HOT TOPICS
Quiz
1 What book was Mark David Chapman infamously carrying when he shot John Lennon?
2 What artist created the public artwork The Lighthouse, a home filled with neon lights, located in Auckland’s viaduct?
3 The central character of the series, who did Josh Radnor play in How I Met Your Mother?
4 What word shares its spelling with a French baked dish and means “a low murmuring sound heard through a stethoscope”?
5 Richie Sambora is best known for having been the lead guitarist for what band from 1983-2013?
History
1521 Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by locals in the Philippines.
1667 Blind and impoverished, English poet John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.
1806 Moehanga of Nga¯puhi becomes the first recorded Ma¯ori visitor to England when the whaler Ferret, which he boarded in the Bay of Islands, berths in London.
1810 Ludwig van Beethoven writes one of his most famous piano compositions, the Bagatelle in A-minor.
1813 The Battle of York takes place in Canada during the War of 1812 as a US force defeats the British garrison in present-day Toronto before withdrawing.
1865 The steamer Sultana, carrying freed Union prisoners of war, explodes on the Mississippi River, killing 1500 to 2000 people.
1893 John Ballance, who was NZ’S first Liberal premier, dies.
1904 The Australian Labor Party becomes the first Labour government in the world.
1941 German forces occupy Athens during World War II.
1959 Mao Zedong resigns as chairman of the PRC after the disastrous failure of the Great Leap Forward.
1986 Soviet authorities order the evacuation of the city of Pripyat one day after the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
2010 Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega is extradited from the US to France, where he is later convicted of laundering drug money and receives a seven-year sentence.
2015 Rioters plunge part of Baltimore into chaos hours after thousands attended a funeral for Freddie Gray, an African-american who died from a severe spinal injury he’d suffered in police custody.