HOT TOPICS History

Quiz

1 Denzel Washington won his Best Actor Oscar for his role in what movie?

2 World War I started on what

date?

3 A serial killer named Ted shared what last name with a sitcom character played by Ed O'neill?

4 The atomic bomb used to destroy Hiroshima in 1945 was based on enriched materials of what chemical element?

5 Kiwi singer Karoline Tamati is better known by what stage name? 1733 James Oglethorpe and some 120 English colonists arrive at Charleston, South Carolina, while en route to settle in present-day Georgia.

1967 The Rolling Stones’ double-a sided single Let’s Spend the Night Together and Ruby Tuesday is released in the United Kingdom by Decca Records.

1982 An Air Florida 737 crashes into Washington DC’S 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River while trying to take off during a snowstorm, killing a total of 78 people, including four motorists on the bridge; four passengers and a flight attendant survive.

1992 Japan apologises for forcing tens of thousands of Korean women to serve as sex slaves for its soldiers during World War II, citing newly uncovered documents that show the Japanese army had a role in abducting the so-called ‘comfort women’.

2001 Amagnitude-7.7 earthquake strikes El Salvador, killing more than 840 people.

2010 Haitians pile bodies along the devastated streets of their capital a day after a powerful earthquake.

2012 The Italian luxury liner Costa Concordia runs aground off the Tuscan island of Giglio and flips on to its side; 32 people are killed.

2018 A false alarm that warns of a ballistic missile heading for Hawaii sends the islands into a panic, with people abandoning cars on a highway and preparing to flee their homes; officials apologise and say the alert was sent when someone hit the wrong button during a shift change.