CHROKNOWLEDGEY

RANGING from the year 1901 to 2000, can you place these ten events into the correct decades? Each decade starts with the year ending ‘1’ and ends with the year ending ‘0’ (i.e. 1901-1910) and there is one event per decade. SOLUTION ON MONDAY A DURING his attempt to flee Colombian military and police forces, Pablo Escobar is shot in the head on a rooftop in his home town Medellin. B SIXTY men embark on the inaugural Tour de France in the Parisian suburb of Montgeron, which occurred over six stages totalling 2,500km. C JOHN LENNON is fatally shot outside his apartment building in New York City. D CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S dishevelled character The Tramp gains substantial popularity in an eponymous film. E COMMERCIAL German airship Hindenburg, 245m in length, catches fire and crashes in New Jersey three days after taking off from Frankfurt. F THE first verified case of HIV is discovered in a blood sample taken from a man in the Democratic Republic of Congo. G ISRAEL launches a secretive and pre-emptive aerial assault on 18 of Egypt’s air bases, helping it to win a victory over surrounding Arab countries in the subsequent Six-Day War. H A SHORTAGE of rice in Bengal contributes to a famine which results in the death of several million people. I RAMSAY MacDONALD becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. J THE ‘Australian Cultural Terrorists’ claim responsibility for the theft of The Weeping Woman by Pablo Picasso, purchased by the National Gallery in

Victoria for AU$1.6 million just one year prior.