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Quiz

1 Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig have been the hosts of what popular British TV baking show since 2017?

2 What primatologist and conservationist did Sigourney Weaver portray in the 1988 film Gorillas in the Mist?

3 What town is known as the “Cherry Capital of New Zealand”, staging an annual cherry stone spitting championship?

4 What country was founded by

Muhammad Ali Jinnah in 1947?

5 Kevin Arnold was the protagonist of what coming-ofage TV series?

History

1527 Unpaid troops loyal to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V attacked Rome, forcing Pope Clement VII to flee to safety; some scholars mark the ensuing sack of the city as the end of the Renaissance in Italy.

1840 World's first adhesive postage stamp, the "Penny Black", is first used in Great Britain

1910 Britain’s Edwardian era ended with the death of King Edward VII; he was succeeded by George V.

1915 Babe Ruth hit his first majorleague home run as a player for the Boston Red Sox.

1937 The hydrogen-filled German airship Hindenburg caught fire and crashed while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey; 35 of the 97 people on board were killed along with a crewman on the ground.

1954 Medical student Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile during a track meet in Oxford, England, in 3:59.4.

1994 Nelson Mandela and the ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa's first post apartheid election

2010 A computerized sell order triggered a “flash crash” on Wall Street, sending the Dow Jones industrials to a loss of nearly 1,000 points in less than half an hour.

2020 New York City began shutting down its subway system overnight to allow for additional cleaning and disinfecting of cars and stations. President Donald Trump reversed course on plans to wind down his COVID-19 task force; he said the force would shift its focus toward rebooting the economy and developing a vaccine.