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Quiz

1 At what golf course was the latest

British Open held?

2 How many nights name a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, first performed in 1602?

3 What hit 2004 Green Day album featured the songs Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Wake Me Up When September Ends?

4 Who directed the 2010 film

Inception?

5 In what country is the prestigious

Rhodes University found?

6 Phobos and Deimos are the two

moons of what planet?

7 What colour books named an early 2000s British sitcom, starring Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, and Tamsin Greig?

8 New Zealander Charles Upham received the Victoria Cross and Bar for his efforts in what war?

9 How many teams took part in the first men's football World Cup, in 1930: 5, 8, or 13?

10 Honore´ de Balzac was a novelist

from what country?

History

1305 William Wallace, who led Scottish resistance to England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London for trial and execution.

1884 The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal is laid on Bedloe’s Island in New York Harbour.

1914 NZ enters World War I.

1914 What’s believed to be the first traffic light system is installed in Cleveland, Ohio.

1962 South African anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela is arrested on charges of leaving the country without a passport and inciting workers to strike, beginning of 27 years of imprisonment.

1962 Movie star Marilyn Monroe, 36, is found dead in her Los Angeles home; her death is ruled a probable suicide from “acute barbiturate poisoning.”

1995 The city of Knin, a Serb stronghold, is captured by Croatian forces during Operation Storm.

2010 33 workers are trapped in a copper mine in northern Chile after a tunnel caves in.

2011 The sun-powered robotic explorer Juno rockets toward Jupiter on a five-year quest to find what makes planets.

2021 Kiwi canoeist Lisa Carrington wins her third Tokyo Olympic gold medal, and fifth overall, by taking out K-1 500m.

Birthdays

● Rock musician Pat Smear is 63

● Actor Janet Mcteer is 61

● Actor Mark Strong is 59

● Directorscreenwriter James Gunn is 56

● Actor Stephanie Szostak is 51