Quiz History

1 Kung Pao chicken is one of the quintessential dishes of what Chinese province and its cuisine?

2 Who played Carmela Soprano,

Tony’s wife, on The Sopranos?

3 Who was thewarriors’ first coach

when they joined the NRL in 1995?

4 What novel by Colombian author Gabriel Garcı´a Ma´rquez tells the story of the Buendia family?

5 What strait connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean? 1910 At awhite House dinner hosted by President William Howard Taft, Baroness Rosen, wife of the Russian ambassador, caused a stir by requesting and smoking a cigarette — it was, apparently, the first time a woman had smoked openly during a public function in the executive mansion.

1915 The US House of Representatives rejected, 204-174, a proposed constitutional amendment to give women nationwide the right to vote.

1959 Berry Gordy Jr. founded Motown Records (originally Tamla Records) in Detroit.

1971 The groundbreaking situation comedy All in the Family premiered on CBS television.

1976 Mystery writer Dame Agatha Christie died in Wallingford,

England, at age 85.

2006 Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981, was released from an Istanbul prison after serving more than 25 years in Italy and Turkey for the plot against the pontiff and the slaying of a Turkish journalist.

2010 Haiti was struck by a magnitude-7 earthquake; the Haitian government said 316,000 people were killed, while a report prepared for the US Agency for International Development suggested the death toll may have been between 46,000 and 85,000.