HOT TOPICS

Quiz

1 What mythical creature is half

eagle and half lion?

2 What nationality is tennis player

Alexander Zverev?

3 The Fall of Saigon in 1975 marked

the end of what major conflict?

4 What team won the 2022 UEFA

Champions League Final?

5 Roxie Hart, Velma Kelly, and Billy Flynn are three main characters from what musical?

6 The Māori Party, Te Pati Māori, has ruled out forming a coalition with Act and what other party at the next election?

7 What surname do classic cartoon characters George, Jane, Judy, and Elroy share?

8 Who served as Prime Minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983 as leader of the Liberal Party?

9 Referring to the Model T, Henry Ford said: “Any customer can have a car painted any colour . . . so long as it is” what colour?

10 What is the state capital of Tennessee, named for Francis Nash?

History

1543 England’s King Henry VIII is married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.

1812 US forces led by General William Hull enter Canada during the War of 1812 against Britain.

1863 British troops invade Waikato by crossing Mangatāwhiri Stream, which the Kı¯ngitanga (Māori King movement) declared an aukati (a line not to be crossed). Governor George Grey used rumours of an imminent Māori attack to persuade the British authorities to send him thousands more soldiers.

1889 NZ’s first women’s trade union is formed in response to poor working conditions in the clothing industry.

1965 The Beach Boys single California Girls is released.

1967 Rioting erupts in Newark, New Jersey, over the police beating of a African-American taxi driver; 26 people are killed over the next five days of violence.

1970 Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Atlantic ocean on the raft Ra II, arrives in Barbados from Morocco after 57 days.

1991 Japanese professor Hitoshi Igarashi, who translated Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses is found stabbed to death, nine days after the novel’s Italian translator was attacked in Milan.

Birthdays

● Singer-musician Christine McVie is 79

● Writer-producer Brian Grazer is 71

● Actor Cheryl Ladd is 71

● Actor Anna Friel is 46

● Actor Michelle Rodriguez is 44

● Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai is 25

Quiz Answers

1 Griffin 2. German 3. Vietnam War

4. Real Madrid 5. Chicago 6. National 7. Jetson 8. Malcolm Fraser

9. Black 10. Nashville

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