HOT TOPICS Quiz History

1 What is the name of the superhero portrayed by Kiwi actor Antony Starr in the Amazon Prime series

The Boys?

2 Novosibirsk and Yekaterinburg are the third and fourth largest cities in which country?

3 What was the name of Anne Frank’s sister who also perished at the Bergen-belsen concentration camp?

4 Who is the head coach of the

women’s Black Sticks?

5 Which Kiwi celebrity chef penned the recent children’s book

Marvellous Marvin? 1865 The 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, was declared in effect by Secretary of State William H. Seward.

1915 President Woodrow Wilson, whose first wife, Ellen, had died the year before, married Edith Bolling Galt, a widow, at her Washington home.

1940 Adolf Hitler signed a secret directive ordering preparations for a Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. (Operation Barbarossa was launched in June 1941.)

1944 The US Supreme Court upheld the government’s wartime evacuation of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast while at the same time ruling that “concededly loyal” Americans of Japanese ancestry could not continue to be detained.

1956 Japan was admitted to the United Nations.

1957 The Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, the first nuclear facility to generate electricity in the United States, went on line. (It was taken out of service in 1982.)

1987 Ivan F. Boesky was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in amajor Wall Street insider-trading scandal. (Boesky served about two years of his sentence).

2010 The US Senate approved repeal of themilitary’s 17-year “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on openly gay troops in a 65-31 vote.

2019 The US House impeached President Donald Trump on two charges, sending his case to the Senate for trial; the articles of impeachment accused him of abusing the power of the presidency to investigate a political rival ahead of the 2020 election and then obstructing Congress’ investigation.