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Quiz

1 The tomb of which Pharaoh was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922?

2 What is the name of Hank Hill's son in animated sitcom King of the Hill?

3 Hepatitis refers to an inflammatory condition of what organ?

4 What British author has won two Booker prizes, for 2009's Wolf Hall and 2012's Bring Up the Bodies?

5 In what decade was the first Rocky movie released?

History

1517 Londoners begin attack foreign residents in in what becomes known as ‘Evil May Day’. No deaths are reported but about a dozen rioters end up being executed.

1789 George Washington takes the oath of office in New York as the first president of the US.

1803 The US purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for about US$15 million.

1945 As Soviet troops approach his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler takes his own life along with that of his wife of one day, Eva Braun.

1968 New York City police forcibly remove student protesters occupying Columbia University. 1970 President Richard M Nixon announces the US is sending troops into Cambodia, an action that sparks widespread protest.

1975 The Vietnam War ends as the South’s capital of Saigon falls to Communist forces.

1993 Top-ranked women’s tennis player Monica Seles is stabbed in the back during a match in Hamburg by a man who is a fan of second-ranked German player Steffi Graf.

1997 42 million watch Ellen DeGeneres declare she is gay

2004 Arabs express outrage at graphic photos of naked Iraqi prisoners being humiliated by US military police.

2011 Muammar Gaddafi escapes a NATO missile strike in Tripoli that kills one of his sons and three young grandchildren.