HOT TOPICS

Quiz

1 What sport does Cameron Norrie

play professionally?

2 Caracas is the capital city of what

country?

3 American musician Meg White is best known as the drummer for what band from 1997 to 2011?

4 Linseed oil is obtained from the dried, ripened seeds of what plant?

5 In what city-state would you visit

the Sistine Chapel?

6 What actress was Alec Baldwin

married to from 1993 to 2002?

7 Begun in AD 122, Hadrian's Wall lies entirely within what UK country?

8 American author Mario Puzo is best known for writing what crime novel?

9 Garlic is native to what continent? 10 What is the subtitle of the 2022

sequel to Thor: Ragnarok?

History

1834 Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into effect, abolisheing slavery throughout the British Empire

1936 The Olympics open in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler

1944 An uprising breaks out in Warsaw, Poland, against Nazi occupation; the revolt lasts two months before collapsing

1975 A 35-nation summit in Finland concludes with the signing of a declaration known as the Helsinki Accords dealing with European security, human rights and EastWest contacts

1987 In New Zealand, the Maori Language Act comes into force, making te reo Māori an official language of New Zealand; it can now be used in some legal proceedings 1994 Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley confirm they’d been secretly married 11 weeks earlier. (Presley files for divorce from Jackson in January 1996, citing irreconcilable differences.)

2013 Defying the United States, Russia grants Edward Snowden temporary asylum, allowing the National Security Agency leaker to slip out of the Moscow airport where he has been holed up for weeks. 2014 A medical examiner rules a New York City police officer’s chokehold causes the death of Eric Garner, whose videotaped arrest and final pleas of “I can’t breathe!” sparks outrage.

Birthdays

● Blues singermusician Robert Cray is 69

● Rapper Coolio is 59

● Movie director Sam Mendes is 57

● Actor Jason Momoa is 43

Quiz Answers

1. Tennis 2. Venezuela 3. The White Stripes 4. Flax 5. Vatican City 6. Kim Basinger 7. England 8. The Godfather 9. Asia 10. Love and Thunder. Questions set by Believe It Or Not

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