeth.

1936 Britain’s King Edward VIII abdicated the throne so he could marry American divorceewallis Warfield Simpson; his brother,

Prince Albert, became King George VI.

1941 Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; the U.S. responded in kind.

1946 The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established.

1972 Apollo 17’s lunarmodule landed on themoon with astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison

Schmitt aboard; they became the last two men to date to step onto the lunar surface.

1997 More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth’s greenhouse gases.

2001 In the first criminal indictment stemming from 9/11, federal prosecutors charged Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descent, with conspiring to murder thousands in the suicide hijackings. (Moussaoui pleaded guilty to conspiracy in 2005 and was sentenced to life in prison.)

2004 Doctors in Austria said that Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko had been poisoned with dioxin, which caused the severe disfigurement and partial paralysis of his face.

2008 Former Nasdaq chairman Bernie Madoff was arrested, accused of running amultibilliondollar Ponzi scheme that wiped out the life savings of thousands of people and wrecked charities.

2019 Saudi Arabian oil company Aramco surpassed Apple as the world’s most valuable public company when its shares made their debut on the Saudi stock exchange.