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Quiz
1 In what even-numbered year of the 2000s did the final Friends episode air?
2 Aberystwyth, St Davids, and Newport are cities in what UK country?
What British new wave band had a global 1981 hit with Vienna? Better known for his role in the Harry Potter movies, who played Peagreen Clock in 1997's The Borrowers?
What French artist was commissioned to produce a nowiconic series of posters for the Moulin Rouge when it opened in 1889?
What “N” names both a region of NZ and an affluent suburb in westcentral Wellington?
By what name is The Simpsons character Robert Underdunk “Bob” Terwilliger jnr, PhD better known?
8 What sports brand makes the Stan
Smith tennis shoe?
9 What kind of animal is a
crawdaddy?
10 What author wrote the Gothic novella Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886?
History
1799 The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-Franc¸ois Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
1834 The Spanish Inquisition is abolished more than 31⁄ centuries after its creation.
1915 The first large group of Gallipoli wounded to return to NZ arrive in Wellington on the troopship Willochra.
1933 Kiwi Jack Lovelock smashes the world mile record at Princeton University, New Jersey, breaking Jules Ladoumegue’s record by 1.6sec. seconds.
1975 Three US astronauts and two Soviet cosmonauts blast off separately in a mission to link the two spaceships in orbit.
1997 Fashion designer Gianni Versaceis shot dead outside his Miami Beach home.
2019 White supremacist James Alex Fields Jr is sentenced to life in prison plus 419 years for killing one and injuring dozens when he drove his car into anti-racism protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Birthdays
● Singer Linda Ronstadt is 76
● Arianna Huffington, cofounder of The Huffington Post, is 72
● Rock musician Marky Ramone is 70
● Model Kim Alexis is 62
● Actor-director Forest Whitaker is 61
● Actor Diane Kruger is 46
Quiz Answers
1. 2004 2. Wales 3. Ultravox 4. Tom Felton 5. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
6. Northland 7. Sideshow Bob 8. Adidas 9. Crayfish 10. Robert Louis Stevenson.
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