HOT TOPICS History

Quiz

1 Antarctica is surrounded by what

ocean?

2 Who created the character Doctor Dolittle in a 1920 children's book called The Story of Doctor Dolittle?

3 Nadia Coma˘neci is one of the greatest athletes of all time in what sport?

4 Starring Cillian Murphy, what TV show tells the story of the

Shelby gang in early 20th century England?

5 The condiment sometimes known as Japanese horseradish is more commonly known by what name? 1784 The US ratifies the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War; Britain follows suit in April.

1858 Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, and his wife, Empress Eugenie, escape an assassination attempt led by Italian revolutionary Felice Orsini, who is later captured and executed.

1914 Ford Motor Company greatly improves its assembly-line operation by employing an endless chain to pull each chassis along at its Michigan plant.

1943 President Franklin D Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and French General Charles de Gaulle open a wartime conference in

Casablanca.

1964 Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, in a brief televised address, thanks Americans for their condolences and messages of support following the assassination of her husband, President John F Kennedy, nearly two months earlier.

1970 Diana Ross and the Supremes perform their last concert together, in Las Vegas.

1994 US President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign an accord to stop aiming missiles at any nation; the leaders join Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk in signing an accord to dismantle the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine.

2013 Lance Armstrong ends a decade of denial by confessing to Oprah Winfrey during a videotaped interview that he used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France.