HOT TOPICS

Quiz

1 Who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914?

2 In cooking, potassium bitartrate is better known by what other name?

3 Who served as the coach of the Australian men's national cricket team from 2018 to 2022?

4 Who played the Caped Crusader in

the 1995 film Batman Forever?

5 What large Chinese city recently emerged from a two-month full Covid-19 lockdown, to widespread relief?

6 Looney Tunes character Lola Bunny first appeared in what 1996 movie?

7 Who plays Joyce Byers in the hit

sci-fi series Stranger Things?

8 Turning 79 this December, who is best known as the guitarist of the Rolling Stones?

9 Moutarde is the French word for

what condiment?

10 German engineer Karl, the man widely regarded as the “father of the car”, had what surname?

History

1863 Deadly rioting against the Civil War military draft erupts in New York.

1923 A sign with 16m letters spelling out HOLLYWOODLAND is dedicated in the Hollywood Hills to promote a subdivision (the last four letters are removed in 1949).

1985 Live Aid, an international rock concert in London, Philadelphia, Moscow and Sydney, takes place to raise money for Africa’s starving people.

2006 Israel imposes a naval blockade against Lebanon and blasts the Beirut airport and army air bases; Hezbollah fires dozens of rockets into Israel.

2013 A jury in Sanford, Florida, clears neighbourhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman of all charges in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the African-American teenager whose killing unleashed furious debate over racial profiling, self-defence and equal justice. 2016 Theresa May enters No 10 Downing Street as Britain’s new prime minister following a bittersweet exit by David Cameron, who resigned after voters rejected his appeal to stay in the EU.

2021 337 people die in violent protests and looting in South Africa after the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma, with more than 200 shopping malls set alight

Birthdays

● Actor Patrick Stewart is 82

● Actor Harrison Ford is 80

● Actor-comedian Cheech Marin is 76

● Actor-director Cameron Crowe is 65

Quiz Answers

1 Gavrilo Princip 2. Cream of tartar

3. Justin Langer 4. Val Kilmer

5. Shanghai 6. Space Jam 7. Winona Ryder 8. Keith Richards 9. Mustard

10. Benz.

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