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Quiz

1 What Andrew Lloyd Webber musical features the songs Memory and The Rum Tum Tugger?

2 What country was the first to use the lethal injection as a form of execution in 1977?

3 Who starred as Roxie Hart in the

2002 film adaptation of Chicago?

4 Raymond West is the nephew of

what fictional detective?

5 Who is the lead singer of American

rock band Fall Out Boy?

History

1701 Astronomer Anders Celsius, inventor of the Celsius temperature scale, was born in Uppsala, Sweden.

1924 Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade — billed as a “Christmas Parade” — took place in New York.

1942 During World War II, the Vichy French navy scuttled its ships and submarines in Toulon to keep them out of the hands of German troops.

1962 The first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company’s Renton Plant.

1970 Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was slightly wounded at the Manila airport by a daggerwielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.

1978 San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White. (White served five years for manslaughter; he committed suicide in Oct. 1985.)

1998 Answering 81 questions put to him three weeks earlier; President Clinton wrote the House Judiciary Committee that his testimony in the Monica Lewinsky affair was “not false and misleading.”

1989 A bomb blamed on drug traffickers destroyed a Colombian Avianca Boeing 727, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground.

1999 Northern Ireland’s biggest party, the Ulster Unionists, cleared the way for the speedy formation of an unprecedented ProtestantCatholic administration.

2010 The State Department released a letter from its top lawyer to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, warning that an expected imminent release of classified cables would put “countless” lives at risk, threaten global counterterrorism operations and jeopardize U.S. relations with its allies.